Mary
Ann Baily, PhD, is Associate for Ethics and Health
Policy on the research staff of The Hastings Center. She
was the Principal Investigator on “The Ethics of
Improving Health Care Quality & Safety”, a project
funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality
(AHRQ), and Project Manager on “Ethical Decision-Making
for Newborn Genetic Screening”, a project funded
by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI).
She received a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and has been a member of the economics
faculties at Yale University and George Washington University.
She served as staff economist for the President’s
Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine
and Biomedical and Behavioral Research and was a fellow
in the Institute for Ethics of the American Medical Association.
She served as Program Chair and Chair of the Forum on
Bioethics of the American Public Health Association and
was a member of the Ethics Task Force of the Society of
Critical Care Medicine. She has worked on health policy
issues for the Of? ce of Technology Assessment, the Health
Care Financing Administration, the Institute of Medicine,
the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
the American Red Cross, and the Committee on National
Statistics of the National Research Council.
Sarah
Bowen, PhD, is Director of Research and Evaluation
for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (WRHA) and
is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community
Health Sciences, University of Manitoba. Her research
interests include strategies for promoting evidence-informed
policy and practice, organizational diversi? cation, health
disparities, and evaluation research. The WRHA Research
and Evaluation unit focuses on health services and population
health research and specializes in collaborative research
and evaluation approaches, knowledge translation and evaluation
research. The unit also provides support to the WRHA Research
Review Committee and guidance to researchers and programs
regarding ethics review and organizational access requirements.
These roles position it to re? ect critically on research
ethics and review processes from the perspectives of researchers,
reviewers and organizational decision makers and managers.
Sarah is currently Principal Investigator on two CIHR
knowledge translation research initiatives: From Evidence
to Action (Co-PI, Dr. Patricia Martens), and From Interpreting
to Integrating Marginalized Evidence. She has also led
several program evaluation and evaluation research activities.
Recent articles include: Demystifying knowledge translation
- Learning from the community, A model for collaborative
evaluation of university-community partnerships, and Marginalized
Evidence: Effective Knowledge Translation Strategies for
Low Awareness Issues.
Ann Casebeer,
MPA, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of
Community Health Sciences and Associate Director of the
Centre for Health and Policy Studies at the University
of Calgary. She is also Faculty Director for SEARCH Canada.
She combines an applied practice background with an academic
grounding in organizational learning and systems change.
Her understanding of innovation and broad social policy
mechanisms for change within complex environments is grounded
by 10 years in the UK National Health Service and in over
a decade with SEARCH (a public service organization targeting
knowledge development for health gain). Ann’s research
expertise includes the use of qualitative and mixed methods
in action oriented contexts and for knowledge exchange
and use.
Ceinwen
Cumming, PhD, is a Senior Staff Psychologist
at the Cross Cancer Institute, an Associate Clinical Professor
in the Department of Oncology within the Faculty of Medicine,
and an Adjunct Professor within the Faculty of Education
at the University of Alberta. At the Cross Cancer Institute,
she has clinical, teaching and research responsibilities
in the Department of Psychosocial and Spiritual Resources.
She also undertakes the routine duties of a staff psychologist
in a psychosocial oncology setting. Her workload includes
individual, couple, and family counselling with patients
and family members, and bereavement follow-up. Ceinwen
is also a member of the Patient Education Committee and
the Clinical Practice Ethics Committee at the Cross Cancer
Institute and is involved in clinical program evaluation
and research in psychosocial oncology. At the University,
she has research, thesis supervision and teaching responsibilities.
She sat on the supervisory committees for master’s
and doctoral level students in the past year. She has
an extensive publication record and is on the board of
an international multidisciplinary journal.
Claude
Dussault, BSc, MBA, is Assistant Director General
- Evaluation, Research and Innovation for the Ministry
of Health and Social Services (MSSS) in the province of
Quebec. Among other things, Claude is responsible for
the application of the Ministerial Action Plan (MAP) on
research ethics, which applies to all establishments within
the Quebec health and social services network. His presentation
will focus on the new Multicentre Research Ethics Mechanism
that will be introduced on April 1, 2008.
