IHSPR Institute Advisory Board Members – Biographies

Ivy Bourgeault, PhD
Professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Ottawa

Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, PhD, is a Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Ottawa. She is also the Associate Director of the Community Health Research Unit, one of eight system linked research units funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-term Care. She was recently awarded the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Chair in Health Human Resource Policy which is jointly funded by the federal ministry of Health Canada. Dr. Bourgeault has garnered an international reputation for her research on health professions, health policy and women's health. She has published widely in national and international journals and edited volumes on midwifery and maternity care, primary care delivery, advanced practice nursing, qualitative health research methods, and on complementary and alternative medicine. She has been a consultant to various provincial Ministries of Health in Canada, to Health Canada and to the World Health Organization. Her recent research focuses on the migration of health professionals with a particular focus on Canada, the U.S., the U.K., and Australia for which she was awarded a Canada Research Chair in Comparative Health Labour Policy which she held in her previous position at McMaster University. Dr. Bourgeault sits on the international editorial board of Sociology of Health and Illness as well as the Journal of Marketing and Management in Healthcare.

Dr. Stirling Bryan, PhD
Director
Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Evaluation
Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute

Dr. Stirling Bryan is a university-based practicing health economist who has had extensive engagement with the policy and decision-making world. He began his career in the UK with appointments at St Thomas' Hospital Medical School and then Brunel University, before moving to Birmingham (senior lecturer and then full professor at the University of Birmingham). His research track record reveals a long-standing goal of informing policy and practice, demonstrated, in part, through an extensive involvement with the UK National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence (NICE). For many years he led the University of Birmingham team that conducted economic analyses for NICE, and subsequently served for 3 years as a member of the NICE technology appraisals committee. In 2005 he was awarded a Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellowship and spent one year at Stanford University, researching technology coverage decision making in a US health care organisations. He emigrated to Canada in 2008 (professor in UBC's School of Population & Public Health, and Director of the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Evaluation, VCH Research Institute) and continues a focus on policy-relevant research. His ongoing UBC faculty position, sponsored by Vancouver Coastal Health, sees him working alongside policy colleagues in one of BC's largest regional health authorities.

David Buckeridge, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health
McGill University

David Buckeridge is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McGill University in Montreal where he holds a Canada Research Chair in Public Health Informatics and directs the Surveillance Lab. He is also a Medical Consultant to the Montreal Public Health Department and the Quebec Public Health Institute. His research focuses on the informatics of public health surveillance and disease control. Dr Buckeridge has consulted on surveillance to groups such as the Public Health Agency of Canada, the US Institute of Medicine, the US and Chinese Centers for Disease Control, the European Centers for Disease Control, and the World Health Organization. He has a M.D. from Queen's University, a M.Sc. in Epidemiology from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. in Biomedical informatics from Stanford University. Dr Buckeridge is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada with specialty training in Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Krista Connell, MHSA
Chief Executive Officer
Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation

Krista is the Foundation's first Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Her job is extensive. She is responsible for providing the leadership and professional guidance necessary for the NSHRF to attain its strategic goals. Krista also oversees the tactical operation of the Foundation and ensures its effective and efficient operation. As the CEO, Krista reports directly to the Board of Directors and works to develop policies and approaches that foster involvement and support on the part of stakeholders. She is also responsible for outreach to the research community in its broadest sense. In addition to her duties as CEO, Krista regularly serves on external review committees for other health research-related organizations and provides advice and mentorship to community groups. She is a member of various boards such as the Canadian Cochrane Network Centre Advisory Board, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Training Program in Health Law & Policy Advisory Committee and the CIHR Canadian Clinical Research Coalition. After serving for several years as co-chair of NAPHRO (National Alliance of Provincial Health Research Organizations), Krista remains an active member. Krista was born in Miramichi, New Brunswick. She is a graduate of Dalhousie University's School of Physiotherapy. In 1990, Krista received her Master of Health Services Administration from the University of Alberta. She also completed a post-graduate fellowship with the Nova Scotia Department of Health.

Dr. Rick Glazier, MD, MPH
Program Lead of Primary Care and Population Health
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES)

Rick Glazier is a Family Physician and Senior Scientist and Program Lead of Primary Care and Population Health at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). He is a staff physician at St. Michael's Hospital and a Scientist in its Centre for Research on Inner City Health. At the University of Toronto, Dr. Glazier is a Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, and cross-appointed at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation and at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. His training in medicine took place at the University of Western Ontario, Family Medicine residency at Queen's University and Public Health training at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Glazier is President-Elect of the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG). His research interests include evaluating health system transformation; primary care health services delivery models, health of disadvantaged populations, management of chronic conditions, and population-based and geographic methods for improving equity in health.

Andreas Laupacis, MD, MSc (Vice-Chair)
Executive Director
Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto

Dr. Laupacis is a General Internist. In October 2006, he became Executive Director of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St. Michael's Hospital. Prior to this, he was the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). He is a Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Health Policy Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto.

His research interests are broad, covering a variety of topics in clinical epidemiology, health services research and health technology assessment. Recently he has become interested in engaging the public about health care issues. He has published over 290 peer-reviewed articles, a number related to clinical trials. He has also served as a member of numerous academic and governmental advisory committees, including Cancer Care Ontario (2011-present) and the Alberta Health Services Board (2008-2010), where he chaired its Quality and Safety Committee. Earlier this year, Dr. Laupacis was awarded the 2011 Health Services Research Advancement Award from the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation and was also named the Justice Emmett Hall Laureate at the annual Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Pascale Lehoux, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Health Administration
University of Montreal

Pascale Lehoux obtained her PhD in Public Health from University of Montreal (Quebec, Canada) in 1996. She is Associate Professor with the Department of Health Administration, and Researcher with the Institute de recherche en sante publique de l'Université de Montréal (IRSPUM). She obtained a National Scholar from the NHRDP (1998-2003) and a New Investigator Award from the CIHR-IHSPR (2003-2005). She was a consultant researcher for the Quebec Health Services and Technology Assessment agency (AETMIS) between 1994 and 2004. She currently holds a Canada Research Chair on Innovation in Health (2005-2010).

