Department of Sociology
Lakehead University
955 Oliver Road
Thunder Bay, ON  P7B 5E1

Pamela Wakewich is Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies and a core faculty member in the Master of Public Health program at Lakehead University. She is the former Chair of the National Network on Environments and Women’s Health (NNEWH) Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health (York University) and served on the Transitional Council of the Ontario College of Midwives. Dr. Wakewich’s research and teaching focus on gender, embodiment and health in rural and northern communities and the role of qualitative methods in health research. With colleagues at the University of Western Ontario and Lakehead University, she is currently involved a SSHRC-funded project using photovoice method to explore rural women’s perspectives on aging and health promotion needs.

Laurentian University, School of Nursing, Office L-860
Ramsey Lake Road
Sudbury, ON  P3E 2C6

Phyllis Montgomery, RN, B.Sc.N. (Laurentian), M.Sc.N. (Toronto), Ph.D. (McMaster) is an Associate Professor with the School of Nursing at Laurentian University and Coordinator of the Master of Science in Nursing (M.Sc.N.) program…

Alba DiCensoholds the CHSRF/CIHR Chair in Advanced Practice Nursing and is a Professor in the School of Nursing and the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University. She is also the Director of the Ontario Training Centre for Health Services and Policy Research (OTC). Dr. DiCenso’s mandate during her 10-year Nursing Chair is to increase Canada’s capacity of nurse researchers who will conduct applied research related to advanced practice nursing (APNs) that serves the needs of managers and policy makers in the health sector. Her primary research area is the introduction and evaluation of advanced practice nurses (including nurse practitioners) in primary and tertiary care settings. 

Dr. DiCenso led the research that introduced neonatal nurse practitioners into tertiary level neonatal intensive care units in Ontario. She was the lead author of the Discussion Paper that preceded the provincial government’s announcement to introduce nurse practitioners in Ontario in 1994, has conducted a needs assessment to determine the numbers needed in each type of primary care setting and the specific role of the NP in each of these settings, has evaluated the university-based consortium approach to educating primary care NPs, has studied NP practice patterns, and oversaw a project to examine the barriers and facilitators to the integration of NPs in primary health care in Ontario. In 2004, Minister George Smitherman announced the formation of the NP Integration Task Team, co-chaired by Dr. DiCenso and Dr. Sue Matthews, Provincial Chief Nursing Officer, to oversee the implementation of all 29 recommendations emerging from this last study. From 1998 to 2003, Dr. DiCenso was the lead editor of the Evidence-Based Nursing Journal and she is the lead editor of a recently published textbook: Evidence-Based Nursing: A Guide to Clinical Practice published by Elsevier.

Equivalency of doctorate, University of Ottawa (1998)    
M.A. (Economics), University of Ottawa (1974)
B.Com., St. Patrick=s College (1967)

Doug Angus is a Health Economist and Full Professor in the School of Management, University of Ottawa. He also is the Director of the PhD Program in Population Health, one of the Interdisciplinary Studies Programs which are led by the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. Previously, he was Vice Dean and Associate Dean (Academic) (from 1999-2002, Director of the Master of Health Administration Program (from 1997-2001) at the University and, before that, was the Director of the Queen’s-University of Ottawa Economic Projects on Cost-Effectiveness of the Canadian Health Care System, and is the lead author of its major report, Sustainable Health Care for Canada. Professor Angus has research activities at the international, national, provincial, and regional levels, particularly in the areas of health care reform, strategic management, health economics (cost analysis and economic evaluation of health programs), and health policy.  

Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, PhD, is a Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Chair in Health Human Resource Policy at the University of Ottawa.  She is also the Scientific Director of the recently established pan-Ontario Population Health Improvement Research Network and the Ontario Health Human Resource Research Network both housed at the University of Ottawa with funding from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-term Care.  She is also the lead of the recently established Pan-Canadian Health Human Resources Network with funding from 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.  Dr. Bourgeault sits on the international editorial board of Sociology of Health and Illness and the Journal of Marketing and Management in Healthcare as well as on the Institute Advisory Board of the CIHR Institute of Health Services and Policy Research.

Dr. Davies is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, University of Ottawa and an Associate Investigator in the Clinical Epidemiology Program at the Ottawa Health Research Institute. She holds a Cross-appointment in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa. She received the Premier’s Research Excellence Award (2004-2009) for a program of research entitled Interventions to promote successful sustained research transfer in nursing practice and health care.  Dr. Davies is the Co-Director of the Nursing Best Practice Research Unit at the University of Ottawa, a collaborative partnership with the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario. She is a founding member of NICEBIRG (Nursing International Collaboration Evidence Based Implementation of Research Guidelines). She is the Co-Principal Investigator of the Multi-disciplinary Collaborative Primary Maternity Care Project (MCP 2) funded by the Health Canada Primary Care Transition fund.

University of Toronto, Dept. of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation
155 College Street, Suite 425
Toronto, Ontario  M5T 3MS

University of Toronto, Faculty of Nursing
50 St. George St.
Toronto, ON  M5S 3H4

Pat Armstrong is co‑author or editor of such books on health care as Caring For/Caring About, Exposing Privatization: Women and Health Reform in Canada. Unhealthy Times, Heal Thyself: Managing Health Care Reform; Wasting Away: The Undermining of Canadian Health Care; Universal Health Care: What the United States Can Learn From Canada; Medical Alert: New Work Organizations In Health Care: Vital Signs: Nursing in Transition; and Take Care: Warning Signals for Canada's Health System. She has also published on a wide variety of issues related to women's work and to social policy. On the basis of this work, she has been called as an expert witness in more than a dozen cases linked to women’s work, pay equity and women’s rights. She has served as Chair of the Department of Sociology at York University and Director of the School of Canadian Studies at Carleton University. Currently, she is a partner in the National Network on Environments and Women’s Health and chairs a working group on health reform that crosses the Centres of Excellence for Women's Health. She holds a CHSRF/CHIR Chair in Health Services and Nursing Research.

York University, School of Health Policy and Management
4th Floor HNES
Atkinson Faculty, 4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3

Dr. Marcia Rioux is a professor at York University where she holds a number of positions:  Graduate Director of the MA (Critical Disability Studies), Director of the York Institute of Health Research and Chair of the School of Health Policy and Management.  Her research addresses a broad range of public and health policy issues including health and human rights, health equity, universal education, international monitoring of disability rights, the impact of globalization on welfare policy, literacy policy, disability policy, and social inclusion.  She is internationally known having taught, researched and advised on policy issues in numerous countries.  Dr. Rioux has lectured throughout the Americas, Europe and India, and has been an advisor to a number of federal and provincial commissions, parliamentary committees, international NGO's and United Nations agencies.  She is currently writing a book on law and disability and is engaged in a number of international research projects. Her PhD is in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California, Berkeley.