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May 18, 2010 "Respect and Protect" - 2010 Annual Provincial Conference & Exhibition
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Dr Karen Ethans, MD, FRCPC
(PM+R) is a Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation specialist with a
specialty in Spinal Cord Injury
Medicine and special interest in
spasticity management. She is
active in teaching and research as
well as the inpatient and outpatient
clinical care of people with spinal
cord injury (SCI) and other long-term
neurologic conditions. She also runs
a spasticity clinic and an intrathecal
baclofen pump program. Dr. Ethans
is active nationally on the board of
the Canadian Association of
Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation. She manages to
balance all of this with her home life
where she is a mother of 2 small
children and a wife of another busy
physician.
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Alister Browne, Ph.D, (Philosophy), is
a Clinical Professor and the Ethics
Theme Director in the Faculty of
Medicine at the University of British
Columbia, where he teaches ethics to
medical students. He is a member of
the ethics committees of Vancouver
General Hospital and GF Strong and
George Pearson Centres, and is on the
Board of Directors of the BC Civil
Liberties Association. For the human
interest touch, Alister grows roses
competitively and plays softball
increasingly noncompetitively. He lives
in Vancouver with his wife, who is also
a philosopher, and has a daughter who
is becoming one at the University of
Toronto.
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Janelle Curtis works with the Manitoba Seniors and
Healthy Aging Secretariat as the Elder Abuse
Consultant.
Janelle has a Bachelor's degree in Human Ecology with
a Minor in Aging. In her previous role, Janelle worked as
the Resource Coordinator for the Seven Oaks Seniors'
Links for over 3 years. She also has had work and
volunteer experiences with a number of senior serving
organizations in Winnipeg, including Age & Opportunity
and Good Neighbours Senior Centre. Janelle's
background includes experiences in health promotion,
active living and research on living environments in long
term care while working at Deer Lodge Centre.
Janelle also has volunteered and participated in elder
abuse initiatives including the 1st annual elder abuse
conference in Manitoba, World Elder Abuse Awareness
Day, and elder abuse workshops for service providers.
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Susan Crichton is currently working with the Public Health Agency
of Canada, Division of Aging and Seniors, as the Senior Policy
Analyst for the public health component of the Federal Elder Abuse
Initiative.
This work is part of a two and half year interchange agreement
between the Public Health Agency and the Province of Manitoba
where Susan led the provincial Elder Abuse Strategy since 2001.
Earlier in her career, Susan worked in victim services where she
provided support to older people affected by crimes.
Susan holds a Bachelor of Human Ecology in Family Social
Sciences and a Master of Science in Family Social Sciences, both
from the University of Manitoba.
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Paul Lamoureux joined the Corporate Services Branch of Manitoba Health and
Healthy Living as the first Manager of the Protection for Persons in Care Office in
March 2001. Other positions that Paul has held within Manitoba Health include
Secretary/Administrator, Manitoba Health Appeal Board and the Health Liaison for
Interlake and Churchill Regional Health Authorities. He has used his experiences
in working with the regional health authorities and the public to enhance the
operation of the Protection for Persons in Care Office. Paul's background also
includes extensive experience in the health promotion, active living and corporate
wenness fields and he has a Masters of Arts degree specializing in Program
Administration and Health Promotion.
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Lynda Wolf is an occupational therapist with an extensive background in program
development and implementation for residents in long term care facilities in
Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba. Her primary clinical interests have been the
preservation and enhancement of the personhood of long term care residents
through promoting their communication and functional performance. To this end
she has implemented the principles of cognitive and sensory stimulation,
environmental modification and functional performance as we" as reminiscence
and life history review. She has worked closely with health care aides in the
development of functional performance programs for residents in the late stages
of dementia. She is currently involved in the development of end of life programs
for individuals with life limiting illnesses. Ms. Wolf is currently a Ph.D. candidate in
the Applied Health Sciences Program at the University of Manitoba.
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Sherry Dupuis is associate professor in the
Department of Recreation and Leisure
Studies, director of the Murray Alzheimer
Research and Education Program (MAREP),
and director of the Aging, Health and Well-
Being collaborative PhD program, at the
University of Waterloo. Influenced by her work
with residents and their families in long-term
care settings, Sherry's research is guided by
an authentic partnership philosophy and
focuses on quality of life issues, especially for
persons with dementia, family members and
staff working in dementia care. She is
committed to transferring research into action
through participatory approaches such as the Changing Melody forum and by developing
and evaluating the impacts of educational
tools such as the research-based drama I'm
Still Here.
I'm Still Here, a research-based,
professionally produced play.
To order the DVD, click here.
The Actors:
Patricia Bower,
Maureen Delaney,
Marion Elliott,
Laura Paolini,
Patricia Garnett-Smith,
Edward Vincent |
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David Dyck has been working and studying in the fields of
conflict resolution and restorative justice for 20 years. David
holds a Bachelor of arts (1991) and Master of arts (1999) in
Conflict Resolution Studies and a Diploma in Mediation
Skills. He has taught at the University of Prince Edward
Island's Centre for Conflict Resolution Studies and Eastern
Mennonite University's Summer Peacebuilding Institute.
He began his professional work in 1991 as a staff member
of Mediation Services, a Winnipeg-based non-profit program
specializing in restorative justice. Over the next six years,
he played a key role in the development of many of the
courses in the Certificate Program at Resolution Skills
Centre (RSC), training division of Mediation Services. Since
1998, David has worked as a private consultant specializing
in mediation, facilitation, and training. His articles on conflict
resolution and restorative justice have appeared in a
number of journals and books.
David's current focus is on designing and leading training
courses in the private, public, and community-based sectors
as well as mediating workplace conflicts. He is an Associate
Trainer with Resolution Skills Centre and a Partner with
Facilitated Solutions. The latter is a Winnipeg-based
consulting firm specializing in workplace mediation and
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Sue Hemphill has been teaching conflict resolution, first as a life skills and vocational trainer, then as
a practicing mediator for over twenty years. Sue completed the Diploma in Mediation in 1996 and has
been mediating in a wide variety of settings since then, including mediating human rights disputes for
the Manitoba Human Rights Commission while employed as a Human Rights Officer. Sue was on
staff with Mediation Services for five years during which time she coordinated the Certificate Program
and the Community Program. Sue has been involved in mentoring many local trainers and mediators
over the years. Sue also had advanced post-secondary training and certification as an Intercultural
and Prejudice Reduction Trainer.
In addition to being a practicing mediator and conflict resolution trainer, Sue is an arts-based
community developer with under-served and under-represented communities, developing programs
and projects to increase access, equity and diversity. Sue also utilizes her background in conflict
resolution as a foundation for the large-scale community consultations she designs and facilitates
(often utilizing a team of Mediation Services trained facilitators). As well, she has extensive
experience in fostering and managing multi-party collaboration projects and has developed a course
on collaboration and was the co-author (with two practitioners in Saskatchewan) of the book, Toolkit
for Artist and Community Collaborations. Sue currently works as an organizational and staff
development consultant in both the private and public sector.
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