Megan Stowe, Provincial Director, Provincial Survivorship Program, BCCA	Megan Stowe is the Provincial Director of Clinical Operations for Pain and Symptom Management/Palliative and the Provincial Director for the Survivorship Program at the BC Cancer Agency. Prior to joining the Cancer Agency in January, 2011, Megan worked in London, England for twelve years at a variety of organisations, most recently at the North West London Cancer Network as the Acting Deputy Director. Megan is a nurse who received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Calgary and then went on to get her Master’s in Leadership in Healthcare at King’s College (UK). Megan has worked in a variety of settings as a nurse but focused mostly in surgical oncology. Megan is experienced and passionate about integrating quality, innovation, productivity and healthcare partnerships to improve care for patients.
Arminée Kazanjian, DrSoc Co-Director Cancer Survivorship Research Centre Survivorship Research Centre, BCCA	Arminee Kazanjian is a Professor at the School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia. A sociologist by training, Dr. Kazanjian’s most recent research interests are in cancer supportive care and psychosocial oncology. She is a pioneer of population-based data linkage for surveillance purposes and her recent work focuses on immigrant health and service utilization, linking health program databases with immigration databases. She is an internationally known health services researcher for her work delineating the social context of health seeking behaviour and the evaluation of health systems.
Vickie Mattimoe Administrative Coordinator Provincial Survivorship Program, BCCA	Vickie Mattimoe is the Administrative Coordinator for the Cancer Survivorship Research Centre. Vickie oversees daily operational activities of the Survivorship Program including reviewing human resources and financial needs. She reviews budgets for both core and grant funded programs. Vickie works in conjunction with PI's to develop budget information and costs related to grants. She assists the Director of the Survivorship Program in project coordination, administration, project planning and reporting.
Winnie Chan, BSc, MHA  Project Manager UBC School of Population and Public Health, UBC	Winnie Chan is a Project Manager at the School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia. Working closely with Dr. Arminee Kazanjian, Winnie coordinates the activities of the Canadian Cancer Survivorship Consortium and acts as a liaison for the consortium members and stakeholders.  Her research interests include palliative care, cancer survivorship and immigrant health.  She is involved in manuscript writing, grant writing, database development and data linkages.

Maxine Alford, RN, PhD Research Faculty Vancouver Island Centre, BCCA	Maxine Alford is the Regional Professional Practice and Academic Leader for Nursing at the Centre of the Southern Interior & Vancouver Island. She is also the Manager of the Clinical Trials Unit at Vancouver Island Centre. Her research interests include social construction, critical and interpretative studies focusing on organizational analysis, ethnography and issues related to professional practice. She is currently involved in studies entitled "Capacity and Continuity: A patient's experience of cancer care" funded by Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada and "Canada's Experience Translating Workplace Knowledge in Cancer Settings" funded by Health Canada.
Michèle Aubin, MD, PhD Research Faculty Faculty of Medicine, Laval University	Michèle Aubin is a Family Physician working in an academic family medicine unit affiliated to Université Laval (Quebec City). She is also a Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine, at Université Laval. She holds the Chair of palliative care of the Faculty of Medicine, at Université Laval. She has a PhD in Epidemiology and she works as a clinical researcher, mainly on projects related to palliative care, health services research (particularly primary care and cancer care), interprofessional collaboration and continuity of care.
Lynda Balneaves, RN, PhD Research Faculty School of Nursing, UBC	Lynda Balneaves is an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing, Faculty of Applied Science at the University of British Columbia. Lynda is a Research Faculty member at the Survivorship Research Centre as well as a Co-Principal Investigator with NEXUS- a centre for research on the social context of health behaviour, funded by the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research. Her research focuses on health behaviour and treatment decision-making processes of people living with cancer. She is particularly interested in understanding socio-behavioural and cognitive factors associated with the use of complementary therapies.
Angela Bedard, MSc Provincial Cancer Survivorship Facilitator Provincial Survivorship Program, BCCA	Angela Bedard is the Provincial Cancer Survivorship Facilitator with the Cancer Survivorship Research Centre. In collaboration with the BCCA Cancer Centres, Health Authorities and community providers, she leads the development and execution of survivorship activities within BCCA. She provides advice to communities in disseminating standards and guidelines for community focused survivorship approaches. Angela previously worked on cancer survivorship and other oncology programming in Colorado. She is currently co-investigator on a SWOG (Southwest Oncology Group) study looking at survivorship care planning in clinical trials.