Sandy
Doze is a registered nurse, recently retired
after 45 years in the health system providing leadership
in management, quality improvement, corporate planning,
research and evaluation, and knowledge management. She
completed the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical
Research SEARCH program in 1996 and has been an advocate
for evidence-based service delivery in her most recent
role as Director of Knowledge Management for the David
Thompson Health Region in Alberta. She has published research
related to telepsychiatry, regional health indicators,
and diffusion of technology. Her work with regional health
authorities included leading evaluations, quality improvement
and indicator development, research transfer, research
approval and knowledge brokering initiatives. Sandy has
been on the ARECCI Steering Committee since 2003 working
to enhance the ethical oversight of knowledge generating
projects in health care in Alberta and to transfer appropriate
oversight responsibilities to health regions.
Joanne
Franko is the Manager of the Research Services
Unit, Saskatoon Health Region. The Saskatchewan Academic
Health Sciences Network (SAHSN) comprises health regions,
government, and post secondary institutions offering health
science programs. In 2007, SAHSN established the Provincial
Health Research Ethics Working Group consisting of members
representing both organizational and researcher perspectives
from each organization that has a research ethics board
along with other interested parties. The objective of
the working group is to develop proposals to increase
coordination and collaboration among the various health
research ethics review processes and to identify how these
processes could be further streamlined. The Working Group
currently has representation from 11 organizations and
one constituent group across Saskatchewan from educational,
health care provider, research support and research funding
perspectives. Members include the SAHSN, the University
of Saskatchewan, the University of Regina, Saskatoon Health
Region, Regina Qu’Appelle Health Region, Saskatchewan
Cancer Agency - Allen Blair Centre, Saskatchewan Health,
Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology,
Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation, Saskatchewan
Drug Research Institute, and First Nations University
of Canada. The other 10 health regions in Saskatchewan
are represented by the CEO of the Prince Albert Parkland
Health Region.
Shawna
Gutfreund, MA, is the Research Ethics and Special
Projects Coordinator at Bloorview Kids Rehab. Prior to
joining Bloorview, Shawna completed her Master of Arts
degree from McGill University in Philosophy with a specialization
in Bioethics.
Ron Heslegrave,
PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry,
Public Health, School of Graduate Studies and the Institute
of Medical Sciences at the University of Toronto. He has
been working over the last 25 years in areas including
the effects of sleep deprivation on cognitive performance,
in particular fatigue-related performance changes in shiftworkers,
and the impact of medication on quality of life. Over
the past 14 years, he has chaired various research ethics
boards in academic hospitals connected to the University
of Toronto. He has also chaired a number of hospital REBs
including the University Health Network (including the
Toronto General, Toronto Western, and Princess Margaret
Hospitals), Mount Sinai Hospital, former Wellesley Hospital,
Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care and St. Michael’s
Hospital. Together these hospitals conduct more than 2,000
new medical research protocols each year. He was recently
appointed the inaugural Chair of the Ontario Cancer Research
Ethics Board, which reviews all multiple-site cancer trials
in Ontario. Ron has led the Harmonization Task Force for
the Toronto Academic Health Science Committee for the
University of Toronto to standardize research ethics board
procedures and practices across the nine University of
Toronto fully affi liated hospitals.
Anne
Hofmeyer, RN, MPHC, PhD, is Assistant Professor,
Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta. She has had
an extensive career in a variety of leadership, teaching
and clinical roles in areas such as primary health care,
aged care, and radiation oncology, and played a lead role
in establishing a hospice unit and community palliative
care service in Australia. In 2004, she completed the
Annual Intensive Bioethics Course at the Joseph P. and
Rose F. Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University,
Washington, DC. Her longstanding interest in the nature
and extent of relationships that facilitate the exchange
of resources to improve health has led to her current
work as an applied health systems researcher. She leads
a research agenda on developing tools to measure social
capital (networks and norms of cooperation and trust)
in areas of inter-professional teamwork and organizational
ethics. Ongoing collaborative research with Dr. Cathie
Scott has produced a number of scholarly papers synthesizing
social network and social capital theories. These papers
offer practical strategies to promote effective relationships,
evidence-informed decision making, and quality and safety
in evolving health systems.
