2nd Annual TVN Conference
 
2nd Annual TVN Conference Speakers
0Dr. Doris Barwich Dr. Doris Barwich, E
Executive Director of the BC Centre for Palliative Care, and Past President, CSPCP
 
Hon. Sharon Carstairs
Founding Chair of the Board for Technology Evaluation in the Elderly Network

The Honourable Sharon Carstairs, P.C., has served as Founding TVN Chair of the Board. She retired from the Senate of Canada in 2011 after a political career spanning four decades. She began her professional career as a teacher in Massachusetts, Alberta and Manitoba, while her political accomplishments continued to mature from volunteering to presidency of the Liberal Party of Alberta in 1976, leadership of the Liberal Party of Manitoba in 1984 and a successful 1986 run as an MLA in the Manitoba Legislature where she became, in 1988, the first woman to lead the Official Opposition in a Canadian legislative assembly. She was appointed to the Senate of Canada in 1994 to represent the province of Manitoba. From 1997 to 1999, Senator Carstairs served as the first woman to be Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate. In 2001, she became the Leader of the Government in the Senate (a role which made her a member of Cabinet as the government's representative in the Upper Chamber) and Prime Minister Jean Chrétien gave Sharon special responsibility for palliative care in her role as Minister. She assisted Health Minister Anne McLellan in supporting the federal government's interest in the development of palliative care by working with provinces, territories and non-governmental organizations, to ensure that palliative care is meeting the needs of Canadian patients, families and care givers. This new appointment was a major step in the federal government's commitment to quality end-of-life care in Canada.  Sharon served as Chair of the Special Senate Committee on Aging and has authored several important policy documents and research papers relating to Canada’s aging population and palliative and end-of-life care and an autobiographical political memoir. She has received several honourary doctorates for her work in palliative care and aging. She has served on many boards across Canada in support of political, medical, educational, charitable and artistic aims. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and History and a Masters of Arts in Teaching from Smith College. 
 
Dr. Margaret Herridge BSc,MSc,FRCPC,MPH,MD

Margaret S. Herridge is a researcher for the Toronto General Research Institute in the Division of Experimental Therapeutics – Respiratory & Critical Care, a Clinician Scientist, and Co-Principal Investigator, for the Program in Outcomes and Rehabilitation after Critical Illness, and Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto.
In addition to board certification in internal medicine, pulmondary, and critical care medicine, she completed her epidemiology training at the Channing laboratory in Boston, Massachusetts and has a Masters degree in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. 
Dr. Herridge’s research interests are in the improvement of long-term patient and family caregiver outcomes afer critical illness. The group’s interests have included a study on the five year outcomes after the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), one-year outcomes in survivors of the severe acute respiratory syndrom (SARS), and long-stay, ventilated critically ill patients and their family caregivers. 
Currently, Dr. Herridge, and her group, are leading a four year multi-centre CIHR funded study “Towards RECOVER” which will evaluate patient and caregiver outcomes to two years after prolonged mechanival ventilation, and will help to inform a future family-centered rehabilitation program after severe critical illness. 

 
Dr. Nuala Kenny OC,BA,MD,FRCP(C)
TVN Board Member

Dr. Nuala Kenny, MD, entered the Sisters of Charity of Halifax in 1962. She completed her medical degree at Dalhousie. After an extensive career in pediatrics and medical education, she founded the Department of Bioethics at Dalhousie in 1996. Her areas of research in ethics include: physician ethics, ethics education for physicians with focus on role-modeling, ethics and health policy at all levels, pediatric ethics and end-of-life care. She is internationally recognized as a medical educator and lecturer on fundamental ethics questions in health care and policy. She is regularly involved in policy deliberations, particularly in relation to values and Canadian Medicare. She is a public member of the Health Council of Canada and the Board of Canadian Doctors for Medicare and she has served on the committees on biomedical ethics of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the Canadian Pediatric Society. She was a founding member of the National Council for Bioethics in Human Research and has served on the Tri-Council working group on revision of guidelines for research with human subjects and the National Science Advisory Board. She chaired the values committee of the Prime Minister's National Forum on Health and is past president of both the Canadian Pediatric Society and the Canadian Bioethics Society. She was a founding member of the Governing Council of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and also chaired the working group on ethics at CIHR.

 

 
Joyce Lee
Research coordinator at Trinity Western University (TWU), School of Nursing

Joyce Lee is a doctoral candidate at the University of British Columbia, School of Population and Public Health, and a research coordinator at Trinity Western University (TWU), School of Nursing. Her academic and professional background includes graduate studies in counseling/psychology and work experience in social services. Joyce’s endeavor in health research encompasses undertaking studies on palliative approach to nursing at TWU and socio-behaviour in survivorship at the British Columbia Cancer Agency. Her research interests include family and cultural issues in critical illness, psychosocial oncology, care for elderly people who have chronic life-limiting illness, health-related quality of life outcomes and mixed-methods research. Joyce‘s doctoral dissertation examines the impact of cancer on the family among the Chinese-speaking cancer population in British Columbia.
 
