Session 2 - Improve Knowledge translation & integration of best practices

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada  

Title: The Heartbreak of Health Human Resources

Dr. Andrew Padmos joined the Royal College as the new CEO on September 1, 2006. Dr. Padmos comes to the College from Halifax, Nova Scotia, where, from 1998, he was commissioner of Cancer Care Nova Scotia, head of the Cancer Care Program at the QEII Health Sciences Centre, associate dean for cancer programs in the Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie University

RN, MBA, Program Manager, UPCON CancerCare Manitoba 

Title: Be a CancerPro: Cancer System Essentials for Primary Care - Click here to download presentation

Pat McCormack-Speak (pms) received her bachelor’s degree in nursing from St. Scholatica in Duluth, Minnesota and a MBA from the Kotz Graduate School of Management, St. Thomas University in St. Paul, Minnesota. 

MD, Medical Leader of Knowledge Management Program, Alberta                    

Title: Application of Knowledge Management to support Best Cancer Practices

Dr. Neil Hagen completed his undergraduate medical education at the University of Alberta followed by two years of internal medicine at McGill University, Adult Neurology residency training at the Mayo Clinic, and a fellowship in Neuro-oncology and Cancer Pain at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New York.

RD, BSc. (Nutr.Sc.) Manager, Health Promotion Cancer Care Ontario

Title: Let’s Take a Stand Against Colorectal Cancer- an educational project for Aboriginal frontline service providers - Click here to download presentation

Rina grew up in Montreal and holds an Honours B.Sc. in Nutritional Science from McGill University. Rina has been with Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) for 3 ½ years. As Health Promotion Manager she leads the strategic development and implementation of the Aboriginal Unit’s provincial colorectal cancer education initiative for Aboriginal health care workers. She also has active involvement in the development of Ontario’s Aboriginal Cancer Strategy.

RN, Chemotherapy, Whitehorse General Hospital

Title: DVD to educate Nurses on PICCs and PORTs in remote and rural communities

Mary graduated from Holy Cross Hospital School of Nursing in Calgary in 1972. Always a bedside nurse, after completing postgraduate studies in Intensive/Coronary Care at University Hospital Edmonton she worked primarily in cardiac ICU.

BA, MA, Northern Health, Prince George, BC

Title: Cancer Transitions: Results of a cancer survivorship program in a northern rural community
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James Chan is the Research and Evaluation Coordinator for the Northern Interior Health Service Delivery Area in Northern Health. James combines a project management approach with advanced research processes to support the development, management, and dissemination of research and evaluation initiatives.

BSW, Northern Health, Prince George, BC

Title: Cancer Transitions: Results of a cancer survivorship program in a northern rural community
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Tasha Ahlstrom is the Regional Cancer Care Social Worker for Northern Health.  She has been working with Northern Health since 2001 – in a variety of areas including trauma intervention, rehabilitation counseling and crisis intervention. 

MSc, CGC,CCGC, Genetic Counsellor, Hereditary Cancer Program, BC

Title: Knowledge Translation between Hereditary Cancer Program and Rural Aboriginal Families

Jennifer Nuk joined the BC Cancer Agency’s Hereditary Cancer Program in Vancouver after graduating from the University of British Columbia’s MSc Genetic Counselling Training Program in 2006. As a clinical genetic counsellor, she is dedicated to providing
information and support to individuals and families living with inherited cancer risk.