Advisory Council on Cancer Control

Advisory Council on Cancer Control

The Canadian Partnership Against Cancer thanks the members of its Advisory Council on Cancer Control for sharing their time, energy and ideas during the first two years of the Partnership’s mandate and for their efforts to advance cancer control in Canada. Please note that their listed affiliations reflect their professional roles during their time on the advisory council.

  • Simon Sutcliffe, MD — Co-Chair
  • Jessica Hill — Co-Chair
  • Bob Allen
    Chief Executive Officer, Saskatchewan Cancer Agency
  • Harley J. Ast
    Board member, Canadian Prostate Cancer Network; advisory team member, Campaign to Control Cancer; member, Health Canada’s scientific advisory committee on oncology therapies
  • Carrie Bourassa, Ph. D.
    Assistant Professor, Department of Science, First Nations University of Canada
  • George P. Browman, MD
  • Elizabeth Eisenhauer, MD
  • Mark Elwood, MD — Member, National Colorectal Screening Network
    Vice-President, Family and Community Oncology, BC Cancer Agency; Clinical Professor, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia
  • Margaret  Fitch, Ph. D.
  • Carolyn Gotay, Ph. D.
    Professor, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia
  • Eva Grunfeld, MD — Member, Cancer Risk Management Advisory Committee and National Survivorship Working Group
    Giblon Professor and Director, Family Medicine Research, University of Toronto; clinician scientist and Director, Knowledge Translation Network, Ontario Institute of Cancer Research and Cancer Care Ontario Health Services Research Program
  • Barbara Kaminsky
    Chief Executive Officer, BC and Yukon Division, Canadian Cancer Society
  • Jon Kerner, Ph. D.
  • Verna Mai, MD
  • Anthony Miller, MD — Co-chair, Cancer Risk Management Advisory Committee
    Professor Emeritus, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
  • Melanie Morningstar — Advisory Committtee, First Nations, Inuit and Métis Cancer Control
    Senior Policy Analyst, Assembly of First Nations Health and Social Development Secretariat
  • Ellen Murphy
    Director of Cancer Prevention, Alberta Health Services
  • Andrew Padmos, MD
  • Michael Richards, MD
    National Cancer Director for England, National Health Service
  • Paul Rogers, MBChB
    Clinical Professor, University of British Columbia; Head, Pediatric Oncology, BC Children’s Hospital
  • Brent Schacter, MD — Member, Surveillance Action Group
    Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Hematology/Oncology, University of Manitoba Medical School, and Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, CancerCare Manitoba
  • Jack Siemiatycki, Ph. D.
    Professor, Canada Research Chair in Environmental Epidemiology and Population Health and Guzzo Chair in Environment and Cancer, Université de Montréal
  • Jack Shapiro — Member, Research Action Group
    Chair, Canadian Cancer Action Network
  • Isaac Sobol, MD
    Chief Medical Health Officer for Nunavut
  • Jean Latreille, MDCM (Observer)
    Hemato-oncologist, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Hôpital Charles LeMoyne