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Meet the Team

Our Operations Team:

  • Runs daily activities of the Consortium

  • Coordinates & facilitates working groups to meet outlined objectives

  • Provides support to all sites/IESs

  • Engages and communicates progress status with the Consortium network

Our Steering Team:

  • Oversees and facilitates administrative Consortium activities

  • Reviews progress and recommendations for the Consortium

  • Facilitates strategic direction of the Consortium

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

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

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

Our Data Support Team:

  • Collects indicator data in all the domains

  • Supports performance assessment and improvement cycles

  • Facilitates the collection, cleanup and reporting of data

  • Reports back to IES, SIT team and Site Leads

Former Members

Leadership Team

  • Julie Gagliardi – Former Rehab Coordinator (London site)

  • Andrea Lee – Former Director, Rehab. Program (London site)

  • Karen Smith – Former Physiatrist (Kingston site)

  • Michelle Wallace – Former Patient Care Manager (Edmonton site)

  • Ed Harrison – Former Physiatrist & Chair (Prince Edward Island site)

  • Sonia Joanisse - Clinical Manager (Ottawa site)

Implementation & Evaluation Specialists Team

  • Brianne Floriancic – Registered Nurse (London site)

  • Jaclyn Vandenwyngaert –Registered Nurse (London site)

  • Hannah Hollett – Nurse (Toronto site)

  • Chelsea Wong – Physiotherapist (Toronto site)

  • Carol Scovil – Assistive Technology Specialist (Toronto site)

  • Rachel Holthof – Professional Practice Lead, Social Work (Kingston site)

  • Mary Jo Demers – Physiotherapist (Kingston site)

  • Chelsea Crockford – Recreational Therapist (Fredericton site)

  • Rob MacIsaac – Community Partner - SCI-Alberta (Edmonton site)

  • Marcy Cwiklewich – Outpatient Coordinator (Edmonton site)

  • Bonnie Caldwell – Physiotherapist (Prince Edward Island site)

  • Stephanie Cornell - Physiotherapist (London site)

  • Derek Thompson -  Occupational Therapist, Queen Elizabeth Hospital (PEI site)

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