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Board of Director
Biographies
Cathy Burrows, RN, BScN
Education
1977 St. Martha's School of Nursing Antigonish, NS
1978 Post-Basic OR, RR, ER Moncton Hospital Moncton, NB
1999 BScN Program, St. Francis Xavier University Antigonish, NS
2000 IIWCC University of Toronto Toronto, Ont
Professional Experience
1977 - 1978 Glace Bay Community Hospital Glace,Bay, NS Staff Nurse General Surgery
1978-1980 Glace Bay Community Hospital Glace Bay, NS Staff Nurse OR
1980-1981 Ottawa Civic Hospital Ottawa, Ont. Staff Nurse Burn Unit
1981-to date QE II Health Sciences Centre Halifax, NS Staff Nurse Cardiovascular Surgery
Professional memberships and Responsibilities
1982-to date Canadian Council of Cardiovascular Nurses (CCCN)
1983-1994 Chairperson Public Education Committee CCCN
1987-1994 Committee Member for the implementation of the Heart and Healthy Lifestyle Program for Grade Four Students in metro Halifax
2000- to date Canadian Association of Wound Care ( CAWC )
2001-to date Member of the Board of Directors CAWC
 Martine Albert RN, BScN, IIWCC
Martine Albert is currently employed by the Calgary Health Region, Home Care. She has been part of the Skin and Wound Assessment and Treatment Team (SWAT) since 1998. Her scope of practice consists of policy development, education, clinical research and practice. She graduated from the University of Montreal in nursing in 1990 and has completed the International Interdisciplinary Wound Care Course in 2002 at the University of Toronto. As part of this course she and her colleagues developed an Interdisciplinary Urgency Triage Tool and had it published in Wound Care Canada.
She is currently enrolled in the Enterostomal Therapy Nursing Education Program through the Canadian Association for Enterostomal Therapy (CAET).
She is the chair of the membership committee and is a member of the clinical practice committee.
Mario Coté, MD, CCFP
Education
- 1981 – 1983 D.E.C health sciences, Seminaire St-Augustin
- 1983 – 1987 Medicine Doctorat, Sherbrooke University
- 1987 – 1988 Multidisciplinary internship, Hotel-Dieu de Levis
- 1990 Flight Surgeon, Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC)(Toronto)
- 1991/1992 Diving Medical Officer, (DRDC)(Toronto)
- 1999 College of Family Physician of Canada (Examiniation pass)
- 1999 College of Family Physician of Canada Emergency Certificate (Examination
pass)
- 2001/2002 IIWCC (Toronto)
Professional Experience
- June 1988 – June 1994 Medical Officer, Canadian Force Base Valcartier
- Dec. 1989 – 2003 Emergency medicine department, Centre Hospitalier
Universitaire Affilie Hotel-Dieu de Levis
- May-Nov 1993 Commanding Medical Officer of a surgical Hospital Combat
Groupe of 2nd Batallion Royal 22nd Regiment and Senior medical advisor
of the Canadian Command UNPROFOR, Bosnia-Herzegovina Ex-Yugoslavia
- 1992-1994 Base Surgeon, Canadien Force Base Valcartier
- June 1997 – Sept 1999 Director of emergency medicine department,
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Affilie Hotel-Dieu de Levis
- Sept 1999 – 2003 Director of hyperbaric medicine department ,
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Affilie Hotel-Dieu de Levis2001 – 2003 Complex wound care clinic, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire
Affilie Hotel-Dieu de Levis
- 2002 – 2003 Wound care team, Community care center, CLSC Desjadins
Association Membership
- Association des Medecins d’Urgence du Quebec
- College of Family Physician of Canada
- College des Medecins du Quebec
- Canadian Mental Association
- Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society
- Canadian Association of Wound Care
 Patricia
Coutts, RN , IIWCC
Patricia Coutts is currently a Wound Care Specialist and Clinical Trials
Coordinator with Dr. R. G. Sibbald in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
She is a Registered Nurse who graduated from the inaugural International
Interdisciplinary Wound Care Course at the University of Toronto, Toronto,
Ontario, Canada. She currently is a member of the faculty for this course.
She has co-authored a chapter in Chronic Wound Care III as well as contributing
to publish articles in wound journals.Patricia has presented at conferences
locally, nationally and internationally.
 David Haligowski, BSc, MD
David Haligowski graduated from the University of Winnipeg, 1981, with BSc in Physics. In 1985 he graduated from the University of Manitoba, 1985 with his MD and has been conducting family practice since 1989. He is currently a partner at Rivergrove Medical Clinic in Winnipeg. He is a Lecturer and Sessional Instructor at the University of Manitoba, a member of UPCON (Urban Physician Community Oncology Network); local resource for family doctors when treating cancer patients and local reference for patients with cancer but without a family doctor. He is Medical Director of two PCHs; Middlechurch Home of Winnipeg & River East Personal Care Home.
 Connie
Harris, RN ET MSc(c)
Connie Harris, from Kitchener, Ontario, has been a Registered Nurse since
1974. She completed the Ontario Hospital Association’s Diploma of
Clinical Administration in 1991. She has been an Enterostomal Therapy
nurse since 1992, graduating from the University of Toronto / CAET course.
In 1996, along with two other ET nurses, she formed a company called "ET
NOW," providing advanced wound and ostomy care in Waterloo Region.
Connie served as Secretary
for the Canadian Association for Enterostomal Therapy (CAET) from 1995-1999,
graduated from the University of Toronto School of Medicine’s Interdisciplinary
Wound Care Course in 1999-2000 and graded papers for the 2000-2001 class.
