DSEN Steering Committee Membership

The members of the Drug Safety and Effectiveness Network (DSEN) Steering Committee are listed below:

Chair – Jane E. Aubin
Executive Vice-President, Chief Scientific Officer and Vice-President, Research and Knowledge Translation (RKT), CIHR
Term Starts: 2012 – Term Ends: no date

Ex-officio – Robert Peterson
Executive Director, Drug Safety and Effectiveness Network (DSEN), CIHR
Term Starts: 2010 – Term Ends: no date

Brent Diverty
Vice President, Programs, Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
Term Starts: 2013 – Term Ends: 2016

Cindy Evans
Associate Director General, Marketed Health Products Directorate (MHPD), Health Canada
Term Starts: 2013 – Term Ends: 2016

Paul Glover
Assistant Deputy Minister, Health Products and Food Branch (HPFB), Health Canada
Term Starts: 2010 – Term Ends: 2013

Jean Gray
Professor Emeritus, Medical Education, Medicine and Pharmacology, Dalhousie University
Term Starts: 2010 – Term Ends: 2013

Abby Hoffman
Assistant Deputy Minister, Strategic Policy Branch (SPB), Health Canada
Term Starts: 2010 – Term Ends: 2013

Diane McArthur
Assistant Deputy Minister and Executive Officer, Ontario Public Drug Programs, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
Term Starts: 2010 – Term Ends: 2013

Brian O'Rourke
President and CEO, Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH)
Term Starts: 2010 – Term Ends: 2013

Lucie Robitaille
Secretary General & Associate General Director,
Développement organisationnel et aux médicaments, Institut National d'Excellence en Santé et en Services Sociaux (INESS)
Term Starts: 2010 – Term Ends: 2013

Barbara Walman
Assistant Deputy Minister, BC Ministry of Health, Pharmaceutical Services
Term Starts: 2012 – Term Ends: 2015

Diane Wells
Registered Nurse (Saskatchewan), Project Director and Health IT Consultant
Term Starts: 2010 – Term Ends: 2013

Linda Wilhelm
Patient Advocate
Term Starts: 2010 – Term Ends: 2013

Invited Policy Expert – Noralou Roos
Professor, Community Health Services, Faculty of Medicine Manitoba Centre for Health Policy
Term Starts: 2010 – Term Ends: 2012

Vacant
Representative of the voluntary, research, care delivery, and or public sectors
Term Starts: 2013 – Term Ends: 2016