| Dr. Sean Bagshaw , MD, MSc, FRCPC Clinician Scientist and Associate Professor of Critical Care Medicine University of Alberta Dr. Sean Bagshaw is a Clinician Scientist and Associate Professor of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Alberta. He trained at the University of Calgary (Internal Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, and Masters of Science Epidemiology) prior to completing a Critical Care Nephrology fellowship in the Department of Intensive Care Medicine, at the Austin Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. His main research interests are the clinical, epidemiological, translational, and health services delivery issues related to acute kidney injury and extracorporeal blood purification in critically ill patients. Dr. Bagshaw’s research specifically focuses on ICU organization, capacity and rapid response systems, frailty in critical illness, and technological support for critically ill older patients. | |
| Dr. Doris Barwich , MD Clinical Assistant Professor Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia Doris Barwich is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine, and the Executive Director of the BC Centre for Palliative Care (BCCPC), a provincial hub to support excellence in evidence-informed practice, education, innovation, collaboration and policy development to improve care for those living with serious illness and their families. Dr. Barwich completed her MD/LMCC and Family Medicine Residency at the University of Manitoba and a Fellowship in Palliative Medicine at the University of Ottawa. Her research interests include the integration of palliative and primary care, bowel care in the palliative population, and Advance Care Planning. | |
| Dr. Karen Burns , MD, MSc, FRCPC Critical Care Medicine Practitioner and Assistant Professor of Medicine St. Michael's Hospital and University of Torornto Karen Burns practices critical care medicine at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. She is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto, a Clinician Scientist at the Keenan Research Centre/Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute and an Associate Member of the School of Graduate Studies with the Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. In addition to completing clinical training in Internal Medicine, Respirology, Critical Care and Lung Transplantation, Karen Burns completed a Master’s Degree in Health, Research and Methodology. She has developed a ‘program of research’ focusing on characterizing practice pattern variation in weaning critically ill adults from invasive mechanical ventilation, on national and international levels, and evaluating strategies to reduce weaning practice variation. Her research program includes small and large scale observational studies, national and international surveys, and a multicentre pilot randomized controlled trial. Other research interests include consent issues in critical care research, surrogate decision-making, and meta-analyses of mechanical ventilation applications. | |
| David Chan , MD, CCFP, MSc, FCF Professor and Director of Information Technology Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University Dr. David Chan is a Professor and Director of Information Technology in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University. He is also a full-time family physician at the Stonechurch Family Health Centre. He earned his MSc in Clinical Epidemiology at McMaster University, following completion of his medical degree at University of Toronto. He worked as a software engineer prior to entering the field of medicine, and has devoted the past 25 years in developing free/open software solutions to enhance patient care, including a set of web-based applications collective known as OSCAR (Open Source Clinical Applications and Resources). These applications include an electronic medical record, a patient-controlled personal health record, a social networking system for clinical providers to exchange medication information and practice tips, and a clinical resource database. His other teaching and research interests include decision support tools, evidence-based medicine and care of the elderly. | |
| Dr. James Downar , MDCM, MHSc, FRCPC Critical Care and Palliative Care Staff Physician University Health Network – Toronto General Hospital James Downar is a critical care and palliative care staff physician at the Toronto General Hospital. He graduated from McGill Medical School and completed residency programs in internal medicine, critical care medicine, and palliative care medicine at the University of Toronto. He also completed a Master’s degree in Bioethics at the Joint Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto. Dr. Downar’s research interests focus on communication and decision-making for seriously ill patients, as well as expanding the role of palliative care in the critical care environment and for non-cancer illnesses. | |
| Dr. Wendy Duggleby , PhD, RN, AOCN University of Alberta Wendy Duggleby is a Professor and Endowed Nursing Research Chair in Aging and Quality of Life, in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Alberta. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing at the University of Saskatchewan, her Master of Nursing at the University of Alberta, and her PhD in Nursing at the University of Texas-Houston Health Sciences Center. Her areas of research interest include gero-oncology, psychosocial oncology, family caregivers, palliative and end of life care. The goal of her research is to enhance quality of life for older adults and their families, and her program of research is entitled “Living with Hope.” | |