Darlene
Hutchings is the Regional Research Coordinator/Planner
with Western Health in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and
Labrador. She has been working in this capacity for more
than fi ve years and is involved in continuous quality
improvement/ quality assurance initiatives, evaluation,
and research. In the past, her research has primarily
involved quantitative methodology, but she is increasingly
recognizing the value of utilizing the qualitative approach
to research. Darlene has a keen interest in conducting
research within the long-term care sector. She coordinates
the Western Health Research Ethics Board and sits as a
member on this board.
Donna
Hutton, RN, MEd, CHE, is a principal with Hutton
and Associates Consulting and senior advisor to the Canadian
Council on Health Services Accreditation, Western and
Northern Satellite Office. Her focus includes policy development,
government relations and organization of international
study tours. As Executive Director of the Alberta Association
of Registered Nurses, Donna led the organization to implementation
of Health Professions Act legislation for Alberta’s
27,000 registered nurses, secured $10 million from the
provincial government to support nursing education, completed
an expansion and renovation building project, and secured
baccalaureate as entry to practice after 25 years of political
advocacy within the profession. She has served as Director
of Nursing at the Cross Cancer Institute and as Director
of Nursing Services and as a Critical Care Nursing Instructor
at the University of Alberta Hospitals. She holds an adjunct
faculty position at the University of Alberta and has
published extensively in nursing administration literature.
Dawn
Lake is Information Access and Privacy Services
Consultant for the Palliser Health Region, which encompasses
the southeastern portion of Alberta surrounding Medicine
Hat. Her responsibilities include managing the research
process within the region, coordinating privacy and security
education and training of all employees, and establishing
policy, guidelines and best practices in access and privacy.
Dawn has been involved with ARECCI since 2003. She is
a member of the ARECCI Steering Committee and currently
serves as Chair of the TOOL Automation Working Group.
She is also a member of the Regional Ethics and Regional
Research Committees. Dawn is a graduate if the University
of Alberta’s Information Access and Protection of
Privacy Program (2006) and is now pursuing a degree in
Law.
Michelina
Mancuso, BScPT, MBA, is Manager of Research Services
with the South-East Regional Health Authority (SERHA),
New Brunswick. She has been working for SERHA since 1986.
She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physiotherapy
from McGill University and an MBA from the Université
de Moncton. Michelina is a faculty member of Dalhousie
University Department of Family Medicine. Prior to her
present appointment, she was Quality Improvement Advisor
for the General Surgery and Surgical Specialties Program
at SERHA, then Regional Director of Addiction Services
for Region 1. In the past she has received funding from
the Canadian Lung Association for respiratory research.
She currently sits as a Lay Reviewer for the Heart and
Stroke Foundation of Canada Scientifi c Review Committee
and is an active Muscular Dystrophy Chapter member for
Moncton. She has co-authored and assisted in numerous
research studies, quality improvement projects, and poster
presentations. Her passion is health promotion and patient
and population health outcomes
Michael
McDonald, PhD, occupies the Maurice Young Chair
in Applied Ethics - Canada’s fi rst endowed chair
in this area. From 1990 to 2002, he served as the founding
Director of the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics.
He has played a major role in shaping and critiquing Canadian
human research protection policies including the Tri-Council
Policy Statement on Ethical Research Involving Humans.
Michael led the team that published in 2000 the first
very comprehensive examination of Canadian research ethics
policy: The Governance of Health Research Involving Human
Subjects, a project sponsored by the Law Commission of
Canada. He has revisited that topic on several occasions
including in a special double issue of Health Law Review
in 2005. Currently, he is Co-Principal Investigator on
a CIHR-sponsored project “Centring the human subject
in health research: understanding the meaning and experience
of research participation.” He is also Principal
Investigator for the newly formed “Canadian Network
for the Governance of Ethical Health Research Involving
Humans: Evidence, Accountability and Practice,”
which is also sponsored by CIHR.
