Members
Marcello Tonelli, MD, SM, FRCPC (Chair) |
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Dr. Tonelli is a nephrologist, clinician-scientist 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 is a member of national and international nephrology guideline panels and is the President of the Canadian Society of Nephrology. Dr. Tonelli is 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 Curriculum Chair 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 dietitian in Alberta and Ontario, and she has been active over many years in the national dietetic association, Dietitians of Canada, working on various committees to promote the role of the dietitian 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 (Saguenay, Québec) and was Director of that unit from 1988 to 2000. He is also Research Director of the Department of Family Medicine at the Université de Sherbrooke (since 2000), and currently holds the CIHR Applied Research Chair – Health Services and Policy Research on Chronic Diseases in Primary Care - Canadian Institutes of Health Research-Institute of Health Services and Policy Research (CIHR-IHSPR), Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF) and Centre de santé et de services sociaux de Chicoutimi (CSSSC) (since 2009). Dr. Fortin brings research interests to the Task Force that 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 Director of Performance and Standards for the Canadian Stroke Network. In this role, Dr. Lindsay leads the development, implementation, and update of the Canadian Best Practice Recommendations for Stroke Care; the development and measurement of comprehensive stroke performance monitoring and surveillance models; and the creation of professional development resources and opportunities. Dr. Lindsay brings expertise in Health Services Research/Evaluation and Outcomes, clinical guideline development and implementation methodology across the continuum of care and a background in nursing to the work of the Task Force. |
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Patricia C. Parkin, MD |
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Dr. Parkin is a specialist in Pediatric Medicine; a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, and the Institute of 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 Director of the Division of Pediatric Medicine and the Pediatric Outcomes Research Team (PORT) at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto. Dr. Parkin has training in clinical epidemiology and is an attending pediatrician at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto. Dr. Parkin brings to the Task Force her research interests in advancing community and preventive pediatric practice, and advancing pediatric hospital practice. |
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Kevin Pottie BSc, MD, MClSc, FCFP |
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Dr. Pottie is a family physician and Associate Professor, Departments of Family Medicine and Epidemiology & Community Medicine, 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 leads the Cochrane and Campbell Collaboration Migrant Health Methods Group and the Canadian Collaboration for Immigrant and Refugee Health (CCIRH). Dr. Pottie brings expertise in applying "GRADE" methods in guideline development to the Task Force, and a special interest in using evidence based approaches to improve primary health care for disadvantaged populations. |
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Elizabeth Shaw, MD, CCFP, FCFP |
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Dr. Shaw is a family physician and Associate Professor of Family Medicine, at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, having recently 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 works with the Foundation for Medical Practice Education as 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, education and continuing professional development. |
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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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Gabriela A. Lewin, MD CCFP |
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Gabriela Lewin is a family physician in Kemptville, Ontario. She is an assistant professor at the Department of Family Medicine at University of Ottawa, supervising and teaching residents. Dr. Lewin has worked as a research associate at the Chalmers Research Group located at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute (2002-2006) and has conducted multiple clinical systematic reviews. Many of the reviews were used to support recommendations and decision making, including systematic reviews conducted for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, U.S. National Institutes of Health Office of Dietary Supplements, Canadian Blood Services and the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, Common Drug Review. Dr. Lewin brings expertise in the area of evidence-based medicine and systematic reviews to the work of the Task Force. |
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C. Maria Bacchus MD, MSc, FRCPC |
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Dr. C. Maria Bacchus is an Associate Professor of Medicine and the Deputy Regional Clinical Department Head and Vice Chair of Strategic Planning at the University of Calgary. Prior to this, she was the Head of GIM and Program Director for the Core Internal Medicine Training Program at the University Health Network at the University of Toronto. Dr. C. Maria Bacchus completed her Medical Degree, Internal Medicine Residency, General Internal Medicine (GIM) Fellowship and MSc in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research at the University of Toronto. Dr. Bacchus' interests are in educational assessment, medical simulation and strategic planning. She is presently the Chair of the Internal Medicine Exam Board for the Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada and the Vice President of Education for the Canadian Society of Internal Medicine. |
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