Trevor van Mierlo founded Evolution Health with the vision of helping people around the world lead healthier and more productive lives. Understanding the power of electronic media, its capacity to collect and interpret behavior-based data, and the potential for algorithms to produce tailored treatment programs, Trevor became a leading pioneer in online health behavior change. In addition to managing the company’s operations in Canada, United States, United Kingdom and Japan, he directs world-class teams of Intellectual Property Law Specialists, Scientific Advisors, Global eHealth Business Development Experts and Software Application Architects. He is also a respected advisor to Principle Investigators on eHealth study designs and is a co-author on many peer-reviewed journal articles. Previous to Evolution Health, Trevor played an integral role at Mediconsult Inc as a Senior Project and IT Manager with additional business development responsibilities.

For almost 14 years he has built a foundation of expertise in eHealth by leading interactive web-based projects and developing innovative behavior-change modules, electronic diagnostic algorithms and disease management treatment programs. He also advises pharma, OTC marketing divisions, insurance companies, government agencies and non-profit organizations on the effective implementation of eHealth programs. Trevor graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a Combined Honors Degree in English and History. While leading the direction of Evolution Health, Trevor is concurrently completing his Masters of Science in Community Health (MScCH) at the School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, focusing on Addictions and Mental Health.

Mark Allman joined Evolution Health in 2007 after negotiating the company’s first Japanese partnership and overseeing the translation of Evolution’s Web-Based Depression and Anxiety Test (WB-DAT). Since then Mark has secured acceptance of the company’s technologies with the Japanese Internet Medical Association (JIMA), resulting in Evolution becoming the first company outside of Japan to receive this distinction. Currently, Mark is located in Japan and is developing new corporate and academic partnerships.

Prior his current role with Evolution, Mark worked in Japan for 11 years in education and corporate training before returning to the United Kingdom to complete his MBA Oxford Brookes University. After graduation, he joined an Oxford University spin-out company focusing on genetics and personalized medicine, where he played a key role in developing a pilot study for a new genetic diagnostic services.

Dr. Martin Binks is the Clinical Director and CEO of Binks Behavioral Health PLLC and an Assistant Professor in the Division of Medical Psychology, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science at Duke University Medical Center and previously, he was the Director of Behavioral Health, Research, and Strategic Alliances at the Duke Diet & Fitness Center.

Dr. Binks' professional activities include direct patient care, research, and the development of evidence-based obesity and health promotion programs. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Fairleigh Dickenson University, trained at the Bronx VA Medical Center and completed pre- and postdoctoral training in behavioural medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Binks has authored multiple research publications and the book The Duke Diet.

Dr. Peter Farvolden is a psychologist in private practice where he specializes in the assessment and treatment of mood and anxiety problems, the impact of stress in the workplace, disability management, and return-to-work issues. He is also an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto and holds adjunct appointments in the departments of psychology at the University of Waterloo and Ryerson University. His research has focused on the pharmacological and psychological treatment of mood and anxiety disorders with a recent focus on web-based self-help interventions. From 2005-2008, he was the Clinical Director of the Work, Stress and Health Program at CAMH. Dr. Farvolden received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Waterloo and has worked as a clinician, researcher and administrator in a wide variety of inpatient and outpatient settings including the Anxiety Disorders Clinic at The Hamilton Health Sciences Centre and the Clinical Research Department at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

Dr. Paul Cassidy Is a General Practitioner in Gateshead, England, and Associate Medical Director of NHS South of Tyne & Wear. He has over 15 years experience of quality improvement and commissioning of substance misuse services in primary care. He is a research associate at the Institute of Health & Society Newcastle University, and his research interests are in the implementation of screening and brief interventions for alcohol in primary care

John Cunningham is Professor of Psychology and of Public Health Sciences at University of Toronto and is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).

Dr. Cunningham's research focuses on the treatment of addictive behaviours and mechanisms of change. Combing traditional and innovative research methodologies, Dr. Cunningham has conducted clinical studies that focus on brief interventions for problem drinkers and drug users. He also holds a strong interest in studying how traditional brief interventions and self-help programs can be translated to the Internet. Dr. Cunningham received his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Toronto in 1995.

Dr. Cunningham acted as a Scientific Advisor to Evolution Health from 2005-2009, but resigned his position upon appointment as a Canada Research Chair.

Scott McIntosh received his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Miami. As Director of the Greater Rochester Tobacco Research Center and Associate Director of the Smoking Research Program at the University of Rochester, Dr. McIntosh is currently involved with the practice and study of stop- smoking interventions with various populations and the training of physicians and other medical professionals. He was recently Project Director for a randomized controlled trial for smoking cessation in the Dominican Republic and Site Principal Investigator for a study of tobacco prevention and cessation education in Medical Schools. He is a co-investigator on several projects, including an obesity prevention project in large worksites and a web-based study of medical decision making with older patient populations.

