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Keynote Speaker – Dr. Julia Hallisy obtained her BS in Biological Science from the University of San Francisco in 1984 and a second Bachelor’s degree from the University of California in Dental Sciences. In 1988, Dr. Hallisy also received her Doctorate in Dental Surgery from the University of California at San Francisco School of Dentistry. Since then, she has been in continuous private practice in San Francisco, California. Her second child, Katherine Eileen, was diagnosed at five months of age with bilateral retinoblastoma. Dealing with her daughter’s life-threatening diagnosis, the many recurrences of cancer, and the subsequent treatments for the malignant and aggressive tumors marked the beginning an almost 20-year involvement in our healthcare system. The unique combination of her scientific training, her work as a healthcare provider, and guiding a child through a chronic illness has afforded her invaluable insight as an advocate for patients. Dr. Hallisy began to research the topic of patient safety in 1998 and has worked with the California Nurses Association on the proposition 216 campaign for HMO reform. She has spoken at rallies with Ralph Nader and provided testimony at San Francisco City Hall at the request of Senator Barbara Boxer to promote the passage of legislation for a Patients’ Bill of Rights. In 2002, Dr. Hallisy spoke before the California State Senate on the issue of Futile Care policies. In 2006, Dr. Hallisy was a recipient of a scholarship from the National Patient Safety Foundation to attend their annual national congress as a consumer advocate. Dr. Hallisy most recently worked with AARP on a patient advocate journal and has lobbied for health care reform in Washington, DC with Consumer’s Union. Dr. Hallisy is committed to and passionate about the subjects of patient safety, health care reform and medical error reduction. Her personal and professional goals include working diligently to help give patients a voice in healthcare solutions. Dr. Hallisy was born and raised in San Francisco, where she lives with her husband, John Hallisy, and their two sons, Daniel and Kevin. The Hallisy’s ten-year old daughter, Kate, lost her life-long battle with cancer in February 2000.
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Keynote Speaker – Helen Haskell is founder and president of Mothers Against Medical Error, a South Carolina-based group dedicated to improving patient safety and providing support for patients who have experienced medical injury. For Helen, patient safety is a calling to which she was brought by the death of her fifteen-year-old son Lewis, who died from preventable errors in a South Carolina teaching hospital. In 2005, Helen helped put together a coalition of patients, policymakers, and healthcare providers to pass the Lewis Blackman Patient Safety Act, the first of several South Carolina legislative initiatives addressing healthcare safety and transparency. In 2007, the state of South Carolina created the Lewis Blackman Chair of Patient Safety and Clinical Effectiveness, an endowed professorship named in honor of her deceased son. Helen is actively involved in patient safety and quality improvement efforts in South Carolina, the United States, and internationally, on such topics as prevention of hospital-acquired infection, patient activation of rapid response systems, and disclosure of medical error, among others. She is co-author, along with Julia Hallisy, of The Empowered Patient Guide to Hospital Care for Patients and Families. Helen was named this year to Modern Healthcare's 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare (US). Helen holds degrees in Classical Studies from Duke University, Anthropology from Rice University, and Museum Management from the University of South Carolina. Her earlier career as an archaeologist included research and fieldwork in the United States, Europe, the Near East, and Africa.
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Dr. Malcolm Maclure, a health services epidemiologist, is the British Columbia Chair in Patient Safety. The Chair, situated in UBC’s Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, is regarded as serving the entire BC health system. Dr. Maclure is a Michael Smith Foundation Distinguished Scholar. His previous academic position was Professor in the School of Health Information Science at University of Victoria. He is also Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health and President of the Society for Epidemiologic Research. Raised in Victoria in the 1960s, he studied biochemistry at Oxford and epidemiology at Harvard in the 1970s. While teaching research methods at Harvard in the 1980s, he invented the case-crossover study design, now a standard tool of epidemiology that has recently been used to investigate triggers of patient-safety events. |
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Dr. Don Nixdorf, is a chiropractor and current Executive Director of the British Columbia Chiropractic Association / College of Chiropractors of British Columbia. For many years Dr. Nixdorf has represented the chiropractic profession at government hearings and in the media, and he has hosted weekly radio programs on health care for two Vancouver radio stations. He has also published professionally in The Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association on the topic of informed consent and co author of Squandering Billions – Health Care in Canada. Prior to his appointment as Executive Director of the B.C. Association and College in 1985, Dr. Nixdorf served as a Director, as President, and also as a member of several committees, including Workers’ Compensation and Insurance Relations Committees. Dr. Nixdorf has also served as a staff consultant to the B.C. Workers' Compensation Board, and he has been a member of the B.C. Ministry of Health’s Health Information Standards Council. Since 2002 he has also served as Co-Chair of the Chiro/Physio SIG for Canadian Institute for Health Information’s National Electronic Claims Standard Initiative.
