Associate Vice President of Global Health, McMaster University

Andrea Baumann is the Associate Vice President of Global Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Director of the Nursing Health Services Research Unit and Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre in Primary Care and Health Human Resources. She has received numerous awards, including the Order of Canada in July 2018, and support from major granting agencies (e.g., CIHR, SSHRC and CHSRF). Her research has significantly contributed to health services and health human resources by influencing policy formation at the provincial, national andinternational level. Her work emphasizes innovation. Foci ...

Distnguished Professor Emerita, Western University

Helene Berman, RN, PhD, is a Distinguished University Professor in the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Western University. Her program of research, funded by grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), and Status of Women Canada, has focused on the subtle and explicit forms of violence in the lives of girls and young women. In recent years, she has extended that work to include boys and young men and led a CIHR Team Grant, Promoting Health through Collaborative Engagement ...

Professor, University of Victoria

Professor, School of Nursing, University of British Columbia Okanagan

Joan Bottorff is one of Canada’s leading scientists in the field of health behavior. She is currently Professor and Director of the Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention at the University of British Columbia's Okanagan campus, and has been the recipient of a UBC Distinguished University Scholar Award and a CIHR Investigator Award. She has developed active research programs in tobacco control, cancer screening and health promotion. In the field of gender and health, Dr. Bottorff is also collaborating on projects to examine gender-related influences on women and men's ...

Professor and Distinguished University Scholar, University of British Columbia

Annette Browne is a Professor and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia, School of Nursing. A renowned Canadian leader and advocate for quality care for Indigenous and non Indigenous peoples, her research is transforming care for people most impacted by health inequities, including racism, discrimination and stigma. Partnerships with Indigenous leaders and healthcare agencies are foundational to her research program, resulting in the development of ground-breaking strategies that are directly impacting initiatives and policies to improve healthcare and health ...

Dr. Alex Clark is Professor and Associate Dean, Research in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Alberta. In this role, he also provides leadership for the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology. His research relates to prevention and management of cardiovascular disease, drawing on complex theory and other innovative methods to understand outcomes in populations with coronary heart disease. His work has directly contributed to healthcare practice, policy and guidelines nationally an internationally. He is currently Vice-President of the International Network for Doctoral ...

Interim College Dean & Vice Provost, HS, University of Alberta

Greta G. Cummings is Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta; New Investigator, CIHR; Population Health Investigator, AHFMR, and an international leader in healthcare leadership science. She is principal investigator of the CLEAR Outcomes (Connecting Leadership, Education, & Research) Research Program. Her contributions to knowledge development about leadership practices and their impact on outcomes for nurses and patients have been acknowledged by the Canadian Nurses Association, from which she received the 2010 Order of Merit for Research. She has also received awards of ...

School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa

Vice Dean-Research at the Faculty of Health Sciences and Founder of an innovative Nursing Best Practice Research Centre. Her awards include: the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing Practice/Academe Innovative Collaborative award; Health Services Research Career Scientist; Ontario Premier's Research Excellence; and Distinguished Alumni University of Toronto. Her internationally recognized leadership and research has brought research results into health services to improve health care delivery and patient outcomes. Notably, she has built widely-used sustainability and spread ...

Professor Emerita, School of Nursing, McMaster University

Alba DiCenso is a Professor Emerita in the School of Nursing and the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact (formerly Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics) at McMaster University where she taught and conducted research for 35 years. Her BScN and MSc degrees are from McMaster and her PhD is in Health Studies from the University of Waterloo. She is internationally known for her pioneering work in evidence-based nursing and in advanced practice nursing including the roles and effectiveness of nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists in Canada. She influenced ...

Professeure emeritas, Universite de Montreal

Francine Ducharme est professeure titulaire à la Faculté des sciences infirmières de l`Université de Montréal et titulaire de la Chaise Desjardins dont le programme de recherche porte sur les déterminants de la santé et l`évaluation d`interventions de soutien novatrices auprès des aidants familiaux de personnes âgées, la première de ce genre au Canada. Elle a été la première infirmière à détenir un diplôme de doctorat en sciences infirmières décerné par une université canadienne (Université McGill, 1990). Dre Ducharme est chercheure boursière nationale du Fonds de la recherche en santé du ...

