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John G. Abbott is currently Interim Chief Executive Officer with the Health Council of Canada. In addition, he is a management consultant with The Institute for the Advancement of Public Policy, Inc., a private consulting firm specializing...
Friday, 03 July 2009 | Read more
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Dr. Susan Ackland is a family practitioner and HIV physician based in Vancouver, British Columbia. A member of the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Dr. Ackland is also a founding board member of Vancouver HIV Doctors Overseas, an...
Friday, 29 May 2009 | Read more
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Lisa Anselme RN, BLS, HN-BC, CHTP/I is Executive Director/Nurse Consultant for Integrative Health Care for Healing Touch International, Inc. Lisa is a Certified Holistic Nurse and Certified Healing Touch Instructor and Practitioner. She was...
Friday, 01 January 2010 | Read more
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Irene Borins Ash - is a social worker, photographer, speaker and author who helps people 50 and beyond develop a healthy attitude towards aging despite life’s difficulties. She earned a M.S.W. at Yeshiva University in New York City in 1987...
Saturday, 18 July 2009 | Read more
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Samar, Assousa - is the Senior Director for International Health Development at Health Partners International of Canada. Her focus is to develop strategic partnerships with Canadian healthcare professionals and...
Sunday, 14 June 2009 | Read more
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Ronald Baecker is Professor of Computer Science, Bell Universities Laboratories Chair in Human-Computer Interaction, and Founder, Founding Director, Chief scientist, and Interim Director of the Knowledge Media Design Institute at the...
Wednesday, 08 July 2009 | Read more
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Mark Otto Baerlocher is a resident in his final year in Diagnostic Radiology at the University of Toronto, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He will enter a fellowship in Interventional Radiology at the University of California San Diego...
Saturday, 01 August 2009 | Read more
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Richard was born in Vancouver's St. Paul's hospital and graduated with honors from the Faculty of Commerce at the University of British Columbia. He has worked for such well known companies as Procter and Gamble (Toronto), Merrill Lynch,...
Wednesday, 03 June 2009 | Read more
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Kevin Barlow is Mi’kmaq from Indian Island First Nation in New Brunswick. Staying close to his roots he has dedicated his more than 20 year career to improving the health and wellness of Aboriginal peoples. In 2006, Mr. Barlow received an...
Tuesday, 16 June 2009 | Read more
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Laurie Barnhardt PHCNP, CON(C) masters candidate
aurie Barnhardt is a Primary Care Nurse Practitioner with the Upper Grand Family Health Team in Fergus Ontario. Laurie is currently completing her masters in nursing at the University of...
Wednesday, 01 July 2009 | Read more
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Carolann has close to 20 years of progressive senior leadership and program development with diverse and marginalized populations. Her work has been conducted in a variety of health and social services environments with both youth and...
Sunday, 31 January 2010 | Read more
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Nicole Beben - Nicole Beben is the executive director for Saint Elizabeth Health Care’s new Care to Know Centre (CTKC). Nicole comes to the CTKC with a research background, a graduate degree in social sciences and expertise in strategic...
Sunday, 14 June 2009 | Read more
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T he Honourable, Dr. Carolyn Bennett, PC, MP, MD, was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1997 general election and was re-elected in 2000, 2004 and 2006 representing the Toronto riding of St. Paul’s. Prior to her entrance into...
Thursday, 11 June 2009 | Read more
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Richard Bercuson is an Ottawa freelance writer and columnist, adult high school teacher and hockey coach.
And in his spare time, he runs marathons.
He is a columnist for the Ottawa Citizen and also writes a humour column for MONITOR, a...
Thursday, 11 June 2009 | Read more
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Bergman, Howard, MD - is the first Dr. Joseph Kaufmann Professor of Geriatric Medicine and is Director of the Division of Geriatric Medicine at McGill University. He is a Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Family Medicine and...
Thursday, 11 June 2009 | Read more
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Bob Bernhardt, BSc, LLM, MEd, PhD (cand.), is an experienced leader in post-secondary education who demonstrates a passion for professional programs.
During his career, Mr. Bernhardt has served as Director of Education at the Law Society...
