Current Board of Directors
JEAN GRAY
Chair
WILLIAM (BILL) LAHEY
Vice-chair
JOANNE GALLIVAN
Board Member
PETER MCLEOD
Board Member
PETER W. MULLEN
Board Member
RICHARD SINGER
Board Member
MAUREEN SUMMERS
Board Member
CARL BRECKENRIDGE
Board Member
CORINA WALSH
Board Member
Jean is Professor Emeritus - Medical Education, Medicine, and Pharmacology at Dalhousie University. She has served as President of four Canadian academic organizations, one international organization, as a vice-president of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and was the inaugural Chair of the Institute of Gender and Health Advisory Board (CIHR). She has received several awards, including two honorary doctorates, and is a Member of the Order of Canada.
William (Bill) Lahey
Vice-chair
William Lahey is an Associate Professor at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University. He is a graduate of Mount Allison University (B.A., Geography), of Oxford University (B.A., Jurisprudence) and of the University of Toronto (LL.M.). At Oxford, he studied as Rhodes Scholar. He was clerk to Mr. Justice La Forest of Supreme Court of Canada, 1989-1990. He has been a member of the faculty at Dalhousie Law School since 2001, after a career in the Nova Scotia public service, including as Assistant Deputy Minister of Health, 1998-2001. Between 2004 and 2007, he was Deputy Minister, N.S. Department of Environment and Labour, on leave from Dalhousie Law School. From 2007 to 2011, he was Director of the Dalhousie Health Law Institute.
His research spans the fields of health systems law and policy; administrative law; environmental regulation; professional regulation; and legal history. Awards include the 2003/2004 Dalhousie Law Students' Society and Alumni Excellence in Teaching Award (for teaching in upper year courses) and the 2007/2008 Dalhousie Law School Hannah and Harold Barnet Award for Excellence in Teaching First Year Law. He was honored in 2008 for his contributions to the development of the knowledge economy in Nova Scotia by Nova Knowledge, an organization dedicated to economic innovation. In addition to his role as Vice-chair of the Board of Directors of the Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation, he is Chair of the Board of Directors of Efficiency Nova Scotia Corporation, Nova Scotia’s independent not-for-profit administrator of efficiency and conservation programs for electricity and other kinds of energy.
Joanne, who received her PhD in Psychology from the University of Waterloo, is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Cape Breton University, where she served as the Dean of Research from 2001 to 2006. Joanne has received support for her research from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She has been included in Canadian Who’s Who since 2004.
Peter is a Professor of Psychology at Acadia University where he has also served as Director of Research and Graduate Studies. Prior to joining the faculty of Acadia in 1989, Peter received his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Dalhousie University and held a Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship at U.B.C. His health-related research interests focus on stress responses and risk factors for depression and anxiety.
An alumnus of Acadia University, Peter is the founder and president of Kemic Bioresearch in Kentville which provides research and consulting services in pharmacokinetics and toxicology. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Manchester, England. After a year as a British Empire Cancer Research Campaign Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, he returned to Manchester, becoming a tenured member of the Department of Pharmacology, prior to establishing Kemic upon his return to Nova Scotia. Over the past 20 years, Peter has also taught courses at both Acadia and Dalhousie Universities.
Since 1972, Richard has been a member of the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at Dalhousie University's medical school. His research activities have allowed him to serve the biomedical community at a national level through 15 years of membership and/or chair status on several peer-review committees for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, its predecessor the Medical Research Council of Canada, and the National Cancer Institute of Canada.
Maureen is the Executive Director of the Canada Cancer Society – Nova Scotia Division. She has an MSc in Health Studies and a BSc in Kinesiology from the University of Waterloo. The Canadian Society of Association Executives recognized Maureen nationally in 2001 for Excellence in Association Leadership for her role with the Canadian Cancer Society. Currently, Maureen is a member of the Dalhousie Cancer Research Program Management group, the Cancer Research Traineeship Program, the National Cancer Institute of Canada’s Centre for Behavioural Research and Program Evaluation Advisory Committee, Canadian Institutes for Health Research Regional Partnership Program committee, and has participated as a lay reviewer in the NCIC grant panels.
Carl Breckenridge
Board Member
Carl Breckenridge is past Vice-President (Research) at Dalhousie. He received his PhD in biochemistry from the University of Toronto and completed ostdoctoral studies at the Centre de Neurochimie, France.
His research interests involve the structure, function, and metabolism of lipids and plasma lipoproteins and their role in cardiovascular disease. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed publications and has been honoured with the Rubenstein Memorial Award, (of the Canadian Lipoprotein conference), a Merit Award from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Nova Scotia, and the Max Forman Senior Research Prize from the Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation.
As Vice-President (Research) at Dalhousie,he was responsible for facilitating institutional initiatives for major research emphases in the areas of Health Studies, Ocean Studies, Materials, Information and Communication Technologies, Energy, and Arts & Culture.
Since his retirement he has volunteered on boards and committees of a number of Maritime and Atlantic agencies including Springboard Atlantic, and MPHEC, and has undertaken consulting work with regard to the development of research and innovation initiatives.
Corina received her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Memorial University. She is completing her Master of Education degree at Mount Saint Vincent University (April, 2012) and was recently awarded the Graduate Merit Scholarship. With a background in biopharmaceutical science, Corina joined the Canadian Fabry Disease Initiative research team as a Data Management Coordinator in 2008 until 2011. While employed at the Centre for Clinical Research, Corina was also Co-chair of the Research Education Committee and developed and facilitated the Computer Literacy for Research Staff program. She has also served on the Board of Literacy Nova Scotia since 2008 and sits on the executive as the Treasurer. Corina is currently employed as a Program Development Officer with the Nova Scotia Government.