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Dr. Kelly Abrams, PhD., CHIM
Kelly Abrams is a Standards Council of Canada Mirror Committee representative on ISO/TC 215 Health Informatics Working Group 3 - Semantic Content. She has over 30 years’ experience in health informatics and information management with expertise in workforce transformation, privacy, information management, and data governance. Kelly is an adjunct professor at the University of Regina’s Masters of Health Informatics and Information Management Program.
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Craig Anderson is Senior Expert, Program Delivery at Health Canada’s Transformation and Business Informatics Division. Craig’s role is focused on representing Health Canada on international IT/IM forums; facilitating the development and implementation of international standards; facilitating delivery of regulatory informatics projects related to electronic product labeling, data governance, automation; and IT modernization/business optimization.Craig also has over 13 years of pharmaceutical industry experience in regulatory operations and regulatory information management. He has operated as global line manager with staff in Canada, USA and Sweden; with global responsibility for regulatory submission and information management.
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Marion Lyver, MD, FRCP(C), FCFP, CPHIMS-CA
Dr. Marion Lyver is an emergency medicine specialist certified by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons and the College of Family Physicians of Canada and an Assistant Clinical Professor at McMaster U in the Faculty of Medicine. She is a well-known, trusted and well-respected digital health and healthcare consultant, providing services in her areas of expertise to both public and private sector organizations provincially, nationally and internationally for over 20 years. Marion has served as a two-term elected Convenor (Chair) of ISO Technical Committee 215 (Health Informatics) - Working Group 8 (EHR Requirements) and Vice-Convenor of WG1 – Architecture, Frameworks and Models, two terms as an elected representative on the IHTSDO (International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization) Implementation and Innovation Committee, two terms as an elected Board member of COACH – Canada’s Health Informatics Association (now Digital Health Canada) and multi-year terms on Canada Health Infoway governance committees – the Standards Collaborative (SC) Strategic Committee and the SC Coordinating Committee. Marion is among those who have received a national peer recognition award from Canada Health Infoway for her work in advancing health informatics standards to improve quality of care and electronic sharing of healthcare data. At present, Marion is a senior associate for a private sector, international health IT advisory and management consulting services corporation, in addition to continuing her private medical practice.
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Ron G. ParkerisPrincipal Consultant, Parker Digital Health Consulting (DHC) Inc. and has 36 years of experience in architecting integrated IT solutions in health and social services enterprises and is currently consulting on Digital Health projects in the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Sri Lanka, focused on Digital Health Enterprise Architecture, and standards-based interoperability. Recently, he was lead and a contributing author on the joint ITU/WHO Digital Health Platform Handbook. As a Fellow of HL7 International, he has over 20 years of participation, and currently he is Chair of HL7 Canada, Co-Chair of the HL7 International Council, and an International Director on the HL7 Board.
Derek Ritz, P.Eng., CPHIMS-CA
Derek Ritz is the principal consultant at ecGroup Inc., a Canadian professional services firm that provides advisory services to domestic and international clients regarding digital health strategy, architecture, standards, implementation and adoption. He has been an advisor to national-scale digital health infrastructure projects in Canada and in over a dozen countries in southern Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Derek is a delegate of Canada to ISO/TC 215 (Health Informatics) and is Canada’s official Liaison to the International eHealth standards profiling organization, IHE. In addition to his consulting work, Derek teaches graduate-level courses in health informatics at the University of Edinburgh, has authored and co-authored multiple books and articles on digital health interoperability, and is an active contributor to a donor-funded project, OpenHIE (www.ohie.org), whose mission is to “improve the health of the underserved through the open, collaborative development and support of country driven, large scale health information sharing architectures.”
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Sue Schneider, BA, CHIM, CPHIMS-CA
Sue Schneider is Director, Digital Health, at Ontario Health, with 15 years in roles dedicated to health informatics standards, focused on data exchange, data content and terminology standards for provincial digital health information accessibility and interoperability. She has been a participant in World Standards Day celebrations from 2011-19. Sue has over 36 years experience across acute, community and veterinary health settings, and government focused on health information and informatics standards. She has contributed to the development and review of ISO and HL7 standards, has been participant in the TC 215 Mirror Committee for 9 years and is a champion for standards-based solutions that foster customer value. She chairs the Ontario Health Digital Health Interoperability Standards Committee advancing Ontario’s application of health informatics and interoperability standards. Sue is an author, mentor, lecturer, and has awards from Canada Health Infoway and the Canadian Health Information Management Association.
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