Please note: The speakers are categorized alphabetically by surname.
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Sharon Leslie Acoose is from the Sakimay First Nation in Saskatchewan. She is an Assistant Professor with the School of Indian Social Work at the First Nations University of Canada. Her personal life and interests contribute to her hope to make a real difference in the lives of other Indian woman. |
Didier Acier, Ph.D., is a research psychologist with the Dollard-Cormier Centre at the University Institute in Addictions (Montréal, Québec). He is the lead researcher for a project on the assessment of cyberaddicted individuals and has written a report with Laurence Kern entitled Balises pour l’intervention auprès des personnes cyberdépendantes (Guidelines for intervening with cyberaddicted individuals). |
Trish Alisch is a Mental Health Educator with the Department of National Defence, working with members who are suffering with operational stress injuries. Trish believes in the importance of education and early intervention to prevent long-term suffering and loss. |
Kristina Anstiss has been working within the substance use profession for over 10 years and is currently an Addictions Counsellor with the YMCA Youth Substance Abuse Program. |
Shaughney Aston is an Addiction Services clinical therapist in a rural Nova Scotia Community Health Centre, and a lecturer in the M.Ed. Counselling program at Acadia University. Her professional interests deal primarily with the overlaps of addiction, gender and rurality. |
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Kim Barker is a Public Health Advisor with the Assembly of First Nations and a graduate of McMaster Medical School and University of Toronto Family and Community Medicine. Kim is Secretariat member on the First Nations Addictions Advisory Panel for the NNADAP Renewal Program Framework. |
Karine Bertrand, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and research professor in the addiction studies program at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sherbrooke. Her research interests include addicted youth and adults with related issues of delinquency and mental health. |
Shaun Black is the Manager of Pharmacological and Research Services, Addiction Prevention and Treatment Services, Capital Health District. He is primarily responsible for advising and maintaining current pharmacological information on drugs of abuse, developing protocols to manage drug withdrawal, and for developing knowledge-based research infrastructure. |
Catrina Brown, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the School of Social Work at Dalhousie Univeristy and cross-appointed to Gender and Women's Studies and Nursing. She conducts research in the area of women, eating "disorders", body image, trauma and sexual abuse, deprssion, harm reduction and alcohol use problems. |
Jane Buxton is an assistant professor in the School of Population and Public Health at University of British Columbia and physician epidemiologist and harm reduction lead at BC Centre for Disease Control. Her area of interest includes hepatitis C and harm reduction. |
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Jayne Caldwell is a policy analyst for the Toronto Drug Strategy Secretariat. She has extensive community development and policy experience with substance use and homeless issues. |
Eileen Carey is the Manager of Addiction Services for the Nova Scotia Department of Health Promotion and Protection. She is responsible for establishing and developing policies and standards for the delivery of services. She is a registered trainer in the NADA protocol. |
Lorri Carlson is Executive Director of the Mental Health and Addiction Services, Regina Qu’Appelle Health Region. A Registered Psychologist, she has managed both mental health and addiction programs for over 15 years. |
Krystel Carrier-Sabourin is a National Priority Advisor on the Children and Youth national priority at the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse. Krystel holds a Master of Arts in International Affairs and is currently working towards a Ph.D. at the Royal Military College of Canada. |
Gloria Chaim is the Deputy Clinical Director, Child Youth & Family Program, CAMH and Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto. Her primary focus is developing collaborations across services and sectors to develop, evaluate and disseminate innovative processes and programs to build capacity for children, youth, women and families. |
Catharine Chambers is a Master of Science student in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia and a MSFHR/CIHR Bridge Strategic Training Fellow. She is a recipient of a MSFHR Junior Graduate Studentship as well as a CIHR Canada Graduate Scholarship. |
Jim Cincotta is the Senior Projector Coordinator at Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami and is Co-Chair of the National Treatment Leadership Team. He holds a Master’s degree in Education and has worked in Inuit communities for many years. |
Natalie Cochrane is the Manager of Prevention and Problem Gambling Services for Addiction Services with the Department of Health Promotion and Protection. Natalie is a graduate of both Acadia University and Wilfrid Laurier University. She has a Master of Social Work. |
Louis-Georges Cournoyer, Ph.D., is a professor at the School of Criminology, University of Montréal. He is the lead researcher for a study supported by the FQRSC on the implementation assessment of the Alcochoix+ program. He is a researcher with RISQ and the International Centre for Comparative Criminology. |
