Institute Advisory Board Members (September 2011 - August 2012)
Jean-Marie Moutquin, MD, MSc, FRCSC (Chair)Department Chair and Full Professor
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Université de Sherbrooke
Research Director, Centre Hospitalier de l' Université de Sherbrooke
Science Director, Centre de recherche clinique Étienne-Le Bel
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke, Quebec
Dr Jean-Marie Moutquin became an MD in 1968 and an obstetrician gynecologist at the Université de Montréal in 1973. After a research fellowship in the biochemistry, physiology and endocrinology of reproduction under the supervision of Dr GC Liggins in Auckland, New Zealand (1974-1978), Dr Moutquin began his career as a clinician-scientist at the Université de Montréal (1978-1987), continued it at Université Laval in Quebec City (1987-1999), and has been with the Université de Sherbrooke since 1999. He obtained a master's degree in epidemiology from Université Laval in 1995.
A pioneer in funded clinical research in obstetrics in Quebec, Dr Moutquin studies the physiology of pregnant women and its disturbances, more particularly hypertension in pregnancy. His research deals with early identification of clinical, biochemical, genetic, and echographic markers of preeclampsia. The results of his research have included modifications to the classification of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.
Invited by the Medical Research Council of Canada to conduct research on prevention and treatment of preterm labour, Dr Moutquin directed the first pan-Canadian randomized clinical trials on the treatment of preterm labour, involving departments of obstetrics and gynecology and pediatrics across the country (1982-1992). He has contributed as principal investigator and co-investigator to numerous national and international randomized controlled trials on perinatal care.
Dr. Moutquin co-founded a research centre in Quebec City with some 30 investigators dedicated to research on reproductive health (1987-1999). He participated in and co-directed the Quebec network on child health and welfare, composed of 100 researchers working both in biomedical and psychosocial disciplines (2001-2007). He was a member of the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (1994-2002). Since 1995, he has served as a member of the board of directors and senior science advisor for AETMIS, the agency that evaluates health-care technologies and treatment methods for the Quebec ministry of health and social services. He was elected a member of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in 2006.
A happy man who has been married for over 40 years, Dr Moutquin has 4 children and, so far, 7 grandchildren.
Mrs. Leanne Boyd
Director, Policy Development, Research and Evaluation
Healthy Child Manitoba Office (HCMO)
Leanne Boyd is the Director, Policy Development, Research and Evaluation at the Healthy Child Manitoba Office (HCMO), the staff and secretariat of the Government of Manitoba's Healthy Child Committee of Cabinet (HCCC), the only legislated Cabinet committee in Canada dedicated to the well-being of children and youth (prenatal to age 18 years). HCCC comprises the Ministers of Aboriginal and Northern Affairs; Culture, Heritage and Tourism; Education; Family Services and Consumer Affairs; Health; Healthy Living, Youth and Seniors; Housing and Community Development, Justice; and Labour and Immigration/Status of Women. Under the Healthy Child Manitoba Act (2007), HCMO is mandated to work across departments and sectors through integrated research, policy, practice, and evaluation to facilitate best possible outcomes for children, youth, family, and community.
Leanne represents Manitoba on several Federal, Provincial, Territorial (F/P/T) and national committees including: F/P/T Early Childhood Development (ECD) Working Group, now known as F/P/T Working Group on Social Development Research and Information (SDRI) and co-chairs its Committee on ECD Knowledge, Information, and Effective Practices; Directing Committee, Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development; the Strategic Knowledge Cluster on Early Childhood Development; National Monitoring Committee; Canadian Institute for Child Health National Advisory Group; Mental Health Commission of Canada / Evergreen Child and Youth National Framework Committee; Federal/Provincial/Territorial Sub Committee on the OECD Network on ECEC; as well as chairing many provincial cross-departmental committees.
Leanne has a BSW and MSW degrees from the University of Manitoba and an Advanced Community Child and Adolescent Psychiatry internship. Leanne has worked with the Province of Manitoba, for the last 35 years, as a policy analyst, therapist, instructor and director, focusing on improving the mental health of children, youth, families and communities.
