healthcare, medicine & biotechnology
Jason Alexander
Artsci’04 (Politics)
Chief Legal Officer, Starseed Medicinal Inc
Jason Alexander is Chief Legal Officer of Starseed Medicinal Inc., a Canadian cannabis company. As CLO, Jason is responsible for corporate development, regulatory compliance, and overseeing all manner of commercial arrangements.
Prior to joining Starseed, Jason acted as legal counsel for Shoppers Drug Mart and Miller Thomson LLP. Jason has owned, operated, and sold two small businesses and likes to act in commercials here and there. His latest venture is a hotel in Prince Edward County, opening in the spring of 2020 called The Wellington Hotel.
Jason holds a BA (Honours) from Queen’s University and an LLB from the University of Calgary.
Dr. Leslie Flynn
ArtSci'78 (Music)
Vice-Dean, Education, Faculty of Health Sciences, Queen’s University
Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Family Medicine
After receiving her undergraduate degree in Music from Queen’s University and a Master’s in Music from the University of Toronto, Dr. Flynn returned to Queen’s where she received her MD in 1987 and undertook her postgraduate medical education training. She became certified as a Family Physician and subsequently as a Psychiatrist. She began her academic career at Queen’s University when she was cross-appointed to the Departments of Family Medicine and Psychiatry. She has held roles as Director of Continuing Medical Education, Postgraduate Program Director and the Director of Psychotherapy in the Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Flynn held the role of Associate Dean of Postgraduate Medical Education at Queen’s University from 2003-2010. She is currently an Associate Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Family Medicine as well as the Acting Director of the Office of Health Sciences Education and Vice-Dean, Education in the Faculty of Health Sciences.
Dr. Flynn has received departmental awards for Excellent Leadership in Education and the Annual Staff Excellence in Teaching Award. She has conducted research in Physician Health, the role of Health Advocate, Interprofessional Education and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. She is presently a Clinician Educator with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
Marc Wayne
artsci’88 (Biology)
Founding President and Managing Director, Canopy Health Innovations
Marc Wayne is an entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience instarting and operating new ventures. Since leaving graduate studies at the age of 23, Marc has been involved in many new and leading industry sectors. This includes co-founding Northumberland Springs WaterCompany in 1989, co-founding OAM Computer Group - one of Canada’s top 100 technology resellers - in 1993, and becoming a founding investor and Board member of Lasoo.com, a leading provider of spatial software ASP services, whose technology was purchased by Yahoo. In 2012 Marc co-founded Bedrocan Canada Inc., a federally licensed producer of marijuana. In 2015, Marc successfully merged Bedrocan Cannabis with Tweed Marijuana Inc. to form Canopy Growth Corporation. Canopy Growth (CGC-TSX) is now the largest marijuana producer in the world. As of November 2016, Canopy has a market cap of over 1.4 billion dollars.
Carolyn Campbell
artsci’83 (life sciences)
oncologist (retired)
Carolyn was born in Toronto, Ontario and held an undergraduate degree from Queen's (B.Sc. Hons.) and was active in the Queen’s Bands and Rowing while a student. She is a graduate of the McMaster M.D. Program, 1988.
Carolyn is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada and has held a Fellowship in Medical Oncology (UBC, British Columbia Cancer Agency), Clinical Research Fellowship in Lymphoma (Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre), and recently retired as a Staff Oncologist at Grand River Regional Cancer Centre, Kitchener Ontario after working from 1997 to 2015.
Before retiring, Carolyn served as a member of Tri-Hospital Research and Ethics Board, Chair of the Breast Disease Site group, Chief of the Department of Oncology, and Executive member Ontario Medical Oncology Association. Her areas of practice specialty are lymphoma, breast and gynecologic cancers.
Carolyn is married to a Queen’s grad and has three daughters (all went somewhere else.....gasp!). She has volunteered with Waterloo Minor sports (soccer/hockey coach/trainer), food bank, Out of the Cold, Kids Ability, local Homes Association, and the Grand River Hospital Foundation. She enjoys hiking running, cycling, skiing, swimming, ice hockey, reading, and family events...golf if required...all enhanced by food and drink.