JOAN EDWARDS KARMAZYN
Grand Bank, Newfoundland and Labrador

• President of the Consumers’ Health Awareness Network, Newfoundland and Labrador (CHANNAL), a province wide peer support network for people living with a mental illness.
• Vice-President of the Board of Directors of the National Network for Mental Health (NNMH).
• Executive Committee Member and Chair of the Policy Committee of the Canadian Coalition of Alternative Mental Resources (CCAMHR);
• Lives with a mental illness.

ANDY COX
Milform Station, Nova Scotia

• Employed as Mental Health Patient Advocate for children and youth at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax.
• Member of various boards and committees advocating for mental health.
• Lives with bipolar disorder.

JEANNETTE LEBLANC
Moncton, New Brunswick

• Registered Nurse and University Professor
  in Nursing;
• Former Director of a School of Nursing;
• Trained as a nurse practitioner
• Mother of a child living with schizophrenia since the age of 18 (who will be 42 in September);
• Over 20 years of activity in mental health matters as a mother, a family member, a health care professional and as an advocate for mental health issues at the local, provincial and national level;
• Former Chair of a community mental health advisory committee to the New Brunswick Minister of Health
  

LOUISE DE BELLEFEUILLE
Montreal, Quebec

• Head Nurse, Psychiatric Unit, Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital, Montreal.
• Five years’ experience as the Head Nurse at the adolescent psychiatric unit of l’Hôpital Sainte-Justine, Montreal.
• Ten years’ experience as the Coordinator of adult francophone day care services at the Douglas Hospital, Montreal.

DAVID S. GOLDBLOOM
Toronto, Ontario

• Senior Medical Advisor, Education and Public Affairs, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto.
• Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.
• Five years’ experience as Physician-in-Chief at CAMH.
• Three years’ experience as Chief of Staff at the Clarke Institute, Toronto.
• Active clinical practice.

• CEO, Schizophrenia Society of Canada.
• Executive Director, Manitoba Schizophrenia Society.
• Certified Psychosocial Rehabilitation Practitioner (CPRP).
• Ordained Pastor credentialed with the Associated Gospel Churches of Canada.
• Past Chair, Manitoba Provincial Advisory Council on Mental Health to the Minister of Health.
• Past Chair, Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health in Manitoba.
• Personal experience with mental illness as a family member and as an individual.

FERN STOCKDALE-WINDER
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

• Director, Department of Clinical Health Psychology, Saskatoon Health Region.
• Professional Leader of Psychology, Saskatoon Health Region.
• Chair, Seniors Mental Health Steering Committee, Saskatoon Health Region.
• Co-author of a website focused on the promotion of mental well-being (www.roadtowellbeing.ca).

• Associate Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta.
• Independent private practice in clinical and consulting Psychology.
• Five years’ experience as Assistant Professor and Director of Equity, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta.
• Eight years’ experience as a clinical psychologist at various hospitals in the Edmonton area.

• Band member of Kehewin First Nation, Alberta.
• Aboriginal Health Development Consultant.
• Former coordinator of Native and Northern Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa.
• Nearly twenty years' experience with the Medical Services Branch of Health Canada focusing on First Nations and Inuit health.
• Member of dozens of First Nations health committees and task forces over the years.
• Trained as a nurse.