| Carole A. Estabrooks , RN, PhD, FCAHS, FA Professor Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta Carole A Estabrooks is a Professor in the Faculty of Nursing, at the University of Alberta and a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Knowledge Translation. She is a fellow in the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and in the American Academy of Nursing. She leads the Knowledge Utilization Studies Program (KUSP) at the University of Alberta and the national Translating Research in Elder Care (TREC) applied research program. Dr. Estabrooks' applied health services research focuses on knowledge translation in the health sciences. She studies the influence of organizations on the uptake of knowledge and the effects of that uptake on quality of care, quality of life/quality of end of life and quality of work life outcomes. Her work is situated in the residential long term care sector and focuses on quality improvement and the spread and scale-up of innovation. | |
| Dr. Richard Hall , MD, FRCPC, FCCP Professor of Anesthesia, Medicine and Pharmacology and Associate Professor of Surgery Dalhousie University Dr. Richard Hall is Professor of Anesthesia, Medicine and Pharmacology and Associate Professor of Surgery at Dalhousie University, and a staff anesthesiologist at the QEII Health Sciences Centre. His research interests include the role of the inflammatory response, altering drug metabolism, pharmacodynamics and the use of novel agents in the delivery of intensive care and anesthesia. Clinically, he specializes in the delivery of cardiac anesthesia and intensive care medicine. Dr. Hall serves on the Ethics Committee of the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society and chairs the Research Ethics Board of the Capital District Health Authority. | |
| 0 | Dr. Paul Hébert , MD Physician-in-Chief Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM) Paul C. Hébert is Physician-in-Chief at the Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM), a Senior Scientist at the Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montreal (CRCHUM) and a Full Professor in the Department of Medicine of the Université de Montréal. Previously, he was a Senior Scientist in the Clinical Epidemiology Program at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI) for over 14 years, and a Full Professor at the University of Ottawa in the Critical Care Medicine Department, with cross-appointments to the Department of Anaesthesiology and the Department of Epidemiology & Community Medicine. Dr. Hébert is the current Chair of the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group (CCCTG). From January 2007 to September 2011, Dr. Hébert was Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ), and throughout his tenure, he was an agent of change, revitalizing this important publication during a challenging time for journal publishing. Since Dr. Hébert’s first faculty appointment, he has published over 300 articles and editorials, secured more than $44 million in research funds, has trained or mentored numerous students and fellows, has participated on national peer review panels (including CIHR and CFHI), and received numerous honours and awards. He was elected to Fellowship in the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in June 2010. |
| Hans Erik Henriksen CEO Healthcare DENMARK Healthcare DENMARK is a public private partnership organization, with a national mandate to promote Danish healthcare solutions and competencies abroad. The partnership is a framework for linking international partners with efficient Danish solutions and does not represent individual companies. Hans Erik has a solid healthcare background from different executive positions during the latest 20 years. He was CEO of the innovative Danish healthcare-IT company Cetrea, which during 2008-2012 was established as a leading provider of solutions to the Danish market and during the same period accessed markets in other Nordic countries, Germany, Netherlands and USA. Before joining Cetrea, he was responsible for IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences in the Northern and Eastern part of Europe (the countries U.K., Ireland, South Africa, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Nordic Countries and Central and Eastern Europe). Since 2008 he has also been engaged as board member in a number of different healthcare and healthcare-IT companies. During 2012 he was a member of the Danish Governments Growth team for Healthcare and welfare solutions. | |
| Dr. John Hirdes , PhD Professor and Ontario Home Care Research and Knowledge Exchange Chair School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo John Hirdes is a Professor and Ontario Home Care Research and Knowledge Exchange Chair in the School of Public Health and Health Systems at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Hirdes obtained his undergraduate degree in Health Studies, Master’s degree in Sociology, Diploma in Gerontology, and PhD in Sociology at the University of Waterloo, followed by post-doctoral research at Freeport Hospital. He is the senior Canadian Fellow and a Board Member of interRAI, an international consortium of researchers from over 35 countries. He chairs interRAI's International Network of Excellence in Mental Health and the interRAI Network of Canada. He is also a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Dr. Hirdes has over 150 publications in peer reviewed journals and academic book chapters. His primary areas of interest include geriatric assessment, mental health, health care and service delivery, case mix systems, quality measurement, health information management, and quantitative research methods. | |