Astrid Guttman, MDCM, MSc, FRCP(C)
Associate Professor
University of Toronto
Astrid Guttmann is an Associate Professor of Paediatrics and Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto, a General Paediatrician at the Hospital for Sick Children, and a Scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences where she is the Program Head for the Health System Performance Evaluation Program. She is funded by CIHR New Investigator and Canadian Child Health Clinician Scientist Program career awards and holds multiple CIHR operating grants in the areas of child health services research. Her research interests include the development and use of quality of care performance measures for children, and the relationship of physician and other system-level resources on the quality of healthcare for children. She sits on a number of provincial policy committees including the Child and Youth Advisory Committee to the Ontario Provincial Council on Maternal, Newborn, Child and Youth Health.
Ellen Hodnett, Ph.D
Professor
M. Reisman Chair in Perinatal Nursing Research
Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing
University of Toronto
Ellen Hodnett is Professor and Heather M. Reisman Chair in Perinatal Nursing Research in the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto. She is an Inaugural Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Since 1996 Dr. Hodnett has been an Editor for the Pregnancy and Childbirth Group of the Cochrane Collaboration, responsible for both writing and editing systematic reviews for the Cochrane Library. Her Cochrane Reviews have had a wide impact internationally. For example, her Review of the trials of continuous support during childbirth has resulted in new legislation in Uruguay and Brazil and has led to new practice guidelines in Canada, the UK, and the USA.
Since 2005 Dr. Hodnett has been a member of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Group (STAG) for the World Health Organization Department of Reproductive Health and Research; she is the first nurse to be appointed to STAG. From 1999-2002, Dr. Hodnett was Chair of the Clinical Trials Grants Review Committee for the Medical Research Council/Canadian Institutes of Health Research; she was the first woman and the first non-physician to hold this position.
Dr. Hodnett's research program focuses on rigorous evaluations of forms of care for childbearing women, usually through international, multi-center, randomized controlled trials. Dr. Hodnett was the principal investigator of the Nursing SCIL ("Supportive Care in Labor") Trial, a large international study of nursing care for women during labor and birth, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NINR), 1998-2001. SCIL Trial results were published in JAMA in 2002. Currently she is the principal investigator of the SELAN ("Structured Early Labour Assessment and Care by Nurses") Trial, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. She is a co-investigator on four other studies concerning the care of childbearing women and their babies, in Canada and internationally. She is also a member of Scientific Advisory Committee for a 5-year, Wellcome Trust-funded research initiative in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, to improve care of childbearing women.
Dr. Hodnett has over 90 publications. She has been a keynote or invited speaker at over 80 international and national conferences, and she has given over 40 peer-reviewed presentations worldwide. Among the awards she has received are: The Lamaze International 2004 Award for Research, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, (2004); "Best Book of the Year" Award, for A Guide to Effective Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth, 3rd Edition, American College of Nurse-Midwives (2001); WHO 50th Anniversary commemorative certificate for a national community-based women and/or children's health project, for her work on PROBIT (The Promotion of Breastfeeding Intervention Trial), 1998; and an Award Certificate from the Ministry of Health, Republic of Belarus, for PROBIT (Promotion of Breastfeeding Intervention Trial), 1998.
Dr. Hodnett is strongly committed to mentoring young researchers who wish to conduct large randomized controlled trials. She developed the Randomized Controlled Trials Unit (RCTU) in the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto. The RCTU has state-of-the-science human and technical resources to assist colleagues and graduate students with the design and conduct of trials of complex nursing interventions.
Bonnie Leadbeater, Ph.D
Professor
University of Victoria
Dr. Bonnie Leadbeater is a clinical psychologist and professor in the Psychology Department and Director of the new Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Social Dimensions of Health at the University of Victoria. She has an interdisciplinary training background with an emphasis on health, education and psychology. She holds degrees in Nursing and Educational Psychology from the University of Ottawa, and in Developmental Psychology from Columbia University, New York. She did postdoctoral training in Clinical Psychology at Yale University's Child Study Center in New Haven CT and was a faculty member of the Yale Psychology Department from 1988 to 1997.