Robert
McKim, MSc, is Director, Research, Evaluation
and Quality Improvement, Primary Care Division, Capital
Health, Edmonton Area. He has a Master of Science degree
from the University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine with
a specialization in Biological Psychiatry. He has worked
as a researcher in the Neurochemical Research Unit at
the University of Alberta, as an administrator in Continuing
Care Centres operated by CapitalCare, as a planner for
Capital Health working with Mental Health, Geriatrics
and Rehabilitation Services, and as an evaluator for the
Northeast Community Health Centre. Bob is an Adjunct Professor
in the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine and an Adjunct
Associate Professor in the School of Public Health, University
of Alberta. As part of his present role, Bob works on
research projects related to understanding marginalized
populations and people working to reduce their tobacco
use. He is directly involved in a number of program evaluations
within the Primary Care Division doing both formative
and summative work. He is a member of the ARECCI Steering
Committee and is Chair of the Working Group on Development
of an Ethics Review Process for Evaluation and Quality
Improvement.
Sheila
Parsons, is a Nurse Educator for the Bachelor
of Nursing Collaborative Program at Western Regional School
of Nursing in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador.
She has been involved with the teaching of nursing students
for over 20 years and in all years of the program. Her
research interests are in qualitative research with a
focus on health promotion and palliative care. She is
a member of the Western Health Regional Research Ethics
Board.
Marie
Pinard, RN, BScN, is the Manager of Quality and
Emergency Measures at The Hospital for Sick Children in
Toronto. Her responsibilities include facilitating quality
improvement projects, staff quality improvement education,
and coordinating hospitalwide emergency preparedness plans.
For the past year, Marie has headed the implementation
of an oversight mechanism for quality improvement projects
at the hospital. Developing a process that is integrated
with the well established research oversight system has
been both challenging and exciting. Marie began her career
in health care in pediatric oncology, where she cared
for patients and families with complex physiological and
psychosocial needs. She has also worked in infection control
as well as on several redesign projects. For the past
ten years, she has been fi rmly grounded in quality and
risk management, where her interests have included hospital-wide
morbidity and mortality rounds, Canadian Council for Health
Services Accreditation, patient safety, indicator development,
process improvement and emergency response systems.
Martin
Schechter, MD, PhD, is Chief Scientific Officer
of the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research and
Professor and Head of Health Care and Epidemiology in
the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia.
Martin combines interests in clinical epidemiology and
health services research with HIV/AIDS and urban health
research. He is a founder and National Director of the
Canadian HIV Trials Network, a network of investigators
and research facilities aimed at conducting trials of
HIV therapies and vaccines. He was founding President
of the Canadian Association for HIV Research and co-chaired
the XI International Conference on AIDS in Vancouver in
1996. He completed his PhD in Mathematics at the Polytechnic
Institute of New York, his MD in Medicine at McMaster
University, and his MSc in Epidemiology at the University
of Toronto. He was a National Health Research Scholar
and Scientist from 1986 to 1999 and a CIHR Senior Investigator
from 2000 to 2001, when he received a Tier I Canada Research
Chair in HIV/AIDS and Urban Population Health.
Patricia
Tait, MSc, is the Coordinator, Internal Funding
and Strategic Initiatives at the Vancouver Coastal Health
Research Institute (VCHRI), which is the research arm
of the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority (VCH). She manages
the Internal Grants and Awards program, which provides
funding opportunities, through peer-reviewed competitions,
for research projects and investigators across VCH. During
2007 she was Project Lead on an initiative to develop
recommendations for VCH policy and procedures regarding
the screening and review of knowledge generating projects,
both research and non-research. She has a Master of Science
degree in Public Health Sciences and spent many years
working in community support and public health environments
before joining VCH in research administration.
