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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.
Helen Lang, MIPH, HBSc
Helen is a Project Manager at CanImmunize. With experience in public health, research, project management, and digital health technologies, Helen has contributed to various projects for the development, implementation, and adoption of digital tools that support clinicians and increase access to care for patients. Her experience includes large-scale implementations in diverse settings such as Electronic Health Record (EHR)-based clinical decision support tools in long-term care homes, digital medication reconciliation solutions in hospitals, and electronic referrals in health clinics across Ontario. Helen is committed to improving population health outcomes through safety and quality standards, advances in patient care and experience, and the continued integration of digital health services into Canada’s healthcare system. She is excited to join the Standards Council of Canada ISO TC 215 to support positive transformation in standardizing data and health informatics.
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