Scientific Advisory Committee on Digital Health Technologies membership list and biographies

Executive Director, University Health Network
Biomedical Engineering
Healthcare Human Factors
Centre for Digital Therapeutics
Toronto, ON

Dr. Joseph A. Cafazzo is the Executive Director for both the Centre for Digital Therapeutics and the Healthcare Human Factors teams at the University Health Network and holds the Wolfond Chair in Digital Health. Dr. Cafazzo is an active researcher of the use of technology to facilitate patient self-care of complex chronic conditions. He has advised and conducted research for public-sector policy makers and private-sector medical technology companies on the design and safety of technology in health care. At the University of Toronto, Dr. Cafazzo is an Associate Professor within the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, and the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, with a focus in the areas of clinical engineering, human factors and health informatics. He is the recipient of the Career Scientist award by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.

Chief Medical Information Officer and Critical Care Physician
Mackenzie Health
Richmond Hill, ON

Aviv Gladman is an adult critical care physician and CMIO at Mackenzie Health in Richmond Hill. He obtained his Bachelor of Applied Science in Engineering Science in 1994 and his Master of Applied Science in Medical Engineering in 1997, both from the University of Toronto. As a junior engineer, he was mystified by the disconnect between clinicians, technology and workflow, and went on to receive his medical degree from University of Toronto in 2003. Dr. Gladman has been Chief Medical Information Officer at Mackenzie Health since 2013, where he has a leadership role in applied innovation. He was also Chief Information Officer at Mackenzie Health between 2019 and 2022. He has previously served on the boards of the Mackenzie Innovation Institute and the Ontario chapter of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.

Chief Executive Officer, HealthPartners
Ottawa, ON

Kimberley Hanson joined HealthPartners as Chief Executive Officer in February 2023. She is a seasoned executive with a track record of strong leadership and execution, experience in the health charity sector and an expert in corporate strategy, public affairs and communications. In recent years, she has worked as a strategic advisor to many organizations in the health and chronic disease community as Vice President at Hill + Knowlton Strategies and Executive Director of Advocacy at Diabetes Canada. Prior to that, Kimberley held various senior management positions in Crown corporations, including Payments Canada and Export Development Canada.

Lead, Digital Emergency Medicine
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC

Dr. Kendall Ho is an emergency specialist at the Vancouver General Hospital and a professor in the University of British Columbia (UBC) Faculty of Medicine. He received his medical degree from UBC and completed his emergency medicine training at McGill University. His research focuses on digital health applications in emergency and community interface and raising digital health literacy, with research partnerships in Canada, Asia and Europe. He has completed more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and regularly presented at international, national and regional meetings. He has received multiple awards, including the eHealth Education Award from the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada, eHealth Clinician Award from Digital Health Canada and BC awards. He is a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and a member of the National Research Council Medical Devices Advisory Board.

Chief Medical Information Officer, Unity Health Toronto
Innovation Fellow, Institute of Health System Solutions and Virtual Care, Women's College Hospital
Toronto, ON

Dr. Trevor Jamieson is a practising general internist, CMIO of Unity Health Toronto since 2020, an innovation fellow at the Women's College Hospital Institute of Health System Solutions and Virtual Care (WIHV) since 2015, and an assistant professor at the University of Toronto since 2010. He holds an MD from the University of Toronto, specialty training in general internal medicine from UBC and a Master's of Biomedical Informatics from Oregon Health Science University in Portland, Oregon. His focus is on clinical informatics, particularly its intersection with quality improvement initiatives. He also sits on a variety of permanent and ad-hoc federal and provincial governmental tables that discuss health data and interoperability, regional and provincial IT initiatives, and virtual care. In his CMIO role, he provides clinical leadership to a 3-hospital network, helping to ensure the appropriate integration of digital tools into clinical environments.

Interim CEO/Chief Scientific Officer, Bruyère Research Institute
Vice President Research & Academic Affairs, Bruyère Continuing Care
Ottawa, ON

Dr. Wilson is interim CEO/Chief Scientific Officer, Bruyère Research Institute and Vice President Research & Academic Affairs, Bruyère Continuing Care.

He is a specialist in internal medicine at The Ottawa Hospital and full professor and Clinical Research Chair in Digital Health Innovation at the University of Ottawa. He is the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of CANImmunize, a company specializing in immunization software. He holds an MSc in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics from McMaster University, and Doctor of Medicine and FRCP(C) in Internal Medicine from Western University. His research focuses on digital health, health data, immunization, pandemic preparedness, public health policy and innovation, blood safety and newborn screening, health ethics and law policy. He has explored vaccine hesitancy and the evaluation of vaccine safety, including advocating for vaccine injury compensation. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles and received funding from CIHR, WHO and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Distinguished Professor, Tier 1 Clinical Research Chair in Precision Medicine for Disease, Departments of Family Medicine and Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa
Scientist, C.T. Lamont Primary Health Care Research Centre
Scientist, Bruyère Research Institute
Senior Medical Advisor, Health Analysis Division, Statistics Canada
Senior Core Scientist, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON

Dr. Manuel is a medical doctor specializing in public health and preventive medicine, with a Masters in Epidemiology. He earned his medical degree at Dalhousie University and served as chief of staff at a hospital in Churchill, Manitoba, catering to remote Inuit communities. Recognizing the need to address preventable causes of health issues, he pursued further studies in public health and epidemiology at the University of Toronto. With over 300 research papers, including publications in prestigious journals like the New England Journal of Medicine and the British Medical Journal, he has made significant contributions to public health. He has also held a Chair in Applied Public Health from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and has spearheaded various public health research programs.

Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Professor, University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, Adjunct Professor in Computing Science
Senior Program Director, Artificial Intelligence Adoption, Alberta Health Services
Researcher with AMII (Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute)

Dr. Mitchell is currently a professor in the Department of Medicine and the Senior Program Director of Artificial Intelligence Adoption with Alberta Health Services (AHS). He received his PhD at the University of Western Ontario and has been working in the fields of biomedical imaging, artificial intelligence and machine learning for 30 years. Dr. Mitchell was the inaugural Artificial Intelligence Officer at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute in Tampa, Florida, from 2019 to 2021. There, he led efforts to develop AI tools to improve the efficiency and quality of cancer care, including models to predict patient outcomes from electronic health record data and natural language processing to infer diagnostic codes from free-text pathology reports. He was also a Professor of Radiology at Mayo Clinic in Arizona from 2011 to 2019 and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Radiology, and Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Calgary from 2000 to 2011.