Participants List

PEP Teams:
Organization: Toronto Rehabilitation Institute - University Health Network
Patient Engagement Project Title: Engaging patients and families to develop safety indicators
Primary Contact: Caroll Fancott
Title: Advanced Practice Leader - Patient Safety
Organization: Alberta Health Services
Patient Engagement Project Title: All aboard for patient engagement: A readiness toolkit for patients,
providers and leaders
Primary Contact: Jennifer Rees
Title: Executive Director, Patient Experience Department
Organization: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Patient Engagement Project Title: Bringing a recovery focus to schizophrenia services through client
narratives
Primary Contact: Sean Kidd
Title: Independent Clinician Scientist and Head, Psychology Service
Organization: BC Forensic Psychiatric Hospital
Patient Engagement Project Title: Simulating, studying and sustaining patient engagement in a forensic
psychiatric hospital
Primary Contact: Johann Brink
Title: Vice President - Medical Affairs and Research, Forensic Psychiatric Services Commission, BC
Mental Health and Addiction Services
Organization: McGill University Health Centre
Patient Engagement Project Title: Patients and professionals partner to redesign inpatient care systems:
Improving safety, access and work environment
Primary Contact: Patty O’Connor
Title: Director of Nursing & Chief Nursing Officer, McGill University Health Centre
Organization: BC Ministry of Health Services
Patient Engagement Project Title: Your Voice Counts: Training patients to be effective in designing the
system.
Primary Contact: Jami Brown
Title: Manager, Healthy Living/Healthy Community Strategies
EXTRA Teams:
Organization: Saskatoon Health Region, SK
EXTRA Project Title: Malnutrition in Long Term Care
Primary Contact: Noella Leydon
Title: Director, Food and Nutrition Services
Organization: Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, MB
EXTRA Project Title: Using, RAI/MDS to Promote Continual Quality Improvement
Primary Contact: Cynthia Sinclair
Title: Manager of Initiatives, Personal Care Home Program
Organization: Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, MB
EXTRA Project Title: Improving Home-Based Dialysis Utilization in Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario
Primary Contact: Dan Skwarchuk
Title: Executive Director, Health Integration and Innovation, WRHA
Organization: Capital District Health Authority, NS
EXTRA Project Title: Pain management and Philosophy of Care in Veterans’ Long Term Care
Primary Contact: Elsie Rolls
Title: Director, Veteran’s Services
Organization: Providence Health Care, BC
EXTRA Project Title: Collaborative Management of Patients with Chronic, Complex Co-morbid
Conditions
Primary Contact: Margot Wilson
Title: Director, Chronic Disease Management
Organization: Capital District Health Authority, NS
EXTRA Project Title: Implementation of a Patient Information Management System to Improve the Care
of Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease in Nova Scotia.
Primary Contact: Steven Soroka
Title: Medical Director, Division of Nephrology
Organization: Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM), QC
EXTRA Project Title: Améliorer l’accès aux soins en augmentant l’attraction et la rétention des
infirmières
Primary Contact: Jean-François Fortin Verrault
Title: Directeur adjoint, Ressources humaines
Organization: Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Québec (CHU de Québec), QC
EXTRA Project Title: Approche stratégique de réallocation des ressources basée sur le bien-fondé des
interventions
Primary Contact: Daniel La Roche
Title: Directeur de l'évaluation, de la qualité, de l'ingénierie, de la performance et de la prévention des
infections (DEQIP)
Organization: Providence Health Care, BC
EXTRA Project Title: Minimizing functional decline in older adults during acute hospital admission
Primary Contact: David Thompson
Title: Vice President - Seniors Care & Clinical Support Services
Organization: Health Sciences North, ON
EXTRA Project Title: Optimizing a Cancer Survivorship Care Model for North East Ontario
Primary Contact: Mark Hartman
Title: Vice President, Northeast Cancer Centre