HEALTHCARE & RELATED PROFESSIONS SECTOR HUB PRESENTERS

Cathy Tait - Principal, Western Management Consultants

Cathy Tait is a principal with Western Management Consultants and works with clients across a number of private and public sectors, where she specializes in helping them to achieve optimal results in building great customer experiences, across their marketing and client relationship areas of their organizations. Her other areas of expertise are as a trained facilitator and coach. As a coach, she is a personal growth or development strategist who helps clients develop a game plan to keep them focused on what they want to achieve out of the future.

Spending most of her professional life in the private sector (twenty three years) has enabled her as a consultant (seven years), to bring a client-centric, creative and hands on approach to addressing many key business and organization issues.

Edward Venzon Cruz - Professor and Coordinator, Centennial College

Edward is an internationally-educated nurse from the Philippines. He arrived in Canada in October 2003, and became a Registered Nurse in 2006. He has since assumed different roles in health care and education. Currently, Edward works as a full-time professor and coordinator of bridging programs for internationally-educated nurses at Centennial College.

He is actively involved in initiatives involving nursing, especially as they relate to IENs, and currently serves as a member for the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing Taskforce for IEN Bridging Programs.

Sivakumar Gulasingam, MD

Sivakumar is an International Medical Doctor, migrated to Canada in 2009, and currently a Medical Resident in Rehab-Medicine at University of Toronto.

As a Study Group Facilitator with HealthForceOntario for International Doctors, he was able to coach them for Canadian Medical Licensing exams and subsequent interviews. Being a School Council Chair and a member of the Inner City Advisory Committee of the Toronto District School Board, he organized activities for ‘new comer parents’. He was also selected to deliver the IMD Oration at the Felicitation Ceremony organized by the Ontario Ministry of Health in 2011.

Michael Nurse, Director of Admissions - Sutherland Chan School & Teaching Clinic

As Director of Admissions, his responsibilities include creating plans and strategies towards new student recruitment, which includes internationally trained professionals. Almost weekly he meets people who can capitalize on their backgrounds and transition to the rapidly expanding field of massage therapy.

Michael has a range of experience in the private and non-profit sectors and with various school systems. He’s held admissions posts at Appleby College and Upper Canada College, and was a board member of the Association of Boarding Schools (Washington, D.C.). He also has experience in the non-profit sector at the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada and the Canadian Diabetes Association.

Sheila Hellier, Facilitator/Counsellor - Career Transitions for International Medical Doctors, Skills for Change

Sheila is a Facilitator-Counsellor for the Career Transitions for International Medical Doctors program at Skills for Change for over 4 years. A trained Career and Work Counsellor, Trainer, Life skills coach and former Ex-pat, she has applied her skills and experience to assist more than 400 doctors to move forward on their career path here in Canada.

The mandate of the program is to assist IMD’s to find alternative work in the non-regulated healthcare sector. Some students chose to retrain; others go directly into employment and some have been successful in securing residencies in Canada and the US.

Norma Tomlin - Case Manager, CARE Centre for Internationally Educated Nurses

Norma works for the CARE Centre for Internationally Educated Nurses as a Case Manager for the past 4 years and is now based out in the Peel Region office. She has been registered with the College of Nurses of Ontario as a Registered Practical Nurse since 1992.

She has worked in both non-profit and for profit organization in the capacity of a nursing supervisor, case manger, visiting nurse with the main interest in community care. Working at CARE she has worked individually with more than 300 IENs guiding and supporting them on their journey to becoming registered with the CNO and getting them working in the Ontario health care system.

Caroline Morris - Director of Professional Practice, College of Medical Radiation Technologists of Ontario

Caroline Morris is the Director of Professional Practice at the College of Medical Radiation Technologists of Ontario (CMRTO). The College of Medical Radiation Technologists of Ontario is the regulatory body for medical radiation technologists in Ontario.

Caroline started her career in medical radiation technology in South Africa where she completed her National Diploma in Radiography and her Higher National Diploma in Post School education at the Port Elizabeth Technikon. She has also completed a certificate in Health Services Management from the Canadian Healthcare Association. Caroline has filled a variety of patient care roles in Radiography and MRI. Caroline was the Manager of Diagnostic Imaging at the Scarborough Hospital for 5 years before joining the CMRTO in 2007.

Gwen LLewellyn - Clinical Coordinator, The Scarborough Hospital

Gwen holds a BSc (Hons) Degree in Diagnostic Radiography from University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff. June 1994. She worked mainly in the areas of CT, MRI, Coronary Angiography and student education until immigration to Canada, December 2002, and completed the CAMRT examination, registered and obtained license with CMRTO in June 2003.

Gwen is now employed at The Scarborough Hospital – General Division as a Medical Radiation Technologist June 2003 and became Clinical Coordinator for department, September 2004. She aided the Michener Institute in developing a bridging program in Radiological Technology for Internationally Educated Health Professionals.

Stuart McAslan - Healthforce Ontario

Shameem Mohamed - Healthforce Ontario

Kathy Moscou - Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy

Mark Fam - Deloitte Consulting – Healthcare Practice

Heather Shantora - PT Health

Gordana Atanackovic - UCB Pharma

Ramann Patara - Unison Health and Community Services