Tuesday, 16 June 2009 | Read more
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Arlene S. Bierman, MD, MS, FRCPC, a general internist, geriatrician, and health services researcher is the inaugural holder of the Ontario Women's Health Council Chair in Women's Health and Associate Professor Nursing, Lawrence S. Bloomberg...
Monday, 31 August 2009 | Read more
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Cindy Blackstock, B.A., M.M., Phd. (student)
A member of the Gitksan Nation, Cindy has worked in the field of child and family services for over twenty years on the front line, in professional development and research. In her current...
Wednesday, 22 July 2009 | Read more
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Anita Boles, MPA, Executive Director, brings to the Society for the Arts in Healthcare a vast knowledge of business and financial planning for nonprofit and government agencies as well as a background in both arts and healthcare. She is an...
Saturday, 01 August 2009 | Read more
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Dr. Bond is a Senior Lecturer in Health Informatics at Bournemouth University (UK) where she based in the School of Health and Social Care and is a member of the Centre for Wellbeing and Quality of Life. Before moving to Bournemouth she was...
Monday, 31 August 2009 | Read more
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Adalsteinn (Steini) D. Brown was appointed as the Assistant Deputy Minister, Health System Strategy Division, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC) in March 2006 with the goal to establish overall strategic directions and provincial...
Friday, 01 January 2010 | Read more
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Trained in general and internal medicine, psychiatry and clinical research, Stuart L. Brown MD first recognized the essential contributions of play to human development by systematically discovering its absence in the life stories of...
Sunday, 31 January 2010 | Read more
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Brown, Maryanne, RN MSc - Maryanne Brown has 23 years experience in gerontology with clinical speciality in dementia care, palliative care and interpersonal relations. Maryanne obtained her Master’s of Science from the Faculty of Nursing...
Sunday, 14 June 2009 | Read more
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Peter G. Brown is a professor in the School of Environment, the Department of Geography, and the Department of Natural Resource Sciences at McGill University. Before coming to McGill, he was Professor of Public Policy at the University of...
Monday, 13 July 2009 | Read more
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Dina Bruyere, B.A., LL.B.h7r.
I am Ojibwe (Anishinabae kwe) from Sagkeeng First Nation, which is located within beautiful Treaty 1 and Treaty 3 territories in southern Manitoba. I grew up in Sagkeeng and graduated from the Fort Alexander...
Tuesday, 16 June 2009 | Read more
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Lembi Buchanan is the founder of Nickel-a-Drink for Addictions and Mental Health Research Foundation, a national, grass-roots charity raising money for education and research into mental disorders and addictive behaviours.
An advocate for...
Tuesday, 16 June 2009 | Read more
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Dr. Robert Buckman lives in Toronto, Canada, where he is a medical oncologist at the Princess Margaret Hospital, and Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto.
He qualified as a physician from Cambridge...
Thursday, 11 June 2009 | Read more
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J amie Burnett is a graduate of the renowned National Theatre School of Canada and has been a professional actor for many years. He performed at the Shaw Festival for two years and was a member of the Canopy Theatre Company for four years...
Wednesday, 01 July 2009 | Read more
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Marilyn Butcher - graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Toronto. She has worked as a Registered Nurse in a variety of settings in Toronto and Sudbury including hospitals, health units and teaching at the...
Sunday, 14 June 2009 | Read more
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A highly sought humorist and internationally recognized expert in applied and therapeutic humor, Karyn Buxman, RN, MSN, CSP, CPAE shows people how to manage their stress, improve their health, and boost their bottom line through humor and...
Tuesday, 01 December 2009 | Read more
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Dr. Carlson trained as a Clinical Health Psychologist at McGill University in Montreal, researching the area of Psychoneuroendocrinology. She worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre in Calgary, sponsored by a Terry...
Sunday, 31 January 2010 | Read more
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Guy Caron is the Healthcare Campaigner for the Council of Canadians. He obtained a Master of Economics from the Université du Québec à Montréal in February 2001 and is also a graduate of the University of Ottawa, where he completed a...
Wednesday, 22 July 2009 | Read more
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John Carpay is the Executive Director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation (since 2005). Prior to jthat, he was the Alberta Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation from 2001 to 2005.
John was called to the Alberta Bar in 1999 and...
