Canadian Health and Wellbeing in Developmental Disabilities
February 8 - 9, 2023 — Digital Conference
Committees 2017
Steering Committee
Alvin Loh; Development Pediatrician/Chief of Staff, Surrey Place Centre
Camille Bigras; Health Care Facilitator – Northern Ontario, Community Networks of Specialized Care
Claudine A. Cousins, MA, CHRL; Executive Director, Central District, Christian Horizons
Dara Abells, MD, CCFP, Family Physician, Forest Hill Family Health Centre and ISAND
Joanne Savage; Developmental Services Supervisor, York Support Services Network
Lisa Holmes; Coordinator – Eastern Ontario, Community Networks of Specialized Care
Megan Primeau, MSc; Tri Region Education and Research Coordinator – Central Ontario, Community Networks of Specialized Care
Nancy Bush; Event Planner, Centre for Continuing Professional Development, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Sandy Stemp; Chief Operating Officer, Reena
Sue Benko; Education Coordinator – Southern Ontario, Community Networks of Specialized Care
Tara Hyatt; Coordinator – Central Ontario, Community Networks of Specialized Care
Wade Durling; CEO, Ongwanada; Lead – Eastern Ontario, Community Networks of Specialized Care
Program Committee
Alma Disha; Application Assessor DSO Toronto Region, Surrey Place Centre
Amy Lays; Resource Assessment Worker, Service Coordination for People with Developmental Disabilities
Anna Przednowek, MSW, M.ADS, RSW; PhD Candidate, Carleton University, School of Social Work
Christina Hall, DSW; Program Manager, CHOICES
Dori Zener, MSW, RSW; Individual, Couple and Family Therapist Specializing in the Autism Spectrum
Shahin Shooshtari; Associate Professor, Community Health Sciences Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba; Researcher, St.Amant Research Centre
Megan Primeau, MSc; Tri Region Education and Research Coordinator – Central Ontario, Community Networks of Specialized Care
Renee Lopes Lieu, M. Cl.Sc. (OT); Occupational Therapist, Vancouver Coastal Health
Rosemary Condillac; Assistant Professor, Centre for Applied Disability Studies, Brock University
Sarah O’Flanagan; Program Coordinator, Western University
Sue Benko; Education Coordinator – Southern Ontario, Community Networks of Specialized Care
Susan Farrell, Ph.D., C.Psych.; Clinical Director, Community Mental Health Program, Director of Training, Predoctoral Residency Program in Clinical Psychology, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Clinical Professor, School of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa
Tom Archer; Health Care Facilitator – Southern Ontario, Community Networks of Specialized Care
Tracy Smyth; Manager, Community Living Supports, Community Living Mississauga
Ullanda Nicole Niel, MD, CCFP, Family Physician, Scarborough Centre for Healthy Communities
Vikram Dua; Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, Psychiatrist-in-Chief Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Surrey Place Centre
Yona Lunsky; Director of the Health Care Access Research and Developmental Disabilities (H-CARDD) Program, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Marketing Committee
Heidi Diepstra, PhD; Research Associate, Developmental Disabilities Primary Care Program (DDPCP), Surrey Place Centre
Madelaine Ressel ; Research Assistant working in the Developmental Disabilities Lab, University of Ottawa
Megan Primeau, MSc; Tri Region Education and Research Coordinator – Central Ontario, Community Networks of Specialized Care