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Our members

Canadian Medication Appropriateness and Deprescribing Network committee members are leading health care providers, researchers and patient advocates. Their work engages Canadian seniors, their families, communities and health care providers in conversations and initiatives that promote the safe and appropriate use of medication.

Click on the links below to view the list of committee members:
Executive Committee
Public Awareness Committee
Health Care Provider Committee
Research Committee
Indigenization Working Group

Executive Committee

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    Emily McDonald

    (MD, MSc, FRCPC)
    Director, Chair of Executive Committee,
    Associate Professor of Medicine and Subspecialist in General Internal Medicine, McGill University Health Centre
    Associate Chair of Quality and Safety, McGill Department of Medicine

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    David Gardner

    (PharmD, MSc)
    Professor, Department of Psychiatry and College of Pharmacy, Dalhousie University
    Co-lead, Sleepwell

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    Justin Lee

    (BPharm, ACPR, MD, PhD)
    Co-chair, Research Committee
    Assistant Professor,     Department of Medicine, McMaster University
    Associate Research Director,     Centre for Integrated Care
    Clinician Scientist,     GERAS Center for Aging Research

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    Lisa McCarthy

    (PharmD, MSc)
    Co-chair,     Research Committee
    Associate Professor, University of Toronto
    Clinician Scientist, Trillium Health Partners

  • Jason Min

    (BPharm, PharmD)
    Co-Chair, Health Care Provider Committee; Associate Professor of Teaching, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of British Columbia
    Co-Principal Investigator,     Uprooting Pharmacy: A Two-Eyed Seeing Path for Change

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    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,     Sleepwell

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    Connie Newman

    Chair, Public Awareness Committee
    Executive Director,     Manitoba Association of Senior Communities
    Member, Age Friendly Manitoba

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    Lalitha Raman-Wilms

    (BPharm, PharmD, ACPR, FCSHP)
    Co-Chair,     Health Care Provider Committee
    Professor, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of British Columbia

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    Amber Ruben

    (BPharm)
    Chair,     Indigenization Working Group.
    MSc Student, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Alberta
    Consultant, Indigenous Health Equity & Reconciliation, Covenant Health, Misericordia Community Hospital

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    Mina Tadrous

    (PharmD, MSc, PhD)
    Health Policy Advisor,
    Associate Professor, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto

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    Wade Thompson

    (BPharm, PharmD, MSc, PhD)
    Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
    Member, Therapeutics Initiative

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    Johanna Trimble

    Patient Champion, Patients for Patient Safety Canada
    Member, Patients in Education, Vancouver Coastal Health Community Advisory Network, BC Patient Voices Network, Doctors of BC, BC Polypharmacy Risk Reduction

Public Awareness Committee

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    Connie Newman

    Chair, Public Awareness Committee
    Executive director,     Manitoba Association of Senior Communities. Member, Age Friendly Manitoba

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    Bill Berryman

    Vice President, Seniors Advisory Council of Nova Scotia

  • Laurent Dupuis

    Patient Partner, Quebec Pain Research Network

  • Kenneth Fung

    Executive Director, Calgary Chinese Elderly Citizens’ Association

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    Leslie Gaudette

    (MSc)
    President, Council of Senior Citizens Organizations of BC

  • Louisette Hinton

    First Vice President, Congress of Union Retirees of Canada

  • Nira Lalji

    (MHSc)
    Patient partner

  • Songyan Liu

    (PhD)
    Executive Vice President, Winnipeg Chinese Senior Association (WCSA)

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    Linda Oldford

    First Vice-President, Newfoundland and Labrador 50+ Federation

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    Holly Schick

    Executive Director, Saskatchewan Seniors’ Mechanism

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    Johanna Trimble

    Patient Champion, Patients for Patient Safety Canada. Member, Vancouver Coastal Health Community Advisory Network, BC Patient Voices Network

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    Geoff Wong

    Acting Program Manager (Support Program), Calgary Chinese Elderly Citizens’ Association

Health Care Provider Committee

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    Lalitha Raman-Wilms

    (BPharm, PharmD, ACPR, FCSHP)
    Co-Chair,     Health Care Provider Committee
    Professor, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of British Columbia

  • Jason Min

    (BPharm, PharmD)
    Co-Chair, Health Care Provider Committee; Associate Professor of Teaching, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of British Columbia
    Co-Principal Investigator,     Uprooting Pharmacy: A Two-Eyed Seeing Path for Change

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    Allison Bell

    (BPharm, MSc)
    Pharmacy Manager,     Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, Long Term Care

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    Émilie Bortolussi-Courval

    (RN, PhD)
    MD Student, Université de Sherbrooke

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    Barbara Farrell

    (BPharm, PharmD, ACPR, FCSHP)
    Lead,     Bruyère Research Institute Evidence-Based Deprescribing Guidelines Research Team, deprescribing.org
    Co-Founder, Canadian Medication Appropriateness and Deprescribing Network

  • Alexa Harvey

    (BSc)
    Pharmacy student, University of Ottawa

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    Jennifer Isenor

    (BPharm, RPh, PharmD)
    Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy and Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University
    Co-Lead,     Optimizing Therapy Through Collaboration (OPTx)

  • Natalie Kennie-Kaulbach

    BSc(Pharm), ACPR, PharmD
    Assistant professor, College of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University

  • Ullanda Niel

    (MD, FCFP)
    Family Physician, Surrey Place, Toronto; Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto; Adjunct Assistant professor, Department of Family Medicine, Queen’s University

  • Solveig Nilson

    (MD, CCFP)
    Assistant Clinical Professor, Family Medicine Unit, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan

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    Louise Papillon-Ferland

    (BPharm, MSc)
    Associate Clinical Professor, Faculty of Pharmacy and Michel Saucier Endowed Chair of Geriatric Pharmacology, Health, and Aging, University of Montréal
    Pharmacist, Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal

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    Elizabeth Rhynold

    (MD, FRCPC)
    Assistant Professor, Geriatric Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan

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    Cheryl A. Sadowski

    (BPharm, PharmD, BCGP, FCSHP)
    Professor, Faculty of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Alberta

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    Brenda Schuster

    (BSP, ACPR, PharmD, FCSHP)
    Previous Co-Chair,     Health Care Provider Committee
    Clinical Pharmacist

  • Cheryl Smith

    (NP, DNP)
    Nurse practitioner, Nova Scotia Health Authority

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    Winnie Sun

    (RN, PhD)
    Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ontario Tech University

  • Susan Sutherland

    (DDS, MSc)
    Choosing Wisely Co-Lead in Dentistry; Associate Professor, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto.

  • Carolyn Tan

    (MD, MSc, FRCPC)
    Staff Physician, Geriatric Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and GeriMedRisk; Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto

  • Anupam Thakur

    (MBBS, MD, MSc)
    Psychiatrist-in-chief and DDPCP clinical lead (mental health), Surrey Place, Toronto; Assistant professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto

  • Samuel Trottier-Lapointe

    (pht. M.Sc. MBA)
    President, Quebec Physiotherapy Association
    Physiotherapist in a family medicine unit

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    Jennifer Tung

    (PharmD, ACPR, BCGP)
    Pharmacy Lead    , GeriMedRisk

Research Committee