National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools

A Bit about the Speakers

Jason Bonander

Jason Bonander is the Director of the Division of Knowledge Management within Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Public Health Informatics where he directs knowledge management and discovery initiatives as well as CDC’s public health library. Prior to CDC he worked in e-commerce consulting with clients such as Coca-Cola, Saab, and Incyte Genomics. A cultural anthropologist by training, Jason has also done qualitative health systems research in Northern California and Belize, Central America.

Ellen Detlefsen

Ellen Detlefsen is a tenured faculty member in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, with a joint appointment in the Department of Biomedical Informatics in the School of Medicine. She was educated at Smith College and earned her doctorate from the Columbia University School of Library Service. Her areas of expertise include bio¬medical and health sciences information, medical informatics, and resources and services for special populations. She directs a university program in Medical Librarianship and Medical Informatics that was ranked #1 in the nation in the 2006 U.S. News & World Report’s Guide to Graduate Study. In 2008, the WISE (Web-based Information Science Education) consortium awarded her the 2007 WISE Faculty of the Year Award for Excellence in Online Education.

Sir J. A. Muir Gray

Sir Muir Gray is Director of the National Knowledge Service. The National Library for Health, a core service of the National Knowledge Service, will organize the best current knowledge and the National Knowledge service will deliver it to staff and patients wherever and whenever they need it. Recently given the role of Chief Knowledge Officer for the NHS, he is closely involved in the provision of knowledge not only to clinicians, but also to patients and those who manage healthcare.

In his previous post as Director of Research and Development for Anglia and Oxford Region, he supported the UK Cochrane Centre in its early days, and set up the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine. In Oxford he is fortunate to work with groups interested in informed decision-making and the many different aspects of communication with patients. For ten years he was Programmes Director for the UK National Screening Committee.

Sir Muir Gray is the author of Evidence-Based Healthcare, of which a third edition is in preparation, and joint author of The Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice. His most recent books are The Resourceful Patient, Evidence-Based Surgery and How To Get Better Value Healthcare.

You can find out more about his interests on www.soundshealthy.org.

Brian Haynes

Brian Haynes is Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Medicine, and Chief of the Health Information Research Unit at McMaster University. His main research interests are in improving health and health care through enhancing the validation, distillation, dissemination and application of health care knowledge.

Robert Hayward

Robert Hayward is an internist, health informatician, and innovator serving as Assistant Dean, Health Informatics in the Faculty of Medicine and Director of the Centre for Health Evidence. His interests include bringing best evidence to the bedside through virtual learning and practice communities. He chairs the Capital Health Clinical Decision Support initiative and has led the development of client-side decision-support technologies and services for electronic health records. Dr. Hayward has also established industry-academic bridges to bring ideas, expertise and products from research to implementation.

Steve Kingston

Stephen Kingston (MSc. Health Behaviour) operates a software development and consulting company MediaDoc Inc. MediaDoc has been working with health-related organizations for over 10 years developing and leveraging web-based technologies to aid organizational knowledge management. Key projects include: Public Health Agency of Canada: The Canadian Best Practices Portal for Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention; National Collaboration Centres for Methods and Tools: Registry of Methods and Tools; Centre for Health Promotion - Health Communication Unit: Online Health Promotion Planner.

Réjean Landry

Réjean Landry is the holder of a CHSRF/ CIHR Chair on Knowledge Transfer and Innovation. Dr. Landry is a professor in the Department of Management of the Faculty of Business at Laval University in Quebec City where he teaches on knowledge transfer and knowledge management. He has published many quantitative papers on knowledge transfer and innovation.

Roz Lasker

Roz Lasker is known internationally for her work on interdisciplinary collaboration, public participation, and community problem solving, planning, and policy development. For over a decade, she has directed the Division of Public Health and the Center for the Advancement of Collaborative Strategies in Health at The New York Academy of Medicine. She is also Clinical Professor of Public Health at Columbia University’s School of Public Health. Prior to joining the Academy, Dr. Lasker served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and on the faculty of the Department of Medicine at the University of Vermont College of Medicine.

John Lavis

John N. Lavis is the Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Transfer and Exchange, an Associate Professor in both the Departments of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Department of Political Science, and a member of the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis at McMaster University. His principal research interests include knowledge transfer and exchange in public policy-making environments and the politics of healthcare systems.

Neil MacAlpine

Neil MacAlpine has been a Knowledge Management Specialist for the past eight years with Alberta Agriculture & Rural Development (ARD). ARD has an eleven-year initiative in KM and www.agric.gov.ab.ca is its knowledge library. Neil is Chair of the Advisory Committee for the Conference Board of Canada’s Knowledge Strategy Exchange Network. He is a core member of the Edmonton KM Network.

Sean Murphy

Sean Patrick Murphy, CMC, CMA, leads the Deloitte Canadian Public Sector Enterprise Content Management practice.

Sean is an accomplished business solutions project manager with 14 years of management consulting experience. Sean has significant background in enterprise content management, information and knowledge management, business and process analysis, strategic and business planning for public and private sector clients.

Jocelyne Sauvé

Jocelyne Sauvé is a medical specialist in community health and holds a Master’s degree in Epidemiology. Since 1985, she has held different positions in the field of community health. Notably, she was Medical Advisor for Workplace and Environmental Health at the Community Health Department of the Valleyfield Hospital and became the Interim Director of the Department. She served as Co-ordinator for the Organisation of Services for the Regional Health and Social Services Board (RRSSS) of the Laurentides region. From 1996 to 2003, she was Director of Public Health for the RRSSS Laurentides, and, since December 1, 2003, she has occupied the same post with the Public Health Department of the Montérégie. Before directing her career towards public health, Dr. Sauvé worked as a general practitioner and emergency care physician in an outlying region. Recently she was chosen as a participant in the prestigious national bursary program called Executive Training for Research Application (EXTRA).

Ruta Valaitis

Ruta Valaitis is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, and holds the Dorothy C. Hall Chair in Primary Health Care Nursing at McMaster University. Research interests include communities of practice, e-health interventions to support nursing practice, and strengthening primary health care through collaborations between primary care and public health.

Kirby Wright

Kirby Wright operates an applied research and consulting firm—KRW Knowledge Resources—that focuses on knowledge management, innovation processes and workplace learning. He works with private, public and voluntary organizations at the strategic/policy and operational levels. Recent research efforts have focused on personal knowledge management and knowledge work.