Professor Emeritus, University of Ottawa

Nancy Edwards, a professor of Nursing, and Epidemiology and Community Medicine at the University of Ottawa, is a world-class scholar in the design and conduct of multi-level and multi-strategy community health programs. She is a one of five nurses nationally to hold a 10 year CIHR-CHSRF research Chair and is a member and Vice Chair of the Governing Council of CIHR. Among her awards are the University of Ottawa 2006 Award of Excellence in Research, the Tianjin Haihe Award from the Tianjin Municipal Government in China for outstanding contributions to their university. In 2006 the City of ...

Professor & Canada Research Chair, University of Alberta

Carole Estabrooks holds a Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Translation and is recognized internationally as a leader in knowledge translation science. A past member and vice-chair of the CIHR Institute of Aging Advisory Board, she directs the Knowledge Utilization Studies Program at the University of Alberta. Her research focuses on developing practical solutions for improving the quality of care provided to LTC residents, for enriching the work life of their caregivers, and for enhancing system efficiencies and effectiveness. She does this by advancing knowledge translation and improvement ...

Full Professor & OHTN Chair, University of Ottawa

Dr Etowa’s career is rooted in a strong conviction that social justice and equitable healthcare are the cornerstones of a healthy society. Her distinctive competencies in community-based participatory research and intersectionality lens have informed her research program, grounded in over 25 years of clinical practice. Her antiracist healthcare practice book is described as ‘the first of its kind in the Canadian literature’ (2009). She co-edited the indigenized edition of Community Health Nursing… (2020). To advance health sciences, she spearheaded institutional policy and program changes at ...

Her leadership has been recognized with a Distinguished University Professor Award. She has published on many topics including transitional discharge, therapeutic relationships, technology in mental health care and housing/homelessness. Her research explores systems issues related to mental health care including: implementation of the transitional discharge model, housing/homeless ness, poverty, community integration and the use of technology in mental health care. Projects start with the voice of consumers/providers to envision a better way of providing services, then implement new ...

Distinguished Uni Prof. & Women’s Health Research Chair, Western University

Marilyn Ford-Gilboe is a Professor and Women's Health Research Chair in Rural Health, in the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Western University. Canadian leader in the areas of women's health, violence, health equity and place, her research has contributed foundational knowledge about the health consequences of violence and effective health interventions for women experiencing intimate partner violence, including rural-dwelling women and people those who face significant barriers to care. This work is strengthening health care and social service responses to violence, trauma and ...

Professor, McGill University

Pioneer in academic nursing in Canada. She was a key player in the development of the McGill Model of Nursing, now widely used worldwide, and has further developed that into practice and training of nurses and other health care professionals. Editor for over two decades of the Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, she has brought nursing leaders from across Canada together through the journal. With numerous invitations as a visiting professor she is recognized internationally as a leader in health care.  

Professor and Founding Dean, University of Regina

Dean, Faculty of Nursing and recognized expert on the social and cultural determinants of health, particularly in Aboriginal communities. Prolific scholar, educator and clinician, he is one of Canada's foremost leaders in nursing education, having played instrumental roles in the development of Faculties of Nursing in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, establishing innovative community education programs and effective partnerships among post-secondary institutions. His research focuses on Aboriginal health and education, qualitative research methodologies, men in nursing and medical anthropology.

Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University

Dr. Sepali Guruge is an international expert on the complex intersections between health, immigration, partner violence, and aging. Her work with immigrant women and older immigrant adults, and commitment to health equity and improving the resiliency of marginalized populations, has garnered local, national, and international attention. The evidence-based interventions she has developed in collaboration with health, social, and settlement sectors, government stakeholders, and affected individuals have improved the health of immigrants, their families, and broader communities. Government ...

Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto, University of Toronto

Ellen Hodnett’s research program focuses on rigorous evaluations of forms of care for childbearing women and on the effects of the health care environment on health outcomes. She has over 90 publications and she has presented over 100 papers at conferences. Dr. Hodnett was an Editor for the Pregnancy and Childbirth Group of the Cochrane Collaboration, a member of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Group of the World Health Organization Maternal and Reproductive Health Research Program, and one of the Inaugural Fellows of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. In 1996 she was appointed to ...

President and Vice Chancellor, Simon Fraser University

Joy Johnson is a Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of British Columbia and Scientific Director of the CIHR Institute of Gender and Health. She is an outstanding researcher and is viewed as one of the leading nurse scientists in Canada whose work in health promotion and disease prevention has attracted international attention. Dr. Johnson’s research continues to make important contributions to our understanding of emotional distress, tobacco dependency, and marijuana use, particularly among young people. She has published widely in highly respected and high-impact journals ...

Emeritus Professor, McGill University

Celeste Johnston is James McGill Professor and Associate Director for Research at the McGill School of Nursing. She is a Nurse Scientist (Hon) at the McGill University Health Centre (Montreal) and the lsaac Walton Kiilam Children’s Hospital (Halifax). She is Director of the Canadian Pain Coalition, Secretary of the Special Interest Group on Pain in Children of the International Association for the Study of Pain, and Past- President of the Canadian Pain Society. Dr. Johnston’s research interests focus on non-pharmacologic interventions for pain in infants, with a particular focus on pre-term ...

Professor and Dean, University of Toronto

Linda Johnston, Professor and Dean at the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, has held critical leadership roles in advancing nursing education and building research capacity in neonatal and paediatric nursing. She has led the development of specialist education and training programs to advance the nursing workforce in Australasia, the Americas, Europe and Africa. She has published widely in relation to the physical, social and emotional outcomes for babies and families in the neonatal period and the impact of global health initiatives on improving neonatal care. ...

Prof. & Gladys Sharpe Chair in Nursing, McMaster University

Dr Sharon Kaasalainen is a world-renowned leader in palliative long-term care. As a Professor and Gladys Sharpe Chair in Nursing, she has had a significant impact on quality care in long-term care. She is building capacity among a generation of health professionals and researchers to revolutionalize a person-centered approach to care for some of Canada’s most vulnerable citizens. Most notably, she created the Strengthening a Palliative Approach in Long Term Care program with national colleagues, which has garnered attention from governments across the country to inform long-term care ...

Professor, Faculty of Nursing & Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary

Nicole Letourneau is Professor and Chair in Parent-Infant Mental Health in the Facultiesof Nursing and Medicine (Pediatrics) at the University of Calgary and past CanadaResearch Chairin Healthy Child Development. Receiving over $30 million in funding, her research is community-based and seeks to (1) understand the influenceof caregiver stress on infant/child development and (2) develop and test mitigating interventions. She has received many awards including inductioninto Canada's Top 40 Under 40 (2007). She authored Scientific Parenting: What Science Reveals About ParentalInfluence (2013), ...

Full Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, McGill University

Dr. Carmen G. Loiselle, (Ph.D., Nursing & Psychology) is Full Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University. She holds a Research Chair in psychosocial oncology, is CoDirector (Academic) of the Segal Cancer Centre and Scientific Director at Hope & Cope. An internationally recognized expert in person-centred cancer care, she has received over $43 million in research funding and has published 140 scientific works. An exceptional and generous mentor to trainees and colleagues, she led a 12-year CIHR-funded research training initiative in psychosocial oncology that provided ...

Professor Emerita, McMaster University

Dr. Maureen Markle-Reid's internationally recognized research program focuses on developing, implementing, evaluating and scaling-up integrated, patient-oriented interventions to improve care and outcomes for older adults with multimorbidity (2 chronic conditions) and their caregivers living in the community. As part of this work, she focuses on advancing the science of patient oriented health care intervention research. She fosters partnerships between researchers and knowledge users – clinicians, policy makers, patients, caregivers – to produce research that directly responds to the ...

