Kevin C. Kain MD, FRCPC

Dr. Kain is the Director, SAR Laboratories, Sandra Rotman Centre for Global Health, UHN-Toronto General Hospital, Director, Tropical Disease Unit at the UHN-Toronto General Hospital, a Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto, and holds a Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Molecular Parasitology. Dr. Kain received his medical degree (cum laude) from the University of Western Ontario, undertook his residency training at the University of British Columbia, and post-doctoral research training as a Senior Research Associate at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington DC, working on the 1st generation of malaria vaccines. Dr. Kain has worked extensively in the topics including New Guinea, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Madagascar, Honduras, Laos, Thailand, Indonesia and the Amazon basin. He is the recipient of the C. Woolf Award for the Excellence in Teaching from the University of Toronto, a Career Scientist Award from the Ontario Ministry of Health, the Young Investigators Award from the Canadian Infectious Disease Society, and Bailey K Ashford Medal from the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, awarded for distinguished work in tropical medicine.

Dr Kain was profiled by TIME magazine as one of “Canada’s Best in Medicine”. He also received the: University of Toronto, Department of Medicine Research Award (2010); Fred Barrett Lectureship, University of Tennessee; Distinguished Service Award, Global Health Education Consortium, University of California (2006); John Evans Lectureship in Global Health (2006); The Henry and Sylvia Wong Lectureship In Medicine, MacMaster University (2006), 2005 Forbes Lectureship, University of Melbourne, Australia (2005), Senior Investigator Award (2004) from the Clinical Research Society of Toronto (CRST); and the University Health Network “Inventor of the Year” Award (2003). He has served as a board member or consultant to many organizations including the Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, WHO, Red Cross, Canadian Blood Services, and the CDC.