Meet the Team
See the faces responsible for ushering the DTI to success in the project’s second phase
Project Team
Project Sponsors

Dr. Mike Allard
Vice-Dean, Health Engagement,
UBC Faculty of Medicine

Dr. Terri Aldred
Medical Director for Primary Care, First Nations Health Authority

Dr. John Pawlovich
Clinical Professor and Chair in Rural Health, University of British Columbia

Dr. Anurag Singh
Director, Northern Centre for Clinical Research, University of Northern British Columbia
Project Team

Sandy Lee
Senior Project Manager, Strategic Initiatives, UBC Faculty of Medicine

Kimia Nouhi
Project Coordinator, Department of Family Practice, UBC Faculty of Medicine

Dr. Daniel Tham
Writer and Grant Team Facilitator, UBC Faculty of Medicine

Juzer Kakal
Research Grants Facilitator, UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Trainees

Cameron Ardiel
Second Year Medical Student, UBC Northern Medical Program

Audrey Warner
WorkLearn Student, UBC Master of Public Health Student
Host Communities

Chief Robert Michell
Stellat’en First Nation

Mayor Sarrah Storey
Village of Fraser Lake
UBC Drone Transport Research Cluster

Dr. Femke Hoekstra
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Social Medicine, UBC Faculty of Medicine

Dr. Larry Lynd
Professor, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Director of the Collaboration for Outcomes Research and Collaboration

Dr. Lucy Perrone
Associate Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UBC

Dr. Dominic Liao-McPherson
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, UBC

Dr. Mohamed Shehata
Associate Professor, Computer Science, UBC Okanagan

Dr. Sonya Cressman
Evaluation Lead for the Digital Emergency Medicine Unit, Department of Emergency Medicine, UBC

Dr. Teri Charrois
Associate Dean, Practice Innovation & Professor of Teaching, UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Emerging Collaborators