Dr. Leadbeater has made internationally recognized contributions to research in adolescent parenting, gender differences in adolescent depression, resilience in high-risk youth, the prevention of peer victimization and bullying, and knowledge transfer of mental health promotion programs for children. She is an author and evaluator of the WITS elementary programs for the prevention of peer victimization. Her publications include contributions to theory, research methodology, and ethics in these areas of study and she has been highly committed to efforts to translate theory and research into student training and into policy and program actions that can improve the lives of children, youth, and their families.
Mrs. Karen Lloyd
Director General
Safe Environments Directorate
Health Canada
Karen Lloyd is the Director General of the Safe Environments Directorate at Health Canada. She is responsible for assessing and managing the risks to the health of Canadians posed by environmental factors in living, working and recreational environments, including those posed from new and existing chemicals, major infrastructure development, contaminated sites, air quality, water quality, and climate change. She is also responsible for public health on conveyances (e.g., planes, trains, cruise ships). Within Health Canada she coordinates the delivery of the Government's Chemicals Management Plan.
She serves as co-chair of two Federal, Provincial, Territorial committees: the Canadian Environmental Protection Act National Advisory Committee and the Committee on Health and the Environment.
Prior to joining the Safe Environments Directorate, Karen was the Director of the Environmental Assessment Division of the Pest Management Regulatory Agency. Before joining Health Canada in 2004, she worked at Environment Canada for 18 years, primarily in the field of regulatory science and policy, including risk assessments under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, managing the1998 Parliamentary review of that Act, leading state of environment reporting, and developing policy in the field of environmental information systems. She is also the federal champion for Women in Science and Technology and provides leadership training to women in science in their early to mid careers. She has a M.Sc. in Biology.
Dr. Stephen J. Lye
Associate Director
Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital
Professor
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology and of Physiology
University of Toronto
Dr. Lye is Associate Director of the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital and Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology and of Physiology at the University of Toronto. His research is focussed on defining the molecular mechanisms underlying the onset of term and preterm labor and the mechanisms controlling early placental development. Dr. Lye has published over 135 peer-reviewed papers and holds research funding from both the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), March of Dimes and the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation. He is actively involved in peer-review granting agencies, is a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research and also acts as a Medical Research Director for The Genesis Research Foundation, a charity focused on women's health research. Dr. Lye holds a Canada Research Chair in Maternal, Fetal and Neonatal Health.
Dr. Lye's research has identified key genes that increase contractile activity of the uterine muscle during labor. With other members of the SLRI and clinical colleagues within the High Risk Pregnancy Program at MSH, Dr. Lye is also investigating new diagnostic tests to predict delivery in women in threatened preterm labor as well as the use of new therapeutic agents to prevent preterm birth, the leading cause of neonatal death and disability.
Dr. Peter Mitchell
Professor
Departments of Obstetrics & Gynecology and of Physiology
University of Alberta
Dr. Peter Mitchell is a Professor in the Departments of Obstetrics & Gynecology and of Physiology at the University of Alberta. He is a clinician-scientist who has held a MRC/CIHR grant almost continuously since 1981, He currently also is a co-Investigator of the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research Team Grant studying preterm birth and a Mentor in the CIHR Strategic Training Initiative for Maternal-Fetal and Newborn Health. He has served as Chair of the CIHR Clinical Investigations "A" Peer Review Committee for the past two years.
Dr. Mitchell received his M.D. degree from the University of Western Ontario in 1971. After completing a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Western, he was awarded a McLaughlin Traveling Fellowship and went to the University of California at San Francisco. He returned to UWO as an Assistant Professor in 1978. In 1986 he was recruited to the University of Alberta and served as Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology until 2002. He continued active practice, with a focus on Maternal-Fetal Medicine until 2003.
