Members
Sonal Gandhi
Sonal Gandhi, MD, is a medical oncologist specializing in breast…
Edward Etchells
Edward Etchelles, MD, MSc, FRCPC, serves as a project mentor…
Nely Amaral
Nely is currently the Director of Nursing Quality and Practice…
Sonal Gandhi
Categories: Core Members
Sonal Gandhi, MD, is a medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer and acute oncology at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto, as a Clinician in Quality and Innovation. Dr. Gandhi has an MSc in Health Technology Assessment. Her academic interests include targeted cancer therapy toxicity management, decreasing emergency care use, and neoadjuvant breast cancer response monitoring technologies and treatment standardization. She has led nationally recognized programs in oral anti-cancer drug management, and helped to lead and write provincial and national guidelines in breast cancer. She currently leads a novel model for oncology urgent care at her centre, and is leading work in using AI to model high risk emergency room utilization by cancer patients. She is involved in national health technology processes for approving novel cancer medications. She has dozens of academic publications and presented abstracts.
Edward Etchells
Categories: Core Members
Edward Etchelles, MD, MSc, FRCPC, serves as a project mentor supporting Faculty members throughout the University who are involved in Quality Improvement work. He joined the faculty of the Department of Medicine after completing an MSc in Clinical Epidemiology. Dr. Etchell’s initial academic interest lay in clinical bioethics, with a focus on informed consent and decision making capacity. But, he realized – after five years of inpatient attending – that safe and reliable delivery of healthcare were recurrent problems. Edward conducted some of the original research that established medication reconciliation globally as a best practice in patient safety and he was a co-investigator on the Canadian Adverse Events Study. Edward co-founded the Patient Safety Service, the first hospital-based academic safety service in Canada, with support from the SHSC senior leadership team. Dr. Etchells helped to establish the Department of Medicine’s Quality Partners program in 2006 and the U of T Certificate Program in Quality and Patient Safety in 2008. He is currently Medical Director of Information Services at SHSC. His research interests include medication reconciliation, computerized medication order entry, and real time alerting and decision support for critical laboratory values.
Nely Amaral
Categories: Core Members
Nely is currently the Director of Nursing Quality and Practice for Sinai Health System and the Magnet Program Director for Mount Sinai Hospital. Mount Sinai Hospital is currently the only hospital in all of Canada to achieve Magnet designation and distinction. Nely is the Magnet Program Director for this site. Magnet is a voluntary recognition process, similar to accreditation, for excellence in patient care. It is conducted by the American NursesCredentialing Centre (ANCC) and is one of the highest achievements a healthcare organization can attain. Nely has extensive experience in leading Quality, project management, and patient safety and risk review in the organization, specifically, the Women’s and Infants Health Programs.Nely’s clinical background and expertise in nursing is in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, where she has worked for over 24 years. Nely has a special interest in neonatal outcomes, in particular, the reduction of neonatal infections. Nely has just handed over her 5-year term as the EPIQ (Evidence-based Practice for Improving Quality) Co-Chair for the Nosocomial Infection Outcome group for Canada. Nely was a graduate to the Veterans Affairs Quality Scholar (VAQS)Fellowship program in 2016, successfully being the first nurse in Canada to graduate from the course and she is currently Co-Director and Faculty for the program through the Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (C-QuIPPS).
