Jean Clinton is an Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neuroscience at McMaster, division of Child Psychiatry. She is on staff at McMaster Children's Hospital and an Associate in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster. In addition she is an Associate in the Department of Child Psychiatry, University of Toronto and Sick Children's Hospital. She is an Associate Member of the Offord Centre for Child Studies. She has been a consultant to child welfare and children’s mental health programs for 25 years.
Jean is currently a consultant with the telepsychiatry program at Sick Children’s hospital in Toronto. Her community involvement is extensive. For 20 years she has been a consultant to the early years and child care programs in Hamilton. She serves as an expert advisor for the Invest In Kids Parenting Initiative, and the Learning Partnership. She is also a Fellow of Fraser Mustard’s Council for early child development. Her skills as a knowledge translator are frequently called upon and she gives hundreds of presentations to community groups annually, nationally and internationally. Currently, as a member of Hamilton’s Best Start Network she leads the Primary Care Engagement Strategy for the enhanced 18-month-well-baby visit and is the lead for the provincial education subcommittee. She has authored papers on early child development and poverty, infant neglect, children’s mental health, resilience and on adolescent brain development.
Dr. Levinson is a neuropsychiatrist and the Director, Division of e-Learning Innovation and machealth.ca. He is an Associate Professor at McMaster University and holds the John R Evans Chair in Health Sciences Educational Research and Instructional Development.
Ms Carter-Arrowsmith is a Primary Health Care nurse practitioner working for the Hamilton Family Health Team providing comprehensive maternal/newborn care to women and children who do not have family physicians. She currently teaches Advanced Health/Therapeutics to nurse practitioner students in the School of Nursing and Healthy Child Development in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University. She obtained her Master of Science under the guidance of Dr. Alba DiCenso (Advanced Practice Nursing Chair Education Program) at McMaster University.
In 2009 Peggy was awarded 'Hamilton Week of the Child Award' in recongnition of her efforts to advocate for children and youth living in Hamilton. She is an active participant on numerous committees including the Enhanced 18-Month Well-Baby Visit / Education Sub-Committee, and participated on the "Working with Families and Young Children Living in Poverty" expert panel with the Ministry of Children and Youth Services.
Dr Umberto Cellupica is a paediatrician with a community practice in Maple, Ontario, and staff paediatrician at York Central Hospital.
Julie is the Project Coordinator for the Enhanced 18-month Well-Baby Visit Program and is based at the Offord Centre for Child Studies, McMaster University. She is a Registered Nurse with her Master’s Degree from McGill University. Her clinical areas of interest are pediatrics and women’s health, and her research experience is varied and includes qualitative and quantitative methodology, case studies, and a large birth cohort study.
Kristen is the former Project Coordinator with the Offord Centre for Child Studies for the Enhanced 18-Month Well-Baby Visit Initiative. She has a BScH in Life Sciences and a Master of Public Health with a specialization in Health Promotion.
Ms. Colizza brings expertise in instructional design, program development and evaluation, and over 20 years experience in the health care and education sectors. Ms. Colizza has worked clinically as an applied behaviour analyst in neurorehabilitation/psychiatry and has held various educational and system development roles related to health human resource training. Ms. Colizza's interests in technology-enabled knowledge translation involves the innovative use of information and communication technologies and multimedia to enhance pedagogical techniques and traditional professional development models. Learning outcomes, knowledge utilization, and behaviour change are optimized by careful analysis of learning needs and context, and application of evidence-based principles of instructional design. Improving patient self-management skills and health outcomes through innovative models and tools is a primary interest.
Dr Linda Comley is a Retired Family Physican in group practice in Smithville, Ontario after 40 years of practice. Her special interests included child and adolescent medicine, parenting and psychotherapy. She was an Assistant Clinical Professor in Family Medicine, McMaster University from 1970 to 2003. She was a part of the OCFP Healthy Child Development Program in its development and facilitation from 2002 until 2008. As the Early Years Program Coordinator, Department of Family Medicine from 2001 until December 2009, she was involved in the development and teaching of the program. She participated in the Right at Eighteen Months Expert Panel in 2005. In addition she was active in several community and provincial projects related to early childhood, children and youth between 1990 and 2008.
Dr. Sarah Garside is an Associate Professor at McMaster University and the Associate Director of the Division of e-Learning for the Michael G DeGroote School of Medicine. She has a PhD in Neuroscience, holds several research grants, and is an award-winning medical educator.
Jan Kasperski is the Chief Executive Officer of the Ontario College of Family Physicians. Ms. Kasperski is a Registered Nurse, a Board Certified Health Executive and an Assistant Professor of Clinical Education at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine. She has over thirty years experience in a variety of healthcare settings, as a clinician, an educator, a researcher and a hospital administrator. Ms. Kasperski broad-based background allows her to view healthcare from various perspectives. She has a thorough understanding and deep respect for the role that family physicians play within the healthcare system.
Dr Patricia Mousmanis is a community-based family physician who works as a comprehensive primary care provider in York Region and Toronto. She is on staff at the York Central Hospital in Richmond Hill and at the Markham Stouffville Hospital in Markham. Dr Mousmanis joined the York Region Advisory Forum on Children Youth and Families in 1997 and has been working with community agencies to develop integrated services for families with children. Dr Mousmanis has also worked for the City of Toronto as part of the Mayor's Roundtable and as a consultant to Healthy Babies Healthy Children, Preschool Speech and Language, the Early Years Programs and the Best Start Networks. In 1999, Dr Mousmanis became the Coordinator of the Healthy Child Development Program for the Ontario College of Family Physicians. She has run educational programs in Ontario and across Canada in areas related to child development, addictions and pregnancy, post-partum depression, breastfeeding, nutrition and child development and immunization pain in children. She has worked as an educator at McMaster University, the University of Toronto, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine and for the MDCME Program at Memorial University.