Program Committee
Co-Chairs
Dr. Ian Pike
Director, BC Injury Research & Prevention Unit and Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
Matt Herman
Director, Injury Prevention & Healthy Built Environment, Ministry of Healthy Living and Sport, Government of British Columbia
Committee Members and Their Organizations
Kathy Belton
Alberta Centre for Injury Control and Research
Melissa Deleary
Assembly of First Nations
Diane Wreford
Canadian Agriculture Safety Association
Leslie Dunning
Canadian Red Cross
Mary McCullough
First Nations
Julian Young
Government of Nova Scotia, Department of Health Promotion and Protection
Pierre Patry
Government of Quebec – Ministry of Health
Neil Arason
Government of BC – Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General
Mabel Wong
Government of the Northwest Territories
Debbie Dedam-Montour
National Indian & Inuit Community Health Representatives Organization
Noreen Agrey
Saskatchewan Prevention Institute
Edrich Richards
Public Health Agency of Canada, Division of Seniors
Stacey Croft
Public Health Agency of Canada, Family Violence Prevention
Margaret Herbert
Public Health Agency of Canada, Health Promotion and Chronic Disease
Ron Waldie
Safe Communities Canada
Linda Ward
Safe Kids Canada
Dr. Philip Groff
SMARTRISK
Joanne Banfield
Sunnybrook Health Sciences, RBC First Office of Injury Prevention
Sarah Peddie
Transport Canada
Deirdre Dimitroff
ThinkFirst Canada
Paula Tymchyshyn
ThinkFirst Canada
Dr. Alison Macpherson
York University
Professional Conference Event Planners
Pr1me Strategies Inc. Vancouver
Karen Hopkinson
Ruby Smith
Dal Palmer
Scientific Committee
Joanne Banfield
Manager, Trauma Injury Prevention, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Kathy Belton
Associate Director, Alberta Centre for Injury Control & Research, School of Public Health, University of Alberta
Dr. Alison Macpherson
Associate Professor, Kinesiology and Health Sciences, York University
Linda Ward
Coordinator, Programs, Safe Kids Canada



