Board of Directors

The Women’s Health Research Institute’s volunteer Board of Directors:

Ms. Eileen Stewart (Chair)

Instructor (Part Time)
British Columbia Institute of Technology

Ms. Janet Austin (Vice Chair)
Chief Executive Officer.
YWCA of Vancouver
Ms. Cheryl Hogg, CA (Secretary-Treasurer)
Consultant & CEO
Infocus Management Consulting

Mr. Byron Braley

Vicr President, Treasury
University of British Columbia

Ms. Lynda Cranston
President & Chief Executive Officer.
Provincial Health Services Authority

Ms. Jane Darville (on leave)

Senior Executive & Consultant
Darville Associates

Ms. Madeleine Dion Stout
President, Independent Scholar & Aboriginal Health Development Consultant.
Dion Stout Reflections Inc.
Dr. Nancy Gallini
Dean, Faculty Arts & Professor of Economics.
University of British Columbia
Dr. John Gilbert (Chair)
Principal & Professor Emeritus, College of Health Disciplines.
University of British Columbia
Mr. Michael Marchbank (Alternate to L. Cranston)
Executive Vice President, Quality Management Performance Improvement & Innovation.
Provincial Health Services Authority
Ms. Jan Marston
Vice President, Gas Supply & Transmission.
Terasen Gas
Dr. Dorothy Shaw
Senior Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs & President FIGO.
University of British Columbia  
Ms. Kim van der Woerd
PhD Candidate, Department of Psychology.
Simon Fraser University
Dr. Elizabeth Whynot
President.
BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre


The WHRI would also like to acknowledge our past Board members and thank them for their generous guidance & support:

Ms. Ardath Paxton Mann
Assistant Deputy Minister, BC Region.
Western Economic Diversification Canada

Ms. Patti Hunter
Director, Physical Activity & Healthy Living.
2010 Legacies Now

Dr. Joy Johnson
Professor, School of Nursing.
University of British Columbia

Dr. Adrienne Chan
Professor, School of Social Work and Human Services.
University College of the Fraser Valley

Ms. Shashi Assanand

Executive Director

Vancouver & Lower Mainland Multicultural Support Services