Her research interests lie with the sociology of innovation, the production and use of Health Technology Assessment (HTA), and knowledge utilization. She published around 50 papers examining the use of computerized medical records, telemedicine, scientific knowledge, home care equipment and mobile and satellite dialysis units. She published papers in Social Science and Medicine, the International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law and the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Her first book, The problem of health technology, was published in April 2006 by Routledge.

Her current Canada Research Chair program examines "upstream" factors that have an impact on the ultimate use and dissemination of health technologies, e.g. the design process itself, including needs analyses, design strategies, market constraints and opportunities, and group perceptions and practices (engineers, clinical experts, funders) guiding the innovation processes. Underpinning this research program is the recognition that many choices made upstream: 1) largely determine the costs, the types of settings where technologies are used, and the levels of skills required to use them appropriately; and 2) that systematically examining them will open a useful research avenue, since most industrialized countries are facing enormous challenges in terms of priority-setting due to the rising costs of health technologies.

She is the Canadian Director of an International Master's Program in Health Technology Assessment and Management, a project involving several universities (Univ. of Montreal, Univ. of Ottawa, Univ. of Barcelona, Catholic Univ. of Rome, International Univ. of Catalonia, Univ. of Toronto) and HTA agencies in Canada and Europe. She is a Board Member of the Canadian Association of Health Services and Policy Research. She is editor for Healthcare Policy, a Canadian journal launched in 2005.

Jacques Magnan, PhD
Senior Scientific Lead
Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project
Canadian Partnership Against Cancer

Dr. Jacques Magnan is a trained pharmacologist with a decade of research experience focused on the pharmacology of brain peptides.

For the past 20 years he has pursued a career in health research management first at the Medical Research Council and then at the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research, now Alberta Innovates Health Solutions.

In addition to his role as CEO of AIHS, he has served Co-Chair of the National Alliance of Provincial Health Research Organizations and serves as a member of boards or in an advisory capacity for several provincial and national health research agencies.

In 2013, Dr. Magnan took a new position as Senior Scientific Lead on the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project with the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer.

Gregory P. Marchildon, PhD
Canada Research Chair in Public Policy and Economic History
Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy
University of Regina

Gregory P. Marchildon is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, an interdisciplinary centre for public policy research, teaching, outreach and training with campuses at the University of Regina and the University of Saskatchewan. He is President of the Justice Emmett Hall Memorial Foundation and is the University of Regina's site director for the CIHR-funded Western Regional Training Centre in Health Services Research. He also sits on the editorial board of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies.

After receiving a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, Dr. Marchildon taught for five years at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC. He then served as Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and subsequently as Deputy Minister to the Premier and Cabinet Secretary in the provincial government of Saskatchewan in the 1990s. In 2001-2002, he was Executive Director of a federal Royal Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada (the Romanow Commission).

He is the author of numerous journal articles and books on Canadian history, comparative public policy, public administration, and federalism, including Health Systems in Transition: Canada co-published by the WHO Regional Office for Europe on behalf of the European Observatory and the University of Toronto Press.

Anne Sales, PhD, RN (Chair)
Deputy Chief
Inpatient Evaluation Center of the Veterans Health Administration in the United States

Dr. Sales is Deputy Chief, Inpatient Evaluation Center of the Veterans Health Administration in the United States. Previously, she was Professor in the Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, and Canada Research Chair in Interdisciplinary Healthcare Teams, and she continues an adjunct appointment at the University of Alberta. She has conducted numerous funded research projects, focusing on improving quality of care, knowledge translation and implementation of evidence based best practice, with many peer-reviewed publications. Her training is in sociology, health economics, econometrics, and general health services research, and her focus is implementing evidence based practice to improve quality of care.

Marcel Saulnier, MSc
Director General, Policy Coordination and Planning Directorate
Strategic Policy Branch
Health Canada

Marcel Saulnier is the Director General of the Policy Coordination and Planning Directorate, Strategic Policy Branch at Health Canada. His career has included policy leadership positions at the Canadian Medical Association, the Prime Minister's Office, Finance Canada, the National Forum on Health and Health and Welfare Canada. Marcel has a master's degree in Economics from the University of Montreal. He has wide-ranging interests in public policy, has written on a number of health policy topics and is a longstanding member of the Board of the Canadian Association of Health Services and Policy Research. Marcel grew up in an Acadian community in south-west Nova Scotia and resides in Ottawa with his wife and three children.

Jennifer Zelmer, BSc, MA, PhD
Senior Vice President, Clinical Adoption and Innovation
Canada Health Infoway

Dr. Jennifer Zelmer is the Senior Vice President, Clinical Adoption and Innovation at Canada Health Infoway. Prior to joining Infoway, she held a series of progressively responsible leadership positions in Canada and abroad, most recently as Chief Executive Officer of the International Health Terminology Standards Organization and Vice President, Research & Analysis at the Canadian Institute for Health Information. Dr. Zelmer received her PhD and her M.A. in Economics from McMaster University and her B.Sc. in Health Information Science from the University of Victoria. In addition to her role at Canada Health Infoway, she is the Editor-in-Chief of Healthcare Policy and is an Adjunct Faculty member at the University of Victoria. Dr. Zelmer also serves on a wide range of health-related advisory committees and boards.