| Dr. Michelle Howard , PhD, MSc Assistant Professor Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University Michelle Howard is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and an Associate Member of the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatics at McMaster University. Dr. Howard completed her doctorate at McMaster, and her MSc at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include evaluating and improving primary care models and understanding the mechanisms and impacts of interprofessional care in primary care practices. | |
| Dr. Sharon Kaasalainen , PhD, MSc, BScN, RN Associate Professor School of Nursing, McMaster University Dr. Sharon Kaasalainen is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at McMaster University, an associate member of the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster, and an Honourary Professor at Queen’s University in Belfast. Dr. Kaasalainen obtained her Bachelor of Science in Nursing, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Health Sciences from McMaster University, and a Master’s of Science in Nursing from the University of Toronto. Her top three research interests are pain management and palliative care in long-term care; improving the quality of life for older adults living in long-term care; and advanced practice nursing roles in long-term care. | |
| Heather Keller , PhD, RD, FDC Professor Department of Kinesiology, University of Waterloo Heather Keller is a Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Waterloo and a Schlegel Research Chair in Nutrition and Aging. She obtained her PhD at Western University, an MSc at McGill University, and a BASc at the University of Guelph. She is a nutritional epidemiologist and dietitian. Her research interests include nutrition risk screening, assessment and nutrition intervention for seniors in general and seniors with dementia in particular. Her research spans community and institutional sectors. | |
| Dr. Nuala Kenny , MD Professor Emeritus Department of Bioethics, Dalhousie University Dr. Nuala Patricia Kenny entered the Sisters of Charity of Halifax in 1962. She received her MD from Dalhousie in 1972 and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada in paediatrics in 1975. In 1993 she completed a Fellowship in Ethics at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. After a distinguished career in paediatrics at Dalhousie, the University of Toronto and Queen’s University she founded the Department of Bioethics of Dalhousie Faculty of Medicine in 1995. In 1999, Dr. Kenny was seconded as Deputy Minister of Health for the Province of Nova Scotia. From 2009-2014 she served as Ethics and Health Policy Advisor to the Catholic Health Alliance of Canada. Author of over one hundred and eighty papers and three books, Dr. Kenny has been nationally recognized as an Officer of the Order of Canada and has received six Honorary Doctorates for her work in child health, medical education and bioethics and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Canadian Bioethics Society, the Distinguished Service Award from the Canadian Health Association, the Catholic Health Association of Canada’s Performance Citation Award, the Canadian Medical Association’s Marsden Ethics Award and the 2009 Dalhousie University Alumni Achievement Award. She is now Professor Emeritus Dalhousie University Department of Bioethics and a Member of TVN’s Board of Directors. Her research now focuses on end of life care, just health systems and systemic and cultural factors affecting the clergy sexual abuse crisis in the Roman Catholic Church. | |
| Dr. Rachel Khadaroo , MD, PhD, FRCSC Surgeon and Scientist University of Alberta Rachel Khadaroo is a surgeon (critical care medicine specialization) and scientist at the University of Alberta Hospital, and an assistant professor in the division of general surgery at the University of Alberta, with a cross appointment to the division of critical care. She earned her Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Medicine at McMaster University, and her PhD in the Surgical Scientist Program at the University of Toronto. Dr. Khadaroo completed her general surgery training at the University of Alberta, and further specialized in the area of critical care medicine at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include intestinal ischemia/reperfusion injury, sepsis, lung injury, innate immunity, inflammatory cell signaling, surgical infection and acute care surgery. Her current major research relates to intestinal injury and the role the intestine has in critical illness, multiple organ dysfunction, and sepsis. | |
| Michelle Kho , PhD, PT Assistant Professor School of Rehabilitation Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University Dr. Michelle Kho is an Assistant Professor in the School of Rehabilitation Science, Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University. She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Kho completed her BHSc in Physiotherapy at McMaster, and BSc and MSc in Kinesiology at the University of Waterloo. She holds a PhD in Health Research Methodology from McMaster University, where she also completed a post-doctoral CIHR research fellowship. As a physiotherapist, she also cares for patients in the St. Joseph’s Healthcare ICU in Hamilton. Dr. Kho is leading a clinical research program of early in-bed cycling in mechanically ventilated patients to improve patient outcomes. Her research interests include novel early rehabilitation strategies to reduce weakness in ICU patients, knowledge translation, research methodology (systematic reviews, practice guidelines), and health services and outcomes research. | |
