Committees

Blood Pressure Canada is governed by the Board of Directors, and the Executive Committee. The Board of Directors supervises the corporate activities of the organization but delegates authority for day to day operation of activities to the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee is elected by the membership. Candidates for the Executive Committee must be members of a Society/Organization member of Blood Pressure Canada.

The current Board of Directors are
Dr. Norman Campbell
Dr. Ross Feldman
Mr. Stephen Samis
Dr. Debra Reid
Dr. Mark Makowsky

The current Executive Committee is
President – Dr. Norman Campbell – Canadian Society of Internal Medicine
Secretary – Dr. Mark Makowsky- Canadian Pharmacists’ Association
Treasurer – Dr. Ross Feldman – Canadian Hypertension Society
Member at Large – Mr. Stephen Samis – Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
Member at Large – Dr. Debra Reid – Dietitians of Canada
Chair, Awards Committee – Dr. Brian Penner
Coordinator – Ms. Selina Omar Allu

Blood Pressure Canada engages in its activities through the Public Education Task Force that reports to the Executive Committee.

Public Education Task Force

The Public Education Task Force is a multidisciplinary volunteer group that has a mandate to increase the knowledge of Canadians about hypertension and to develop tools to assist patients with hypertension. The Task Force is comprised of several subgroups addressing topics as followed:

  • surveillance of public awareness and knowledge
  • development and dissemination of public and patient hypertension recommendations
  • maintenance and development of public and patient material on the Blood Pressure Canada web site
  • development and dissemination of patient education books on hypertension
  • fostering media communications on hypertension to the public
  • enhancing World Hypertension Day activities
  • encouraging self-management of hypertension & self-measurement of blood pressure
  • maintaining a slide set for health care professionals to use in educating the public about hypertension
  • maintaining and sponsoring training sessions where health care professionals learn how to educate the public about hypertension
  • development and dissemination of brief intervention tools for health care professionals to use in educating the patients on hypertension
  • developing cultural translations of material to minority populations
  • developing and maintaining a national community hypertension program network
  • developing a research program on how to best improve public knowledge about hypertension.

Chair
Dr. Norman Campbell
Members
Dr. Janusz Kaczorowski
Dr. Denis Drouin
Dr. Arun Chockalingam
Ms. Heather Rourke
Dr. Charlotte Jones
Dr. Oliver Baclic
Dr. Larry Chambers
Ms. Susanne Cookson
Dr. Robert Petrella
Ms. Donna McLean
Ms. Wendy Shah
Ms. Marla Richardson
Ms. Margaret Moy Lum Kwong
Ms. Lise Gaudet
Ms. Jan Mooney
Mr. Ahmad Zbib
Mr. Ernesto Mora
Dr. Sailesh Mohan
Mr. Keith MacKinnon
Mr. D’Arcy Carr
Mr. Peter Mantha

Sodium Sub-Group of the Public Education Task Force

The Sodium Sub-Group is a multidisciplinary volunteer group co-chaired with CHEP that has a mandate to develop tactics to support the dietary sodium reduction strategy. The initial tactics include:

  • developing a scientific resource centre on dietary sodium and health
  • developing and disseminating publications and learning tools about dietary sodium for health care professionals and the public
  • advocating for surveillance on dietary sodium and disseminating the results
  • estimating the impact of dietary sodium on the health of Canadians and disseminating the results
  • liaising with government on sodium and advocating for reduced sodium additives to food
  • developing media communications on dietary sodium
  • examining international strategies to reduce dietary sodium

View Blood Pressure Canada’s Policy on Sodium

Co-Chairs
Dr. Debra Reid (Blood Pressure Canada)
Dr. Norm Campbell (Canadian Hypertension Education Program)
Members
Ms. Wendy Shah
Ms. Marla Richardson
Dr. Ross Feldman
Dr. Bruce Van Vliet
Dr. David MacLean
Dr. Kelly Zarnke
Dr. Kevin Willis
Dr. Debra Reid
Dr. Andrew Pipe
Dr. Ralph Hawkins
Dr. Don Smyth
Dr. George Pylypchuk
Dr. Norman Campbell
Dr. Michael Sharma
Dr. Manjula Gowrishankar

Get involved in Blood Pressure Canada activities

You do not need to be a member of an organization that is a member of Blood Pressure Canada to serve on the Task Forces. If you are interested in joining any of the initiatives, please contact the Coordinator.

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