Mrs. Alies Maybee
Citizen member of the Research Management Committee of TVN

Like many, Alies Maybee has had encounters with the Canadian healthcare system. Her experiences have contributed to her strong belief that patients need to help drive changes in healthcare. And this led her to Patients Canada, an organization that shares this belief.
Three pivotal experiences: the death of her father from leukemia when she was a child, a near fatal car accident as a young woman and caring for a mother with dementia in a facility in the Netherlands, has fed a lifelong interest in the healthcare system. This interest plus her background as a software designer and business analyst, motivated her to work on designing and implementing a clinical management system for healthcare providers. This work gave her insight into the world of delivering care to patients.Through Patients Canada she participated in a project examining patient engagement in various organizations. Currently, Alies sits on a working group developing performance measures from the patient perspective. She is also involved in two nascent working groups looking into long term care and into caregivers. Representing the patient perspective, she has also provided input to a number of conferences, working groups, forums and has spoken on panels.Since November 2012 Alies has been a citizen member of the Research Management Committee of TVN, a Centre of Excellence for improving care for the frail elderly. As such, she helps set the research strategy, evaluates research proposals and determines funding decisions. She is also on their working group to examine how best to involve patients and families in research.At her local hospital, Alies is a member of the Seniors Population Panel, an advisory body. She is also one of the initial two PFAs (patient and family advisors) piloting the involvement of patients on working groups as member of the Hand Hygiene Working Group. She is currently in a group led by the VP Quality Strategic Information and Performance Systems helping determine the shape of patient participation at the hospital going forward.

 
Tom Noseworthy CM, MD, MSc, MPH, FR
Dr. Tom Noseworthy, CM, MD, MSc, MPH, FRCPC, FACP, FCCP, FCCM, CHE, is a professor of health policy and management at University of Calgary’s Department of Community Health Sciences and Institute for Public Health. He 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. He holds an MSc in experimental medicine from the University of Alberta, and a Master of Public Health in health policy and management from Harvard. He 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 Infrastructure (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 the research collaboration known as the Western Canada Waiting List Investigators, a CIHR- funded Emerging Team. 

His research has been published in more than 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. In 2005,he 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. Dr Noseworthy joined Alberta Health Services in January 2012 as Associate Chief Medical Officer, Strategic Clinical Networks & Clinical Care Pathways.
 
André Picard
Public health reporter at The Globe and Mail

Picard is a health reporter and columnist at The Globe and Mail and the author of three bestselling books.
He has received much acclaim for his writing, notably as a seven-time finalist for the National Newspaper Awards – Canada’s version of the Pulitzer Prize. He is also a recipient of  the prestigious Michener Award for Meritorious Public Service Journalism.
André’s advocacy work has been honoured by a number of consumer health groups, such as the Canadian Public Health Association, which named him Canada’s first Public Health Hero.
He has participated in a number of academic endeavours, serving as the scholar-in-residence at the Conference Board of Canada, as a research fellow for the Atkinson Foundation and as a participant in the Governor-General's Canadian Leadership Conference
He is a popular speaker at health conferences and has been a guest lecturer at a number of universities.
On the personal health front, André practices what he preaches. He has run more than 70 marathons and half-marathons, and loves to cook. 
He lives in Montréal.
 
Ms. Joyce Resin
Consultant and TVN Board Member
Joyce Resin is a member of the Board of Directors of TVN. She has a Masters Degree in Social Work with a specialty in community development and citizen engagement. She was the Executive Director of ImpactBC, a Quality Improvement organization in healthcare where she created, developed and directed an innovative program called the Patient Voices Network (PVN). PVN has served as a model for other provinces and US-based health care organizations for embracing patients and citizens in the design, structure and management of health care services and programs. 

Joyce is currently working as a consultant and faculty member of IHI, the Institute of Health Care Improvement, in Boston. Previously, Joyce was the Director of the Healthy Heart Society of BC and Kitsilano Neighbourhood House, a Neighbourhood Services organization focusing on citizen and community engagement. Joyce has also worked in communications and media, in print, radio and television. She created, executive produced and hosted Canada's first health and wellness program called Alive! The Picture of Health on CBC television and produced and directed several network programs including The Best Years, for people over 50, Alberta Probe and Calgary Probe. Joyce worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for 25 years.
 
Dr. Patricia Rodney RN, MSN, PhD
TVN KT Committee

Patricia (Paddy) Rodney, RN, MSN, PhD is an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) School of Nursing, a Faculty Associate with the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics at UBC, and a Research Associate with Providence Health Care Ethics Services. She is also an ethics consultant for the BC Provincial Advisory Panel on Cardiac Health, and a member of the Provincial Forum for Clinical Ethics Support and Coordination in British Columbia. Dr. Rodney has been extensively involved in education, leadership, and practice in applied ethics. Her positions have included a term as President of the Canadian Bioethics Society (2007-2009). She has also been involved in teaching and writing about ethics and policy.