Dr. Victoria Creighton is Clinical Director, Pine River Institute. Victoria has a doctorate in clinical psychology and has been practicing for over ten years. She has training and experience in treating drug and alcohol abuse, disordered eating, autism, ADD/ADHD, and self-harm, and has a sub-specialty in treating adolescent women. |
Mary Cripton has worked as a therapist and clinical supervisor in the field of addictions for 19 years in residential and community settings, with adults and adolescents, in Canada and the Cayman Islands. Currently, she is Clinical Program Manager for Quality and Community of Practice at APTS in Halifax, N.S. |
Robin Cuff is Manager for Scarborough Addiction Services Partnership and worked previously at the University Health Network, Salvation Army’s New Choices - Women and Children Addictions Treatment Program and Homestead Women’s Addiction Treatment Centre. |
Samantha Cukier is the Social Marketing Coordinator—Alcohol Strategy, with Addiction Services, South Shore, South West & Annapolis Valley District Health Authorities. |
Sheri Cunningham, M.Sc., Addiction Services employee since 1996, is the Quality Management Coordinator serving Northern NS. Sheri works collaboratively improving quality of services and delivery. |
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Patrick Daigle, M.S.W., R.S.W., has worked with Addiction Prevention and Treatment Services in Halifax for the past three years as a Community Outreach Worker. |
Dr. Daiter is the current Chief Medical Director of the Ontario Addiction Treatment Centres, a network of 27 methadone maintenance clinics. He is currently certified by the Canadian Society of Addiction Medicine, a Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and a Diplomate of the American Board of Addiction Medicine. |
Annette has been Strategic Director of Addiction and Offender Care for Central North West London NHS Foundation Trust since June 2009. She is responsible for a large network of drug and alcohol services that provides treatment to approximately 10,000 patients annually in the community and in prisons. Prior to this, Annette was Director of Quality for six years at the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse—the government body responsible for overseeing the expansion of drug treatment in England. While in this post, she led the development of suites of national guidance including “Drug Misuse and Dependence: UK guidelines on clinical management” (2007), and the suite of “Models of Care” documents that outlined new national frameworks for drug and alcohol treatment. She also ran a national annual inspection program of drug treatment and was key in developing a new national outcome-based monitoring system—or Treatment Outcome Profile (TOP). |
Brian Danyliw is the manager of Addiction Services for the Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region. He has a Master’s in Social Work and has worked for over 20 years as a senior clinician and manager in the mental health and addictions field. |
Colleen Anne Dell is the Research Chair in Substance Abuse at the University of Saskatchewan and a Senior Research Associate at CCSA. Her current research focuses on women and substance abuse, self-harm among criminalized women, and equine interventions among Aboriginal youth who abuse solvents. |
Debra Dell is the national coordinator for the Saskatchewan Youth Solvent Addiction Committee. |
Chantal Desgranges is a member of the National Treatment Strategy (NTS) Leadership Team and works for the City of Toronto. She has contributed her insight on community experience and harm reduction to the NTS Working Group and Ontario Methadone Treatment Practices Task Force. |
Pierre Desrosiers is a counsellor, Professional Affairs, with the Québec Addiction Rehabilitation Centres Association. He is a psychologist and has more than 30 years of clinical and management experience, mainly in the addiction network. He has also worked in the field of mental health and youth with problems. |
Bev Drew, B.A.Sc., M.Sc. , is a Program Coordinator, FASCD Prevention, Saskatchewan Prevention Institute. Her strengths include working in programs focusing on early childhood special education, community development, and working with individuals with addictions and mental health issues. |
Lynne Duguay is the assistant to the CEO at the Ubald-Villeneuve Rehabilitation Centre, a public centre dedicated to the treatment of addiction in the Québec City area. She has contributed to the implementation of services to pathological gamblers in Québec and the development of a liaison team model. |
Gwenyth B. Dwyn, M.A., is the Prevention and Health Promotion Coordinator for Addiction Services, Annapolis Valley Health. She has professional experience as a facilitator, educator and community developer in Canadian, US and third-world settings. |
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Frank Elgar is an assistant professor of psychology and a co-investigator of the Canadian Health Behaviour of School-aged Children (HBSC) study. His research explores social and economic determinants of health and health behaviour and focuses on social capital, income inequality, and adolescent health. |
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Jillian Flight is a Senior Research Analyst in the Office of Drugs and Alcohol Research and Surveillance at Health Canada, where she is the project lead for the Canadian Alcohol and Drug Use Monitoring Survey (CADUMS). Jillian holds a Master’s degree in Psychology from Carleton University. |
Nancy Fraser is a mental health professional with the Alberta Health Services (Addiction and Mental Health) and has abundant clinical and managerial experience. |
