The Outreach and Patient Advocacy Workgroup is responsible for creating awareness of and interest in the long-term benefits of the project, by developing relationships and interactive communications vehicles that will allow the project team to keep all stakeholders up-to-date on our progress, as well as to stay abreast of developments affecting end-users, including patients and groups advocating for the identification and management of both rare and common diseases.
- Andrea Blumenthal, MD, FRCPC, FCCMG
Lakeridge Health - Andrea Eisen, MD, FRCPC
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre - Chantal Morel, MD, FRCPC, FCCMG
UHN MSH Fred A Litwin Family Centre in Genetic Medicine
- Cheryl Shuman, MS, CGC
Hospital for Sick Children - Cynthia Forster-Gibson
Peterborough Regional Health Centre - David Chitayat, MD, FABMG, FACMG, FCCMG, FRCPC
Mount Sinai Hospital - David S. Rosenblatt, MD
McGill University
- Deborah Terespolsky, MBBCh, FRCPC, FCCMG
Credit Valley Hospital, Trillium Health Centre - Edmond Chouinard, MD, FRCPC
Grand River Regional Cancer Centre - Hanna Faghfoury, MDCM
University Health Network
- Joan Knoll, PhD, DABMG, FCCMG
Western University - Jodi Campbell, MSc, CGC, CCGC
The Credit Valley Hospital
- Josh Silver, MSc, CGC, CCGC
University Health Network, Mount Sinai Hospital - Kara Semotiuk, MS, CCGC
Familial Gastrointestinal Cancer Registry, Mount Sinai Hospital - Katherine Siminiovitch, MD, FRCPC, FACP
University of Health Network, Mount Sinai Hospital - Kathleen Buckley, MSc, (C) CGC
Grand River Regional Cancer Centre - Kathleen-Rose Zakoor
Mount Sinai Hospital - Lauren Hughes, MS, CCGC
Orillia Soldier’s Memorial Hospital - Lesley Solomon-Izsak
Mackenzie Health Richmond Hill Hospital
- Melanie Care, CGC
University Health Network, Mount Sinai Hospital - Melyssa Aronson, CGC
Familial Gastrointestinal Cancer Registry, Mount Sinai Hospital - Nora Wong, CGC
Jewish General Hospital - Philip Wyatt, MD, PhD
Orillia Soldier’s Memorial Hospital, Mackenzie Health Richmond Hill Hospital
- Rhonda Tannenbaum
Ontario Genomics Institute - Sheri Horsburgh, MSc
University Health Network, Mount Sinai Hospital - Spring Holter, MS, CCGC
Familial Gastrointestinal Cancer Registry, Mount Sinai Hospital - Stephen Scherer, PhD, DSc, FRSC
McLaughlin Centre, University of Toronto - William Foulkes, MD, PhD
McGill University Health Network, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal General Hospital