Nimrah Abbasi
Mount Sinai Hospital
Suzanne Beno
The Hospital for Sick Children
Sita Bhella
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Zia Bismilla
The Hospital for Sick Children
Paula Blackstien-Hirsch
Quality thru Improvement
Genevieve Bouchard
University Health Network
Mayur Brahmania
London Health sciences Center
Allison Brown
University of Calgary
Nirmala Chandrasekaran
St. Michaels Hospital
Lucas Chartier
University Health Network
Marlys Christianson
University of Toronto
Stephanie Chu
The Hospital for Sick Children
Lindsay Clarke
The Hospital for Sick Children
Antoine Corbeil
Public Health Ontario
Katie Dainty
North York General Hospital
Joanna de Graaf-Dunlop
Ontario Health
Chaitali Desai
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Melanie de Wit
Unity Health Toronto
Irfan Dhalla
St. Michael’s Hospital
Lisa Dubrofsky
Women’s College Hospital
Chandra Farrer
Women’s College Hospital
Sid Feldman
Baycrest Health Sciences
Margot Follett Rowe
The Hospital for Sick Children
Natasha Gakhal
Women’s College Hospital
Julie Gilmour
St. Michael’s Hospital
Amir Ginzburg
Trillium Health Partners
Josh Gleicher
Mount Sinai Hospital
Alan Gob
University of Western Ontario
Meiqi Guo
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
Sara Hafezi-Bakhtiari
Toronto General Hospital
Brigette Hales
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Ilana Halperin
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Hina Hanif
St. Michael’s Hospital
Chris Hayes
Trillium Health Partners
Jay Hingwala
Health Sciences Centre Winnipeg
Trevor Jamieson
Unity Health Toronto
Aamir Jeewa
The Hospital for Sick Children
Charles Kassardjian
St. Michael’s Hospital
Houman Khosravani
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Joseph Kim
University Health Network
Ayelet Kuper
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Janice Kwan
Mount Sinai Hospital
Shirley Lake
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Ron Laxer
The Hospital for Sick Children
Jerome Leis
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Charles Lim
Trillium Health Partners
Alex Lo
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
Lynn Mack
The Hospital for Sick Children
Tom MacMillan
Toronto Western Hospital
Amanda Marrone
The Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre
Larissa Matukas
Unity Health Toronto
Conor Mc Donnell
The Hospital for Sick Children
Sara Mitchell
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Shawn Mondoux
St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton
Jeff Mosko
St. Michael’s Hospital
Geetha Mukerji
Women’s College Hospital
Genny Ng
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Richard Norman
Mount Sinai Hospital
Laura Oxenham-Murphy
Bloorview Kids Rehab
Sonia Pinkney
University Health Network
Stephanie Poon
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Jeff Powis
Michael Garron Hospital
Tania Principi
The Hospital for Sick Children
Fahad Razak
St. Michael’s Hospital
Don Redelmeier
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Asaph Rolnitsky
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Mahsa Sadeghi
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Priya Saini
The Hospital for Sick Children
Deb Schonfeld
The Hospital for Sick Children
Dominick Shelton
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Kelly Smith
Michael Garron Hospital
Sanjeev Sockalingam
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Manal Tadros
The Hospital for Sick Children
Carolyn Tan
University of Toronto
Nicole Thomson
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Samuel Vaillancourt
St. Michael’s Hospital
Janaki Vallipuram
The Hospital for Sick Children
Amol Verma
St. Michael’s Hospital
Andrea Waddell
Waypoint Centre for Mental Health
Karen Wang
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Sarah Ward
St. Michael’s Hospital
Adam Weizman
Mount Sinai Hospital
Cynthia Welton
Trillium Health Partners
Jesse Wolfstadt
Mount Sinai Hospital
Jennifer Wong
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Victoria (Tori) Woolner
University Health Network
Peter Wu
Toronto General Hospital
Samara Zavalkoff
Montreal Children’s Hospital
Anne Matlow
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Anne Matlow
Categories: Emeritus Members
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Ross Baker
Categories: Emeritus Members
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Membership Categories
- Being a course director or core faculty member for a CQuIPS education program (certificate course, EQUIP or VAQS)
- Serving as the principal or senior investigator on a CQuIPS research project and/or grant
- Leading or co-leading a CQuIPS QI project and/or strategic initiative
- Guest speaking and/or coaching for a CQuIPS education program (certificate course, EQUIP)
- Teaching for the Co-Learning Curriculum in QI and/or providing direct supervision for the resident QI project
- Teaching and/or coaching for the IHPME QIPS Master’s program
- Teaching a CQUIPS+ education offering (e.g., workshop, masterclass, primer)
- Being a co-investigator on a CQuIPS research project and/or grant
- Being a key collaborator on a CQuIPS QI project and/or strategic initiative
- Enabling or supporting the work of CQuIPS members and learners through a leadership role in either a clinical institution or academic department
- Playing a lead role on a research, education and/or QI initiative that is aligned with CQuIPS’ mission and vision WHERE a CQuIPS leadership team member is a key collaborator
Membership Benefits
- Photo and bio on CQuIPS website
- CQuIPS mentorship and leadership opportunities as appropriate
- Name and organization on CQuIPS website
- Free CQUIPS+ membership for the duration of membership
- CQuIPS promotion and support as appropriate