Members
Marcello Tonelli, MD, SM, FRCPC (Chair) |
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Dr. Tonelli is a nephrologist and Associate Professor at the University of Alberta, Department of Medicine, in Edmonton, Alberta. His responsibilities include serving as Associate Editor of the American Journal of Kidney Diseases, the Cochrane Renal Group and the Journal of Nephrology, and he is a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. Dr. Tonelli brings expertise in the areas of nephrology (FRCPC) and epidemiology to the work of the Task Force, as well as Chairing the Canadian Society of Nephrology Clinical Practice Guidelines committee and filling the role of President-Elect of the Canadian Society of Nephrology. Dr. Tonelli is also a founding member of the Alberta Kidney Disease Network and co-leader of the Interdisciplinary Chronic Disease Collaboration research team. |
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Richard Birtwhistle, MD MSc FCFP (Vice-Chair) |
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Dr. Birtwhistle practices family medicine as part of the Queens’ Family Health Team and he is a Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health and Epidemiology and Director of the Centre for Studies in Primary Care at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. He is also chair of the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network (CPCSSN) for chronic disease. He has had a long standing interest in the incorporation of evidence informed prevention in primary care. |
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Neil R. Bell, MD, SM |
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Dr. Bell is a family physician and Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of Alberta. He received his medical degree from the University of Alberta, Master of Science in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health and is a Fellow of the College of Family Physicians of Canada. He is presently involved in the development and implementation of multidisciplinary chronic disease management teams in the practices of family physicians participating in Alberta Primary Care Networks. He has previously participated in the development of clinical practice guidelines as the Chairman, Alberta Clinical Practice Guideline Steering Committee. Dr. Bell brings research interests to the Task Force in capacity building in community-based primary care research, translation of preventive and chronic disease guidelines into the practices of family physicians, and evaluation of primary care practice. |
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Paula M Brauer, PhD, RD |
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Paula Brauer is Director of the Applied Human Nutrition division of the Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition at the University of Guelph. Dr. Brauer’s current projects focus on improving obesity management in team-based primary care, and she recently completed a term as Discipline Lead for the Quality Improvement and Innovation Partnership, an innovative strategy for promoting evidence informed practice in Ontario Family Health Teams. Dr. Brauer brings with her to the Task Force several years experience working as a clinical and consulting dietician in Alberta and Ontario, and she has been active over many years in the national dietetic association, Dieticians of Canada, working on various committees to promote the role of the dietician in a reformed health care system. |
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James A Dickinson, MBBS, PhD, CCFP, FRACGP |
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James Dickinson has been a Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health Sciences at University of Calgary since 2002. He is a Family Physician with special interest in screening and preventive care, especially for cancer and immunization. Dr. Dickinson’s responsibilities include running the Tarrant Alberta influenza sentinel practice program as well as participating in Alberta committees for cancer screening programs. Previously Dr. Dickinson has worked as an advisor in the Department of Health in Canberra, where he assisted in developing national cervical and breast screening programs. Dr. Dickinson edited three editions of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners "Red Book,” which became the standard preventive care recommendations for Australia. While working in Hong Kong, Dr. Dickinson also participated in developing the Hong Kong cervical screening guidelines. |
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Martin Fortin, MD, MPH, PhD |
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Dr. Fortin currently works as a family physician at the Family Medicine Unit of the Centre de santé et de services sociaux de Chicoutimi and he has been the Director of that Unit from 1988 to 2000. He has been the Research Director of the Department of Family Medicine at the Université de Sherbrooke since 2000, and he has been the holder of the CIHR Applied Chair in Health Services and Policy Research on Chronic Diseases in Primary Care since 2009. Dr. Fortin brings research interests to the Task Force which focus on patients who present multiple chronic medical conditions. |
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Michel Joffres, MD, MPH, PhD |
