Outreach and Patient Advocacy Workgroup

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