Emergency Study Investigators

Cheryl Ward

Cheryl Ward

Cheryl Ward (Co-Investigator & Advisory Committee) is the Executive Director of Indigenous Health and Provincial Lead San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training for the Provincial Health Services Authority.

Leslie Varley

Leslie Varley

Leslie Varley (Co-Investigator & Advisory Committee) is the Executive Director at the BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres.

Janet Smylie

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

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

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