Dr. Jeff Bakal, PhD, is the Program Director for Provincial Research Data Services at Alberta Health Services which operates the Alberta Strategy for Patient Oriented Research (SPOR) data platform and Health Services Statistical & Analytics Methods teams. He is a biostatistician with over 15 years of experience working with Health Services data and Randomized Clinical Trials. His specialties include Biostatistics, Survival analysis, Cost-Utility modeling, Exploratory analysis, Experimental Design, Clinical Trials, Population Health Research, Analytics.

Dr. Elizabeth Oddone Paolucci is an educational leader, psychologist, and applied health professions education scholar with 20+ years experience in teaching, designing, and transforming educational programs. She is a Professor, jointly appointed to the Department of Community Health Sciences and Department of Surgery, at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. She is also the Director of Education and Training at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute (ACHRI), and Lead for the Transdisciplinary Training Accelerator with the landmark One Child Every Child Canada-first research initiative.

Dr. Hude Quan, MD, is a Professor at the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary and Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre in Classification, Terminology and Standards at the O’Brien Institute for Public Health. A major theme of Dr. Quan’s research is to develop novel methods for analyzing big data and improving its quality to enable its optimal use for health research, precision medicine, disease surveillance, and healthcare system performance assessment. He leads the International Methodology Consortium for Coded Health Information, which was created to develop, test, and promote methodological advances for the applied use of coded health information with the aim of improving methods in health services research.

Dr. Stephanie Montesanti is a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Health System Integration and Associate Professor in the University of Alberta’s School of Public Health. She is an internationally recognized health policy and systems scholar who is advancing critical actions to reorient health systems towards health equity and strengthen connections between health systems and communities. She is Co-PI with the Indigenous Primary Health Care and Policy Research (IPHCPR) Network where she works with clinicians, community agencies, and health system decision-makers through continuous engagement to co-create knowledge and policy and practice interventions for strengthening Indigenous primary healthcare delivery. Dr. Montesanti was also appointed a Women’s Health Research Ambassador for the Alberta Women’s Health Foundation for her commitment to advancing integrated models of care to address intimate partner violence in primary health care and acute care settings.

This position is currently vacant.

Dr. Maria Santana, PhD, is a health services researcher, patient and family-centred care scientist, an Assistant Professor in the departments of Pediatrics and Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary. She is the provincial lead for the Strategy of Patient-oriented Research, Patient Engagement. Dr. Santana has received training in clinical pharmacy, public health, and clinical epidemiology. Her research focuses on developing new methods for advancing person-centred care and patient-oriented research.