The Mitchell research laboratory studies the regulation of the timing of parturition. Major emphasis is placed on the human but rat and genetically modified mouse models are also used. His group has published more than 90 articles in the peer-reviewed literature. He serves on a number of journal editorial boards and reviews for a number of journals and granting agencies nationally and internationally. He is a recent recipient of a Visiting Professorship from the university of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Gina Muckle, Ph.D
Professor
Université Laval
After two post-doctoral internships, one in developmental psychology at Wayne State University (Detroit) and the other in environmental health at the Centre de recherche CHUL-CHUQ, Ms. Muckle was a professor on grant in the Department of Social and Preventative Medicine at the Université Laval for five years before being hired with the School of Psychology in 2003, where she became a full professor in 2009. She is an investigator in the area of Population and Environmental Health at the CHUQ Research Centre. Dr. Muckle is specialized in the field of developmental and behavioural teratology, incorporating concepts derived from epidemiology and toxicology and touches on children's health, environmental health and Aboriginal health. The teratogenic substances on which Ms. Muckle is specifically focusing are alcohol and environmental contaminants such as organochlorines, mercury, and lead. Ms. Muckle has obtained scholarships and research grants from the FRSQ, the NIH, the Ministry of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, and CIHR.
Mrs. Elaine Orrbine
President and CEO
Canadian Association of Paediatric Health Centres
Elaine is the President and CEO of the Canadian Association of Paediatric Health Centres (CAPHC). In addition to her responsibilities as President & CEO of CAPHC, Ms Orrbine also serves as the Executive Director of the Paediatric Chairs of Canada (PCC). Over the past several decades, Ms. Orrbine has been an investigator on over 35 successful research grant applications and has co-authored 3 book chapters, 4 medical handbooks and over thirty peer reviewed publications. In 1997, she was appointed a Lecturer (VPT) with the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Ottawa. In 1998 she co-founded the Child and Youth Clinical Trials Network (CYCTN) at CHEO Research Institute in Ottawa. As Director of the CYCTN, between 1990 and 1999), she maintained a strong role as a hands-on-research practitioner, broadening the scope of clinical research into the maternal, child and youth health sectors nationwide. Between 1999 and 2001, Ms. Orrbine continued her work with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) as the inaugural National Liaison for the CIHR - Institute of Human Development, Child & Youth Health and the Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes. In August 2004, Ms Orrbine received the Federation of Medical Women of Canada, Honorary Member Award. This prestigious award recognized her distinguished career in the fields of psychiatric nursing, clinical research, child and youth health advocacy, paediatric patient safety, health administration, and her ongoing work and collaboration with multi-disciplinary child and youth health professionals nationwide.
Bernard Robaire, Ph.D
James McGill Professor McGill University
Bernard Robaire received his BA in Bacteriology from UCLA and his Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Therapeutics from McGill University. After doing a Postdoctoral Fellowship (NIH) at Johns Hopkins University, he returned to McGill in 1977 to take up a joint appointment in the Departments of Pharmacology & Therapeutics and of Obstetrics & Gynecology, where he has remained and is currently a James McGill Professor. In 1993, he was appointed for a five-year period as Associate Vice-Principal (Research) of McGill University. He is currently a member of Senate and a past President of the McGill Association of University Teachers.
Dr. Robaire's research interests focus on androgen action, the structure, function and regulation of the epididymis, aging of the male reproductive system, and reproductive toxicology. The results of his research activity have resulted thus far in over 180 journal articles and book chapters, as well as editing or co-editing ten books. Since opening his lab in 1977, his research has been funded continuously by MRC/CIHR, as well as by NIH, FCAR, National Foundation March of Dimes, and the FRSQ. He has served as President of the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society, the North American Testis Workshop, the American Society of Andrology, and the Association francophone pour le savoir (Acfas). He is currently Co-Editor-in-Chief of Biology of Reproduction.