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Alan Cassels is a drug policy researcher at the University of Victoria. He has a strong interest in studying how clinical research and experience on pharmaceuticals get translated for policy-makers, prescribers and consumers. He led a team of Canadian researchers to carry out the first ever study of Canadian newspaper coverage of new prescription drugs. (Published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal in April 2003) and has frequently reported on consumer health issues for magazines, newspapers and the CBC Radio program IDEAS. He is co-author, with Australian journalist Ray Moynihan of Selling Sickness: How the World’s Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies are Turning us All into Patients, (Greystone Books, 2005) about the role of the ethical drug industry in helping to underwrite the creation and marketing of illness. His newest book, The ABC’s of Disease Mongering: An Epidemic in 26 letters (Emdash Book Publishing, 2007) has been likened to “Dr. Seuss taking on an overmedicated and over diagnosed culture.” Alan Cassels has lectured in journalism schools in Canada, the US and Australia on the essentials of pharmaceutical reporting and was the founder of Media Doctor Canada, (www.mediadoctor.ca) a web-based service dedicated to improving the quality of Canadian medical reporting.
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Susan Precious joined Branch MacMaster in 2007. Prior to working for Branch MacMaster Susan was a litigation associate with Stewart McKelvey Stirling Scales in Halifax. She also worked in South Africa for three years as the programme manager of the AIDS and Human Rights Research Unit at the University of Pretoria, Faculty of Law, and as part of the strategic litigation team at Lawyers for Human Rights. Susan received her L.L.M. Public International Law, London School of Economics, UK (2002), L.L.B. Dalhousie University (2001), M.A. History, Queens University (1998) and B.A. Honours History and Political Studies, Mount Allison University (1997). Susan is a member of the Canadian Bar Association, and member of the Executive Committee of Canadian Bar Association (BC) Health Law Subsection, she was admitted to British Columbia Bar, 2007, admitted to Nova Scotia Barristers Society, 2004. Areas of practice include Health Law, Class Actions, Product Liability and Insurance and Employment. Susan has co-authored several publications and has provided counsel for health authority, health profession organizations, and health practitioners in matters dealing with scope of practice, medical malpractice, employment and discipline, plaintiffs and defendants in class actions, private college and liability defence. Susan has lived in France, Spain, England and South Africa. She is fluent in French and speaks basic Spanish and Afrikaans. Susan volunteers her time with the Vancouver AIDS Society and the British Columbia Persons with AIDS Society.
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Dr. Raymond Shred has worked in the field of psychology for over 25 years. He is a Registered Psychologist in BC with 12 years experience. He has a private practice in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. Dr. Shred has a BA in Psychology from McGill University and an MA and PhD from the University of New Brunswick. He has practiced in a range of areas of Canada from remote, northern, reserve communities to large urban centers. His academic training focused on child development and therapy and assessment of children, adolescents, and adults. Dr. Shred continues to have a strong interest in children and families; a large part of his practice is performing court-related assessments regarding parenting and child custody. Dr. Shred has an extensive background in working with people affected by trauma. He became interested in the impact of adverse medical events on his clients through necessity; that was created by the referral of clients affected by medical error or malpractice. Dr. Shred has worked with clients who have experienced adverse medical events for over a decade.
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Terence Young and his family (Gloria, Hart and Madeline) have been members of the
Oakville community for over 20 years.Terence served as MPP for North Oakville from 1995 to 1999. He won the riding by over 16,000 votes - one of the largest pluralities in Ontario. Like many in Oakville, Terence has volunteered in the community for many years. He
has worked with Crime Stoppers, Community Policing, the United Way, Glen Abbey
Residents’ Association and many other community groups. Whether it was as MPP, community volunteer or, more recently, as Oakville’s Conservative member of Federal Parliament, Terence has always worked hard to put Oakville on the map. Through the Terence Young Community Action Centre, Terence has helped countless Oakville residents with federal issues such as pensions, health care, immigration and veterans’ affairs. Outside of politics, Terence has worked with groups such as the Canadian Opera
Company, Family Alliance Ontario and Canadian Veterans Remembered. Terence also founded Drug Safety Canada, a non-profit group dedicated to promoting the safe use of prescription drugs and raising awareness of adverse reactions to prescription drugs.
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Dr. Keith White, a rural family doctor for 25 years in Newfoundland and BC, currently does part-time Emergency General Practice in Trail and Family Medicine in Kelowna. Previously he was Chair of the Quality Assurance Committee for West Kootenay. At present, he chairs the BC Medical Association's Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and is a member of its Patterns of Practice and Emergency Medical Services Committeee. He is Co-Chair of the Working Group for the Education for Quality Improvement of Patient Care (EQIP) program co-sponsored by the Ministry of Health Services Pharmaceutical Services Division and the BC Medical Association. |
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Kelly McQuillen is the Director of Patients as Partners, Primary Health Care Branch, with the BC Ministry of Health Services. Kelly has 18 years experience as a director and strategic health care professional working for the federal, territorial (Yukon) and provincial (Manitoba and British Columbia) governments. She is a registered dietician who has an in-depth knowledge of public health, primary health care, health promotion and nutrition. Kelly is committed to patient-and family-centered care as an innovative approach to the planning, delivery, quality improvement and evaluation of health care-an approach that is grounded in mutually beneficial partnerships among individuals, families, communities and providers. Her current position enables and facilitates patient and family voice, choice and representation in the care, quality improvement and system redesign of primary health care in BC.
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This event is part of Canadian Patient Safety Week.
This is not a for-profit event. All proceeds will be donated to patient safety initiatives.
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| The Empowered Patient Conference, Saturday, November 7th, 2009 Vancouver Island Conference Centre, 101 Gordon St, Nanaimo BC - Parking Available On Site |
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