Members of this team include:

• Greta Cummings
• Sue Dopson
• Heather Laschinger
• Kathy McGilton
• Verena Menec
• Debra Morgan
• Peter Norton
• Joanne Profetto-McGrath
• Jo Rycroft-Malone
• Malcolm Smith
• Norma Stewart
• Gary Teare

Decision Maker

“Official” decision makers are those individuals who make decisions about, or influence, health policies or practices in the long term care sector in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba and who have committed to actively participate in this research program. They are most likely to be in senior leadership roles such as Vice President or Chief Operating Officer, for example. Other decision makers such as practitioners, educators, health care administrators, elected officials, and individuals within the media, health charities, patient user groups or the private sector working at the local community, municipal, and provincial level are important to the success of TREC and may be asked to engage at different levels at different times. The three provincial groups are not part of the ‘official’ TREC team.

Decision makers include:

Alberta

• Caroline Clark
• Belle Gowriluk
• Corinne Schalm

Saskatchewan

• Gretta Lynn Ell
• Laureen Nein

Manitoba

• Luana Whitbread
• Real Cloutier

Advisor

Senior scientists who, through their expertise in knowledge transfer, nursing, and/or research, as well as by utilizing their network, contribute to the success of the program. Advisors actively participate as committee members and provide advice and guidance to the PI and Research Management Committee. 

Advisors include:

• Judy Birdsell
• Dot Pringle
• Jack Williams    

Collaborator

Collaborators whose role in the proposed research is to provide a special service (such as access to equipment, provision of specific reagents, training in a specialized technique, statistical analysis, access to a patient population, etc.) but who is not involved in the overall intellectual direction of the research. Collaborators may be reimbursed from the grant for actual costs they incur in providing the service. Collaborators need not be included as signatories on the application, and may be added to the research team during the course of the research, as requirements for additional services emerge. However, all those appointed as Collaborators in the application must provide a letter, addressed to a Principal Applicant, indicating their agreement to provide the service as described in the application.

Collaborators include:

• David Hogan
• Chuck Humphrey
• Michael Leiter
• Charles Mather

Trainee

CIHR defines a trainee as an individual in the process of learning how to conduct research or enhancing their research skills. The training must include actual involvement in research, and not only courses in research methods. A trainee being paid from a grant would normally fall into one of the following categories:

• undergraduate student enrolled in a course of study at an academic institution;

• graduate student enrolled in a postgraduate course of study at an academic institution. In the case of research grants, graduate students work on the project supported by the grant to fulfill part of their academic requirements (e.g., to complete a thesis);

• postdoctoral fellow (post-PhD) with some form of relationship with a research institution;

• post-health professional degree fellow (e.g., nursing, physiotherapy, medicine, dentistry) with some form of relationship with a research institution. These fellows need not be pursuing a graduate degree.

Trainees work under the supervision of a Principal Applicant or another Co-applicant and are not themselves independent researchers.

TREC Trainees include:

Postdoctoral Fellow

• Lisa Cranley

TREC Staff