Institute Advisory Board Members

(September 2009 - August 2010)

Frederic Wien, PhD, Chair
Professor
School of Social Work
Dalhousie University

Bernice Downey, RN, BScN (Cree)
Aboriginal Health Consultant

Willie Ermine, MEd, BEd (Cree)
Assistant Professor
First Nations University of Canada
Ethicist/Researcher
Indigenous Peoples' Health Research Centre (IPHRC)

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

Margo Greenwood, PhD, MA (Cree)
Associate Professor
University of Northern British Columbia
Research Lead
National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health

Pierre Haddad, PhD
Professor in Pharmacology
University of Montréal

Jennie R. Joe, PhD, MA, MPH, BSN (Navajo/Diné)
Professor and Director
Native American Research and Training Centre
University of Arizona

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

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

Anne-Marie Robinson, MSc, BSc (Algonquin)
Assistant Deputy Minister
Health Canada – First Nations and Inuit Health Branch

Janet Smylie, MD, MPH, CCFP (Métis)
Research Scientist
St. Michael's Hospital - Centre for Research on Inner City Health
Associate Professor
Dalla Lana School of Public Health
University of Toronto

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

Lisa Sterling, PhD, MA, BA (Interior Salish)
Special Advisor & Director Aboriginal Affairs
Office of the Vice-President, Academic Health Organisation
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education
Simon Fraser University

Paulette Tremblay, PhD, MA, BA, BEd (Mohawk)
CEO
National Aboriginal Health Organisation

Gail Turner, RN, BN, MAdEd, CCHN(C) (Labrador Inuit)
Director of Health Services
Department of Health and Social Development
Nunatsiavut

Lee Wilson, PhD, BSc (Métis)
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
University of Saskatchewan