| Dr. Doug Klein , MD, MSc, BSc Associate Professor Department of Family Medicine, University of Alberta. Doug Klein is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Alberta. Dr. Klein completed his MSc and residency at the University, his MD at the University of Ottawa, and his undergraduate degree at Western University. His research interests include: behavior change and lifestyle modification particularly concerning diabetes and metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease and atrial fibrillation, electronic medical records, and social media. | |
| Dr. France Légaré , MD, PhD, CCFP, FCF Professor Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine, Université Laval France Légaré practices family medicine, is a Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Université Laval, a clinical investigator at the CHUQ Research Centre, and is also the Canadian Cochrane Network Site representative at Université Laval and CHUQ Research Centre. She completed her PhD in Population Health at the University of Ottawa. Her research interests include the implementation process of shared decision making in primary care, knowledge transfer, systematic literature reviews and decision support tools. | |
| 0 | Gill Lewin PhD, MPH, MScClin Ps Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Curtin University Research Director, Silver Chain Professor Gill Lewin has been involved in research on ageing since she joined Silver Chain as the Research Manager 19 years ago. For the last four years she has combined her role as Research Director at Silver Chain with that of Professor of Ageing at Curtin University’s, Centre for Research on Ageing. While Professor Lewin and her research team at Silver Chain have completed more than 80 discrete research projects addressing a broad range of research questions relating to health and aged care, her personal primary research area has been community care. For the last ten years the focus of much of her research has been the development and testing of care models that promote the independence of older people. As few providers and policy makers have the opportunity to read academic journals, Professor Lewin has used conferences and industry publications as the primary method for communicating the findings of this research in order to influence changes in policy and practice. She has, for example, presented papers about the outcomes of restorative home care programs at more than a dozen national and international conferences and continues to develop and research this area. Her findings, together with evidence accumulating from the UK and the US, have resulted in the adoption of restorative approaches by a number of home care providers around Australia and have influenced Home and Community Care (HACC) in Victoria and WA to adopt the Active Service model and the Wellness Approach to Home Care, respectively. Professor Lewin has been awarded over $2 million dollars in grant funding over the past five years, including a three-year ARC linkage grant in 2010. |
| Dr. Marilyn Macdonald , PhD, MSN, BN Associate Director Graduate Studies School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Professions, and Dalhousie University Dr. Macdonald is an Associate Professor, and Associate Director Graduate Studies in the School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Professions, and Dalhousie University. She received her PhD in Nursing from the University of San Diego, and a Bachelor of Nursing from the University of New Brunswick. Dr. Macdonald served as a member of the Canadian Patient Safety Institute’s (CPSI) Core Team of Researchers for Safety in Home Care, and was selected to be a member of a multidisciplinary group to establish The Safety Competencies: Enhancing Patient Safety across the Health Professions. These competencies are being integrated into curricula in all programs of disciplinary study in the country. Dr. Macdonald’s program of research is focused on safety in home care, and her research has contributed to mapping the terrain of safety in home care, recommending changes in home care delivery, and to setting priorities for research in this domain. She has also served as a reviewer for various CIHR competitions, including Partnerships for Health System Improvement and Knowledge Synthesis. | |
| Dr. Colleen Maxwell , BSc, MA, PhD Professor Schools of Pharmacy and Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo Dr. Colleen Maxwell is a Professor with the Schools of Pharmacy and Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, an Adjunct Scientist with ICES, and an Adjunct Professor with the Department of Community Health Sciences and Medicine, University of Calgary. Dr. Maxwell obtained her BSc Health Studies, her MA in Gerontology, and her PhD in Health Studies at the University of Waterloo. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Élisabeth-Bruyère Health Centre and the University of Ottawa. Dr. Maxwell’s primary research interests are in the areas of Pharmacoepidemiology and Aging with a particular focus on Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia, depression and health services and outcomes research. She is also involved in national and international research examining the health and quality of care needs of older residents within Assisted Living and Long Term Care settings. | |
