Mentorship Program

The CAN-AMR-Net Mentorship Program will run from April to December 2026

About CAN-AMR-Net mentorship opportunities:

To combat the complex, interdisciplinary and urgent threat that is antimicrobial resistance or AMR, it is important to share knowledge and experience across public health, research, and clinical and veterinary medicine.

To foster the professional development of CAN-AMR-Net trainees, we are introducing the CAN-AMR-Net Mentorship Program to connect senior researchers, academics, policy advisors, and clinicians with the next generation of leaders in combatting AMR.

Please note: This year’s mentorship program is a pilot and is only open to CAN-AMR-Net 2025 and 2026 scholarship recipients. We hope to expand the program in 2027 to include all CAN-AMR-Net members across Canada.

The CAN-AMR-Net Mentorship Program connects trainees with One Health and AMR professionals in industry, academia, and/or government sectors to gain real-world field-specific career insights.

The program is strongly mentee-driven, where mentors serve as a source of field/sector-specific knowledge and lived professional experience to support mentees in exploring career pathways, refining their career goals, and developing personal plans to achieve them.

Mentorship occurs in small groups to facilitate peer support and collaborative learning amongst trainees. A strength of this program is that it will bring trainees and mentors together across disciplines and sectors to enhance systems level perspective on One Health AMR careers for trainees.

To register as a mentee for the CAN-AMR-Net Mentorship Program, you must meet the following eligibility criteria:

You are a member of CAN-AMR-Net (as a trainee or early career researcher)
You reside in Canada
You are available to meet virtually with your mentorship group on a periodic basis between April and December 2026.

Since the program builds on information learned in previous meetings, we will not consider mentorship applications once the program has begun.

Program Structure and Expectations:

The CAN-AMR-Net Mentorship Program will run from April to December 2026 and will follow the structure outlined below.

Each mentor will be matched with a small group of mentees. Each mentorship group will then meet virtually at least three times over the course of the program, for around 60-90 minutes per meeting.

Each meeting will build on the previous and have a different focus. For example:

Meeting 1 is recommended to be held within the first month of the program and will focus on mentees gaining field/sector-specific knowledge from their assigned mentor.
Meeting 2 is recommended to be held over the summer and will focus on field-specific skills development.
Meeting 3 is recommended to be held in the fall and will reflect on the career progress made so far and forward planning with the mentor.

Mentors

Dr. Cécile Aenishaenslin

Associate Professor,

Veterinary Medicine,

University of Montreal

Dr. Dominic Frigon

Associate Professor,

Civil Engineering,

McGill University

Dr. Herman Barkema

Professor,

Veterinary Medicine,

University of Calgary

Dr. Jane Parmley

Associate Professor,

Population Medicine,

University of Guelph

Dr. Jennifer Geddes-McAlister

Associate Professor,

Biological Science,

University of Guelph

Dr. Jennifer Ronholm

Associate Professor,

Agricultural and Environmental Sciences,

McGill University

Dr. John Conly

Professor,

Infectious Diseases, Cumming School of Medicine,

University of Calgary

Dr. Manish Sadarangani

Associate Professor,

Medicine,

University of British Columbia

Margaret Haworth-Brockman

Senior Program Manager,

National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases

Dr. Suzanne Hindmarch

Associate Professor,

Political Science,

University of New Brunswick

Dr. Tim McAllister

Research Scientist,

Lethbridge Research and Development Centre,

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Dr. Venkata R. Duvvuri

Assistant Professor,

Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology,

University of Toronto

Dr. William Hsiao

Associate Professor,

Health Sciences,

Simon Fraser University

Trainee Lead: Jenna Buragina

The CAN-AMR-Net Mentorship Program is a trainee-led initiative.

Jenna is a MSc student in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Infectious Diseases at the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary.

Stay tuned for more information on the 2027 CAN-AMR-Net Mentorship Program!

Questions?

If you have any questions regarding CAN-AMR-Net, please contact us at canamrnet@ucalgary.ca.