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QIDS Specialists and QIDSS-like folk | Click map for details

Quality Improvement Decision Support (QIDS) Specialists

Mo AlHaj (St. Michael’s Hospital Academic FHT)

Cameron Berry (Kawartha North FHT)

Victoria Bui, Mary Mouck, Rachel Kott, Urslin Fevrier-Thomas (Hamilton FHT)

Mitch Chartier (Elliot Lake FHT)

Elizabeth Forde, Laura Weichel (Barrie & Community FHT)

William Homerston (Queen Square FHT)

Amanda Hiemstra (Peterborough FHT)

Rajat Kumar (Upper Canada FHT)

Zach Mathew (East GTA FHT)

Lindsay McGee (North Huron FHT)

Julie Moody (Kirkland District FHT)

Sandra Palmer (Toronto Western FHT)

Meghan Peters (City of Lakes FHT)

Joyce Stansell (Nipigon District FHT)

Matthew Terrill (STAR FHT)

Lynn Turcotte (Great Northern FHT)

Joel Wilson (East Wellington FHT)

Debi Page, Hailey Barker (Windsor FHT)

Melonie Young (Sunset Country FHT)

Sarah Grace Bebenek (North Simcoe FHT)

Lisa Hawkins, Robert Cihelka (Petawawa Centennial Family Health Centre)

Wendy Dalby (Trent Hills FHT)

Samantha Gupta (Central Brampton FHT)

Shuchi Ranasinghe (Timmins Academic FHT)

Sima Sajedinejad (Summerville FHT)

Tamara Bruce (Fort William FHT)

Wasiema Gohozar (Guelph FHT)

Connor Kemps (Maple FHT)

Peter Nguyen (Health for All FHT)

Gwen Montroy (Bancroft Community FHT)

Desa Marin (Village FHT)

QIDSS-Like

Although they are not QIDS Specialists in name, their work encompasses many of a QIDS Specialist’s roles.

Margaret Cousins (epidemiologist, Marathon FHT)

Denise McRiner (Quality Improvement Specialist, North York FHT)

Desiree DeMelo (Health Outcomes Assessor, New Vision FHT)

Kelly McConnell (Quality Coordinator- Projects and Programs, Thames Valley FHT)

Chance Spencer (Prescott FHT)

Gwen Kostal (Manager of Quality and Programs, Upper Grand FHT)

Leanne Taylor (Program Assistant, Dryden Area FHT)

Lindsay Donaldson (Research & Evaluation Manager, The centre for family medicine fHT)

Julie Ann Gamache (EMR & Data Collection Assistant, Équipe de santé familiale Nord-Aski FHT)

Angela Holbrook (Data management Coordinator, Bancroft Community FHT)

Hilary Blackett (Manager of Quality and Programs, Upper Grand FHT)

Niharika Kumar (EMR IT Specialist, Upper Grand FHT)

Lisa Blevins (Communications and Payroll Administrator, Couchiching FHT)

Natalie Scidmore (Quality Coordinator- Data and Informatics, Thames Valley FHT)

Allan Lam (IT System Specialist, Carefirst FHT)

Amanda Gomez (Manager of Quality Risk and Performance, Carea CHC)

Sheri McMenemy (Executive Director, Dryden Area FHT)

Jeremy Howcroft (Manager of Integrated Care, eHealth Centre of Excellence)

Suja Arackal (Data Manager, North York FHT)

Derek Ditner (Kinesiologist/QI Support, Brockton And Area FHT)

Kassandra Loewen (Quality Decision Support Specialist, AHACs)

Melanie Anger (Manager of Quality, Experience and Patient Safety, Thamesview FHT)

Candice Potts (Administrative Assistant, Atikokan FHT)

Jordan Weber (Finance and Quality Manager, Couchiching FHT)

Leanne Aarts (Research and Evaluation Assistant, Centre for Family Medicine)

Stephanie Nash (Data and Quality Improvement Analyst, Queen’s FHT)

Tamara Belfer (Executive Director, Carefirst FHT)

Rachel Sales (Medical Billing/Super User, Tilbury District FHT)

Emily Landry (QI and EMR Support Specialist, Dufferin Area FHT)

Jill Strong (Director of Operations, Thames Valley FHT)

Tara Lambert (Research Assistant, Centre for Family Medicine)

Christina Park-Christmas (IT Lead, Parry Sound FHT)

Abel Gebreyesus (QI And Data Coach, Excellence in Quality Improvement Project, AMHO and CMHA Ontario)

Jasmine Zhu (System Information Coordinator, Guelph FHT)

Maeve Clark-Tyrrell (QI Support, Hamilton FHT)

Bonnie Ramsay (Program Assistant, Kingston FHT)

Stacy-Ann-Walker-Brown (Executive Director, Hamilton FHT)

Jennifer Sarkella (QI and Performance Lead, Ontario’s Community Health Centres)

Lee Kapuscinski (Manager of QI and Evaluation, Guelph FHT)

Michael Murray (Manager of QI and Programs, South East Toronto FHT)

Quality Improvement & Information Management Support

In the spring and summer of 2018, three Quality Improvement & Information Management Support persons (QIIMS) came onboard to support Ontario’s 25 Nurse-Practitioner-Led Clinics (NPLCs).

Ed Donaldson (Sudbury District & Partner NPLCs)

Kathryn Nicholson (Ingersoll NPLC & partner NPLCs)

Quality Specialists