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Dr. Robert Gilbert is an Assistant Professor in the School of Health Sciences at Dalhousie University. He is a clinical research scientist with expertise in evidence-based medicine and addictions. |
Abby Goldstein is an Assistant Professor of Counselling Psychology at OISE/The University of Toronto. Her research examines alcohol and substance use among adolescents and young adults, including risks and comorbidities associated with substance use, the link between childhood maltreatment and substance use, and factors associated with motivation to change. |
Robert Graham is the Clinical Manager, Community Based Services for the Colchester East Hants District Health Authority. Robert is also a part time faculty member in the Psychology Department at Saint Mary's University. |
Greg Graves is on an interchange at the First Nations Inuit Health Branch (FNIHB) at Health Canada. Greg is a Senior Policy and Program Analyst and Advisor at the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse. Greg has led several national workforce development projects and a current major focus is the NNADAP Renewal Framework. |
Dale Gruchy has been an instructor facilitating the Addictions Counseling Program within the Nova Scotia Community College for the last decade. During this time she developed student curricula and participated in collaborative activities with other addictions organizations. |
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Dave Hedlund, M.Ed. (Psych) has been involved in program and policy development at a provincial level, and in the management of large regional service systems for the past 20 years. He has initiated and led many inter-agency initiatives at the regional and provincial levels in Saskatchewan, including the Regina and Area Drug Strategy. Earlier this year, Dave left the position of Executive Director of Mental Health and Addiction in Regina Qu’Appelle Health Region and joined the NTS implementation team. |
Dr. Joanna Henderson is a Psychologist and Clinician Scientist with the Child, Youth & Family Program at CAMH and has worked extensively with young people with complex behavioural and emotional needs and their families. Currently, Dr. Henderson’s research focuses on evidence-based practices for youth with concurrent disorders and knowledge translation. |
Michael Hobson is a Mental Health Educator/Addiction Counsellor. A competent educator in mental health, prevention and responsible substance use, he currently works with the CF Joint Speakers Bureau. |
Carol Hopkins is the Co-Chair, First Nations Addictions Advisory Panel that is developing evidence-based recommendations and a framework for a renewed First Nations addictions system within Canada. |
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Lois Jackson is a Professor in Health Promotion at Dalhousie University. She currently leads two CIHR-funded studies: one on rural women’s health, and another related to injection drug users across Atlantic Canada. |
Scott Janssen is a Clinical Team Leader for Addiction Prevention and Treatment Services, Nova Scotia Department of Health, which has allowed him to focus on areas of community of practice, including promoting APTS as a learning organization, staff development and team building. |
Rebecca Jesseman is a Research and Policy Analyst with CCSA. She has a Master’s degree in Criminology from the University of Ottawa, where she continues to teach part-time. |
Sara Johnson is a Senior Research Manager at Correctional Service Canada. Ms. Johnson has a Master's degree in Psychology from Carleton University. |
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Dr. Jeff Karabanow is a Full Professor at Dalhousie University and writes about homelessness. He is working on a SSHRC-funded film about street youth; an HRSDC-funded investigation concerning street youth and labour in Canada and Guatemala; and a CMHC-funded study of Halifax’s Supportive Housing for Young Mothers. |
Elva Keip is the National Priority Advisor with the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse focusing on workforce development. She has contributed to creating differentiated substance abuse treatment programs used by drug courts and prisons. She has also designed substance abuse education/training programs. |
Christopher Kennedy Lawford is an author, speaker and Public Advocacy Consultant with a leading US non-profit provider of addiction treatment. He has focused much of his life on public service in the non-profit sector, working for the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation, The Special Olympics and the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. He was recently appointed to the California Public Health Advisory Committee. |
Dr. Marvin Krank is a Psychologist who studies the social and cognitive factors in substance use transitions in adolescents. He has conducted longitudinal studies on these transitions and experimental studies on changes in these cognitions. Recently, he has developed and evaluated targeted interventions based on social cognitive risks. |
Dan Kunic works with the Research Branch, Correctional Service Canada. He holds a Master's degree in Applied Health Services Research from the University of Prince Edward Island. |
Diane Kunyk, RN, PhD (c), SSHRC Doctoral Fellow, University of Alberta, is studying the theoretical and applied aspects of health ethics as it informs health policy in the substantive area of addiction. Diane has a background in: policy development, implementation and research: public, population and community health, and nursing education. |
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Barbara Lacey, M.S.W., R.S.W., works as a Program Resource in the PEI MMT Program/Addiction Services. |
