Board of Directors

Dr. Don Kilby has been on the forefront of HIV and AIDS in Canada for more than 20 years. He is a primary care provider and director at the University of Ottawa Health Services since 1980. He has chaired several advisory committees including the federal Ministerial Council on HIV/AIDS, the Ontario Advisory Committee on HIV/AIDS and the Ottawa-Carleton Counsel on HIV/AIDS.

In 2006 he was a recipient of an Ontario Award for Good Citizenship.

Dr Kilby has been a strong advocate for legal acces to healthcare for marginalized populations including the poor, the homeless, injections drug users and immigrant populations. He founded the Canada Africa Community Health Alliance in 2001, building strategic alliances between Canadian and African community based organizations and governments in order to offer improved infrastructure support, medical care, HIV prevention, care, treatment and support, as well as learning opportunities for rural african communities. 
 

Patrick has practiced chiropractic medicine in Ottawa for 15 years. In February 2006, he joined the Tanzania Mission where he was immersed in the multidisciplinary approach of CACHA. In 2007 he joined the Board of Directors to assist in ongoing projects. 

Hugh is a partner at Ginsberg Gluzman Fage & Levitz, LLP Chartered Accountants in Ottawa, Ontario, www.ggfl.ca, and a graduate of the University of Ottawa Commerce program. One of his goals is to find ways to allow children in difficult situations have a chance to reach their dreams. Over five years ago he helped create and remains on the committee of the Leaders 4 Life® program at The Boys and Girls Club of Ottawa. The Leaders 4 Life program has and will continue to help children reach and achieve their dreams. Knowing the great work Dr. Don Kilby was performing in Africa, Hugh wanted to focus his attention on helping the children in Africa. He and his brother, Patrick, approached Dr. Kilby in 2006 with the idea of building a medical clinic in Africa. To their surprise, the Tanzania HIV and Orphan Support Centre ground breaking had just occurred. The Faloon brothers then focused their attention on helping CACHA raise funds for the project.

Hugh is now focused on building and funding the Tanzania Orphan Support Program. He is hoping his business experience and community involvement will help CACHA reach it goals.
 

Chris has been a member of CACHA since April 2004. In that same year, he accepted our offer to become head of the Tanzania Project Committee and has since led and participated in seven missions to the Himo/Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania. He became Vice-President of CACHA in 2005. Chris has an Honours BA from the University of Western Ontario in Political Science with a concentration in International Relations and Development. He has extensive knowledge in the area of Anti-Retroviral Treatment and Research, both from his four years of employment with two pharmaceutical companies marketing HIV products and, more recently, as Director of Operations at the University of Ottawa Health Services, where he is very involved in their HIV clinical research program. His work has enabled him to travel extensively to attend many international conferences on the subject of HIV/AIDS and he remains very committed to the fight against HIV/AIDS.

In her spare time, Janet is also a partner in Promoveo Business Solutions, a small business providing promotion, bookkeeping, and business management services to other small businesses (www.promoveo.ca).  When not working, Janet enjoys reading and writing fiction, travelling, and spending time with her family.

Cate is an organizational change and communications consultant who splits her time between Toronto and upstate New York. Her clients are mainly public sector and not for profit organizations. As part of the Potential Group of consultants, her current projects are mainly in the network of Toronto area teaching hospitals, working to create more effective interprofessional collaboration. Cate views her main purpose as creating meaningful conversations that bridge vastly different perspectives and needs. The goal is sustainable, generative change.

Cate’s client work is integrated with her doctoral work in Human and Organizational Systems. She expects to complete her PhD at Fielding Graduate University (based in Santa Barbara California) in the summer of 2008.

Cate has been involved in the Kasese Orphan Project in Uganda since 2006.

Native to the Ottawa Region, Lise started working in the established family automobile business where she held many positions over the years culminating in Human Resources Coordinator.

In February of 2006, Lise was tasked with running the family foundation, The Snowy Owl AIDS Foundation established in 1996 in memory of her brother Louis Turpin. The goal of the Snowy Owl AIDS Foundation is to establish, build and maintain a financial resource available to organizations dedicated to AIDS education, prevention, direct or support services, primary care and/or the expansion, enhancement of existing AIDS services.

In April of 2006, Lise was hired as a consultant for the AIDS 2006, 16th International AIDS Conference with an objective of capturing real Canadian stories to put a face to HIV and AIDS through photographs, video footage and testimonials.

In February 2007 and February 2008 Lise’s experience turned to Tanzania and Canada Africa Community Health Alliance. She volunteered at Kilema Hospital; was the logistics team leader on a past Tanzania medical caravan and is the present lead for the Kilema Hospital Orphan and Vulnerable Children program.

Dr. Yeates is a graduate of Queen's Medical School who trained in Internal Medicine in Toronto and then completed a fellowship in Nephrology at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario combined with a Master in Public Health from Harvard University. She is currently a staff nephrologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at Queen's University. She teaches medical students, cares for patients with kidney disease and participates in clinical and health policy research.

She is working to develop a Global health curriculum for medical students at Queen's University. As a project of CACHA, Karen has developed the 'Prevention Through Empowerment' project over the last 3 years. PTE has established and developed the Pamoja Tunaweza Women's Center located at the base of Kilimanjaro in Moshi, Tanzania. This project was launched in partnership with Kilimanjaro Women Information Exchange and Consultancy Organization (KWIECO).
 

Dr. Sylvie Péloquin is a microbiologist, an infectious disease specialist and a General Practitioner at the University of Montreal’s Health and Counselling Centre. In 2008-2009 she participated in three medical missions with the Canada-Africa Community Health Alliance: two in Tanzania and one in Uganda. She is currently working on a mobile laboratory project to facilitate large-scale testing for HIV, syphilis, malaria and tuberculosis during CACHA medical missions. A Board member since May 2009, Dr. Péloquin brings to the organization her expertise in medical testing as well as in both general and tropical medicine.