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Dr. Kelly Abrams, PhD., CHIM
Dr. Kelly Abrams, Ph.D., CHIM is a Standards Council of Canada Mirror Committee representative on ISO/TC215 Health Informatics Working Group 3 - Semantic Content and Working Group 6 – Pharmacy and Medicines Business, and ISO/PC 317 Consumer protection: privacy by design for consumer goods and services. Kelly has over 30 years in health informatics with expertise in workforce transformation, privacy, information management, and data governance. Kelly was also the VP with the Canadian College of Health Information Management and presently, is the privacy and data governance consultant on the University of Regina’s RCMP Longitudinal Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Project.
Craig Anderson
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.
Steven Dain, MD, FRCPC
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.
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Heather is a new member to the Standards Council of Canada (SCC) ISO TC 215 Health Informatics Mirror Committee and is excited to share her clinical knowledge. To contribute most effectively, she has joined the Standards Council of Canada pilot mentorship program to learn from a senior member of the SCC.
Clair Kronk, PhD
Dr. Clair Kronk is a postdoctoral fellow in medical informatics at the Yale University School of Medicine. She is the creator of the first LGBTQIA+ controlled vocabulary for usage in health care: the Gender, Sex, and Sexual Orientation ontology, which contains information on over 15,000 terms. She has worked with HL7 International, SNOMED International, Canada Health Infoway, the Trans Metadata Collective, the Homosaurus, and the American Medical Informatics Association Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force in relation to trans and gender-diverse language representation. Clair completed her PhD in 2021 with her dissertation titled Gender, Sex, and Sexual Orientation in Medicine: A Linguistic Analysis.
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