National Institute on Nursing Informatics

February 3, 4 & 5, 2012

Organizing Faculty

Course Director

Lynn M. Nagle RN, PhD

Assistant Professor, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

On faculty at the University of Toronto, Dr. Nagle teaches informatics courses in graduate programs in nursing, health administration, and health informatics. In addition to her own informatics consulting practice, Nagle & Associates Inc., she is a Strategic Advisor for eHealth and Director in the Health Services Practice at Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP. She is Editor-in-Chief for the Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership and the current Canadian representative to IMIA-NI. Known internationally for her work in clinical informatics, she has many publications and presentations to her credit. Dr. Nagle has been recognized for her national contributions to nursing and health informatics as the recipient of Canada’s Health Informatics Organization (COACH) inaugural Leadership award in 2005, the University of Rochester’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 2005, and the Canadian Nurses Association’s Centennial Award in 2008.

Core Faculty

Leanne M. Currie RN, DNSc

Associate Professor, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Dr. Currie conducts research in the area of patient and clinician information seeking and decision making in the context of patient safety including fall and injury prevention in acute care and mental health settings, wound management, antibiotic prescribing and telehealth, She focuses on sociotechnical systems, decision support and visual analytics for user interface design. She teaches informatics and research methods including evidence-based practice and information literacy.

Richard Booth RN, MScN, PhD(c)

Doctoral Candidate, Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, The University of Western Ontario, Ontario, Canada
Instructor, School of Nursing, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
Adjunct Professor (SGS Associate Member), Department of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Richard Booth is a doctoral candidate at The University of Western Ontario studying clinician learning and adoption of health technology. He works clinically as a psychiatric-mental health nurse in the adult psychosis program at St. Joseph’s Health Care London. In the past, he has consulted on various health informatics projects, including the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario, Nursing and eHealth project. Currently, he is a tutor in the undergraduate nursing program at McMaster University and co-instructs a graduate health informatics course at the University of Toronto. His current research interests include social media, consumer informatics, and eHealth.

Lorie Donelle RN, PhD

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Western Ontario (UWO) , London, Ontario

Dr. Donelle is also jointly appointed to the School of Nursing and the School of Health Studies. Dr. Donelle focuses her teaching and research interests on health promotion, health literacy, and the use of information technology within healthcare. Dr. Donelle’s research explores the concept of health literacy and its influence on consumer health. Paralleling this is her interest in eHealth, which explores the relationship between information technology, (e.g. Internet, electronic health record, personal health record), and consumer health practices. Previous research projects have included: (1) an assessment of health literacy and consumer understanding of online health information, (2) assessment of online social network sites in promoting health among ethnically diverse and marginalized populations, and (3) investigation of health literacy and individuals with chronic disease.

Kathryn Hannah RN, PhD

Adjunct Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, University of Utah, USA
Professor, Clinical Medicine, American University of Antigua, Antigua, W.I.

Dr. Hannah is a nurse and a senior health informatics consultant specializing in information management in health environments. With over 30 years of experience in academia, health care delivery, government and the private sector, Dr. Hannah has a rich depth of knowledge and experience in health care delivery organizations, the health system and in nursing. She also has extensive experience in knowledge transfer and change management as a consultant, workshop leader and an educator. Dr. Hannah is the author of several textbooks and numerous articles on computers in health care and health informatics. In November 2008, The Canadian Nurses Association awarded Dr. Hannah the prestigious Centennial Award, in recognition of her pioneering leadership in promoting the involvement of nurses in the development and use of information systems in health care.

Adjunct Faculty

Peter Catford MBA

Adjunct Faculty, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
Chair of Ontario’s Health Informatics Standards Council

Mr. Catford has been a leader in information systems consulting, development and management for thirty-five years. He is adjunct faculty at the University of Toronto and is the Chair of Ontario’s Health Informatics Standards Council. He completed his MBA at the Richard Ivey School of Business in London Ontario. Previously, he was the Vice President of Information Management at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and more recently he has concentrated in the development, marketing and implementation of the TREAT clinical documentation system, which is in use in many hospitals health provider agencies and facilities across North America.

Maureen M. Charlebois RN, BScN, MHSc, CHE

Chief Nursing Executive & Group Director, Clinical Adoption, Canada Health Infoway.

Ms. Charlebois provides national leadership to facilitate clinical engagement, advance best practices in the clinician adoption of electronic health information solutions and support the measurement and realization of benefits through an integrated approach to change management, adoption, knowledge translation and benefits evaluation. Ms. Charlebois has held a number of senior leadership positions in Acute Care, Community Care, Long-Term Care and with the Ontario Ministry of Health, Continuing Care eHealth division. She served as a surveyor with the Canadian Council of Health Services Accreditation for six years and is a past board member of the Canadian College of Health Service Executives Toronto GTA Chapter. She currently serves as a Board member on Canada’s Health Informatics Association and the Canadian Virtual Health Library.

