Meet our
Scientific Advisory Board

Trina Johnson brings in-depth experience leading and managing initiatives across the research spectrum. In the last 25 years Trina has had the distinct pleasure to collaborate and partner with translational and clinical research teams, academic and health systems administrators, and stakeholders across Canada to deliver solutions and results. A neuroimmunologist by training, she holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and completed two post-doctoral fellowships at University of Calgary and McGill University. In 2011, she managed the scientific and operations arms of the Experimental Therapeutics academic research organization and biobank at the Montreal Neurological Institute. This included managing the biomarker arm of Canada’s largest academic-private partnership and Phase IV clinical study as well as more than twenty concurrent international and national clinical research studies with pharmaceutical and academic partners. In 2015 she was recruited to manage the Alberta Clinical Research Consortium with the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade. In 2018, as the Provincial Lead of Research Operations for Alberta Heath Services, amongst a portfolio of projects, she headed up the implementation of clinical research as part of the comprehensive province-wide Electronic Health Record known as Connect Care embedding clinical care in the day-to-day operations of healthcare and giving patients greater visibility and access to experimental care opportunities.