| Dr. Paige Moorhouse , MD, MPH Associate Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics) Dalhousie University Dr. Paige Moorhouse is an Associate Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics) at Dalhousie University. Dr. Moorhouse received a Bachelor’s of Science from the University of Toronto and completed her MD and residency training in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Geriatric Medicine at Dalhousie University in 2007. She completed a Master’s of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in 2008. Dr. Moorhouse draws on her clinical experience to inspire her research in vascular cognitive impairment, driving and dementia, end-of-life care, frailty, executive function, and technology solutions for team-based care. She is the co-founder of the Palliative and Therapeutic Harmonization model of care and the Collaborative Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment methodology for team-based care planning. | |
| 0 | Dr. John Muscedere , MD, FRCPC TVN Scientific Director and CEO Dr. John Muscedere is a Professor of Medicine at Queen’s University School of Medicine and an intensivist at Kingston General Hospital (KGH)in Kingston, Ontario. He is Research Director of the Critical Care Program at Queen’s, and serves as the Local Health Integrated Network (LHIN) Critical Care Leader for the SouthEast LHIN. Dr. Muscedere is Co-Chair of the Canadian Critical Care Society (CCCS) and the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group (CCCTG) Knowledge Translation Committee. Dr. Muscedere is an accomplished critical care researcher whose primary research interests include ventilator-associated pneumonia, clinical practice guidelines, quality improvement, knowledge translation and venous thromboembolism. He is currently leading the implementation of a Canadian Critical Care Knowledge Translation Network, aC3KTion Net, which seeks to improve the implementation of evidence informed best practices in critical care. As an intensivist, he has first-hand knowledge of caring for the frail elderly with life limiting disease. He has been involved with TVN from its inception, having participated in the Network’s initial proposal for Network Centres of Excellence (NCE) funding, as well as serving as Chair of the TVN Knowledge Translation Committee in its first year. |
| Dr. Tom Noseworthy , CM, MD, MSc, MPH, Professor of Health Policy and Management Department of Community Health Sciences and Institute for Public Health, University of Calgary Dr. Tom Noseworthy is Professor of Health Policy and Management, Department of Community Health Sciences and Institute for Public Health, University of Calgary. He is the former Head of that Department and inaugural Co-Director of that Institute. Dr Noseworthy is the former Vice President, Medical Services, and CEO of the Royal Alexandra Hospitals, Edmonton; and, Chair of the Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta. From 2011 to 2015, Dr Noseworthy served in a number of interim leadership roles with Alberta Health Services, most recently as Associate Chief Medical Officer, Strategic Clinical Networks. Dr Noseworthy is a physician, with specialty certification in the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, the American Colleges of Physicians, American College of Chest Physicians and American College of Critical Care Medicine. He holds a Master of Science in Experimental Medicine from the University of Alberta, and a Master of Public Health - Health Policy and Management from Harvard University. Dr Noseworthy has been a member of the National Statistics Council since 1999. He served as a member of the Prime Minister’s National Forum on Health from 1994-1997, and chaired the Steering Committee; co-chaired the Advisory Council on Health Infostructure (Federal Health Minister) from 1997-1999; chaired the Senior Reference Committee for Alberta Wellnet from 1997-2002; and, was Chair of the Western Canada Waiting List Project from 1999-2006, and now chairs a research collaboration funded by CIHR as an Emerging Team. His research has been published in over 100 papers and book chapters and focuses on health care access and improving quality management of waiting times for scheduled services. He was a founding Director of Canadian Doctors for Medicare in 2007. He currently is a member of the Expert Panel on the Timely Access to Health and Social Data for Health Research and Health System Innovation of the Council of Canadian Academies; and, is a member of the Institute Advisory Board for the CIHR Institute of Health Services and Policy Research. Dr. Noseworthy’s work has been recognized by the Commonwealth, his country, province, university and colleagues. In 2005, Dr Noseworthy was awarded the Alberta Centennial Medal by the Province of Alberta for contributions to health care and policy. In that same year, he was also named as one of Alberta’s Top 100 Physicians of the Century by his peers in the Alberta Medical Association and College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta. In 2007, Dr Noseworthy was appointed by the Governor General as Member of the Order of Canada, for contributions to health policy and Medicare. In 2012, he received the Diamond Jubilee medal marking the 60th year of the Queen’s reign and in recognition of contributions to health care. He was also chosen from amongst the U of C faculty to give the 2012 Lecture of a Lifetime. He received a Certificate of Meritorious Service from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta for 2012. He was the recipient of the 2014 CIHR Barer-Flood Prize in Health Services and Policy Research. | |