Michel Landry is the Director of the academic mission at the Dollard-Cormier Centre, University Institute in Addictions, holds a Ph.D. in Psychology (University of Montréal), and is assistant professor in the University of Montréal’s Department of Psychology. He co-leads the RISQ (Research and Intervention on Psychoactive Substances—Québec) team. |
Bonnie Lee, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in Addictions Counselling at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta. She developed Congruence Couple Therapy (CCT), a humanistic four-dimensional model for working with pathological gamblers and their partners. |
Jennifer Liu graduated from McMaster University in 2008 with a Master of Science degree in Statistics and is currently a Data Analyst at Cancer Care Ontario. |
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Holly MacKay is the Team Leader and Senior Policy Analyst with the Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Team in the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). Since 1978, she has worked with a variety of community women's health organizations; she joined the FASD Team in PHAC in 2001. |
Tammy MacKenzie works at the Jean Tweed Centre as the Manager of the Pathways to Healthy Families programs. She has 13 years of experience working in substance use services with a focus on working from a harm reduction approach. |
Jean McClelland is the Clinical Program Manager for Halifax Community-based Services of Addiction Prevention and Treatment Services, Capital Health, Nova Scotia. In this capacity, Jean is responsible for the overall development, management and effectiveness of all client-centred programs in her portfolio. |
Stacey McHenry has worked as Program Coordinator for the FASD Prevention program, Saskatchewan Prevention Institute for two years. She is a student in the Master of Public Health program at the University of Saskatchewan. |
Karen Milligan is a clinical psychologist and Director of Research and Psychology at Integra, a mental health centre for children with learning disabilities. She has worked with women with substance use issues and their children and is involved in research on integrated programs for this population and knowledge translation. |
Maria Moutsatsos is an Addictions Counsellor with the YMCA Youth Substance Abuse Program (YSAP). She has 13 years’ experience working with youth from a harm reduction approach. |
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Louise Nadeau, Ph.D. is Professor in the Department of Psychology at the Université de Montréal, Scientific Director of the University Institute on Dependencies, Centre Dollard-Cormier, and associate researcher at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute. Her work in substance abuse focuses on alcohol and gambling. |
Anita Narvie lives on Eel River Bar First Nations, NB and has completed three years of a business degree. She hopes to work in some aspect of alcohol and drug programming on her reserve, and loves to work with others who face similar struggles as her own. |
Bill Nelles is the Vice Chair of NOTAC. From 1999 to 2004, he was the Chief Executive of The Alliance, a UK-based treatment advocacy group. In 2004 he returned to his native Canada and now works as a counselor in a primary-care-led treatment program on Vancouver Island. |
Alison Niccols, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University and the Clinical Director/Psychologist in the Infant-Parent Program at McMaster Children's Hospital in Hamilton, Ontario. Her research interests include atypical development, early intervention, and knowledge translation. |
Alan Nutini is a Corporal with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and is currently with the Drugs and Organized Crime Awareness Service. Prior to joining the RCMP, Al earned a university degree in Criminology. |
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Marcella Ogenchuk is an RN and Assistant Professor with the College of Nursing at the University of Saskatchewan. She is presently completing her Ph.D. in Educational Administration. |
Dr. Caroline O'Grady is an Advanced Practice Nurse Researcher in the Concurrent Disorders Service at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, and an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Department of Nursing Science at the University of Toronto. |
Rod Olfert is a Knowledge Broker and Senior Research and Policy Analyst with the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, working on the workforce development priority. He has worked in the substance abuse workforce for 26 years as a treatment counsellor, program developer, and educator. |
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David Patton has worked in the addictions research field for 25 years. Previously, David worked as the Research Director at the Addictions Foundation of Manitoba; he is currently a consultant with the Manitoba government. |
Tom Payette, MSW brings over 30 years of experience in the field from front line to Director of Addiction Prevention and Treatment Services, Capital Health, NS. Tom is currently working with CCSA as a Treatment System Development Advisor to promote the implementation of the National Treatment Strategy’s Tiered Model of Services and Supports. |
Nancy Poole works with the BC Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health and BC Women’s Hospital on research and knowledge exchange on women’s substance use. |
Amy Porath-Waller is a Senior Research and Policy Analyst with CCSA. Dr. Porath-Waller received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Carleton University. |
