Executive Committee Members
James L. Silvius, BA (Oxon), MD, FRCPC
Clinical Professor & Geriatrician, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
Senior Medical Director, Provincial Seniors Health & Continuing Care, Alberta Health Services
Chair, Executive Committee
Executive Director, Canadian Medication Appropriateness and Deprescribing Network
Emily McDonald, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Associate Professor of Medicine and Subspecialist in General Internal Medicine, McGill University Health Centre
Associate Chair of Quality and Safety, McGill Department of Medicine
Co-chair, Executive Committee
Scientific Director, Canadian Medication Appropriateness and Deprescribing Network
Twitter : @DrEmilyMcD
Barbara Farrell, BScPhm, PharmD, ACPR, FCSHP
Lead, Bruyère Research Institute Evidence-Based Deprescribing Guidelines Research Team, deprescribing.org
Cofounder, Canadian Medication Appropriateness and Deprescribing Network
David Gardner, PharmD, MSc
Professor, Department of Psychiatry and College of Pharmacy
Dalhousie University
Co-lead, MySleepwell
Lisa McCarthy, PharmD, MSc
Clinician Scientist, Trillium Health Partners
Associate Professor, University of Toronto
Chair, Research Committee
Andrea Murphy, BScPharm, ACPR, PharmD
Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy, Dalhousie University
Clinic Pharmacist, The Dalhousie University School of Social Work Community Clinic
Co-Lead, MySleepwell
Connie Newman
Executive Director, Manitoba Association of Senior Communities
Member, Age Friendly Manitoba
Chair, Public Awareness Committee
Lalitha Raman-Wilms, BPharm, PharmD, ACPR, FCSHP
Dean and Professor, College of Pharmacy, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba
Co-Chair, Health Care Provider Committee
Wade Thompson, BScPharm, PharmD, MSc, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
Member, Therapeutics Initiative
Johanna Trimble
Patient Champion, Patients for Patient Safety Canada
Member, Patients in Education, Vancouver Coastal Health Community Advisory Network (CEAN), BC Patient Voices Network, Geriatrics and Palliative Care Committee - Doctors of BC, Steering Committee - BC Polypharmacy Risk Reduction Initiative
Justin Turner, BPharm, MClinPharm, PhD
Senior Lecturer, Monash University
Principal Investigator and Scientific Director, SaferMedsNL
International Consultant, Canadian Medication Appropriateness and Deprescribing Network
Justin Turner was Scientific Director of the Network from 2016 to 2022.