| Barbara Pesut , PhD, RN Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Health, Ethics and Diversity University of British Columbia Barbara Pesut is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Health, Ethics and Diversity at the University of British Columbia. She practiced nursing in a variety of areas including critical care and paediatric oncology, before transitioning to nursing education. Barbara served as the Department Chair of the Nursing Education program at Trinity Western University for six years and has worked on a variety of Provincial Nursing Educational Initiatives. She earned her undergraduate degree in nursing at the University of Victoria, and her Masters and PhD in Nursing at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests include rural and remote palliative care, and spirituality/religion/culture in health care. | |
| Parminder Raina , PhD Lead Principal Investigator CLSA Dr. Parminder Raina is a Professor in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University, where he holds a Canada Research Chair in Geroscience and the Raymond and Margaret Labarge Chair in Research and Knowledge Application for Optimal Aging. He specializes in the epidemiology of aging with emphasis on developing the interdisciplinary field of geroscience to understand the processes of aging from cell to society. He has expertise in epidemiologic modeling, systematic review methodology, injury and knowledge transfer. Dr. Raina is also the lead principal investigator of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA), one of the largest and comprehensive studies of aging in the world. He was the Director of the internationally recognized McMaster Evidence-based Practice Center which was funded by the U.S based Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and is the current Director of the CIHR funded McMaster Evidence Synthesis and Review Centre. Dr. Raina is one of the founding members of the Ontario Research Coalition of Aging Institutes/Centers funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-term Care. Dr. Raina has served on several national and international committees such as WHO-EVIPNet in Asia, Ontario Minister's Advisory Group on Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias Research, Surveillance Committee of Public Health Agency of Canada and Panel for the Public Dialogue on Privacy and Health Research in Canada. He currently serves on the Advisory Committee for National Elder Abuse Research Project funded by Human Resource Social Development Canada and the National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly (NICE). He is also a member of the External Scientific and Ethics Advisory Board of Consortium on Health and Ageing Network of Cohorts in Europe and the United States (CHANCES) and EU funded project SiforAGE. | |
| Joyce Resin Public Engagement Consultant Joyce Resin has a Master’s Degree in Social Work with a specialty in community development. She has many years of community capacity-building and citizen engagement experience. Joyce has also lectured in Social Policy at Vancouver Community College. For 25 years, she worked in broadcasting at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver. She has also worked in print and radio communications. As Director of the Healthy Heart Society, she used her marketing, communications and community development expertise to build an innovative suite of successful initiatives around British Columbia. Most recently, she served as Executive Director of ImpactBC, and led several initiatives related to patient engagement. | |
| 0 | Dr. Duncan Robertson , MB, BS, FRCP, FRCP Specialist in Geriatric Medicine Alberta Health Services Dr. Duncan Robertson is a specialist in Geriatric Medicine. He came to Canada from UK as a newly qualified physician in 1966 and, after 2 years of post-graduate training in Ontario was, for 3 years, a family physician. He then trained in Internal Medicine (with additional training in Cardiology) in London, Ontario and took further training in Gerontology and Geriatrics in Oxford returning to Canada to become one of the first Canadian physicians recognized by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada as a Specialist in Geriatric Medicine. His early research publications were in Cardiology and Clinical Geriatrics including province-wide study of prevalence of Cognitive Impairment. He has contributed to several Federal and Provincial initiates in Elder Care over the past four decades and authored chapters in five textbooks in Geriatrics. He was Professor of Medicine at the Universities of Alberta and British Columbia and he headed the Department of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan and also the University of Toronto, where he was also Director of the Regional Geriatric Program of Metropolitan Toronto. For many years he chaired the BCMA Geriatric and Palliative Care Committee and was a founding member and later President of the Canadian Geriatrics Society. He is a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of Edinburgh, London and Canada and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He has a part-time role as Senior Medical Director of the Strategic Clinical Network: Seniors’ Health of Alberta Health Services and continues a limited clinical consulting practice in Alberta and British Columbia. |
