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Vernon Curran, PhD
Vernon Curran is an Associate Professor of Medical Education and Director of Academic Research and Development with the Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University.  He is also currently Co-Director of the Centre for Collaborative Health Professional Education, Memorial University and co-leads an interprofessional education curriculum enhancement project at Memorial.  Vernon has also held the position of Director of Academic Development with the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial.  In this position he led the development and delivery of Faculty Development programming within the Faculty of Medicine.  Vernon holds a cross-appointment with the Faculty of Education at Memorial University, teaches in the undergraduate and graduate degree programs in Adult Education and Post-Secondary Studies, and led the development and establishment of a Graduate Diploma in Health Professional Education as part of the Post-Secondary Studies program at Memorial University. 

Thomas E. Ungar, MD, M.Ed, CCFP, FCFP, FRCPC, DABPN,
Certified Subspecialist in Psychosomatic Medicine
Dr. Ungar is an award winning educator and one of Canada’s leading voices of mental health care. He is a clinician and Chief of Psychiatry and Medical Director of the Mental Health Program at North York General Hospital, and associate professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Dr. Ungar collaborates on numerous projects, including the Canadian Psychiatric Association task force on clinical practice guidelines, the anxiety review panel for the Ontario Guidelines for the Management of Anxiety Disorders in Primary Care, the Canadian Collaborative Mental Health Initiative, and the Canadian review panel for the World Health Organization Management of Mental Disorders in Primary Care. He is currently developing The Mental Health Minute, a consumer-friendly evidence-based public mental health education service consisting of brief audio and video minutes, podcasts, consumer friendly treatment guidelines, and website www.mentahealthminute.com

Lisa Dolovich, BScPhm, PharmD, MSc
Lisa Dolovich is an Associate Professor and Interim Director of Research with the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University. She is also a scientist at the Centre for Evaluation of Medicines research group and an Ambulatory Care Pharmacotherapy Specialist with the pharmacy department at St Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton. Dr. Dolovich is currently involved with various research projects evaluating health care education and service delivery in Family Health Teams and other primary care practice models including projects related to cardiovascular and other chronic disease management, e-health, training and mentorship, drug prescribing and use, physician – pharmacist collaboration, and quality indicators in family practice.

Karen Davison, PhD (c), RD
Karen Davison is currently completing graduate work in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary. She was recently awarded a CIHR Strategic Training Research Fellowship with the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University. Her research investigates the determinants of food choices in individuals with mental illnesses and strategies to overcome barriers in mental health practice. Karen has been a practicing RD for over 15 years and currently teaches in the Nutrition and Food Services Department for Langara College. She is also the national co-chair of the Dietitians of Canada Mental Health Network and one of the Dietitians of Canada Representatives for the CCMHI.

Jayne Whyte, B.A. (Psychology)
Jayne Whyte enjoys her garden, computer and friends in the lakeside community of Fort Qu’Appelle, Saskatchewan. She has used mental health services since 1967 and has been active in the Canadian Mental Health Association since 1975. Ms. Whyte was one of the first self-identified consumer voices in Canada in CMHA and at the founding of the National Network for Mental Health. Currently Ms. Whyte is involved in the Mental Health Coalition of Saskatchewan and serves as a public representative on the professional conduct committee of the Registered Psychiatric Nurses Association of Saskatchewan. She is self-employed doing research, writing and public speaking about mental health and other topics. Ms. Whyte has a B.A. with a psychology major from the University of Winnipeg.

Dr. John Service (Psychologist)

Mary Woodman (Nurse Practitioner)
Mary Woodman currently practices within the Prince Edward Family Health Team, an team of over 30 health professionals. She is a member of the PEFHT Board and actively participates in the planning and development of the team including their shared mental health care model. Prior to joining the PEFHT Mary practiced for 7 years at the Sharbot Lake Medical Centre, another rural site and a highly collaborative model, which is profiled under CCMHI “Success Stories”

Ms. Woodman also teaches in the Ontario’s Nurse Practitioner (NP) Program. She is the provincial course professor for Roles and Responsibilities. A critical element of this course is to facilitate students’ learning of the role and scope of practice for the NP in Ontario and the many different models of care, including interdisciplinary, collaborative and shared care models.

With a keen interest in health policy, Mary completed a Masters program at Queens University School of Policy Studies, and from 2002-04 served under the direction of the Provincial Chief Nursing Officer, as the Manager of Nurse Practitioner Initiatives at the Nursing Secretariat, Ministry of Health and Long Term Care (MOHLTC), developing and implementing NP policy and participating in the broader policy initiatives, such as primary health care renewal and chronic disease management. She recently served as a member of the provincial Depression strategy Committee and is currently a member of the FHT Action group.

