Patient Voice

What I hope to bring to the Patient Voice: A youth perspective on the future of health care. As chair, a passion to innovate and collaborate in a safe and supportive environment.

What I hope to bring to the Patient Voice: Passion for team collaboration. Commitment to work toward greater patient-partnered care. Dedication to ongoing learning and development.

What I hope to bring to the Patient Voice: Enthusiasm for participating in a team and being a part of discussions and recommendations that will bring change and improvement to health care in our nation.

What I hope to bring to the Patient Voice: A deep investment in community building across varied patient communities in collaboration with health care providers. Experience as a digital strategy lead in the public health, hospital and nongovernmental organization sectors.

What I hope to bring to the Patient Voice: A desire to enhance patient experience, raise awareness about trauma-informed care and advocate for global ethical safe care for all via global collaboration, connection and communication to create optimal models of health care.

What I hope to bring to the Patient Voice: The desire to create change, to have a greater impact on patient care across the world and to improve access and medical literacy for patients.

What I hope to bring to the Patient Voice: A compassionate voice that helps improve the quality and quantity of care for older adults. A focus on our aging population and its impending impacts on medical society.

What I hope to bring to the Patient Voice: A passion and strong sense of optimism for health care in Canada, a data-driven approach to health care improvement, patient–provider collaboration and community-based health care.

What I hope to bring to the Patient Voice: The perspective gained from a diverse business background and from interactions with patients, family and care providers across the country, to support the ongoing development of safe, continuous, collaborative, patient-partnered care.

What I hope to bring to the Patient Voice: A passion for collaboration. Team player. A focus on improving the quality of care for patients and the working environment for health care providers.

What I hope to bring to the Patient Voice: The drive and passion to support conversations with health care providers to encourage a wider understanding and honouring of the unique needs of the 2SLGBTQI community so there can be engagement in breaking down barriers and fully participating in intersectional patient-driven care.

What I hope to bring to the Patient Voice: Enthusiasm, humour and the desire to turn negative experiences into practical and real tools to help others.

What I hope to bring to the Patient Voice: Lived experience with heart failure and transplant while dealing with the health care system. An interest in collaborating with and contributing to the Patient Voice team to improve patient care and workplace quality for health care professionals. 

What I hope to bring to the Patient Voice: A passion for looking at ways to promote favourable outcomes for Indigenous people. Experience serving on local, provincial and national boards and committees in the areas of police governance, health, education, women’s shelters, healing and treatment centres, and heart and brain health.

Roger Stoddard passed away in December 2022. The CMA wishes to extend condolences to his family, friends and colleagues, and to express our gratitude for the perspective he brought to Patient Voice. Stoddard’s advocacy, focused on mental health, grew from personal experience as a caregiver and included work with at the community, provincial and national levels.

Dr. Kozroski is a rural family physician practising in southwest Saskatchewan. She has worked in several provinces and was an active member of the Canadian Forces Health Services reserves for over 20 years. She has served as a Saskatchewan Medical Association (SMA) regional delegate since 2006, on the board of directors for eight years and as SMA president in 2013.

Dr. Nohr practiced as a transplant surgeon at McGill University and a community general surgeon in Medicine Hat, Alberta. He is a past president and current Speaker of the Alberta Medical Association.