| 0 | Kenneth Rockwood , MD, FRCPC, FRCP Dalhousie University Dr. Kenneth Rockwood is the Kathryn Allen Weldon Professor of Alzheimer research and Professor of Geriatric Medicine at Dalhousie University, a staff internist and geriatrician at the Nova Scotia Health Authority in Halifax, and the founder of DementiaGuide Inc., a web-based company. A native of Newfoundland, he became a Doctor of Medicine at Memorial University in 1985, completed internal medicine training at the University of Alberta and geriatric medicine at Dalhousie University. He also holds a Masters in Public Administration from Queen's University, and has formally provided policy advice at both the provincial and federal levels. Kenneth Rockwood has had a longstanding interest in clinical and epidemiological aspects of frailty, dementia and delirium. He has focused his investigations on the complexity of frailty, and on what can be termed ‘clinico-mathematical correlation’. Dr. Rockwood has published more than 350 scientific papers and seven books, including the seventh edition of the Brocklehurst’s Textbook of Geriatric Medicine & Gerontology, and serves as an active member of many national and international committees and boards. He holds several CIHR grants, including as Principal Investigator of the Canada China Collaboration on Aging and Longevity and the Canadian Dementia Knowledge Translation Network. The latter is a national, multicentre project to provide better care for people with dementia by facilitating and carrying out translational research and knowledge translation. |
| Paddy Rodney , RN, MSN, PhD Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Coordinator University of British Columbia Patricia (Paddy) Rodney, is an Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Coordinator with the University of British Columbia (UBC) School of Nursing. She is also a Faculty Associate with the UBC Centre for Applied Ethics and a Research Associate with Providence Health Care Ethics Services. Paddy's research and publications focus on end-of-life care for seriously ill older adults and the moral climate of health care delivery. She has a particular interest in the role of ethical frameworks in policy related to health and health care. | |
| Dr. Richard Sawatzky , PhD, MSc, BSc, RN Associate Professor Trinity Western University Dr. Richard Sawatzky is an Associate Professor and holds a Canada Research Chair in Patient-Reported Outcomes in the School of Nursing, and the School of Graduate Studies at Trinity Western University (TWU). He also works as a research scientist with the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences (CHÉOS) at Providence Health Care in British Columbia. Dr. Sawatzky has been a faculty member at TWU since 2002, having taught courses on nursing research, medical and surgical nursing, nursing care of older adults, and health assessment. He currently teaches courses on knowledge synthesis and quantitative research methods in the Master of Science in Nursing program. Dr. Sawatzky completed his undergraduate studies at TWU and his graduate studies at the University of British Columbia. His clinical background is in palliative care and medical nursing care, and his research focuses on patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and measurement and quality of life measurement in people with chronic life-limiting conditions. His current research includes studies about the challenges of PRO measurement in heterogeneous populations and in longitudinal studies, the validation of computerized assessment systems, the use of handheld devices for quality of life assessment, educational approaches for patients with colorectal cancer, and patients' experiences with knee surgery. | |
| Dr. Henry Stelfox , BMSc, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Critical Care Medicine, Medicine and Community Health Sciences University of Calgary Henry (Tom) Stelfox is an Associate Professor of Critical Care Medicine, Medicine and Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary, and the Scientific Director of Alberta Health Services Critical Care Strategic Clinical Network. He received his PhD in health care policy from Harvard University and his MD from the University of Alberta, and completed his internal medicine residence at the University of Toronto and a critical care fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital. His research program focuses on the application of health services research methods to evaluate and improve the quality of health care delivery to critically ill patients. His research activities include developing quality indicators in trauma care; developing strategies to improve continuity of patient care across the care continuum; and improving the translation of scientific evidence into clinical practice. | |
| 0 | Dr. Denise Stockley , PhD Professor in the Faculty of Education and a Researcher in Residence Faculty of Education and Faculty of Health Sciences, Queen's University Dr. Denise Stockley is a Professor in the Faculty of Education and a Researcher in Residence in the Office of Health Science Education in the Faculty of Health Sciences. She has extensive experience in promoting both classroom-based and online learning. Denise completed her PhD in the Psychology of Education at Simon Fraser University. Her primary interests are professional development, graduate supervision, program evaluation, and educational technology. She is also the Principal Investigator of several research grants in these areas, including those from the Tri-Council (SSHRC, NSERC, and CIHR). |