Diane Doran RN, PhD, FCAHS

Professor, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Scientific Director of the Nursing Health Services Research Unit (University of Toronto site).
Adjunct professor, Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
Adjunct Professor, School of Nursing, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario.

Dr. Doran joined the Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto in 1995, where she served as associate dean of research and international relations (2001-2006), interim dean (2005), and is currently a full Professor. Her research focuses on outcomes measurement, knowledge translation, patient safety, and e-health. Dr. Doran is a recipient of a senior nurse researcher award from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. She is an elected member of the Canadian Academy of Health Science, and a past recipient of the Ontario Premier’s Research Excellence Award. Her research has been recognized by the Canadian Association of University Schools of Nursing Award of Excellence; the Dorothy Pringle Research Excellence Award, Sigma Theta Tau International, Lambda Pi Chapter; and most recently through the Canadian Nurses’ Association Centennial Award. She is currently leading a team of researchers and decision makers focused on a pan Canadian study of home care patient safety, funded by the Canadian Patient Safety Institute, Canadian Institutes for Health Research, and the Ontario Change Foundation.

Helen Edwards RN, BA, MN

Director, Clinical Informatics and Technology Assisted Programs, Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)

Ross Fraser CISSP, ISSAP

Principal, Sextant Software Corporation

Ross Fraser is an acknowledged expert in healthcare privacy and security. He has lectured on confidentiality, authentication, cryptography, and digital signatures across Canada, the US, and the UK and has written security policies and implemented security systems for private sector corporations, Canadian governments and Ministries of Health, the National Health Service in Great Britain, and health care organizations in the not-for-profit sector. Ross also served for six years as convenor of the health informatics security working group at ISO, the International Standards Organization (ISO), and was senior editor of four international standards on privacy and security in health care.

Dr. Margie Kennedy BScN, MN, PhD

Prinicipal, Kennedy Health Informatics

Dr. Kennedy is a seasoned clinician, educator, nursing informatics expert, author, and health care executive. As Principal of Kennedy Health Informatics Inc., she has played a leading role in the mapping of C-HOBIC to the International Classification of Nursing Practice (ICNP) and into SNOMED CT. Dr. Kennedy is President of the Canadian Nursing Informatics Association and sits on the Organizing Committee of the NI2012.

Laurie Poole RN, BScN, MHSA

Vice President, Telemedicine Solutions
Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN)

Ms. Poole is a strong advocate for the use of information, communications and technology in health care and has worked in the field of telehealth for 14 years, providing leadership and oversight for a number of innovative telehealth programs in Canada. Currently, she is leading OTN’s telehomecare program which is designed to support patients with chronic diseases through the use of technology, health coaching, and self-management. Ms. Poole is also the Past President of the Canadian Society of Telehealth (CST). She is a recognized speaker and has presented at a number of national and international conferences and workshops.

Sally Remus RN, BScN MScN

Nursing/Health Informatics Specialist

Ms. Remus is an accomplished healthcare executive who has diversified experiences as a clinician, nurse informatician, management consultant and educator. Her current work focuses in transforming care delivery models that better meet patient safety and quality agendas by helping clinicians modernize their practices through the adoption of electronic patient/health record applications. Sally holds professional appointments at Canada Health Infoway’s Nursing Reference Group & Standards Collaborative; and at the University of Toronto’s Lawrence S. Bloomberg, Faculty of Nursing where she obtained her MScN. 

Diane Salois-Swallow RN, BScN, MEd

Chief Information Officer, York Central Hospital and Southlake Regional Health Centre/Stevenson Memorial Hospital.

Ms. Salois-Swallow is responsible for Information and Communications Technology at York Central Hospital and Southlake Regional Health Centre/Stevenson Memorial Hospital. Ms. Salois-Swallow received her BScN from Universite de Sherbrooke, and obtained her Masters in Education from University of Victoria.

Peggy White RN, MN

Operations Lead for Health outcomes for Better Information and Care (HOBIC) Program

Ms White has an extensive background as a health care leader in the acute care sector. The HOBIC initiative is implementing the electronic collection of standardized nursing information across Ontario for abstraction onto a provincial database. Peggy is the Project Director for C-HOBIC, a Canada Health Infoway funded initiative that is building on the work of HOBIC, to foster nursing uptake of EHRs by providing content in the EHR that adds value to nursing practice.