Kathleen Russell Distinguished Professor, University of Toronto

Linda McGillis Hall, RN, PhD, FCAHS, FCNEI, FAAN, FCAN is a Professor in the Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto and was the Kathleen Russell Distinguished Professor from 2013 to 2019. She served as the Associate Dean Research at the Faculty (2007-2013 and 2014-2018), Acting Dean (July-Dec 2011), and Interim Dean (July 2013-August 2014). Her work has been acknowledged through national and international fellowships including as the first Canadian nurse inducted as an American Academy of Nursing ‘International’ Fellow (2007), a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (2010), was ...

Senior Scientist, KITE- Toronto Rehabilitation Institute-UHN

Katherine McGilton is a Senior Scientist at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and is recognized internationally as a leader in the field of aging. Her research focuses on developing solutions for improving care and access to rehabilitation for older adults with cognitive impairment and increasing the effectiveness of nurse supervisors in nursing homes. She does this by working in an integrated model with practitioners, administrators and policy decision makers. She is the founder of the International Consortium of the Professional Practice of Nurses in Long-Term Care, where leaders collaborate ...

Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta

Dr. Anita Molzahn is an international leader in quality of life research, particularly in relation to chronic illness and aging. She is a registered nurse who holds a PhD in Sociology (1989) from the University of Alberta as well as an MN from the University of Alberta (1986). She is currently Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta. She served as Dean of that Faculty from 2008-17. Prior to beginning her tenure as Dean at the University of Alberta,she served as Dean of the Faculty of Human and Social Development at the University of Victoria (1996 – 2003). Her research program ...

Professor & Chair, Rural Health Delivery, University of Saskatchewan

One of Canada's most innovative and respected researchers in rural and remote health service delivery, Debra has devoted her career to improving outcomes for patients with dementia and has changed how health services are delivered to rural and remote dementia patients in Saskatchewan. Expert in knowledge translation and community-based action research, she has received numerous awards, including the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation Achievement Award (2015), the Alzheimer Society of Saskatchewan's Honorary Lifetime Membership Award (2011), and CIHR's Betty Havens Knowledge Translation ...

Presidential Endowed Chair, University of Utah

Janice Morse is theThe Ida May "Dotty" Barnes, RN, & D. Keith Barnes, MD, Presidential Endowed Chair, College Of Nursing, University of Utah. She holds PhDs in both nursing and anthropology and uses anthropological research methods to explore the illness experience, suffering and the attainment of comfort. Dr. Morse is an authority in qualitative research methods, serves as founding editor for the journal Qualitative Health Research. She has published more than 300 articles and 14 books, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, American Anthropological Association, and the ...

Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto

Dr. Sioban Nelson is a nurse historian and an internationally known ‘thought leader’ in Nursing. Professor and Dean of Nursing at the University of Toronto since 2005, she was recruited from the University of Melbourne where she was Head of the School of Nursing and Professor of Nursing Policy and Professional Issues. Known for her groundbreaking scholarship that demonstrated how nursing emerged as a prototype of a new 19th century phenomenon, a female profession, she has author many books, book chapters and articles, and edited the international journal, Nursing Inquiry since 1998. She ...

Prof./Scientific Dir.-Cardio Health and Stroke Clinic, University of Alberta

Dr. Colleen Norris, Professor and Clinician Scientist, Faculties of Nursing, Medicine & Dentistry, and School of Public Health, University of Alberta, is Scientific Director, Cardiovascular Health and Stroke Strategic Clinical Network; Fellow, American Heart Association; and Chair, Canadian Women's Heart Health Alliance, Health Policy and Services Working Group. Dr. Norris is internationally recognized for her leadership in developing and disseminating evidence informed strategies to transform clinical practice and impact public policy related to women's heart health. She established the ...

Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto

Linda O’Brien-Pallas (Medical Science, University of Toronto) is a Professor in the Faculties of Nursing and Medicine at the University of Toronto; Director and Co-Principal Investigator of the Nursing Health Services Research Unit (University of Toronto site). Recognized as a world authority on nursing human resources, she holds the inaugural CHSRF/CIHR Chair in Nursing/Health Human Resources and is a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Linda has served on many boards/committees including the Canadian Nurses Association, the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario, the ...

Emeritus Professor, University of Ottawa

Dr. O'Connor's novel measures, frameworks and interventions have contributed to the emergence of a new field of ‘shared decision making'. Her ground-breaking studies have created new knowledge, tools and standards for informing people about difficult decisions and have underpinned new policies and legislation internationally to promote shared decision making between patients and health professionals. Her leadership has been pivotal in creating an international academic forum for the field.

Professor, UVIC Nursing, University of Victoria

Dr. Bernie Pauly is a Professor in the University of Victoria's School of Nursing, Associate Director and Scientist of the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research, and the Island Health Scholar in Residence. A highly engaged community-based researcher, Dr. Pauly is a global leader in substance use, harm reduction and the promotion of health equity for people who use substances at the intersection of poverty and homelessness. She is especially skilled in strategies for engaging and working with people with lived experience and in promoting the adoption of cultural safety and harm ...

Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto

Dorothy Pringle is a Professor of Nursing at the University of Toronto, serving as Dean of Nursing from 1988-1999 when she was instrumental in launching the first doctoral program in Nursing in Ontario and the second in Canada. Her clinical and research interests are in the care of disabled and impaired older people in the community and in the assistance required by family caregivers. She was research director for the national office of the Victorian Order of Nurses and has published more than 20 articles and book chapters, presented at more than 100 scientific conferences, and serves as ...

Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia

Pamela Ratner is the Vice-Provost & Associate Vice-President, Enrolment & Academic Facilities, and a Professor in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education, at the University of British Columbia. She is recognized for her research in the field of health behaviour. Her scholarship has focused on cardiovascular risk reduction.She has been particularly interested in latent variable modelling as a means of evaluating the strength of inferences that can be made from psychosocial assessment tools, used in research and practice, as a means of testing ...

Ellen Rukholm is currently the Director of the School of Nursing, Laurentian University. She was the innovator of graduate programs there in Nursing, Health Services and Policy and of a cardiovascular nursing graduate training program. She is principal or co-investigator for CIHR, Health Canada, Ontario Heart and Stroke and Ontario Ministry of Health research grants on cardiovascular health, hospital restructuring, nursing, interventional tele-health and inter-professional education in rural and northern contexts and has over 100 related peer reviewed publications. She chaired the committee ...

Professor, School of Nursing, University of British Columbia

Dr. Elizabeth Saewyc is a Professor and Distinguished University Scholar, and, since 2017, Director of the School of Nursing at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She also founded and heads the Stigma and Resilience Among Vulnerable Youth Centre, a multidisciplinary internationally recognized research centre. For more than 25 years, Dr. Saewyc’s research and public health nursing practice has focused on health equity for marginalized youth, especially for Two Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/non-binary, and queer (2SLGBTQ+) adolescents and young adults. Dr. Saewyc has ...

Professor, CRC, Acting Vice Dean, University of Alberta

Dr. Shannon Scott is an internationally recognized nurse, scientist, educator and knowledge translation leader. As the Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Translation for Children's Health, Dr. Scott has improved health outcomes for children through her interdisciplinary research that merges research and the arts to develop national award winning mHealth tools for Canadian families. She is a founding co-Director of Translating Emergency Knowledge for Kids (TREKK) a national initiative that is game changing for children's emergency care. She has successfully trained multiple scientists and ...

Full Professor, University of Ottawa

Dawn Stacey is an internationally renowned researcher enabling impact on practice and policy through advancing the science of supporting patients' involvement in making healthcare decisions. She leads national and international initiatives to synthesize evidence and develop standards for translating scientific knowledge into patient decision-aids, and has created innovative implementation resources including decision coaching protocols and online training programs. Her evidence-based knowledge tools and learning activities are publicly available, used in clinical practice and for continuing ...

