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Curt Lindberg
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Leon Glass, PhD
Isadore Rosenfeld Chair in Cardiology and Professor, Department of Physiology, McGill University

Leon Glass Dr. Glass is an internationally recognized scholar and among the first to understand health and disease from a dynamical and complex systems perspective. He work has been instrumental in moving nonlinear dynamics from the fringes of science in the 1960's to the center of science in the 21st century. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the American Physical Society. He has served and continues to serve on a number of editorial boards, including International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos and Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. Dr. Glass has received numerous awards for his scholarly contributions. He is the author or co-author of a number of books including Understanding Nonlinear Dynamics, From Clocks to Chaos: The Rhythms of Life, and Nonlinear Dynamics in Physiology and Medicine. He has written well over a hundred articles, book chapters, reviews and short essays. Dr. Glass is a leader at the Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics in Physiology and Medicine, an inter-university and inter-disciplinary group of 12 individuals with expertise in various areas of science and engineering, mathematics, computer science, and medicine.

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