| Dr. Tamara Sussman , MSW, PhD Associate Professor School of Social Work, McGill University Dr. Tamara Sussman is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at McGill University. She obtained her undergraduate and master’s degrees at McGill University, and a PhD in Social Work at the University of Toronto, followed by a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Program at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Sussman’s program of research focuses on how health services and systems impact older adults and their family members, including spousal careers’ experiences with home care; older adults’ and family members’ experiences with the transition into long-term care; barriers and facilitators to the delivery of effective interventions for depressed older adults and their care partners; and most recently the needs and experiences of more marginalized older adults in long-term care such as previously homeless older adults and older adults identifying as gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT). | |
| Dr. Robin Urquhart , PhD Assistant Professor Department of Surgery, Dalhousie University Robin Urquhart is an Assistant Professor, in the Department of Surgery, with a cross-appointment in Community Health & Epidemiology, both at Dalhousie University. She is also an Affiliate Scientist with the QEII Health Sciences Centre, and a Senior Scientist at Beatrice Hunter Cancer Research Institute. She received her Interdisciplinary PhD in 2013 at Dalhousie University with a focus on the role of the knowledge broker. Dr. Urquhart’s primary research interests relate to understanding and optimizing the movement of evidence-based innovations into clinical practice as well as the interface between evidence-based medicine and policy. | |
| Rachel Whitty RPh, BScPhm, ACPR Manager, International Partnerships University Health Network, Laboratory Medicine Program Rachel graduated from the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto and completed an accredited hospital pharmacy residency program at University Health Network. She found her clinical passion in palliative care at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, where she worked as a pharmacist on the centre’s acute palliative care unit. She recently joined the Laboratory Medicine Program at UHN as manager of the program’s international partnerships. Rachel is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto where she gives a yearly lecture to 3rd year pharmacy students on Symptom Management in Palliative Care. She also gives an annual Palliative Care lecture at the University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy. She is currently a TVN HQP, as co-investigator of “A pilot study of a MEdication RAtionalization (MERA) Intervention” with Dr. James Downar and a great team of interprofessional colleagues.
Professor Imogen Mitchell is Deputy Dean of the Medical School but had been the Director of the Intensive Care Unit at the Canberra Hospital for 15 years until 2014. Imogen is a nationally and internationally recognized clinical and health systems researcher, specifically in the development of sustainable processes for managing patient deterioration. She is a Senior Medical Advisor to the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality and is facilitating the national implementation of the national consensus statement for end of life care in Acute Hospitals.
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| Dr. John You , MD, MSc, FRCPC Associate Professor Departments of Medicine, and of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, McMaster University John You is a hospital-based general internist who is a staff physician with Hamilton Health Sciences and an Associate Professor in the Departments of Medicine, and of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics at McMaster University. He received his BSc from McMaster University, and his MD and an MSc in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Toronto. He is a member of the CLARITY (Clinical Advances Through Research and Information Translation) research group at McMaster, and an executive member of CARENET (Canadian Researchers at the End-of-Life Network), an interdisciplinary network of health care professionals from across Canada who collaborate to improve palliative and end-of-life care. His primary clinical and scholarly interests are in improving the quality of end of life communication, decision-making, and care for seriously ill elderly patients and their families. | |
| John Young National Clinical Director for the Frail Elderly and Integration NHS England John is Professor of Elderly Care Medicine at the Leeds Institute of Health Sciences. He is Head of the Academic Unit of Elderly Care and Rehabilitation which is based in the Bradford Institute for Health Research. The unit has an established record of addressing key, clinically relevant questions in elderly care and stroke. Important quality improvement work includes involvement in the national audits of dementia care and intermediate care. In 2009 he was awarded the Lady Illingworth prize for outstanding contributions to services for older people. He was recently appointed as National Clinical Director for Integration and Frail Elderly, NHS England. In this new position John will work with NHS England colleagues and others to improve services for older people nationally. John trained at the Middlesex Hospital, University of London. He was appointed as a consultant geriatrician in Bradford, West Yorkshire, in 1986. He took on responsibilities as a clinical manager and developed numerous new services including an elderly care assessment unit, a stroke unit and an ortho-geriatric unit. Research interests became embedded in the clinical work and included evaluations (mostly by randomised controlled trial) of the day hospital, aspects of stroke care and intermediate care services. | |
