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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and 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 with the World Health Organization (WHO) and eSafety. Elizabeth brings extensive private sector experience from PwC, IBM and now in her current role for Amazon Web Services (AWS), as well as her last 10 years of experience as VP at OntarioMD, where she 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 an elected Advisor to Digital Health Canada and CHIEF (Canada’s Health Informatics Executive Forum), as a writer and speaker at many global Health conferences and as a mentor to the next generation of digital health professionals.
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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.
Lindsay Smith, MSc, Vice-Chair of MC/ISO/TC 215 SC1 Genomics
Committee Members:
Dr. Kelly Abrams, PhD., CHIM
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