Institute Advisory Board Members

(September 2006 - August 2007)

Malcolm King, PhD, FCCP (Chair)
Professor, Pulmonary Research Group
University of Alberta

Michael Chandler, PhD
Professor
Distinguished Investigator, Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research
Department of Psychology
University of British Columbia

Bernice Downey, RN, BScN
Aboriginal Health Consultant

Stephen Graham, BSc(Pharm.), PhD
Director of Outreach and Interventions
Canadian Optimal Prescribing and Utilisation Service (COMPUS)
Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH)

Margo Greenwood
Professor
University of Northern British Columbia
Research Lead
National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health

Richard Jock, BA, MEd
Chief Executive Officer
Assembly of First Nations

Laurence J. Kirmayer, MD, FRCPC
James McGill Professor & Director
Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry
McGill University
Director, Culture & Mental Health Research Unit
Institute of Community & Family Psychiatry
Jewish General Hospital

Ann C. Macaulay, CM, MD, FCFP
Professor of Family Medecine
McGill Centre of Participatory Research
McGill University

Judy Mill, RN, PhD
Associate Professor
Associate Dean, Graduate Studies
Faculty of Nursing
University of Alberta

Ian Potter, MSc.
Assistant Deputy Minister
First Nations & Inuit Health Branch
Health Canada

Francine Romero, PhD, MPH
Director
Jemez Health and Human Services Department (USA)

Janet Smylie, MD, CCFP
Director
Indigenous Peoples' Health Research Centre
Associate Professor
Department of Community Health & Epidemiology
University of Saskatchewan

Isaac Sobol, MD,CCFP, MHSc
Chief Medical Officer of Health
Department of Health and Social Services
Government of Nunavut

Lisa Sterling, MA, PhD
Special Advisor & Director Aboriginal Affairs
Office of the Vice-President, Academic
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education
Simon Fraser University

Gail Guthrie Valaskakis, PhD
Director of Research
Aboriginal Healing Foundation
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Concordia University