Lori Brotto, PhD Research Faculty Dept of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, UBC	Lori Brotto is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the University of British Columbia, a Career Scholar of the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, and a New Investigator of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. In addition to her role as a researcher, she is a licensed psychologist. Her research focuses on the development of psychoeducational interventions for gynaecologic cancer survivors with sexual dysfunction. In addition she is interested in adapting these interventions for use in group settings, rural communities, and with select ethno-cultural groups.
Kristin Campbell, BSc, PT, PhD Research Faculty Dept of Physical Therapy, UBC	Kristin Campbell, BSc.PT, PhD, is a Physical Therapist and Research Scientist. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy and an associate member of the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Her research interests are focused on the role of physical activity across the cancer experience, namely in prevention, rehabilitation from cancer treatments and cancer survivorship. Her research focuses on exercise physiology and spans a range from small scale intervention studies to multi-center randomized controlled trials and large cohort studies.
Linda Carlson, PhD, RPsych Research Faculty Division of Psychosocial Oncology, University of Calgary www.ucalgary.ca/~lcarlso	Linda Carlson is a Clinical Psychologist and Associate Professor in Psychosocial Oncology in the Department of Oncology, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Calgary, and the holder of the Enbridge Endowed Research Chair in Psychosocial Oncology. She also holds an Adjunct Associate Professor appointment in the Department of Psychology. Dr. Carlson trained as a Clinical Health Psychologist at McGill University in Montreal, researching the area of psychoneuroendocrinology. She then worked a post-doctoral fellow at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre in Calgary, sponsored by a Terry Fox Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the National Cancer Institute of Canada/Canadian Cancer Society, before being appointed Assistant Professor. She received a Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator award from 2002-2007, before being appointed the Endowed Chairholder. Dr. Carlson’s current research interests are focused in the areas of computerized distress screening, psychoneuroimmunology, integrative oncology and complementary and alternative medicine, providing and evaluating interventions for cancer patients such as mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), yoga, Reiki, acupuncture, exercise, and smoking cessation. She has published over 80 book chapters and research papers in peer-reviewed journals, holds several millions of dollars in grant funding and regularly presents her work at international conferences.
Helena Daudt, PhD Research Faculty BCCA Vancouver Island Centre, BCCA	Helena Daudt is the Clinical Research Manager at the BCCA Vancouver Island Centre (VIC) and co-leads the “Information Needs and Patient Care” research team at VIC. Dr. Daudt is a Biologist with training in Education and a PhD in Toxicology from Simon Fraser University. She joined BCCA in 2008 and shifted her research interests to cancer supportive care with an emphasis on health education, health promotion and knowledge translation. Dr Daudt is particularly interested in understanding the information needs of people living with cancer and how to address those needs to improve people’s quality of life and well being.
Richard Doll, MSW, MSc Former Co-Director Cancer Survivorship Research Centre Survivorship Research Centre, BCCA	Richard Doll is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of BC and Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University. He is the former Co-Director of the Survivorship Research Centre and Provincial Leader Cancer Survivorship, BC Cancer Agency. Richard is a core member of the Canadian Cancer Survivorship Research Consortium which is comprised of eleven leading research institutions in Canada dedicated to conducting and promoting research and knowledge translation in cancer survivorship.
Konrad Fassbender, PhD Research Faculty Dept of Oncology, University of Alberta	Konrad Fassbender is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Palliative Care Medicine, an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health, and a Fellow of the Institute of Public Economics at the University of Alberta. In July 2006, he was cross-appointed as the first Scientist for the Integrated Centre for Care Advancement through Research (iCARE), a joint venture of the University of Alberta and Capital Health. Dr. Fassbender studies the effects of health reform, technological changes on health, and economic outcomes of dying patients and their families. He has developed tools to measure the cost and performance associated with the financing and delivery of health and social services.
Lise Fillion, RN, PhD Research Faculty Faculty of Nursing, Laval University	Lise Fillion is a nurse and a psychologist. She is a regular research member of the Cancer Research Center at the Hotel Dieu de Quebec. She is also a member of the multidisciplinary research team at the Maison Michel-Sarrazin, a supraregional palliative care hospice, and a member of a New Emerging Team (NET) funded by the CIHR, with the mandate to examine and develop novel interventional strategies having application in end-of-life care. Her research area is stress, coping, and psychosocial adjustment to cancer. A part of her research program is related to supportive care, such as stress management and existential interventions aiming at facilitating psychosocial adjustment. Likewise, she is interested in methodological issues and health organizational services aspects related to supportive care and psychosocial adjustment.
