APPOINTMENTS
New Public Members
Ms. Ellen Mary Mills Ms. Joan Fisk
The College is pleased to welcome
Ellen Mary Mills, of Toronto, to the
College as a new public member. The College is pleased to welcome
Ms. Joan Fisk, a new public mem-
ber, to Council.
Ms. Mills has extensive experience
in policy development. She most
recently served at the Insurance
Bureau of Canada, first as a Director of Policy, then Direc-
tor of External Relations. She has also worked as a Director
of Policy Development, for Food and Consumer Products
Canada, as an Executive Director of the Canadian Centre for
Ethics and Corporate Policy and as Executive Director of the
Women’s Legal Education & Action Fund (LEAF).
Ms. Mills has extensive community involvement, including
serving as Director of the North Simcoe Muskoka LHIN,
and Director of the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly.
Ms. Fisk, a resident of Cambridge,
has held leadership positions in
both the private sector and com-
munity. She is currently the CEO at United Way Waterloo
Region Communities. Previously, she had a six year term
as Chair of the Waterloo Wellington Local Health Integra-
tion Network and also served as President of the Greater
KW Chamber of Commerce.
In addition, Ms. Fisk is involved with numerous other
organizations, including Gore Mutual Insurance, Wilfrid
Laurier University, and the University of Guelph. For 17
years. Ms. Fisk was also President and CEO of Tiger
Brand Knitting in Cambridge.
Ms. Mills also held a number of senior positions during
her 25-year career with the Ontario Government.
New Academic Members
Dr. Mary Bell Dr. Paul Hendry
The College is pleased to welcome
Dr. Mary Bell as the new academic
representative from the University
of Toronto. The College is pleased to wel-
come Dr. Paul Hendry as the new
academic representative from the
University of Ottawa.
Dr. Bell is a rheumatologist and
clinical researcher at Sunnybrook
Health Sciences Centre/Sunnybrook Research Institute.
She is best known for promoting the concept of “Patient as
Teacher” and for improving the outcomes for people with
arthritis through public and provider education, appropriate
triage methods, and new models of care.
She is a full professor in the Department of Medicine at the
University of Toronto.
Dr. Hendry is a Cardiac Surgeon and
Professor of Surgery in the Faculty
of Medicine.
Dr. Hendry earned his MD from the University of Ottawa in
1981, where he completed his Residency Training in Gen-
eral Surgery and Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery.
During that time, he earned an MSc in Physiology.
Following his residency, he undertook a research fellow-
ship at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, for two
years. He returned to Ottawa as a Staff Surgeon at the
University of Ottawa Heart Institute in 1990 and per-
formed adult cardiac surgery specializing in electrophysi-
ology and heart failure procedures.
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