Internationally recognized as a pioneer in palliative paediatric care, Dr. L.L. (Barrie) deVeber is the Founding President of the deVeber Institute for Bioethics and Social Research. He is Professor Emeritus in Paediatrics and Oncology at the University of Western Ontario (UWO) where he also taught ethics and law for medical students.

Dr. deVeber is known for his work in managing RH haemolytic disease. He directed the Paediatric Haematology and Oncology programme at the Children's Hospital of Western Ontario. His team performed the first amniocentesis and intrauterine fetal transfusion in Eastern Canada, and Dr. deVeber administered the first dose of RH immune globulin in Canada.

As part of Dr. deVeber's involvement with children with cancer and their families, he co-founded Camp Trillium for young cancer patients and their siblings. Camp Trillium has now expanded to include two sites with year-round support programs for these children and their families.

Dr. deVeber was a founding board member for the Ronald McDonald House in London, the Sunshine Foundation of Canada for seriously ill children, and the Childhood Cancer Research Association of Southwestern Ontario.

Dr. deVeber belongs to a distinguished medical family. His paternal grandfather, L.G. (George) deVeber, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police surgeon stationed at Fort MacLeod, Alberta (one of the first RCMP forts in the Western Canada), was later appointed to the Senate. Mount deVeber, located in Alberta's Wellmore Wilderness Park is named after him.

Ian Gentles is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Research Director of the deVeber Institute, and Professor of History at York University's Glendon College where he teaches a seminar on human population. He has published articles and edited books on the causes of death, funeral practices in past societies, child sexual abuse, euthanasia and assisted suicide.

Keith Cassidy is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Guelph in Ontario. His principal field of research is the social and intellectual history of modern America. Professor Cassidy's thesis was concerned with aspects of the political culture of the United States in the early twentieth century. He is currently working on a history of the abortion controversy in the United States since the early 1960s, with a particular focus on the origins and evolution of the right-to-life movement. Several of his articles on this topic have already appeared, most notably in the Journal of Policy History.