Good morning. I'd like to welcome everybody to the Subcommittee on Neurological Disease, a subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Health.
We have many people in the room here in Canada.
With us as witnesses have Dr. Paolo Zamboni, a medical doctor and director of the Vascular Diseases Center at the University of Ferrara in Italy; Dr. Marian Simka, medical doctor, Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, in Poland; and Dr. Robert Maggisano, medical doctor, vascular surgeon, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto.
Here in Ottawa, we are joined by the president of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Dr. Alain Beaudet, and from the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada, the assistant vice-president of research, Dr. Karen Lee.
Welcome, everybody.
Each of the witnesses will have seven minutes of testimony. We're going to begin with Dr. Paolo Zamboni.
Dr. Zamboni.