Biographies of Executives and Committee Chairs

Angela Juby MBChB (President)

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Roger Y.M. Wong, BMSc, MD, FRCPC, FACP (Vice-President)

Dr. Roger Wong is Assistant Dean, Faculty Development, Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, and Associate Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Training Program. Dr. Wong is also Consultant in Geriatric Medicine, Associate Medical Director of Medical Services and Head of Geriatric Consultation Program at the Vancouver Acute (VA) health service delivery area, Vancouver Coastal Health Authority.

Dr. Wong received his medical degree and completed postgraduate training at the University of Alberta. He founded the state-of-the-art Acute Care for Elders Units (ACE) in VA, which has been implemented nationally and internationally. His clinical research focuses on hospital medicine in vulnerable older adults, including quality improvement in acute care geriatrics. Dr. Wong is currently Vice President of the Canadian Geriatrics Society.

Dr. Wong has expertise in medical education and a distinguished record of teaching excellence in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education. He is Head of UBC MD Undergraduate Admissions Interview Question Committee, and a member of the Royal College Geriatric Medicine and Internal Medicine Examination Boards. Medical students and residents consistently rate him as one of the top teachers. He received the Fay R. Dirks award for excellence in teaching in 2005, the Killam Teaching Prize in 2007 (the most prestigious teaching award in recognition of teaching excellence university-wide), the Department of Medicine award for outstanding health advocacy in 2008, and the award for outstanding manager in 2009.

He plays an active role in community health education and received consecutive annual awards of appreciation from the Alzheimer Society of British Columbia. He was elected to the Fellowship of the American College of Physicians in 2005, and received the Donald Richards Wilson award from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 2007.

Dr. Wong has published and lectured extensively on geriatric medicine and medical education, and has been invited as Visiting Professor by national and international centers. Dr. Wong is an invited member of multiple peer-review boards for scientific publications in the fields of geriatric medicine, internal medicine, and medical education.

Chris Frank, MD, CCFP (Past President, Membership Committee)

Dr. Frank graduated from University of Western Ontario in 1989 and completed residency training in family medicine at Queen's University. He returned to Queen's for a residency position in Care of the Elderly. Since completing his training, he has worked with the Southeastern Ontario Regional Geriatric Program in Kingston, Ontario. His clinical interests include geriatric rehabilitation, palliative care and continence. Current academic interests include clinical skills and teaching end-of-life care.

Dan Carver (Secreatary/Treasurer)

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Sabina Keen BSc MD FRCPC (Member at Large)

Dr. Keen completed medical school at McMaster in 2001.  She continued residency training in internal medicine and geriatric medicine at McMaster.  Since January 2009, she has held the position of Assistant Clinical Professor of Geriatric and Internal Medicine at McMaster University.

Tamas Fulop (Member at Large)

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José Morais (Member at Large)

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Joy Liao MD, FRCPC (Associate Member)

Dr. Liao is a geriatric medicine fellow at UBC.

Barbara Liu (Awards Committee)

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Michael Borrie, MD, ChB, FRCPC (Foundation Committee)

Michael Borrie is a Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of Western Ontario. He graduated from the University of Otago, New Zealand, in 1976 and completed his Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine in Edmonton, Alberta and London, Ontario. He was an MRC (NZ) Training Research Fellow 1983–85 in Dunedin, New Zealand. He is presently Chair of the Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, UWO; Program Director, Southwestern Ontario Regional Geriatric Program and Medical Director for the Aging Brain and Memory Clinic and Dementia Special Care Unit, Parkwood Hospital. His research interests include predictors of progression from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to Alzheimer Disease (AD), clinical trials of new treatments for AD, longitudinal neuroimaging (in MCI and AD), in particular high-field MR Spectroscopy as a biomarker for cognitive impairment, and national initiatives relating to geriatric rehabilitation.

Janet Kushner Kow (Education Committee)

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Bill Dalziel, MD, FRCPC (Communications Committee)

Dr. Dalziel finished and internal medicine residency in 1980 at the University of Alberta and completed his geriatric medicine training in UCLA and in Great Britain. He is the current Chief of the Ottawa Regional Geriatric Program, a Co-Chair of the Ottawa Dementia Network, Chief of Geriatric Medicine at University of Ottawa, Past President of the Canadian Geriatrics Society and Editor of the Journal of Canadian Geriatrics Society. His research interests are in dementia, community-based care and health service delivery. He is actively involved in education and is Chair of the Curriculum Committee for the Ontario Alzheimer Strategy-Physician Education Initiative.

Cornelia (Kristel) van Ineveld MD, FRCP(C) (Specialty Committee)

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Terumi Izukawa (Specialty Committee)

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Howard Bergman, MD

Howard Bergman, MD, is the first Dr. Joseph Kaufmann Professor of Geriatric Medicine and is Director of the Division of Geriatric Medicine at McGill University. Dr. Bergman is also Director of the Division of Geriatric Medicine of the Jewish General Hospital and an investigator at the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Community Studies and at the Bloomfield Centre for Research in Aging of the Lady Davis Institute at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal. Dr. Bergman is co-Director of Solidage: the McGill University/Université de Montréal Research Group on Integrated Services for Older Persons and leads a group of Canadian and international investigators in the Canadian Initiative on Frailty and Ageing.

In 2003, Dr. Bergman was appointed Scientific Director of the Quebec Network for Research in Aging funded by the Fonds de la recherche en santé du Québec (FRSQ). He is the Chair of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Ageing of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). He is President of the Canadian Geriatrics Society. He is Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly (NICE) funded as a New Initiative by the Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE). Dr. Bergman was co-Chair of the Scientific Program Committee for the 8th Congrès international francophone de gériatire et de gérontologie held in Quebec City in October 2006.

In 2000–01, Dr. Bergman was a member of the Clair Commission, an independent Commission set up by the Quebec government to propose reforms to the health care system.

He is the founder and co-director of the Jewish General Hospital/McGill University Memory Clinic and is a Past President of the Consortium of Canadian Centres for Clinical Cognitive Research (C5R).

Chris Macknight, MD, MSc, FRCPC

Dr. Chris MacKnight, a native of New Brunswick, is a graduate of Dalhousie University. In addition to his medical training, he completed an MSc in Community Health and Epidemiology. He devotes 60% of his time to clinical care and 40% to research. His research interests include dementia and frailty. He is Past-President of the Canadian Geriatrics Society.