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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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Steven Dain,
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MD,
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FRCPC
Chantal is the manager of the Indicator Research and Development team at the Canadian Institute for Health Information. Her role at the Canadian Institute for Health Information is to manage the development, release and evaluation of new health indicators following CIHI rigorous Indicator Development Cycle process. She has led the development of the Hospital Harm Indicator and many other indicators related to mental health and addiction and cardiac care for example. Chantal is a bilingual professional and an experienced researcher with a PhD focused on health system performance measurement. She is proficient in quantitative data analysis with over fifteen years of experience working with administrative data. She has been working with Canadian and international experts and in partnership with key stakeholders (e.g. Canadian Patient Safety Institute, the Canadian Cardiovascular Society) to support them in their efforts to continuously improve the performance of the health system and the health of Canadians
Steven has practiced anesthesiology and perioperative medicine for over 30 years and currently works at several outpatient surgicenters in southwestern Ontario, Canada. He is a retired Associate Professor of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo where he lectures in Health Informatics and mentors undergraduate, graduate and post-doc students at the University of Waterloo in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology. For over 25 years, Dr. Dain has participated in the writing and development of Canadian National and International Standards for medical equipment and design and construction of healthcare facilities. Since January 2018, he is Chair of the Organization for International Standardization (ISO) Technical Committee 121 Anesthetic and respiratory equipment. Dr. Dain has participated in the IEEE 11073 Patient Care Devices Committee, developing medical device communications protocol for anesthesia equipment and critical care ventilators. He is a member of the SNOMED Anesthesia Clinical Reference Group. Dr. Dain is a collaborator in the MD Plug and Play Interoperability Program of the Massachusetts General Hospital in Cambridge, MA and is Senior Medical Advisor, Docbox Inc, Waltham MA USA.
Neil Gardner, MPA
Neil Gardner has a wealth of experience in health informatics, policy and management, serving as CIO for the Ministry of Health in Saskatchewan for several years and having held several senior management positions in the Saskatchewan government including Associate Deputy Minister of Health. Neil has been involved in the foundational health informatics initiatives at the national level in Canada over the past 25 years and has had the unique opportunity of serving as a founding director for both of Canada’s major national agencies in this field - the Canadian Institute for Health Information and Canada Health Infoway. He also served for more than a decade on the Board of Canada’s health informatics professional association (formerly known as COACH, now Digital Health Canada). In his retirement from public service leadership roles, Neil continues to be involved as an active member of Canada’s delegation to TC215 and plays a leadership role in the development of new standards to address the need for the safe application of health informatics in enabling continuing improvements in the health of our population.
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