Research, Policy and Planning Advisory Committee (RPPAC)

The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada (HSFC)'s innovative strategic Research Fund is guided by a diverse group of professionals from across the country. The Research Policy and Planning Advisory Committee (RPPAC) is made up of clinicians and researchers from fields such as physiotherapy, neurology, kinesiology, behavioural research, and cardiovascular sciences. Its lay members come from diverse backgrounds including law and communications. RPPAC provides strategic advice and recommendations to HSFC's Board of Directors on the Foundation’s research enterprise. The committee meets three to four times a year.

A key priority for RPPAC is to apply the Research Fund’s Managed Research Cycle (MRC), guided by the Fund’s new intellectual framework. This means defining how we align strategic research initiatives with the Foundation’s mission priorities and better integrating knowledge transfer and exchange into the funding cycle.

Members (2011-2012)

Laurie Morrison, MD, FRCPC, MSc
CHAIR
Director, Resuscitation and Professor, Division of Emergency Medicine
Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Sciences Centre

Sonia Anand, MD, PhD
Provincial Representative: ONTARIO
Professor, Department of Medicine and Director, Vascular Medicine Clinic
Hamilton Health Sciences

Todd Anderson, MD
SRC Chair
Chief, Division of Cardiology, University of Calgary
 
Mark Bisby, MA, PhD
Consultant: External Representative
Former Vice-President, Research for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
 
Marilyn MacKay-Lyons, MScPT, PhD
Provincial Representative: ATLANTIC
Associate Professor, School of Physiotherapy
Dalhousie Univeristy
 
Nicolas Noiseux, MD, FRCS(C), MSc Molecular Biology, BSc Biochemistry
Provincial Representative: QUEBEC
Cardiac Surgeon, Associate Professor of Surgery
Hôtel-Dieu du CHUM
Affiliated to Montréal University
 
Ed Pryzdial, PhD
Provincial Representative: BRITISH COLUMBIA
Clinical Associate Professor
Scientist, Research and Development
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of British Columbia

Wendy Rodgers, BA, MA, PhD
Provincial Representative: ALBERTA
Adjunct Professor and Professor, University of Alberta

Arturo Tamayo, MD, FAHA
Provincial Representative: MANITOBA
Assistant Professor, Neurology, University of Manitoba and
Director, Brandon Stroke Prevention Clinic and Stroke Clinic
 
Linda Waverley, MSc, PhD
Past Chair, Consultant
West Vancouver, BC

 
Last Updated (Thursday, 12 May 2011)