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Dr. Joffres is currently a professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University. Dr. Joffres has previously worked as an internist in a South Pacific hospital, and has conducted research and worked with the Honolulu Heart Program in Hawaii and in New Zealand. Dr. Joffres has also worked in Edmonton on a Congenital Heart Disease Registry, became the Provincial Chronic Disease epidemiologist for Alberta Health and led the Alberta Heart Health Program and was the chair of the conference of principal investigators for the Canadian Heart Health Initiative. Dr. Joffres brings his current research interests and methodological expertise to the Task Force in the areas of primary and secondary prevention, population health, epidemiology, Cardiovascular Disease epidemiology, hypertension, sodium and blood pressure, cancer trajectories and survival, as well as some environmental health and mental health expertise. |
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Patrice Lindsay, RN, PhD |
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Dr. Patrice Lindsay is the Performance and Standards Specialist for the Canadian Stroke Network. In this role, Dr. Lindsay leads the development, implementation, and updates of the Canadian Stroke Strategy Best Practice Recommendations for Stroke Care, as well as the development of a comprehensive stroke performance measurement model and is involved in ongoing stroke surveillance. Dr. Lindsay brings expertise in Health Services Research/Evaluation and Outcomes, clinical guideline development and implementation across the continuum of care and a background in nursing to the work of the Task Force. Dr. Lindsay also holds an appointment as Adjunct Faculty and lecturer at the University of Toronto, and she is an Associate Investigator with the Ottawa Health Research Institute. Previously, Dr. Lindsay was the Director of Quality Management at a large academic tertiary hospital. |
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Patricia C. Parkin, MD |
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Dr. Parkin is a specialist in Pediatric Medicine, an Associate Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics, and Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine; a Senior Associate Scientist in the Child Health Evaluative Sciences program at the Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute; and Research and Fellowship Director of the Division of Pediatric Medicine and the Pediatric Outcomes Research Team (PORT) at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto. Dr. Parkin is currently an attending pediatric physician on the Pediatric Medicine Inpatient Unit and Pediatric Consultation Clinic at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto. Dr. Parkin brings to the Task Force her interests in advancing community and preventive pediatric practice, and advancing pediatric hospitalist practice. |
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Kevin Pottie BSc, MD, MClSc, FCFP |
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Dr. Pottie is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Family Medicine and Epidemiology & Community Medicine at the University of Ottawa. He is a Principal Scientist at C.T. Lamont Primary Health Care Research Centre, Elisabeth Bruyère Research Institute and at the Centre for Global Health, Institute of Population Health. He is Co-Chair of the Canadian Collaboration for Immigrant and Refugee Health (CCIRH) and practices as a family physician. Dr. Pottie brings research interests to the Task Force which focus on developing evidence-based methods to improve primary health care for disadvantaged populations. |
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Elizabeth Shaw, MD |
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Dr. Shaw is a family physician and Associate Professor of Family Medicine, at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, having just completed six years as the Postgraduate Program Director.. Dr. Shaw has experience in clinical practice and the implementation of Prevention and health promotion strategies in that setting. Dr. Shaw was in private practice for 9 years in Brampton, Ontario, providing comprehensive services to her patients. Dr. Shaw also worked at the University of Tennessee Family Medicine Teaching Centre in Jackson Tennessee for five years. Dr. Shaw also works with the Foundation for Medical Practice Education as Associate Director of module development, producing evidence-based Continuing Medical Education (CME) modules for practicing family physicians. Dr. Shaw brings her research interests to the Task Force which focus primarily on maternal and child health and education. |
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Harminder Singh, MD, MPH, FRCPC |
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Dr. Harminder Singh is a clinician scientist and an assistant professor of medicine in the departments of Internal Medicine and Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba. Dr. Singh practiced general internal medicine for a few years prior to specializing in gastroenterology. He subsequently obtained a Master of Public Health from the University of Manitoba. His current research interests are in prevention and screening for colorectal cancer and health services research. He brings expertise in gastroenterology, clinical epidemiology and public health to the work of the Task Force. |
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About the Task Force
This web site is designed to serve as a practical guide to health care providers, planners and consumers for determining the inclusion or exclusion, content and frequency of a wide variety of preventive health interventions, using the evidence-based recommendations of the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care.