Dr. Reg Sauve
Professor
Paediatrics and Community Health Sciences
University of Calgary
Dr. Reg Sauve is a professor of Paediatrics and Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary. His clinical work focuses on Neonatology and the follow-up care of Extremely Low Birthweight Infants. He is the former academic head of the Division of Neonatology and current Director of the Perinatal Follow-up Program, Alberta Children's Hospital.
His research interests focus on Perinatal Epidemiology and Neonatal Follow-up including both National and Provincial Perinatal Surveillance studies and the developing Canadian Neonatal Follow-up Network (CNFUN). He chairs the Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System of the Public Health Agency of Canada and provides ad hoc consultation to the Maternal and Infant Health Section, Epidemiology and Surveillance Branch, Public Health Agency of Canada. He is the past co-chair of the Alberta Perinatal Health Program Advisory Committee, Alberta Health and Wellness, and of the Health Technology Assessment, Assisted Reproductive Technologies.
He supervises several graduate students in Epidemiology in the Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary and he currently teaches a graduate course in Perinatal Epidemiology and co-teaches courses in Clinical epidemiology and in Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis.
His most satisfying professional accomplishments have come from being able to link together his clinical, educational, administrative, and research interests in mothers and infants.
Anne Snowdon, Ph.D
Professor
Odette School of Business
University of Windsor
Dr. Anne Snowdon is currently a Professor at the Odette School of Business and is cross-appointed to the faculty of Engineering at the University of Windsor. She holds an adjunct appointment in the School of Nursing at McGill University and is an Adjunct Research Professor at the Ivey School of Business where she is working with the Ivey Centre for Health Innovation and Leadership (ICHIL). Her role at Ivey focuses on building leadership capacity in the health sector to support innovation.
Dr. Snowdon is one of six Canadian researchers assuming the role of Theme Coordinator for a national Network of Centers of Excellence program (AUTO21) of research that focuses on Childrens' Safety in Vehicles. Formerly, Dr. Snowdon was the Vice President of Womens' and Childrens Programs at Windsor Regional Hospital and Chief Nursing Officer. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Western Ontario, a Masters of Science from McGill University and a Ph.D. in Nursing from the University of Michigan. She is a Fulbright Scholar and was awarded the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council fellowship for her doctoral research on Parenting during childhood hospitalization.
More recently, Dr. Snowdon has an extensive program of research in the area of injury prevention for children. Dr. Snowdon and her team partnered with DaimlerChrysler Canada Inc. to develop and test an educational program, Bobby Shooster Rides Safely in His Booster, designed to help Canadian families to keep children safe in vehicles. In 2006, The Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) awarded Dr. Snowdon and Dr. John Mann from DaimlerChrysler Canada the CIHR partnership award for this work. She has partnered with Magna Aftermarket Inc. to develop and commercialize the Clek Booster seat launched in Canada in September 2006 and the U.S. in June 2007, which was awarded 7 national awards in the U.S market.
Dr. Snowdon's injury research has lead to the use of advanced technologies such as Artificial intelligence (Agent Modelling) for modeling Canadian families and communities to examine the dynamic influence of social networks on health behaviors related to injury. She has also co-developed with Dr. Robert Kent in Computer Science, a unique software for data management and analysis of large national data sets. This software is now being tested in hospital settings as an innovative approach to documenting and analyzing patient falls events. Commercialization of this software is currently underway for the North American and global health markets.
Charlotte Waddell, MSc, MD, CCFP, FRCPC
Canada Research Chair in Children's Health Policy
Associate Professor
Simon Fraser University
Charlotte Waddell is a child psychiatrist with longstanding interests in health policy and population and public health. She holds the Canada Research Chair in children's health policy in the Faculty of Health Sciences at SFU, where she is also Associate Professor and Director of the Children's Health Policy Centre.
Dr Waddell's research addresses mental health disparities, starting in childhood, by improving the connections between research and policy. She also continues to work with children involved with the child protection and youth justice systems. It is working with these children that ultimately informs and inspires her research and teaching.