Board of Directors

2024 - 2025 The CMHF Board of Directors comprises professionals and academics from across Canada serving three-year terms (for up to two terms). The Board sets the policy and strategic direction of the CMHF.

HONORARY BOARD MEMBERS
Retired directors appointed to recognize exemplary service to the CMHF:

Carol Herbert, MD CCFP FCFP FCAHS
Bryce Taylor, CM MD FRCSC FACS

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Lehana Thabane, PhD FASA FSCT FCAHS EMISI

OFFICER (Chair) Professor, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact, McMaster University | VP Research, St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton | Scientific Director, The Research Institute of St. Joe's Hamilton, ON

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Cindy Forbes
Cindy Forbes, MD CCFP FCFP

OFFICER (Past Chair) Canadian Medical Association Liaison, Waverley, NS

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Jacqui Bjerno, CPA CGA

TREASURER - Director, Finance Services, Joseph Brant Hospital & Foundation, Ancaster, ON

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Betty Jean (BJ) Hancock, MD FRCSC FACS

OFFICER (Member at Large) Liaison, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Pediatric Surgeon and Intensivist, Department of Surgery, Children’s Hospital of Winnipeg, MB

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Agnes Bongers, MCM

DIRECTOR - Hamilton, ON

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Harvey Chochinov, OC MD PhD

DIRECTOR - Professor of Psychiatry, University of Manitoba | Senior Scientist, CancerCare Manitoba Research Institute

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Alysia Christaen
Alysia Christiaen, LLB

DIRECTOR - Partner, Chief Privacy Officer, Lerners LLP, London, ON

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CUMMINGS
Greta Cummings, RN PhD FCAHS FAAN FCAN

DIRECTOR - Dean, Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, AB

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Francescutti
Louis Hugo Francescutti, CM MD PhD MPH FRCPC CCFP(PC) FACP CCPE ICD-D

DIRECTOR - Liaison, Canadian Medical Association, Edmonton, AB

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Lucie Germain, PhD CAHS

DIRECTOR - Professor (Full), Department of Surgery, Laval University, Québec, QC

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Freddy
Changseok (Freddy) Lee, MD

DIRECTOR - 2020 CMHF Award Recipient (Dalhousie University), Resident Representative, Halifax, NS

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Maureen A. Quigley, MSc ICD.D

DIRECTOR - Toronto, ON

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Richard Reznick, OC MD FRCSC FACS

DIRECTOR - Vice President, Science, Healthcare and Research, The Azrieli Foundation, Toronto, ON

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Preston Smith, MD MEd CCFP FCFP CCPE

DIRECTOR - Liaison, College of Family Physicians of Canada | Dean, Faculty of Medicine, University of Prince Edward Island

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Yundi Wang
Yundi Wang, PhD

DIRECTOR - Liaison, Canadian Federation of Medical Students, Vancouver, BC

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John Yoo
John Yoo, MD FRCS(C) FACS

DIRECTOR - Dean, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, ON

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Shannon Digby

EX-OFFICIO - London, ON

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