SPEAKERS AND PRESENTERS

Presenters have been chosen for their expertise in Summer School themes.
They bring broad-based experience in health promotion, and knowledge in many
diverse areas, including:

• mental health promotion concepts
• health promotion in primary care and community settings
• First Peoples Medicine Wheel
• healthy public policy development
• inclusion, stigma and diversity
• planning and program design

LIST OF PRESENTERS
Declaration of Potential Conflict of Interest: Speakers will be requested to disclose to the audience, any real or apparent conflict(s) of interest that may have a direct bearing on the subject matter of this program.

Biographies of All Presenters

CLOSING PLENARY SPEAKER - Children's Advocate

	Andrée Ruffo, former Judge (Children's), la chambre de la jeunesse de la cours du Québec

Andree Ruffo will speak about what it takes to be who we are. When we don't have clarity about who we are, we need love, communication, and interaction with others, food, housing and other  determinants of life as well as a sense of spirituality and a way  to contribute to society. She will then talk about what happens  when we are in positions of responsibility and authority to make decisions that affect others and the importance of being clear about who we are to do that job well. She brings a wealth of experience and examples from her work in Quebec as a judge and child advocate.

Branka Agic, Community Health and Education Specialist, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Josie d'Avernas, Health Promotion Consulting
Heather Campbell, Chapter Director, National Coalition Building Institute
Annette Chrétien, PhD, Research Fellow at the Canadian Museum of Civilization,  Gatineau, Quebec
Connie Clement, Executive Director, Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse
Walter J. Cooke, Elder/Counsellor, Ojibway-Cree of the Bear Clan, De dwa da dehs nyejs Aboriginal Health Centre (Hamilton and Brantford)
Michelle Currie, M.Ed., OISE/UT
Karen Davison, Doctoral Candidate, University of Calgary
Jeff Desmoulin, Chief, Pic Mobert
The Dream Team with Carol Dunphy, Coordinator and Volunteer Member of the Dream Team Speakers Panel
Manuela Ferrari, MHSc., Ph.D. (C), graduate student in Health Behavioural Sciences, Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto
Paul-André Gauthier, President of GIIFO (Ontario provincial association of Francophone nurses) and Director of Finance, CNSIG
Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg, Environmental Health, Global Education and Film Consultant,
Volunteer Education Coordinator, Women's Healthy Environments Network
Mélanie Guertin, Projects Leader, OPHEA (Ontario Physical and Health Education Association) /Curriculum and School-Based Health Resource Centre (CSBHRC)
Elaine Hampson, Public Health Nurse, OPHA, Public Health Alliance for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual, Transgender, Intersex, Queer and Questioning Equity
Dave Holmes, PhD, RN, associate professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, University of Ottawa
Suzanne Jackson, Director, Centre for Health Promotion and Chair of HPSS
Jan Kahehti:io Longboat, Elder, Traditional Teacher, Herbalist, Traditional Counsellor
Ron Kanutski, Social Worker, Native Cultural Coordinator/Counsellor, Care Consulting, Children's Centre, Thunder Bay
Marianne Kobus-Matthews, Senior Health Promotion Consultant, Policy, Education and Health Promotion, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and Co-Chair of HPSS 2007
Gillian Kranias, Co-Coordinator, Ontario Self-Help Network Program, the Self-Help Resource Centre Susan Lalonde Rankin, Project Consultant, Simcoe County, CAMH
Kinsey Lewis, Shout Clinic Therapist, Central Toronto Community Health Centre
Dr. Joel Lexchin, Professor, School of Health Policy and Management, York University; Emergency Physician, University Health Network; Medical Reform Group of Ontario, Health Action International, Healthy Skepticism
Brenda MacIntyre, Workshop Facilitator, Recording/Performing Artist
Jamie Maracle and the Wahahi:io Drum Group (Mohawk)
Mary Martin-Rowe, Health Promotion Consultant, Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse
Ted Mavor, Coordinator of Health Promotion, Grand River Hospital (Kitchener)
Jill McDowell, Health Promotion Consultant, Environmental Protection Office, Toronto Public Health
Peter Menzies, Service Manager, Aboriginal Services, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
(CAMH)
Bonnie Pape (Former Director of Programs and Research at Canadian  Mental Health Association), Independent Consultant.
Rita Piazza, Certified Yoga Instructor
Sharlene Pitts, Laurentian University Student Nurse, Year 3
Mary Quarterone, Project Consultant, GTA Regional Services, Education and Health Promotion Department, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
Caroline Recollet, National Coalition Building Institute
Melita Richardson , Art Therapist
Cindy Rose, Health Promotion Consultant, Vicarious Trauma, Toronto Public Health
Martin Shain, Principal, The Neighbour at Work Centre
Dr. Barry Stanley, Psychotherapist in private practice and with De dwa da dehs nye>s, Hamilton Aboriginal Community Health Centre
Andrea Stevens Lavigne, Fellow, Centre for Health Promotion
Loren Vanderlinden, Supervisor, Environmental Health Assessment & Policy, Environmental Protection Office, Toronto Public Health
Elizabeth Votta, Program Lead, Reports and Analysis, Canadian Population Health Initiative
Suzanne Witt-Foley, Program Consultant, Muskoka Parry Sound, CAMH
Young Spirit Youth Drum & Sweet Grass Sisters Hand Drum Group

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