Margaret Fitch, RN, PhD Research Faculty Sunnybrook Research Institute	Margaret Fitch received her Bachelor of Nursing from Dalhousie University (Halifax) and her Masters of Science in Nursing (Faculty of Nursing) and Doctorate (Institute of Medical Science) from the University of Toronto. Currently, Dr. Fitch holds the positions of Head of Oncology Nursing and Supportive Care and Co-Director of the Integrated Psychosocial, Supportive and Palliative Care Program at the Odette Cancer Centre (Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre). She holds appointments as Associate Professor in the Faculty of Nursing and Professor in the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Toronto. Dr. Fitch is currently chairing the Cancer Journey Action Group of the Canadian Partnership Against cancer. This action group has the mandate of providing leadership to rebalance the cancer care system so that it is more patient or person centered.
Gillian Fyles, MD Research Faculty PSMPC, BCCA CSI	Gillian Fyles is the Research Leader for Palliative Care at BCCA and Medical Leader of the Pain & Symptom Management/Palliative Care Program (PSMPC) at BCCA Centre for the Southern Interior (CSI) in Kelowna. She is also the Co-Medical Director of the Kelowna Palliative Response Team. She is the Chair of the UBC/BCCA Pain & Symptom Management/Palliative Care Research Subcommittee and an active member of the Sociobehavioural Cancer Research Network (SCRN) Palliative Team, led by Dr. Robin Cohen. She is a member of the Executive of the NCIC Clinical Trials Group Symptom Control Committee.
Afaf Girgis, PhD Research Faculty School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle (Newcastle, Australia)	Afaf Girgis is the Director of the Centre for Health Research & Psycho-oncology (CHeRP), Cancer Council NSW & The University of Newcastle; Conjoint Professor in the School of Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle; and Chair of the Health Behaviour Research Program of the Hunter Medical Research Institute in Newcastle, Australia. Dr. Girgis' research areas of interest include the measurement of health related behaviours, especially in relation to cancer prevention, early detection and supportive care of cancer patients; modification of health risk behaviours at the community level; modification of the psychosocial outcomes of people affected by cancer, including survivors and their caregivers; modification of the behaviour of health care providers, including communication skills training; evaluation of the quality of medical care, including efficient systems to support adoption of evidence based practice; and translation of research into policy and practice. She is experienced in the development of needs assessment and screening tools, in developing clinical practice guidelines, as well as training health professionals in communication skills to encourage adherence to such guidelines. She has a strong commitment to translating research into policy and practice, and in training postgraduate students and junior researchers in behavioural and psychosocial research.
Mitch Golant, PhD Research Faculty Wellness Community-National	Mitch Golant is a Health Psychologist and Senior VP Research & Training for The Wellness Community (TWC). He has traveled throughout the world introducing TWC’s Patient Active Concept to international thought-leaders and psychosocial oncologists. Dr. Golant has been with TWC for over 24 years where he supervised and trained TWC’s professional clinical staff. He has facilitated over 4,500 support groups for people with cancer and trained over 350 professionals nationally and internationally in TWC's Patient Active Support Group model. Dr. Golant is widely recognized as a pioneer in the use of information technology in cancer education and support through the delivery of online support groups. He was central to the launch of the award-winning Wellness Community Online in both English and Spanish and Group Loop: Teens. Talk. Cancer. Online. He is the contributing editor to the Essentials of Psychosocial Oncology Handbook (2006) and The Psychiatric and Psychological Dimensions of Pediatric Cancer Symptom Management (2008). He has previously served on the Board of Directors for the American Psychosocial Oncology Society. He is also the co-author of seven books including The Total Cancer Wellness Guide: Reclaiming Your Life After Diagnosis (BenBella 2007) and What To Do When Someone You Love is Depressed (Holt—updated and expanded 2007).
Jennifer Jones, PhD Research Faculty Division of Behavioural Sciences & Health, Toronto General Research Institute http://www.ellicsr.ca	Jennifer Jones is the Director of Research for the Cancer Survivorship Program at Princess Margaret Hospital, University Health Network.  She is also the Associate Director for ELLICSR (Electronic Living Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Cancer Survivorship Research).
Anne Leis, PhD Research Faculty Dept of Community Health & Epidemiology, University of Saskatchewan	Anne Leis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health & Epidemiology, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan. She has training in health psychology, community health, and epidemiology. The psychosocial aspects of cancer constitute the main focus of her research. Areas of interest include complementary therapies, quality of life and spirituality. She currently co-leads a national research team on complementary and alternative therapies and cancer.
Wolfgang Linden, PhD Research Faculty Dept of Psychology, UBC	Wolfgang Linden is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of British Columbia. His research interests include health psychology; psychometrics, stress and coping; cardiac rehabilitation; heart disease and cancer. He is co-investigator on the Patient Navigation research project and Principal Investigator on the Psychological Screening for BCCA Patients Project.