Carolynne Darby, MBBCh, FRCP(C)
Carolynne Darby, MBBCh, FRCP(C), is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, where she obtained her Psychiatric Residency and consequent Royal College certification in 1995.  She completed a fellowship in community psychiatry and the evaluation of psychiatric services the following year.  Subsequent to achieving her medical degree in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1987, she worked as a Family Practitioner in Saskatchewan, Canada.  She is actively involved in the teaching of physicians, medical students, residents, and other health care professionals.

Dr. Darby is the Director of the Mental Health Program for the Hamilton Family Health Team.  This multidisciplinary, collaborative, shared care program, includes a counsellor and a psychiatrist working hand in hand with other health care providers in each of the family physician’s offices.  There are close to 120 family physicians and 75 counsellors involved in this nationally recognized and innovative program.

Ms Trieneke Niemeyer, M.S.W., B.S.W., B.A.
Ms. Trieneke Niemeyer is currently employed with the Hamilton Family Health Team as a mental health counsellor in the shared care model since its inception. She is very familiar with the model and how it can work at the physician level. Ms. Niemeyer is also employed part-time in the Upper Grand Family Health Team, which has been running since July 2006. She has been coordinating the mental health component and developing new initiatives which reflect the needs of the mostly rural community. Ms. Niemeyer has fifteen years of experience in community mental health in both urban and rural settings.

Ann Greene, RN, MED, CPMHN(C)
Ann Greene is a Healthcare Professional with 30 years’ experience in clinical, managerial and professional care delivery. Her credentials include: a diploma in Psychiatric Nursing; Registered Nurse; Canadian Nurses Association specialty in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, CPMHN(C); and a Master of Education degree in administration and leadership. Ms. Greene has an extensive background in management and leadership in psychiatric mental health at the primary, secondary and tertiary care levels. She has held positions of Nurse Manager in acute psychiatric care; Clinical Nurse Specialist and Vice-President Nursing and Professional Development at a tertiary Provincial Mental Health resource; nursing instructor; adjunct professor; and Health Director in Aboriginal Community Health. She provides consultation and education in the areas of psychiatric mental health care, problem solving, change management and leadership. Professionally, Ms. Greene has been active in Professional Practice Groups of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing and Advanced Practice Nursing. She is past president and communications director of the Canadian Federation of Mental Health Nurses (CFMHN), an Associate group of the Canadian Nurses Association (CAN), and a past member of the examination committee for the CNA specialty exam in Psychiatric Mental Health nursing. She is a standing member of the British Columbia Schizophrenia Society.

Jan Stretch, RPN
Jan Stretch is an advanced practice Registered Psychiatric Nurse Therapist in Community Mental Health at the Urgent and Short Term Assessment and Treatment (USTAT) clinic in Victoria, British Columbia. Jan graduated from Saskatchewan Hospital, North Battleford in 1971. Her previous work history includes: management of a long term care facility, community program development, and extensive inpatient psychiatry. Jan has worked collaboratively with psychiatrists and mental health clinicians in developing and implementing a shared care program model at USTAT over the past four years. Jan and her colleagues have presented at several local and national shared-care conferences and to a variety of mental health practitioners, General Practitioners and residents.

Terry Krupa, PhD, OT Reg (Ont)
Terry Krupa is an Associate Professor in the School of Rehabilitation Therapy at Queen’s University. She holds cross-appointments in the Department of Psychiatry and the School of Nursing.  Dr. Krupa has been involved in the development and evaluation of a range of initiatives focused on addressing the occupational needs of people with mental illness. Dr. Krupa is a member of the Steering Committee of the Canadian Collaborative Mental Health Initiative. She has also been active in the development of efforts to promote interprofessional and patient-centred  health education.  Her research interests have focused on the areas of work and mental health/mental illness, time use patterns and their relationship to mental health and well-being, approaches to early intervention in mental health to prevent disability and models of mental health service delivery that promote recovery and full community inclusion for people living with mental illness.

Francine Lemire, MD CCFP FCFP
Dr Francine Lemire obtained her medical degree from McGill University and practiced in Corner Brook as a comprehensive family doctor following a straight internship in Internal Medicine from McGill and a family medicine residency from Memorial University of Newfoundland.  She was Director of the Clinical Skills Assessment and Training program (CSAT) of MUN between 1997 and 2003.  She is currently Associate Executive Director, Professional Affairs for the College of Family Physicians of Canada.  She still does part-time clinical work and is Assistant Professor for the Discipline of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto.