Fellow in Health Care Policy David Zitner, a family doctor, is Director of Medical Informatics at Dalhousie Medical School. He has been a member of the Physician Advisory Committee to the Canadian Institute for Health Information and was on the Federal/Provincial/Territorial Deputy Ministers of Health working group which produced "When Less is Better: Using Canada's [...]
Mr. McIver brings a wealth of experience in economic policy analysis. Mr. McIver is well known as the former Chief Economist at Sun Life of Canada. For the past three years he has been the Director of Business Research for the Conference Board of Canada, guiding the research programs into developments in the financial sector. [...]
Patrick Luciani is AIMS Senior Fellow in Urban Policy. Mr. Luciani has an extensive background in public policy. He currently acts as Senior Advisor to the Canadian Statistical Assessment Services (CANSTATS), a media watch organization that comments on how the media covers public policy issues. He sits also on the boards of The Dominion Institute [...]
Dr. David Gratzer is a physician, the author of Code Blue: Reviving Canada’s Health Care System. 1999. Toronto: ECW Press, and the editor of Better Medicine: Reforming Canadian Health Care. 2002. Toronto: ECW Press. Dr. Gratzer speaks frequently on health reform, writes a monthly column for the National Post and is a contributor to the [...]
Carl Irvine is a Toronto-based economist. He has a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Toronto. He has written on health care issues such as the medically uninsured in the United States, and market-based health reform abroad. He has also written on market-based environmental reform. Medicare and User Fees: Unsafe at any Price?
Adjunct Professor, Economics, University of Prince Edward Island and Carleton University Born in 1931 in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Robin Neill holds a B.A. and M.A. in Political Economy from the University of Toronto and a PhD. in Economics from Duke. His academic appointments include: University of Saskatchewan, 1960-69, University of Prince Edward Island, 1970-72, [...]
Jacquelyn Thayer Scott, O.C., Ph.D., LL.D.(Hons.), Dipl. (Hons.) is Professor of Organization Management and Public Administration at the University College of Cape Breton in Sydney, Nova Scotia, an institution that she served as its president and vice-chancellor for nearly ten years. She serves on several public and private sector governing boards, and is Deputy Chair [...]
Director President of Dalhousie University Richard Florizone is the 11th President of Dalhousie University. Before coming to Dalhousie, Florizone served as Vice-President, Finance and Resources, at the University of Saskatchewan since 2005. During his time at the University of Saskatchewan, Florizone remained an active and respected academic, publishing several papers and giving lectures and seminars [...]
Director President of Vic Progressive Diamond Drilling and President of Terrain Drilling Solutions Inc. Laura Araneda received her Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of New Brunswick in 1991 and entered the family business. Today, as President of Vic Progressive Diamond Drilling (VPDD), Araneda believes that attention to quality, safety, and environment have helped [...]
AIMS Research Fellow Joseph Quesnel is a research fellow with the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS). A Northern Ontarian by background, Joseph now lives in Antigonish in eastern Nova Scotia with his wife Melanie. Joseph is also Quebec Metis by heritage and interested in Indigenous issues, in particular effective governance and economic development. He [...]