She is currently the Senior Clinical Specialist for Wounds and Ostomy for
CarePartners/ ET NOW in southwestern Ontario and is currently completing her thesis work for the University of Wales
Masters of Science in Wound Healing and Tissue Repair. Her thesis topic is
to develop a best practice protocol for post-operative pilonidal sinus
wounds using a modified Delphi Technique.
 David H. Keast BSc, MSc, Dip Ed, MD, CCFP, FCFP
Dr. Keast, a native of London, Ontario, graduated from the University of Western Ontario in Chemistry and taught high school for 11 years before entering Queen’s University to study medicine, graduating in 1985. He completed a residency in family practice at the University of Western Ontario. He currently maintains a community family practice and is Medical Service Co-ordinator of the Veterans Care Program at the Parkwood Hospital, St. Joseph’s Health Care, London. He is the physician member of the Chronic Wound and Skin Health Team, and the Medical Director of the Outpatient Chronic Wound Management Clinic at Parkwood. Dr. Keast is Clinical Adjunct Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Western Ontario and has research interests in chronic wound management, delivery of health care services to the elderly and interdisciplinary teams.
 Rob
Miller, BA, MD, FRCP(C)
- Co-director, Wound Care Clinic QEII Hospital (present)
- Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University
(1983 – present)
- Research Director, Division of Dermatology, Dalhousie University (1981
– present)
- Director, Canadian Dermatology Research Foundation (1989 – present)
- Advisor, Canadian Cancer Society (1990 – present)
- Advisor, Canadian Alopecia Areata Society of N.S. (1990 – present)
- Contributing Editor, Canadian Dermatology Assoc. Journal (1992 –
present)
- Examiner (Dermatology), Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of
Canada (1993 – present)
- Director of Research, Division of Dermatology (1993 – 2000)
- Chief of Dermatology, Halifax Infirmary Hospital (1980 – 1990)
- Active Staff, Victoria General Hospital (1981 – present)
- Consulting Staff, IWK Children’s Hospital/Grace Maternity Hospital/
Camp Hill Medical Centre/ Halifax Infirmary Hospital (1981 – present)
 Christine Pearson, RN, IIWCC
Christine Pearson is a Community Wound Clinician for Vancouver Coastal Health, and a graduate of the University of Toronto Chronic Wound Care Course. She has worked in community nursing for the last 26 years. She develops and presents evidence based wound education sessions, provides consultation on difficult wounds for physicians, community nurses, student nurses, long-term care facilities and has lectured for nursing schools. She has published articles in the journal Wound Care Canada. Christine has presented at conferences locally and nationally. She is the chair of the Clinical Practice Committee and a member of the Public Policy Committee.
 M. Gail Woodbury, BScPT, PhD
Gail Woodbury is an epidemiologist with a clinical and university faculty background in Physical Therapy. Upon completion of her PhD in 1990, her personal choice to work part-time has allowed her to work extensively with David Keast, Karen Campbell and Pamela Houghton and together they have formed a collaborative interdisciplinary Wound Research Team in London, Ontario. With this team she has been involved in multi-centre clinical research trials and has contributed to development of new wound assessment tools (Leg Ulcer Measurement Tool and Photographic Wound Assessment Tool). In addition, she is interested in acquiring high-level research evidence, critical appraisal of existing evidence, and making the evidence available and comprehensible to clinicians. She has a history of working on CAWC committees and led the research project that estimated the prevalence of chronic wounds in Canada.
 Chairman
Emeritus R. Gary Sibbald, BSc, MD, FRCPC (Med, Derm), MACP, DABD
Associate Professor of Medicine and Director Continuing Medical Education,
Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
Dr. Sibbald is a board-certified
internal medicine and dermatology specialist in both Canada and the United
States based at the University of Toronto and in private practice in Mississauga.
He has had a special interest in wound care education, research and patient
care for the past 15 years.
Dr. Sibbald received his Bachelor
of Science, MD and specialty degrees from the University of Toronto. He
was a McLaughlin travelling scholar in 1978-79 to St. John’s Hospital
for Diseases of the Skin, University of London, United Kingdom. He has
been a staff member of the University Health Network (Toronto General)
since 1979 and active staff at Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health
Sciences Centre (Women’s College Campus) and Trillium Health Centre
(Mississauga Site) since 1982.
Dr. Sibbald’s dermatology
expertise led to his roles as advisory council executive member of Canada
for the American Academy of Dermatology and a previous president and founding
secretary of the Toronto Dermatological Association. He is a former director
and current chair of the Education Committee of the Canadian Dermatology
Association.
Since 1995, he has been Director
of Continuing Education for the Department of Medicine at the University
of Toronto. As part of this role, he established a multi-disciplinary
wound care course the university. The course is international, interdisciplinary
and longitudinal in design, incorporating two residential weekends with
self-study modules and a selective that relates course material to wound
care practice.
Dr. Sibbald is currently enrolled
in a Masters of Education program at the Ontario Institute for Studies
in Education (OISE) and is a member of the Centre for Research in Education,
University of Toronto.
The Dermatology Day Care and
Wound Healing clinic was established at Women’s College Campus to
provide an interdisciplinary focus for wound healing, education, patient
care and research. The center provides a networking hub for community
enterostomal therapists and an interdisciplinary diabetic foot care team.
As the director, Dr. Sibbald is involved with his team in wound care team
research with special interest in new topical treatments, compression
therapy, biological agents (including skin substitutes) and the role of
bacteria in chronic wounds.
He is the clinical section
editor for Wounds, an international advisor for the Journal
of Wound Care and co-editor of the third edition of Chronic Wound
Care: A Clinical Sourcebook for Healthcare Professionals.
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