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Conseil d'administration

CSIH Board Elections - 2007 (anglais seulment)

The Board of Directors of the Canadian Society for International Health is pleased to announce the election of a two new director’s and a new student representative to the board for a two year term starting December 2007 to November 2009.

Dr. Ramotar is a Molecular Microbiologist at the Ottawa Hospital in the Division of Microbiology and also has an academic appointment at the University of Ottawa as an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.

Dr. Ramotar's primary function in his current job is to direct the molecular diagnostic and genotyping service offered by the Division of Microbiology.  Dr. Ramotar is active in research and is currently part of a collaborative group studying bio-films in pathogens infecting Cystic Fibrosis patients.  His primary research focus is molecular epidemiology of multi-resistant hospital acquired pathogens and has published a number of papers in this area. 

In 2004, he further expanded his activities into the international health field by returning to Guyana (where he was born and where he went to high school) as the principal technical laboratory consultant for the Canadian Society for International Health (CSIH) for the CIDA funded Public Health Strengthen in Guyana project. 

Dr. Ramotar has extensive expertise in the field of clinical diagnostic microbiology both in terms of technical and operational knowledge.  His expertise in this area was instrumental in assisting in the implementation of diagnostic testing for TB and STIs for the PHSG project in Guyana

He is active in various capacities in both the Canadian Association of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (CACMID) and Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (AMMI-Canada)

Dr. Carol Valois is the Director of the Charles LeMoyne Family Care Unit and Professor of Family Medicine at Sherbrooke University in Quebec.  Dr. Valois has been a family physician since 1984. She is a member of the board of director of the Global Health Resource Group of the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada.  Dr. Valois has a passion for international health and has been building electives and participating in clinical teaching in Mali for medical residents yearly since 1998.   Dr. Valois brings a strong francophone network of international health professionals to the Board and over 10 years of international health experience.  

The Board of Directors of CSIH would like to thank everyone who was nominated and ran for election. We would encourage you to get involved at CSIH by becoming a member or through our various committees and our annual international conference.

We would like to welcome Dr. Ramotar, Dr. Valois and Michelle Harvey-Blakenship to the Board of Directors.

Thank you,

Dr. Tom Rathwell (Co-Chair) and Dr. Anne Fanning (Co-chair)
CSIH Board of Directors

Conseil d'administration 2007

Coprésidents:

Dr. Thomas Rathwell Dalhousie University

Dr. Anne Fanning - Member, Order of Canada University of Alberta

Directeurs:

	Dr. Sam Lanfranco Associate Professor, York University		Dr. Barb Astle
	Dr. Karam Ramotar		Dr. Carol Valois

Ex-coprésidente:		Dr. John Yates
Secrétaire -trésorier:		Mr. Marc Dolgin
Représentante des étudiants :		Ms. Michelle Harvey-Blakenship (Appointment effective in 2008)
Directrice générale:		Mme. Janet Hatcher Roberts Société canadienne de santé internationale