Janet Smylie
Janet Smylie (Co-Investigator & Advisory Committee) is a Physician and Director of Well Living House at the Centre for Urban Health Solutions and an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto in Ontario.
Vicki Smye
Vicki Smye (Co-Investigator & Change Coach at UHNBC) is an Associate Professor and Director at the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing at Western University
Heather Smith
Heather Smith (Co-Investigator & Health Care Leader) is a Physician at the University Hospital of Northern British Columbia and Central Interior Native Health Society in Prince George, British Columbia.
Lorraine Prysunka
Lorraine Prysunka (Co-Investigator & Emergency Department Leader) is Director of the Emergency Department at Surrey Memorial Hospital in Surrey, British Columbia.
Nancy Perrin
Nancy Perrin (Co-Investigator) is a Statistician at John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
Bindy Kang
Bindy Kang (Co-Investigator / Trainee) is a PhD Candidate in the School of Nursing at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
Emily Jenkins
Emily Jenkins (Co-Investigator) is an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
Leanne Heppell
Leanne Heppell (Co-Investigator & Health Care Leader) is the Chief Operating Officer Acute Care and Chief of Professional Practice and Nursing at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia
Alison Gerlach
Alison Gerlach (Co-Investigator) is an Occupational Therapist and Assistant Professor at University of Victoria School of Child and Youth Care
As a Co-Investigator on this project, I bring 20 years of experience in partnering with Indigenous communities and organizations as an occupational therapist and researcher. My research is focused on the development of responsive and inclusive knowledges, and policy and practice interventions that address social justice and health equity issues for families and children who experience structural violence and inequities, and children with developmental challenges, disabilities, and/or complex health conditions. I was a Graduate Research Assistant on the EQUIP team. Currently, I am a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, and an Honorary Research Associate with CRiHHI in the School of Nursing and HELP (Human Early Learning Partnership) in the School of Population Health at UBC. In June 2017, I start a 2-year CIHR Banting postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Margo Greenwood at the National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health at the University of Northern British Columbia.
Scott Comber
Scott Comber (Co-Investigator & Change Coach at St. Paul’s) is an Assistant Professor/University Teaching Fellow at the Rowe School of Business, Faculty of Management at Dalhousie University
As a co-investigator for this study, I will be focused primarily on the areas of process evaluation, change readiness/management, and front-line ownership. I bring 20 years of practitioner experience in the field of change management within health care settings. My research focuses on understanding access and equity issues within emergency department settings using complexity science coupled with front-line ownership. I also research in the area of physician leadership development. Therefore, I refer to myself as a “pracademic”; both organization practitioner, and scholarly academic. I am very interested in understanding innovative, intervention science approaches to resolve health care issues.