Jessica McAlpine, MD Research Faculty Dept of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, UBC www.ovcare.ca	Jessica McAlpine is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics and works at the BC Cancer Agency in Gyneoncology Her research includes Ovarian and Endometrial Cancer.
Dana Munroe, BSc Research Assistant Provincial Survivorship Program, BCCA	Dana Munroe is the Research Assistant for the Cancer Survivorship Care Planning in Rural and Remote Northern B.C. Communities project lead by Dr. Amanda Ward.
Robert Olson, MD FRCPC MSc Research Faculty Centre for the North, BCCA	Robert Olson is a clinician scientist with the BC Cancer Agency, and the UBC Northern Medical Program. He is a Radiation Oncologist working at the new BCCA – Centre for the North. His primary clinical and research interests are focused on improving the cancer journey for patients in rural and remote locations. His main areas of research in this broad topic are focused on (1) identifying disparities in access to resources and subsequent disparities in outcomes (2) developing and assessing novel methods to improve cancer care delivery in rural areas, and (3) improving the communication between specialists and family physicians.
Gary Poole, PhD Research Faculty School of Population and Public Health, UBC	Gary Poole is an Associate Professor at UBC's Department of Health Care and Epidemiology and Research Faculty at the Survivorship Research Centre. His research interests include health psychology, coping with cancer, and social and cognitive determinants of health.
Carole Robinson, PhD Research Faculty School of Nursing, UBC-Okanagan	Carole Robinson has a PhD in Family Systems Nursing and is a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Pain and Symptom Management and Palliative Care. She is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at UBC Okanagan. Her program of Research has focused on families managing chronic, life-threatening illness and encompasses health care relationships, interventions that assist families to manage well with chronic illness, and end-of-life decision making.
Kathy Scalzo, MSOD Research Faculty School of Rehabilitation Sciences, UBC	Kathy Scalzo is an Associate Professor/Clinical Instructor with the UBC School of Rehabilitation Sciences and an independent organization development consultant.. She is the co-author of “Picking Up the Pieces; Moving Forward After Surviving Cancer.” Her research areas of interest are: change and transition; the transition from cancer survivor to living well and other survivorship issues; posttraumatic growth; meaning making and sustaining positive change after a life-altering event.
Maya Shaha, PhD, RN Research Faculty Office of Nursing and Allied Health Professionals, University Hospital (Berne, Switzerland) www.insel.ch	Maya is a Scientific Collaborator at the office of Nursing and Allied Health Professionals in the University Hospital in Berlin in Switzerland. She helps clinics to develop research of organizational  development  in the nursing domain.  Currently Maya is  involved in a project that follows a  CBPR- approach (Community Based Participatory  Research) to institute an evidence based  patient education on oral anticoagulation of multi-morbid patients.
Savitri Singh-Carlson, BSN, PhD Research Faculty School of Nursing, California State University - Long Beach	Savitri Singh-Carlson is an Assistant Director, Graduate Program and Assistant Professor at the California State University - Long Beach, School of Nursing, and Adjunct Research Associate with the Survivorship Research Centre at the BC Cancer Agency. Currently, Dr. Singh-Carlson is also a member of the Canadian Association of Nursing Oncology, the College of Registered Nurses of British Columbia, Canada, and the American Nurses Association. Broadly stated, Dr. Singh-Carlson is interested in cancer survivorship and more specifically, in understanding diverse groups’ perceptions and experiences of the diagnosis, treatment of cancer and post-treatment self-care . Her current projects focus on breast cancer survivorship and women’s health, especially women from diverse populations both in Canada and the United States.
Kirsten Smillie, MA Research Coordinator CIHR Team in Supportive Cancer Care Survivorship Research Centre, BCCA	Kirsten Smillie is the Research Coordinator for the CIHR Team in Supportive Cancer Care at the Survivorship Research Centre. Kirsten also coordinates and assists in the development of a program of research in Knowledge Exchange at the School of Population and Public Health at UBC. Her research interests include social and cultural understandings of health and illness, as well as the social construction of childhood and identity.
Joanne Stephen, PhD Research and Clinical Practitioner Survivorship Research Centre, BCCA	Joanne Stephen is a Research and Clinical Practitioner at the BC Cancer Agency. She brings both clinical experience and doctoral training in Psychology to her role. Her research interests are psychosocial and cognitive behavioural interventions, translation and uptake of psycho-oncology knowledge in the Cancer Centre and community setting, and complementary and alternative therapies. She is currently PI on a pilot assessing the clinical utility of therapeutic touch. She is Co-Investigator on projects investigating health technology, patient navigation, and clinical practice guidelines.
