Raphael Saginur MD, FRCPC, FIDSA, FISAC

Dr. Saginur is a retired Infectious Disease physician at the Ottawa Hospital and Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Ottawa. He was the longstanding chair of the Ottawa Health Science Network Research Ethics Board.
He graduated from Dartmouth College and the Faculty of Medicine, McGill University and trained in Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, and Medical Microbiology at McGill and Tufts Universities, the latter under Drs. John Bartlett and Sherwood Gorbach.
In the area of Infectious Diseases, he was involved in clinical trials and laboratory studies mostly related to bacterial infections. He served as a consultant in Ottawa, where he was the first infectious disease physician at the Ottawa Hospital, and in remote First Nations communities in northwestern Ontario. He served as President of the Canadian Foundation for Infectious Diseases and was President of the 26th International Congress of Chemotherapy in Toronto in 2009. He was Treasurer of the International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy and a Director of the Society. He has been actively involved in the public health-infectious diseases interface in areas such as emergency preparedness, travel medicine and antibiotic resistance and stewardship.
Dr. Saginur was the founding President of the Canadian Association of Research Ethics Boards and led the initial development of the Ontario Cancer Research Ethics Board, of which he chaired the Governance Committee. He served as a director of Clinical Trials Ontario. He sat on the Standing Committee on Ethics of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
He is now Director of Ethics of the Canadian Biobank Alliance.
He has been honoured with Meritorious Membership of the International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy and the President’s Award of the Canadian Association of Research Ethics Boards.