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Krista Richard is a Senior Research Analyst in the Office of Drugs and Alcohol Research and Surveillance at Health Canada, with responsibility for the analysis of drug seizures data and a variety of surveillance projects. |
Joseph Rogal is Youth Coordinator at the Saskatchewan Prevention Institute. He is a member of the Centre of Excellence for Youth Engagement, Young Decision Makers Network and a youth representative on the CCSA’s National Advisory Group on Youth Substance Abuse Prevention. |
David Ross is a clinical psychologist specializing in the area of military mental health, addictions and concurrent disorders. He is currently the National Clinical Coordinator, Network Development and Co-ordination Sector, National Centre for Operational Stress Injuries (Network sector) Veterans Affairs Canada. |
Dr. Brian Rush is a Senior Scientist and co-Section Head at CAMH and Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. His current work in the area of co-occurring disorders includes the validation and comparison of screening tools and issues and challenges related to service integration. |
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S/Sgt. Sanderson is the national project leader for Kids and Drugs for the Drugs and Organized Crime Awareness Service. He is the North West Regional Coordinator based in Edmonton. |
James Shedden, M.P.A., is employed with the Nova Scotia Department of Health Promotion and Protection, Addiction Prevention Coordinator. He has 20 years of experience in health promotion as a project and program manager in local, regional, and national not-for-profit organizations, health organizations and the Provincial Government. |
Hélène Simoneau, Ph.D. in Psychology, is a researcher with Dollard-Cormier Centre, University Institute in Addictions. Author of the Alcochoix+ program, she trained workers who participated in the pre-experiment in the spring of 2004 and now trains the trainers who continue the dissemination efforts. |
Robert Simpson has served as President and CEO of the Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre since its inception in 2000. He has served as Clinical Assistant Professor (part-time) at the Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University and, on a part-time basis, provides legal consultation and analysis of serving practices in alcohol-related liability cases. |
Wayne Skinner is Deputy Clinical Director of the Addictions Program at the Centre for Mental Health and Addiction in Toronto. He is also Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, and Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto. |
Ainsley Smith is a Research Assistant with Connections, a national program of research on knowledge exchange for agencies serving women with substance use issues. |
Judy Snider is the Manager of Surveillance in the Office of Drugs and Alcohol Research and Surveillance within Health Canada's Controlled Substances and Tobacco Programme. She is an epidemiologist and has worked in the private, public and academic sectors. |
Nancy Snow, M.S.W., R.S.W., works with Addiction Prevention & Treatment Services with Capital District Health Authority. At APTS, she worked as a Clinical Therapist and is currently working as a Clinical Team Leader with Community of Practice. |
Rod Stanley is Project Coordinator for the P.E.I. Youth Substance Use and Addictions Strategy. He has extensive experience in communications management, community health promotion, group facilitation, and project management. |
Dennis Stavrou, M.A., M.H.I., is Director Quality and Patient Safety at Pictou County Health Authority and works collaboratively for the improvement of care across the Health Authority. |
George Stones, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Toronto, is the Coordinator of the Central Ontario District MMT program, run under the auspices of Psychological Services, Correctional Service of Canada. He was involved in the development and implementation of this innovative MMT program, which remains the only of its kind in Canada. |
Marilyn Swinton, M.SC., is the Research Co-ordinator of Connections, a national program of research on knowledge exchange for agencies serving women with substance use issues. |
Dr. Wendy Sword is an Associate Professor and Assistant Dean (Research) in the School of Nursing, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. Her program of research focuses on perinatal health and health services, with a particular interest in populations at risk for poor outcomes and service accessibility. |
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Tiffany Thornton, M.S.W., is a Senior Research Analyst in the Office of Drugs and Alcohol Research and Surveillance at Health Canada, where she is the project lead on a number of research projects. |
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Dr. Franco Vaccarino is Principal, University of Toronto Scarborough and Vice-President, University of Toronto. He was previously chair of the Department of Psychology, University of Toronto. He is the past Head of the Neuroscience Program in the Department of Psychiatry at U of T, and past Executive Vice-President, Programs, and Vice President, Research at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Dr. Vaccarino also co-chairs CCSA’s Scientific Advisory Council. |
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Don Ward has worked in various aspects of the addictions field for 30 years. Most recently, he coordinates 28 on-site school-based projects in Manitoba designed to provide early intervention and education to young people involved with alcohol, other drugs and gambling. |