Gary
Teare, PhD, joined the Health Quality Council
(Saskatoon) in 2005 as Director of Quality Measurement
and Analysis. He is Adjunct Professor in the Department
of Community Health and Epidemiology, University of Saskatchewan,
Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto (Department
of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation) and Adjunct
Faculty at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences,
in Toronto. At the Health Quality Council, Gary leads
a team of 14 researchers and analysts in measuring and
publicly reporting on the quality of health care in Saskatchewan.
Gary’s own research focuses on health care performance
measurement and organizational learning, particularly
in the continuing care sectors. He is currently Principal
Investigator or Co-Investigator on several research projects
funded by CIHR and AHFMR. Gary earned a Doctor of Philosophy
degree in Epidemiology and a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
degree at the University of Guelph, and a Master of Science
in Immunology degree at the University of Toronto.
Marianne
Vanderwel is the Director, Human Research Protection
Program at Institutional Review Board Services. She holds
a Master’s degree in Engineering Physics and second
Master’s in Medical Sciences. In 1987, after 10
years of academic research in health sciences, she moved
to the health care industry, where she held various positions
in diagnostic research and clinical research. From 1993
to 2007, Marianne worked for major pharmaceutical companies
in the area of quality management. She is now responsible
for maintaining an effective Human Research Protection
Program at Institutional Review Board Services. Marianne
extends her role to the research community by actively
participating in industry and academic collaborations.
Currently she is a member of the National Council on Ethics
in Human Research, the Expert Committee on Protection
of Human Research Participants in Canada, and Health Canada’s
initiative with the Canadian General Standards Board to
develop standards for research ethics boards reviewing
clinical trials involving drugs. She is also a site visitor
with the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research
Protection Programs.
Audrey
Yushchyshyn is the Research Assistant for CapitalCare
Edmonton Area, the largest publicly funded and operated
continuing care organization in Canada. The organization
provides care for more than 1,400 residents and over 300
day clients in 11 centres. Audrey is the Secretariat for
CapitalCare’s two research committees - the Research
Facilitation Committee, which assists researchers in adapting
their studies to CapitalCare’s settings, and the
Alzheimer Care Research Steering Committee, which is a
joint agent of the University of Alberta and CapitalCare
created to adjudicate proposals for two annual grants,
the Alzheimer Care Grant and the CapitalCare Foundation
Grant. Audrey is involved in research projects as a project
manager. In her previous work at the Cross Cancer Institute,
she assisted in a program evaluation of the individual
counselling program. Audrey holds a Bachelor of Science
degree in Psychology from the University of Alberta.
Anna
Zadunayski is a Calgary-based litigation and
research lawyer who graduated from the University of Calgary
in 2002 and has been a member of the Law Society of Alberta
since 2003. She is a lawyer-member of the Foothills Medical
Centre Ethics Committee and is editor of the Alberta Medico-Legal
Reporter, published by Education-Law InfoSource Ltd. Anna
is a Research Associate in the Office of Medical Bioethics
and an Ethics Preceptor in the Faculty of Medicine at
the University of Calgary, where she teaches undergraduate
medical students, medical residents and graduate nursing
students. She is also a graduate student in the Department
of Community Health Sciences and a member of the Canadian
Bioethics Society and PHEN. Anna has prepared ethics material
for the Calgary Health Region and has presented at national
health law and ethics conferences. Her primary research
interests include informed consent, and legal and ethical
considerations in maternal and child health.
Susan
Zimmerman is Executive Director of the Interagency
Secretariat on Research Ethics in Ottawa. She is a lawyer
whose career has focused on health law and public policy.
A native of Montreal, Susan received her undergraduate
degree from Bryn Mawr College, civil law and common law
degrees from McGill University, and a Master of Laws from
the University of Toronto. Her professional experience
includes positions as a Senior Research Associate at the
Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at McGill University,
Director of Legislation and Law Reform at the Canadian
Bar Association, Legal Counsel at Health Canada, and Director
of Research for the Law Commission of Canada. Prior to
her appointment to the Secretariat in September 2007,
she was a member of the Health Law Group at the Toronto
offi ce of a national law firm, where she represented
health care institutions and a variety of health care
professionals. She has also been a university lecturer
in health law and ethics and a member of research ethics
boards.
