Executive Committee (Elected): Elizabeth Keller (Chair & Head of Delegation), Bev Knight (Vice-Chair), Finnie Flores (Vice-Chair), Don Newsham (past-Chair).
Elizabeth Keller, MA and BA (Hons), Chair
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cand Head of Canadian Delegation (Standards Council of Canada).
Elizabeth is a leading executive, strategist and integrator in Canadian digital health and a recognized health expert internationally. She was recently named one of the Top 10 Women Leaders in Digital Health in Canada by her peers. In her volunteer role as Chair for the MC, Elizabeth has worked on many standards initiatives; including patient summary standards sets, cross collaboration on the Joint Initiative Council, participation frameworks for developing countries with the World Health Organization (WHO) and eSafety. Elizabeth brings extensive private sector consulting experience from PwC, IBM and IBM to now in her current role in the standards community and to her role as Vice-President for Amazon Web Services (AWS), as well as her last 10 years of experience as VP at OntarioMD, where she leads the provincial roll-out of a comprehensive suite of digital health services for clinicians. Elizabeth gladly
led dozens of provincial digital health roll-outs to clinicians. Elizabeth gladly volunteers her expertise and leadership in the healthcare community in Canada and internationally; as a recent an elected Advisor to Digital Health Canada Board Director & Treasurerand CHIEF (Canada’s Health Informatics Executive Forum), as a writer and speaker at many global Health conferences in North America and as a mentor to the next generation of digital health professionals.
Beverly Knight, Vice-
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Chair of MC/ISO TC215 Health Informatics (Standards Council of Canada).
In her role at Canada Health Infoway, Beverly has led the development of numerous terminology assets for use in digital health projects. She is currently co-leading the development of the Canadian Clinical Drug Data Set, a new national drug terminology. Beverly has established a strong presence and influence through Beverly is an established and respected terminology expert through her work with international terminology Standards Development Organizations including ISO TC 215, providing Terminology education tutorials at HL7, chairing various work groups at HL7 and SNOMED International. , SNOMED, and ISO/TC 215 WG 3, Semantic Content, and her work in terminology standards initiatives that she has led within Canada and for the WHO. As a former practicing clinician, Beverly has a passionate interest in advancing digital health within Canada.
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standards within digital health solutions and is an effective advisor to organizations that require pragmatic development of data and structured terminology strategies and implementation tactics. Beverly has led the development of numerous terminology assets for use in digital health projects including the pCLOCD, Canadian Clinical Drug Data Set and acted as an advisor for the Canadian Vaccine Catalogue.
Finnie Flores, MPH, MAEd, CPHIMS-CA, Vice-Chair of MC/ISO TC215 Health Informatics (Standards Council of Canada)
Finnie Flores is Program Consultant, Architecture and Standards at Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)a certified professional in healthcare information and management systems with over 20 years’ experience. He has been actively participating involved in ISO/TC / 215 for over 5 years and he a number of years now including leading several international ISO standards work. He has been involved in standards development and governance in Canada for over a decade. He As one of the founding leaders, he currently serves as co-lead of InfoCentral’s Health Analytics Community and has served as co-lead of Coordination of Care Community and as co- chair and technical representative of its predecessor, the Infoway/pan-Canadian Standards Collaborative Working Group 2 (Individual Care). He also represents CIHI in jurisdictional health informatics standards councils. He has extensive experience in health informatics standards development and implementation . He has extensive experience in health informatics standards development and implementation including HL7 (v2.x, 3.0, FHIR and CDA), ISO, pan-Canadian EHR standards, and SNOMED CT. He has been involved in health information systems development for both clinical and health system management uses. He provides standards subject matter expertise in CIHI projects and programs and he is passionate about standards that he initiated and leads CIHI’s annual World Standards Day celebration (now on its 5th year)experience in both private and public organizations such Canadian Institute for Health Information, Ontario Ministry of Health, eHealth Ontario, several digital imaging vendors, and most recently CGI. He has provided standards expertise in health information systems development for both clinical and analytics/health system management uses including CIHI’s Integrated interRAI Reporting System (IRRS), which is one of the early large-scale HL7 FHIR implementations in Canada. He has presented on health informatics standards as guest lecturer in master’s program in several academic institutions. He is currently a senior consultant in analytics management at CGI and is involved in health analytics projects in various organizations.
Don Newsham, past Chair of MC/ISO TC215 Health Informatics
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Don brings over 30 years of health informatics experience through former CEO and CIO roles with private, public and not for profit sectors. Within the standards community, both nationally and internationally, Don is an engaged, respected, distinguished, and highly contributing leader for standardization. He has served as an expert, member, advisor and mentor for standards initiatives and organizations including ISO/TC215TC 215, the Joint Initiative Council, the Standards Council of Canada and in the recent past, with the Canada Health Infoway Standards Collaborative Communities, with various WHO initiatives and with other countries requiring standards expertise. Don was also a former convener of TC215 TC 215 Working Group 1, a standards author, a member of the Joint Initiative Council (JIC), the recent co-lead of
the joint SDO harmonization initiative (CAG3), and a Task Force chair and joint author for the Patient Summary Standards Set of the JIC. He now also serves as a mentor for new Canadian standards project leads, experts and delegates from many industries and organizations and provides standards practices training for Standards Council of Canada staff and other leaders across the Canadian ISO standards leadership and technical committee chair community.
Grant Gillis, Chair of MC/ISO TC215 SC1 Genomics
Grant Gillis’s association on behalf of Canada with ISO/TC 215 Health Informatics began shortly after the committee’s inception in 1998, and he has been a formal member and regular delegate on behalf of Canada ever since. Over this time, he has served several terms as Secretary and then Convenor to the international committee’s WG1 Architecture, Frameworks & Models, as well as working at senior levels on several domestic and international strategic planning and operational initiatives advancing the cause of health informatics internationally, nationally and with several provinces and organization. As a Canadian delegate to ISO, Grant has also contributed to numerous ballot reviews and led several international project teams. Grant is the inaugural Canadian Mirror Committee Chair of Sub-Committee 1 for Genomics Informatics, and supports several Canadian projects at the international level. Grant is currently a Director with Alberta Health Services, focused on the Canadian-first implementation of Epic as the provincial clinical information system.
Committee Members:
Dr. Kelly Abrams, PhD., CHIM
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