|
|
|
Board of Director
Biographies
Cathy Burrows, RN, BScN
Education
1977 St. Martha's School of Nursing, Antigonish, NS
1978 Post-Basic OR, RR, ER Moncton Hospital, Moncton, NB
1999 BScN Program, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS
2000 IIWCC University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Professional Experience
1977 - 1978 Glace Bay Community Hospital, Glace Bay, NS, Staff Nurse General Surgery
1978 - 1980 Glace Bay Community Hospital, Glace Bay, NS, Staff Nurse OR
1980 - 1981 Ottawa Civic Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Staff Nurse Burn Unit
1981 - Present QE II Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, NS, Staff Nurse Cardiovascular Surgery
Professional Memberships and Responsibilities
1982 - Present Canadian Council of Cardiovascular Nurses (CCCN)
1983 - 1994 Chairperson Public Education Committee CCCN
1987 - 1994 Committee Member for the Implementation of the Heart and Healthy Lifestyle Program for Grade Four Students in Halifax
2000 - Present Canadian Association of Wound Care ( CAWC )
2001 - Present Member of the Board of Directors CAWC
 Martine Albert, RN, BScN, IIWCC
Martine Albert is currently employed by the Calgary Health Region, Home Care. She has been part of the Skin and Wound Assessment and Treatment Team (SWAT) since 1998. Her scope of practice consists of policy development, education, clinical research and practice. She graduated from the University of Montreal (Nursing) in 1990 and completed the International Interdisciplinary Wound Care Course in 2002 at the University of Toronto. As part of this course, she and her colleagues developed an Interdisciplinary Urgency Triage Tool and had it published in Wound Care Canada.
She is currently enrolled in the Enterostomal Therapy Nursing Education Program through the Canadian Association for Enterostomal Therapy (CAET). She is the chair of the membership committee and is a member of the clinical practice committee.
 Maryse Beaumier, MScN(c)
Education
1985 – 1988 Bachelor's degree in Nursing Sciences, Université de Montréal
1995 Bachelor's short program in Cardiovascular Nursing Care, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
1999 Bachelor's short program in Systematic Follow-up, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
2006 – Present Master's candidate in Nursing Sciences, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (Topic: Validation of an evaluation tool on peripheral arterial vascular disease of lower extremities, including ankle brachial index, before initiating wound care)
Professional Experience
1988 – 1992 Nursing experience in emergency and intensive care at various institutions in Québec
1991 – 2002 Educator in CPR, preventing infections, and palliative care at various institutions in Québec
1992 – 1999 Liaison nurse to geriatric patients
1996 – 2006 Home care nurse
2002 – Present Self-employed as consultant, lecturer, and educator in wound care at various institutions in Québec
2003 – Present Instructor and substitute professor in wound care and nursing care for geriatric patients, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
 Mariam Botros, DCh
Mariam Botros is a chiropodist and a clinical instructor at Women's College Hospital and a faculty member of the International Interprofessional Wound Care Course (IIWCC) at the University of Toronto. Her background is in chiropodiatry (1994), with a specialty in biomechanics and sports medicine.
She worked at Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care for several years, during which time she developed an interest in managing diabetic foot wounds. In 1999, she completed the IIWCC and began a two-year clinical fellowship at the Wound Healing Clinic at Women's College Hospital. After completing her training, she developed a high risk foot course for chiropody students.
She worked at the Michener Institute for Applied Health Sciences (1999-2005), training chiropody students in managing the high risk foot both theoretically and clinically. She is currently teaching wound care courses on amputation prevention both locally and internationally.
 Mario Coté, MD, CCFP
Education
1981 – 1983 D.E.C Health Sciences, Seminaire St-Augustin
1983 – 1987 Medicine Doctorat, Sherbrooke University
1987 – 1988 Multidisciplinary internship, Hotel-Dieu de Levis
1990 Flight Surgeon, Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) (Toronto)
1991 – 1992 Diving Medical Officer, DRDC (Toronto)
1999 College of Family Physicians of Canada (Examination pass)
1999 College of Family Physicians of Canada Emergency Certificate (Examination
pass)
2001 – 2002 IIWCC (Toronto)
Professional Experience
1988 – 1994 Medical Officer, Canadian Force Base Valcartier
1989 – 2003 Emergency medicine department, Centre Hospitalier
Universitaire Affilie Hotel-Dieu de Levis
1992 – 1994 Base Surgeon, Canadian Force Base Valcartier
1993 Commanding Medical Officer of a Surgical Hospital Combat
Groupe of 2nd Batallion Royal 22nd Regiment and Senior Medical Advisor
of the Canadian Command UNPROFOR, Bosnia-Herzegovina Ex-Yugoslavia
1997 – 1999 Director of emergency medicine department,
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Affilie Hotel-Dieu de Levis
1999 – 2003 Director of hyperbaric medicine department,
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Affilie Hotel-Dieu de Levis
2001 – 2003 Complex wound care clinic, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire
Affilie Hotel-Dieu de Levis
2002 – 2003 Wound care team, Community Care Center, CLSC Desjardins
Professional Memberships
Association des Medecins d’Urgence du Quebec
College of Family Physicians of Canada
College des Medecins du Quebec
Canadian Mental Association
Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society
Canadian Association of Wound Care
 Patricia
Coutts, RN , IIWCC
Patricia Coutts is currently a Wound Care Specialist and Clinical Trials
Coordinator with Dr. R. Gary Sibbald in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
She is a Registered Nurse who graduated from the inaugural International
Interdisciplinary Wound Care Course at the University of Toronto in Toronto,
Ontario, Canada. She is currently a faculty member for this course.