Dr. McIntosh is co-founder and co-chair of a series of international workshops on WATI, funded variously with support from Health Canada, the National Cancer Institute (US) and The American Legacy Foundation. He has presented on WATI at three World Conferences on Tobacco or Health and numerous conferences in the US and Canada. His technology-assisted model for training and point-of-care smoking cessation intervention is being pilot tested at the University of Toronto, University of Rochester and Loma Linda University with populations of physicians, medical residents and medical students.

Joel Moskowitz has been director of the Center for Family and Community Health, a CDC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, in the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley since 1993. Joel has also held the position of Research Psychologist in the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley since 1986. Joel received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Evaluation Research and Methodology at Northwestern University. His research interests include health promotion and disease prevention including ehealth, tobacco control, smoking prevention and cessation, substance abuse prevention, and evaluation research and behavioral surveillance methods.

Cameron Norman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto and Director of Evaluation with the Peter A. Silverman Global ehealth Program and the principal investigator of the Youth Voices Research group. Dr. Norman received his Ph.D. in Public Health Sciences from the University of Toronto, and completed his Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and the centre for global ehealth innovation in toronto.

Dr. Norman’s research focuses in understanding how new technologies aid learning and collaboration across time, physical space and culture to improve health and wellbeing. Much of this work has involved the study of Web assisted tobacco interventions and is a leader and evaluator in the development of a global community of practice in this area.

Dr. Norman has more than 10 years experience developing, studying and disseminating WATI-related tools for adolescents and youth. His current research is seeking to understand how youth and young adults are engaged in health promotion through virtual communities and social media; what skills are necessary to fully participate in electronic health decisions (eHealth); and how social networks connect ideas together to translate knowledge into improved health practices with professionals and consumers alike.

Dr. Telmo Ronzani is currently a Professor in the Psychology Department of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Brazil. He is also the Coordinator of the Research Center in Social Psychology and Public Health (POPSS) www.ufjf.br/popss. Dr. Ronzani has a Ph.D. in psychobiology and a post doctorate in Alcohol and Other Drugs by the Department of Community Medicine from the University of Connecticut Health Center and the University of Sao Paulo.
Dr. Ronzani has work and research experience in the areas of alcohol and other drugs, with emphasis on evaluation of implementation against the use of risk, with brief interventions. He also studies social behavior and health, as a social stigma, as well as the beliefs and stereotypes of specific groups. He is an ad hoc consultant for the National Secretariat on Drugs in partnership with Brazil and other countries.

Isabel Cristina Weiss de Souza has been a psychologist in private clinical practice since 1992. She is majored in prevention of alcohol and drugs problems. She also holds specialization in Cognitive Psychotherapies at USP (Universidade de São Paulo/ University of São Paulo - Brazil).

Ms. Weiss is currently concluding the master’s degree in Public Health at UFJF (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora/ Federal University of Juiz de Fora – Brazil) after working for 17 years with problem drinkers and drug users at CAPS AD (Centro de Apoio Pscicosocial – Álcool e Drogas / Centre of Psychosocial Care – Alcohol and Drugs - Brazil) in the Brazilian Public Health System.

Ms. Weiss also works as a management consultant in prevention of harmful alcohol and drugs consumption as well as trainer of Primary Health Care Professionals in disseminating screening and brief intervention practices in towns of the Brazilian Southeast together with the research group POPSS (Polo de Pesquisa em Psicologia Social e Saúde Coletiva / Social Psychology and Public Health Research Pole - UFJF) since 2002.

The partnership between Isabel Weiss, Dr. Telmo Ronzani and Evolution started with the translation of Check Your Drinking screener in 2008.

Cameron Wild is a Professor in the Centre for Health Promotion Studies, School of Public Health, at the University of Alberta, where he directs the Addiction and Mental Health Research Laboratory. Dr. Wild received his PhD in Psychology from the University of Alberta, and completed Post-Doctoral work in Human Motivation at the University of Rochester, New York. He studies psychosocial aspects of addiction and mental health, including: problem drinking, injection drug use, smoking, comorbid addictions and mental disorders, treatment systems, and social policy related to treatment decision making. Most of this work emphasizes social and motivational factors influencing assisted and unassisted change in addictive behaviours. The community focus of Dr. Wild’s research involves collaboration with health policy-makers, practitioners and other stakeholders outside the research arena and dissemination of findings using both traditional (academic publication) and non-traditional (internet, grey literature) methods.

Dr. Wild has worked with Evolution in evaluating the Check Yourself Screener, a screener that targets University Drinking, as well as on research and publications related to alcohol misuse and internet-based interventions to reduce problem drinking.