Wednesday, 22 July 2009 | Read more
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Marcia Carr, N,BN,MS,GNC(C),NCA - is a clinical nurse specialist in acute geriatrics, geropsychiatry and a nurse continence advisor in Fraser Health, Burnaby Hospital site. She holds adjunct positions at Simon Fraser University - Department...
Sunday, 14 June 2009 | Read more
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Dr. Adrian Dart Cheong Chan - Ph.D., P. Eng. was born in Montreal, PQ in 1975 and raised in Waterloo, ON. Dr. Chan received a B.A.Sc. degree in computer engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, in 1997, a M.A.Sc....
Sunday, 14 June 2009 | Read more
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Jacques Chaoulli was born in France in 1952. After obtaining his medical doctorate from Paris University, he immigrated to Canada and undertook research in medical education at Laval University's faculty of Medicine. He received a Master's...
Tuesday, 21 July 2009 | Read more
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Dr. Joseph K. Chemplavil is a cardiovascular endocrinologist, in private practice in Virginia for the last 30 years. He received his medical degree from India and finished his post-graduate training in Internal Medicine, and Endocrinology,...
Thursday, 11 June 2009 | Read more
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A truly gifted doctor and an exceptional human being". When a patient gave this comments to me, no one can imagine how grateful I was to my mother. In my early years, I experienced countless illnesses. When the time came for me to choose a...
Tuesday, 16 June 2009 | Read more
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Dr. Clarke-Pearson is a former elementary school teacher and general pediatrician who practices pediatrics in Chapel Hill and Southern Pines, North Carolina. She has a longstanding interest in the effects of media violence on the health of...
Tuesday, 29 December 2009 | Read more
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Vanessa Compton has a doctorate in Curriculum from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. A curriculum development specialist, arts educator, practicing visual artist, and Veriditas® trained labyrinth...
Tuesday, 16 June 2009 | Read more
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Kathleen Connors is currently the voluntary Chairperson of the Canadian Health Coalition – a broad based national Coalition that has existed for 24 years. Kathleen is a retired registered nurse and spent the last 20 years of her working...
Wednesday, 22 July 2009 | Read more
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Don Copeman is an accomplished executive who has spent 25 years building businesses in the health care and information technology fields. He has been the CEO of 5 healthcare companies and a senior executive at some of the world’s leading...
Wednesday, 22 July 2009 | Read more
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Maria Crawford - Executive Director, Eva’s Initiatives. A graduate of York University’s Non Profit Management and Leadership Program, Maria also has a B.A. in Sociology, and an Honours degree in Social Work. She has extensive...
Sunday, 14 June 2009 | Read more
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Rick Csiernik is Professor of Social Work at King's University College at the University of Western Ontario. He earned both B.A., B.Sc. and B.S.W. degrees from McMaster University, a M.S.W. and Ph.D. in Social Work from the University of...
Tuesday, 29 December 2009 | Read more
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Ashton, D'Silva - has worked as counsellor with children and youth across the Greater Toronto area through youth shelters, high schools, treatment facilities and outdoor programs for six years. He is a member of the Ontario Association for...
Sunday, 14 June 2009 | Read more
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Dr. Dawes has been a family physician since 1983 working full time for the first 10 years. He completed his PhD on weight gain in pregnancy in 1992. In 1995 he helped develop a multi-disciplinary Masters programme in Evidence Based Health...
Wednesday, 08 July 2009 | Read more
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Peter de Jager is a speaker/writer/consultant on the issues relating to Change Management. He has published hundreds of articles on topics ranging from Problem Solving, Creativity and Change to the organizational impact of technology. His...
Wednesday, 20 May 2009 | Read more
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Claire de Oliveira is the 2008/2009 C.D. Howe Research Fellow. She holds the equivalent to a B.A. Honours (Licenciatura) in economics from the University of Oporto, Portugal; an M.A. in economics from McMaster University as well as a Ph.D....
Wednesday, 08 July 2009 | Read more
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David De Wit, Ph.D., is Senior Research Scientist with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health located in London, Ontario and an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Western Ontario....
Thursday, 01 October 2009 | Read more
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Professor Deber's current research centres around Canadian health policy. Projects include definitions of medical necessity, examination of specialized services under population-based models, public and private roles in the financing and...
Wednesday, 22 July 2009 | Read more
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