Meet the Team

Our Operations Team

Runs daily activities of the Consortium
Coordinates & facilitates working groups to meet outlined objective
Provides support to all sites/IESs
Engages and communications progress status with the Consortium network

Cathy Craven, MD, FRCPC

Evaluation Lead

Dalton L. Wolfe, PhD

Implementation Lead

Farnoosh Farahani, HBSc, CCRP

Evaluation Manager

Andrea Brown, BSc

Implementation Evaluation Specialist & Mentor

Thuvaraha Jeyakumaran, MMASc

Research Coordinator & Knowledge Mobilization Specialist

Our Steering Team

Oversees and facilitates administrative Consortium activities
Reviews progress and recommendations for the Consortium
Facilitates strategic direction of the Consortium

Cathy Craven, MD, FRCPC

Evaluation Lead

Mohammad Alavinia, MPH, MSc, PhD

Statistician & Epidemiologist

Dalton L. Wolfe, PhD

Implementation Lead

Thuvaraha Jeyakumaran, MMASc

Research Coordinator & Knowledge Mobilization Specialist

Hamed Hami

Research Clerk

Farnoosh Farahani, HBSc, CCRP

Evaluation Manager

Suban Kangatharan, BSc, RKin

Research Coordinator

Andrea Brown, BSc

IES Specialist & Mentor

Heather Flett

Advance Practice Leader

Peter Athanasopoulos

Director, Public Policy

Our Leadership Team

Oversees the activities within their site that are being led by the IES to support and facilitate progress
Shares ongoing site initiatives and discusses solutions to challenges that were encountered administratively (e.g. staff, finances, etc.) in collaboration with all Consortium members
Contributes to the ongoing evolution of the Consortium through decision-making and consensus seeking

Heather Flett

Advance Practice Leader

Sussan Askari, MD, FRCPC

Director

Stephen Patton

Professional Associate

Scott Durno

Program Services Manager

Colleen O’Connell

Research Chief

Academic Psychiatrist

Adalberto Loyola-Sanchez, MD, MSc, PhD

Ali Bateman, MD, FRCPC

Consultant Psychiatrist

Rebecca Fleck

Director

Michael Richardson

Chief Executive Officer-SCIO

Saagar Walia

Coordinator

Sonja A. McVeigh, MD, FRCPC, Dip. Sport Med.

Medical Director

Our Implementation & Evaluation Specialist Team

Leads and participates in the development and implementation of activities and best practices through the application of implementation science
Forms and engages SIT teams
Supports SIT team throughout all stages of implementation to optimize success and sustainability
Communicates implementation concerns and challenges to site leads to facilitate decision-making
Liaises with IESs to address site specific implementation issues
Shares learnings encountered during the implementation process with the Consortium IES team
Completes cross-site implementation profiling

Jennifer Duley, PT

Physiotherapist

Chandana Gajjala

Chief Executive Officer, Limestone Clinical Trials Unit,

Kristen Butler

Occupational Therapist

Andrea Brown, BSc

IES Specialist & Mentor

Mark MacKenzie

Provincial Neuromuscular Coordinator

Laura-Lee Hennebury

Licensed Practical Nurse

Charlene Alton

Recreation Therapist

Juffah Tamula, PT

Physiotherapist

Dominique LeBlanc, PT

IES Specialist

Calogero Giurleo

Occupational Therapist

Meredith Burley

IES Specialist & Manager

Stephanie Schurr

Clinical Manager, Physical Rehabilitation

Navi Khasiyeva

Service Navigation Coordinator

Meghan Neil

Physiotherapist, Inpatient Rehabilitation

Our Patient Advisory Panel

Is composed of patient advisors from across Canada that bring their lived expertise and perspectives to this role, while participating in collaborative conversations related to a national quality improvement initiative
Shares their views and knowledge on patient engagement, provides feedback on current processes, identifies potential problems and barriers, and contributes to the design of effective strategies for community follow-ups
Provides feedback and gives context to the interim results using their own backgrounds and communities’ perspective
Contributes to plans for communicating the results with target audiences

Andy Peters

Patient Advisory Panel

Steph Okenge

Patient Advisory Panel

Kathleen Leger

Patient Advisory Panel

Tyler Carr

Patient Advisory Panel

Mike Williams

Patient Advisory Panel

Lubna Aslam

Patient Advisory Panel

Roneel Gounder

Patient Advisory Panel

Dan Zehr

Patient Advisory Panel

Brad Johnston

Patient Advisory Panel

Former Members

Steering Team

Julie Vo - Research Associate & Communications Specialist (Toronto site)
Maryam Omidvar - Research Associate (Toronto site)

Leadership Team

Andrea Lee – Former Director, Rehab. Program (London site)
Ed Harrison – Former Physiatrist & Chair (Prince Edward Island site)
Iona MacRitchie - Clinical Services Manager (Toronto site)
Julie Gagliardi – Former Rehab Coordinator (London site)
Karen Smith – Former Physiatrist (Kingston site)
Kimberly Young - Director (Hamilton site)
Michelle Wallace – Former Patient Care Manager (Edmonton site)
Sonia Joanisse - Clinical Manager (Ottawa site)
Stacey Ann-Walker - Health Care Partnership Lead (Toronto site)
Chester Ho - Clinical Services Manager (Alberta site)
Vidya Sreenivasan - Medical Director (Ottawa site)
Joanne Savoie - Clinical Neuropsycologist (New Brunswick site)

Implementation & Evaluation Specialists Team

Andrea Chase - Physiotherapist (Ottawa site)
Bonnie Caldwell – Physiotherapist (Prince Edward Island site)
Brianne Floriancic – Registered Nurse (London site)
Carrie Mizzoni _ Occupational Therapist (Toronto site)
Carol Scovil – Assistive Technology Specialist (Toronto site)
Chelsea Crockford – Recreational Therapist (Fredericton site)
Chelsea Wong – Physiotherapist (Toronto site)
Denise Taylor - Manager (Thunder Bay site)
Derek Thompson - Occupational Therapist, Queen Elizabeth Hospital (PEI site)
Erica Dagley - IES Specialist & Physiotherapist (Nova Scotia site)
Hannah Hollett – Nurse (Toronto site)
Heather Scott - Community Partner (Alberta site)
Jaclyn Vandenwyngaert –Registered Nurse (London site)
Kendra Erhardt - Peer Coordinator (Alberta site)
Kristina Plourde - IES Specialist & Physiotherapist (Toronto site)
Marcy Cwiklewich – Outpatient Coordinator (Edmonton site)
Mary Jo Demers – Physiotherapist (Kingston site)
Rachel Holthof – Professional Practice Lead, Social Work (Kingston site)
Rob MacIsaac – Community Partner - SCI-Alberta (Edmonton site)
Stephanie Cornell - Physiotherapist (London site)
Tracy Down - IES specialist (Kingston site)
Yoshino Okuma - IES Specialist (Alberta site)
Amy Prince - Spinal Cord Injury - Navigator/Coordinator (Newfoundland and Labrador site)
Kim Coombes - Occupational Therapist (Newfoundland and Labrador site)
Kristen Johnson - Occupational Therapist (London site)

Data Support Team

Dorothyann Curran - Research Associate
Luxshmi Nageswaran - Research Associate
Maryam Omidvar, Pharm D, MSc

Patient Advisory Panel

Marg Veldhuizen
Randy Scott