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WIP I2T Team
Work in Progress: Idea to Implementation Team
WIP I2T is a working group of medical practitioners and scholars whose goal is the mentorship and fostering of medical research in Canada’s North. With broad interests that span health care delivery, medical education, and cross cultural health care, this group endeavors to publish research reflecting the unique medical needs of Northerners. The WIP I2T group is based in Yellowknife and is part of the Institute of Circumpolar Health Research.
Curent members include:
Dawn Priestley
Liaison Officer – Northwest Territories / Nunavut / Yukon
Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH)
In October 2007, Dawn joined CADTH as its Liaison Officer for the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Yukon, providing a two-way link between CADTH and the respective health and community services systems. Dawn has worked for most of her career with Government of Yukon in various administrative and health policy positions, with nine years at the Yukon Hospital Corporation and as a Coordinator for the Territorial / Federal ADM Working Group on Health. Dawn has a diploma in Health Information Management.
David William Pontin, MD CCFP-EM
Emergency Room Physician
Stanton Territorial Hospital, Yellowknife, NT
David is an Emergency Room Physician working at the Stanton Territorial Hospital in Yellowknife NWT since 2006. He did his medical training at UBC in Vancouver after completing a degree in Philosophy. Much of his career has been spent providing emergency services to largely underserviced populations in both urban and rural environments. His current research interests include the impact of culture on health care provision, Northern medical education and health care delivery to underserviced rural communities.
Alex Hoechsmann, MD
Clinical Director, Emergency
Stanton Territorial Hospital, Yellowknife, NT
Alex is a musician pretending to be an ER physician (or is it the other way around) living in Yellowknife, NT. Alex grew up in BC and in his previous life worked for theater companies and music groups doing lighting design and technical support. For the past five years he has been working at the Stanton Territorial Hospital in Yellowknife. When he’s not at work he can be found playing his guitar or running around with his kids. His favorite foods are curries and mexican dishes. His heroes are John Lennon, Nelson Mandela and Bugs Bunny. He maintains a blog here.
Ewan Affleck, MD
Medical Director
Yellowknife Health and Social Services Authority
Great Slave Community Health Clinic, Yellowknife, NT
A graduate of the McGill School of Medicine, he has worked and lives in Northern Canada since 1992. Medivacs and community visits have taken him across most of the Canadian Arctic. He has served as clinical advisor to the Keewatin Regional Health Board and is currently the Medical Director of the Yellowknife Health and Social Services Authority and Clinical Director of the Northwest Territories e-Health Initiative. He maintains an active clinical practice, providing both hospital based and remote community services. He is passionate about designing sustainable and ecologically sound health services for remote northern communities.
Susan Chatwood, MSc
Executive and Scientific Director
Institute for Circumpolar Health Research
Assistant Professor
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
In addition to founding and leading ICHR, Susan has recently been appointed as assistant professor in the Division of Social and Behavioral Health Sciences at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health as well as president of the Canadian Society for Circumpolar Health. She has spent most of her career in remote and northern communities, working in the clinical setting, public health, and research. She was a founding member of the Arctic Health Research Network and has an interest in building sustainable health research capacity in northern regions. Current projects within ICHR include the applications of ethical guidelines in the NWT, knowledge synthesis and dissemination of evidence for northern populations, participatory projects with a focus on community wellness and the facilitation of a number of research projects and related activities in the Northwest Territories which are listed on this site.
Rajiv Rawat, MES
Director of Communications and Technologies
Institute for Circumpolar Health Research
Rajiv has inhabited the intersection of research, communications, and technology for the better part of a dozen years. After graduating from Cornell University, he worked at the Harvard AIDS Institute as a research assistant, scientific publications editor, web coordinator, and internet specialist. In addition to supporting various programs at the institute, he managed the knowledge information system at the heart of the Enhancing Care Initiative, a five-year international project to support and sustain AIDS care teams in resource-scarce settings. He continued this technological focus through his master’s and doctoral programs, most recently with multimedia at the Faculty of Environmental Studies and Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability of York University before moving north to join ICHR.
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