She has co-authored a chapter in Chronic Wound Care III and contributed to various wound journals. She has also presented at conferences
locally, nationally and internationally.
 David Haligowski, BSc, MD
In 1981, David Haligowski graduated from the University of Winnipeg with a BSc in Physics. In 1985, he graduated from the University of Manitoba with his MD and has been conducting a family practice since 1989.
He is currently a partner at Rivergrove Medical Clinic in Winnipeg; a lecturer and sessional instructor at the University of Manitoba; a member of UPCON (Urban Physician Community Oncology Network); and the Medical Director of two PCHs (Middlechurch Home of Winnipeg and River East Personal Care Home).
 Rob
Miller, BA, MD, FRCP(C)
- Co-director, Wound Care Clinic, QEII Hospital (present)
- Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University (1983 – present)
- Research Director, Division of Dermatology, Dalhousie University (1981 – present)
- Director, Canadian Dermatology Research Foundation (1989 – present)
- Advisor, Canadian Cancer Society (1990 – present)
- Advisor, Canadian Alopecia Areata Society of NS (1990 – present)
- Contributing Editor, Canadian Dermatology Association Journal (1992 – present)
- Examiner (Dermatology), Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of
Canada (1993 – present)
- Director of Research, Division of Dermatology (1993 – 2000)
- Chief of Dermatology, Halifax Infirmary Hospital (1980 – 1990)
- Active Staff, Victoria General Hospital (1981 – present)
- Consulting Staff, IWK Children’s Hospital/Grace Maternity Hospital/Camp Hill Medical Centre/ Halifax Infirmary Hospital (1981 – present)
 Christine Pearson, RN, IIWCC
Christine Pearson is a Community Wound Clinician for Vancouver Coastal Health and a graduate of the University of Toronto Chronic Wound Care Course. She has worked in community nursing for the last 26 years. She develops and presents evidence-based wound education sessions; provides consultation on difficult wounds for physicians, community nurses, student nurses and long-term care facilities; lectures at nursing schools; publishes articles in Wound Care Canada; and presents at local and national conferences. She is the chair of the Clinical Practice Committee and a member of the Public Policy Committee.
 M. Gail Woodbury, BScPT, PhD
Gail Woodbury is an epidemiologist with a background in Physical Therapy. Upon completion of her PhD in 1990, her personal choice to work part-time allowed her to work extensively with David Keast, Karen Campbell and Pamela Houghton. Together they formed a Collaborative Interdisciplinary Wound Research Team in London, Ontario. With this team, she has been involved in multi-centre clinical research trials and has contributed to the development of new wound assessment tools (Leg Ulcer Measurement Tool and Photographic Wound Assessment Tool). In addition, she is interested in acquiring high-level research evidence, critical appraisal of existing evidence, and making the evidence available and comprehensible to clinicians. She has a history of working on CAWC committees and led the research project that estimated the prevalence of chronic wounds in Canada.
 Chairman
Emeritus R. Gary Sibbald, BSc, MD, FRCPC (Med, Derm), MACP, DABD
Associate Professor of Medicine and Director Continuing Medical Education,
Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Dr. Sibbald is a board-certified
internal medicine and dermatology specialist in both Canada and the United
States. He is based at the University of Toronto and in private practice in Mississauga.
He has had a special interest in wound care education, research and patient
care for the past 15 years.
Dr. Sibbald received his Bachelor
of Science, MD and specialty degrees from the University of Toronto. He
was a McLaughlin traveling scholar from 1978 to 1979 to St. John’s Hospital
for Diseases of the Skin, University of London, United Kingdom. He has
been a staff member of the University Health Network (Toronto General)
since 1979 and an active staff member at Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health
Sciences Centre (Women’s College Campus) and Trillium Health Centre
(Mississauga Site) since 1982.
Dr. Sibbald’s dermatology
expertise led to his roles as advisory council executive member of Canada
for the American Academy of Dermatology and a previous president and founding
secretary of the Toronto Dermatological Association. He is a former director
and current chair of the Education Committee of the Canadian Dermatology
Association.
Since 1995, he has been Director
of Continuing Education for the Department of Medicine at the University
of Toronto. As part of this role, he established a multi-disciplinary
wound care course. The course is international, interdisciplinary
and longitudinal in design, incorporating two residential weekends with
self-study modules and a selective that relates course material to wound
care practice.
Dr. Sibbald is currently enrolled
in a Masters of Education program at the Ontario Institute for Studies
in Education (OISE) and is a member of the Centre for Research in Education,
University of Toronto.
The Dermatology Day Care and
Wound Healing clinic was established at Women’s College Campus to
provide an interdisciplinary focus for wound healing, education, patient
care and research. The center provides a networking hub for community
enterostomal therapists and an interdisciplinary diabetic foot care team.
As the director, Dr. Sibbald is involved with his team in wound care team
research, with a special interest in new topical treatments, compression
therapy, biological agents (including skin substitutes) and the role of
bacteria in chronic wounds.
He is the clinical section
editor for Wounds, an international advisor for the Journal
of Wound Care and co-editor of the third edition of Chronic Wound
Care: A Clinical Sourcebook for Healthcare Professionals.
|
|
|