James Tanliao, BSc Administrative Research Coordinator Provincial Survivorship Program, BCCA	James Tanliao is the Administrative Research Coordinator for the Provincial Survivorship Project Working Groups. In this capacity, he provides administrative and research support to research teams that aim to enhance survivors' transition from active treatment to post-treatment life. James is experienced in behavioural research and is keenly interested in developmental, cognitive, moral, evolutionary and health psychology. He is thrilled to be joining the BC Cancer Agency, a centre where excellence in care and research converge. Here, he can contribute his experiences to improving the well-being of individuals who have been affected by cancer.
Sally Thorne, PhD Research Faculty School of Nursing, UBC	Sally Thorne is a Professor and Director with the UBC School of Nursing. She also is an academic nursing leader with an active program of research in the field of communication in cancer care. As an educator, she teaches graduate courses in the philosophy of science. Her research and writing have primarily focussed attention on chronic illness and cancer experience, with a particular emphasis on the impact that dominant scientific orientations and population health ideologies have had on the human experience of seeking and obtaining appropriate care in the Canadian context. She is also active in developing and refining qualitative inquiry methods for the application of subjective experiential knowledge to the evidence based health care cultural context. Former Board Member and Chair of the BC Cancer Agency, she is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, a national initiative aimed at leading cancer control policy in Canada.
Amanda Ward, PhD Research Scientist Provincial Survivorship Program, BCCA	Amanda Ward is a Research Scientist with the British Columbia Cancer Agency Cancer Survivorship Research Centre. She is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Population and Public Health in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Ward is leading a number of supportive care initiatives for cancer survivors in Canada. Dr. Ward is the nominated Principle Investigator for a Canadian Partnership Against Cancer grant (2009 – 2012) and a Public Health Agency of Canada grant (2010-2012). Her responsibilities include: (i) leading the implementation and evaluation of supportive care programming for cancer survivors and their families at a national level. Based on this work, one such program is now sustainable in 7 provinces with delivery at over 15 organizations. The research evaluation encompasses program feasibility, assessment and measurement of behavioural changes that impact the quality of life of cancer survivors and their families. (ii) leading implementation and evaluation of survivorship care plans for cancer survivors in rural and remote locations. This research is determining the unmet needs of cancer survivors in order to create evidence-based survivorship care plans. The research evaluation will determine the impact of care planning on survivors' overall quality of life; and evaluate the cost-effectiveness of providing services and information for follow up and support. Dr. Ward is passionate about pursuing the translation of evidence-based cancer research into health care practice and policy.
Richard Wassersug, PhD Research Faculty Dept of Urologic Sciences, UBC and Dept of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Dalhousie University	Richard Wassersug's main research focus is on how males adapt to androgen deprivation and the psychosocial impact of castration. I explore this topic in diverse populations ranging from male-to-female transsexuals to advanced prostate cancer patients. The primary goal of this research is to develop ways to help men and their partners adapt to the side effects of androgen deprivation, which is the most common treatment for systemic prostate cancer. Dr. Wassersug also investigates other issues related to sexuality, gender and health in various populations. Dr. Wassersug has also spent a significant portion of his life as a science communicator. For ten years, he was a columnist on the TV science news show “Daily Planet” as well as “Scientist-in-Residence” for an additional five years for the Canadian Discovery Channel. He has received the two major science communicator awards available in eastern Canada. From 2000 until moving to Vancouver, Dr. Wassersug was a co-panelist for CBC Radio’s “Maritime Noon”, where he and a colleague did a regular science call-in show. He has also published over 30 essays and reviews in popular newspapers and magazines, such as Natural History, Nature, Scientific American, New Scientist, American Scientist, Medical Post, New York Times and Equinox.
Frances Wong, MD Research Faculty Fraser Valley Centres, BCCA	Frances Wong received her undergraduate training, undergraduate medical training and radiation oncology residency training in B.C. She worked at the BC Cancer Agency’s Vancouver Centre as staff radiation oncologist from 1985. In 1994, she was appointed as the department head of Radiation Oncology and was part of the team that started the Agency’s Fraser Valley Centre which opened in 1995. She held that position, and also served as the Chief of Department of Oncology at Surrey Memorial Hospital till 2008. She was appointed as the Chief Physician for the Fraser Valley Centres in 2007, and participated in the starting of the Agency’s Abbotsford Centre which opened in 2008. As a radiation oncologist, she specializes in the fields of Head & Neck, gynaecological and breast cancers. She has specific interests in brachytherapy and Health Service Delivery.