Professor, School of Nursing, University of Victoria

Dr. Kelli Stajduhar, RN, PhD, FCAHS, professor in the School of Nursing and Institute on Aging & Lifelong Health at the University of Victoria, and research scientist with Fraser Health. She has worked in oncology, palliative care, and gerontology for almost 30 years as a practicing nurse, educator, and researcher. Her clinical practice and research has focused on health service needs for those at the end-of-life and their families, and on the needs of marginalized and vulnerable populations. Dr. Stajduhar has 300+ academic publications and presentations. She is currently the lead ...

Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto

Bonnie Stevens is Professor at the University of Toronto and Signy Hildur Eaton Chair at the Hospital for Sick Children. She has developed an outstanding nationally funded research program focusing on (i) pain assessment and management in infants and children; (ii) the evaluation of models of health care delivery to children with chronic disease; and (iii) the exploration of the determinants of research utilization in nursing practice. She is the recipient of several research awards, including the Ontario Premier’s Research Excellence Award, Canadian Pain Society New Investigator Award, and ...

Prof. Medicine, James McGill Chair & Medical Scientist, McGill University

Robyn Tamblyn has been an international leader in education. Following her PhD at McGill University, she continued her work at McGill on performance assessment but crucially began to analyze data about patient safety and public protection. Over two decades, she clarified the validity of medical licensing examinations; used health insurance data to clarify the reasons behind poor prescribing practices; and pioneered two integrated health data systems, IRIS-Quebec and Medical Office of the 21? Century (MOXXI), to improve prescribing practices and the quality and safety of health care for ...

Professor Emeritus, School of Nursing, University of British Columbia

Sally Thorne is Professor Emeritus at the School of Nursing, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Her research emphasis is the human experience of chronic illness and cancer, especially as it intersects with the structural and ideological underpinnings of our health care delivery system. She also maintains an active program of research in end-of-life care and the evolving implications of medical assistance in dying. She maintains active community involvements, bridging the theoretical enterprise to social action and policy processes. She is an expert in the application of ...

VP Research, Innovation & Discovery & Chief Nurse Executive, Nova Scotia Health

Dr. Tomblin Murphy is an experienced health leader and an internationally recognized expert in population needs-based approaches to health systems and workforce planning, evaluation and research. She is the Vice President of Research, Innovation and Discovery, and Chief Nurse Executive at Nova Scotia Health. She currently serves on the National COVID-19 Immunity Task Force Leadership Group, as well as directs the WHO/PAHO Collaborating Centre on Health Workforce Planning and Research at Dalhousie University. An active researcher and champion of research and innovation in healthcare, she leads ...

Professor, University of British Columbia

Renowned Canadian leader and advocate on women's health promotion with an emphasis on violence against women, and the promotion of ethical, socially just health care. She has made substantial inroads in our understanding of the health consequences of violence, including health care policy and practice in response to violence. She has informed the measurement of discrimination and the advancement of the concept of cultural safety in health care in Canada. Author of over 100 publications in peer reviewed journals and books, she presents provincially, nationally and internationally to diverse ...

Professeure titulaire, Faculté des sciences infirmières, University of Montreal

Dr. Bilkis Vissandjée is a Full Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Montreal. She is a researcherat the SHERPA frontline research Centre, the Montreal Centre for International Studies, and the Centre for Public Health Research funded by the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Santé (FRQS). Alongside national and international partners, her research work's focus is to address the challenges associated with providing accessible, equitable, and quality care within a diversified socio-cultural context while taking into account the complex intersection of gender, migration ...

Professor, University of British Columbia

Dr. Wong is a Professor in the School of Nursing and the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, University of British Columbia. Dr. Wong’s contributions as a scholar and leader in primary care research are widely recognized, nationally and internationally. She serves as the co-chair for the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network, playing a central role in the development of a primary care federated clinical electronic medical record repository that can be used for research, disease surveillance and quality improvement. She has a long-standing commitment to health and ...