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APPENDIX A: LIST OF WITNESSES

Organizations and Individuals

Date

Meeting

Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health

Brian O'Rourke, President and Chief Executive Officer

2012/10/18

58

Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Alain Beaudet, President

   

Department of Health

Barbara Sabourin, Director General

Therapeutic Products Directorate, Health Products and Food

Branch

   

Assembly of First Nations

Jonathan Thompson, Director

Health and Social Secretariat

2012/10/23

59

Centre for Global eHealth Innovation

Joseph Cafazzo, Lead

   

Department of Health

Ernie Dal Grande, National Manager

EHealth Program, Primary Health Care and Public Health, First

Nations and Inuit Health Branch

   

Kathy Langlois, Acting Assistant Deputy Minister

Regional Operations, First Nations and Inuit Health Branch

   

Manitoba eHealth Program

Roger Girard, Chief Information Officer

   

Canada Health Infoway

Richard Alvarez, President and Chief Executive Officer

2012/10/25

60

Mike Sheridan, Chief Operating Officer

   

Ontario Telemedicine Network

Ed Brown, Chief Executive Officer

   

Ottawa Hospital

Glen Geiger, Chief Medical Information Officer

   

University Health Network

Peter Rossos, Chief Medical Information Officer

   

University of British Columbia

Kendall Ho, Director and Professor

EHealth Strategy Office, Faculty of Medicine

 

 

As an individual

Donald Weaver, Professor

Department of Medicine and Department of Chemistry,

Dalhousie University

2012/10/30

61

Canadian Light Source

Jeffrey Cutler, Director

Industrial Science

   

Josef Hormes, Executive Director

   

University of Western Ontario

Ravi Menon, Professor and Canada Research Chair

Robarts Research Institute

   

Canadian Health Coalition

Michael McBane, National Coordinator

2012/11/01

62

Manitoba Chambers of Commerce

Dale Lacombe, Chair

Health Committee

   

Ottawa Integrative Cancer Centre

Dugald Seely, Executive Director

   

Université de Montréal

José Côté, Holder of the Research Chair and Professor

Research Chair in Innovative Nursing Practices

   

Diane Saulnier, Chair Coordinator

Research Chair in Innovative Nursing Practices

   

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Carole Lemire, Director

Nursing department

   

Lyne Thomassin, Coordinator

Clinique multidisciplinaire en santé

   

As an individual

Margaret Webb, Regional Nurse

2012/11/22

65

BC Healthy Living Alliance

Hon. Mary Collins P.C., Director

Chair, Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of Canada

 

 

Scott McDonald, Chair

Chief Executive Officer, BC Lung Association

   

École nationale d'administration publique

Marie-Claude Prémont, Full Professor

   

Nassera Touati, Associate Professor

   

Greater Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce

Kent Smith-Windsor, Executive Director

   

Ottawa Hospital

Dale Potter, Senior Vice-President

Strategy and Transformation

   

As an individual

Christopher Fotti, Doctor

Pritchard Farm Health Centre

2012/11/29

67

British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS

Thomas Kerr, Director

Urban Health Research Initiative

   

Julio Montaner, Director

   

Canadian College of Health Leaders

Ray Racette, President and Chief Executive Officer

   

St. Boniface Hospital

Michel Tétreault, President and Chief Executive Officer

   

University of Manitoba

Eric Bohm, Associate Professor

Concordia Joint Replacement Group

   

As an individual

Warren Chan, Professor

University of Toronto

2012/12/04

68

Normand Voyer, Professor

Department of Chemistry, Université Laval

   

BC Cancer Agency

Marco Marra, Director

Genome Sciences Centre

   

Public Health Agency of Canada

Frank Plummer, Chief Science Officer

Scientific Director General, National Microbiology Laboratory

   

University of British Columbia

David Huntsman, Professor of Pathology

Medical Director, Centre for Translational and Applied Genomics;

Director, OvCaRe

 

 

As an individual

Michael Jong, Professor

Memorial University

2012/12/06

69

Dalhousie University

Ivar Mendez, Professor of Neurosurgery, Anatomy and

Neurobiology

   

Nunatsiavut Government

Gail Turner, Consultant

Department of Health and Social Development

   

As an individual

Steven Denniss

2013/02/05

71

Alireza Jalali, Medical Doctor

   

Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada

Irving Gold, Vice President

Government Relations and External Affairs

   

Steve Slade, Vice President

Data and Analysis

   

Health Technology Exchange

John Soloninka, President and Chief Executive Officer

2013/02/07

72

MaRS Discovery District

Ilse Treurnicht, Chief Executive Officer

   

MEDEC - Canada’s Medical Technology Companies

Brian Lewis, President and Chief Executive Officer

   

As an individual

Scott Lear, Professor

2013/02/12

73

David Price, Chair

Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University

   

TELUS

Michael Guerriere, Chief Medical Officer and Vice President

Health Solutions

   

Paul Lepage, President

Health and Payment Solutions

   

As an individual

Rob Ballagh, Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery,

McMaster University, Adjunct Professor of Otolaryngology,

University of Western Ontario

2013/02/14

74

Bradley Dibble, Cardiologist

   

Conseil canadien de la coopération et de la mutualité

Michaël Béland, Communications and Programs Manager

   

Brigitte Gagné, Executive Director

   

Canadian Doctors for Medicare

Danyaal Raza, Board Member

2013/02/26

75

Public Health Association of BC

Marjorie MacDonald, President

   

As an individual

Emad Guirguis, General and Cosmetic Surgeon

Lakeview Surgery Centre

2013/02/28

76

Jason Sutherland, Assistant Professor

Centre of Health Services and Policy Research, University of

British Columbia

   

Genome Canada

Pierre Meulien, President and Chief Executive Officer

2013/03/05

77

Structural Genomics Consortium

Aled Edwards, Director and Chief Executive Officer

   

As an individual

Jeffrey Hoch, Director

Cancer Care Ontario

2013/03/07

78

Adam Holbrook, Associate Director

Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology, Simon

Fraser University

   

Pascale Lehoux, Researcher, Full Professor

Department of Health Administration, Université de Montréal

   

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

David Jaffray, Head

Radiation Physics Department

   

As an individual

Marc-André Gagnon, Assistant Professor

School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University

2013/03/19

79

As an individual

Steven Morgan, Associate Professor

Associate Director, Centre for Health Services and Policy

Research, University of British Columbia

 

 

Michael Rachlis

   

As an individual

Pascal-A Vendittoli, Professor of Surgery

Funded Clinical Researcher

2013/04/16

80

Health Sciences North

Branden Shepitka, Emergency Department Health Record

Project Lead,

Ramsey Lake Health Centre,  Emergency Department

   

Huron Perth Healthcare Alliance

Andrew Williams, President and Chief Executive Officer

   

University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Carolyn McGregor, Canada Research Chair in Health

Informatics

Professor and Associate Dean of Research, Faculty of Business

and IT

   

University of Ottawa

Doug Coyle, Professor

Epidemiology and Community Medicine

   

As an individual

Peter Selby, Associate Professor

Family and Community Medicine, Psychiatry and Dalla Lana

School of Public Health, University of Toronto

2013/04/23

82

Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Robyn Tamblyn, Scientific Director

Institute of Health Services and Policy Research

   

Public Health Agency of Canada

Kim Elmslie, Director General

Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control

   

University of Ottawa Heart Institute

Heather Sherrard, Vice-President Clinical Services

   

INTERxVENT

Saul Quint, Chief Executive Officer

INTERxVENT Canada

2013/04/25

83

Technology Evaluation in the Elderly Network

Richard Birtwhistle, Scientific Director

   

Terry Fox Cancer Research Institute

Victor Ling, President and Scientific Director

   

As an individual

Cameron Norman, Principal, CENSE Research + Design,

Adjunct Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University

of Toronto

2013/04/30

84

Beagle Productions

Dale Friesen, Chief Executive Officer

   

Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of Canada

Hon. Mary Collins P.C., Chair

   

Craig Larsen, Executive Director

   

Gateway Rural Health Research Institute

Feng Chang, Chair

Rural Pharmacy

   

Ken Milne, Chair

Rural Medicine

   

Canadian Organization for Rare Disorders

Durhane Wong-Rieger, President and Chief Executive Officer

2013/05/02

85

Department of Health

David K. Lee, Director

Office of Legislative and Regulatory Modernization, Policy,

Planning and International Affairs Directorate, Health Products

and Food Branch

   

Neurological Health Charities Canada

Jacquie Micallef, Manager, Member Relations, Policy &

Partnerships

2013/05/07

86

Orphanet Canada

Allan Micheil Innes, National Coordinator

   

Association of Canadian Academic Healthcare Organizations

Chris Paige, Vice-President, Research, University Health Network

2013/05/21

87

Chris Power, President and Chief Executive Director of Capital Health, Halifax

   

BIOTECANADA

Andrew Casey, President and Chief Executive Officer

   

Business Development Bank of Canada

Paul Kirkconnell, Executive Vice-President

Venture Capital, Montreal

   

Norgen Biotek Corporation

Yousef Haj-Ahmad, President and Chief Executive Officer

   

Toronto Rehabilitation Institute - University Health Network

Geoff Fernie, Institute Director

Research

 

 

Promise Xu, Junior Commercialization Officer

   

As an individual

Ian D. Brindle, Professor

Brock University

2013/04/30

88

Albert Friesen

   

D. Lorne Tyrrell, Professor and Director, Li Ka Shing Institute of

Virology, University of Alberta

   

Biosential Inc.

Craig Hudson, President and Chief Executive Officer