WCCHN Office Staff
Elina Williams – Coordinator
Primary Office in Edmonton
Email: elina.williams@albertahealthservices.ca
- Monitors ongoing operations of the WCCHN
- Negotiates agreement among members
- Facilitates collaboration among sites to achieve goals
- Maintains a liaison with individual center coordinators and family representatives
- Vendor management and implementation
- Evaluation of the WCCHN initiatives and requirements
- Preparation of the WCCHN annual budget and presentation to the Steering Committee for consideration and approval
Vera Horobec – Clinical Informatician
Primary Office in Edmonton
Email: vera.horobec@albertahealthservices.ca
- Responsible for day-to-day operations of the WCCHN Interprovincial Database and the CardioAccess (Society of Thoracic Surgeons) surgical database
- Performs multi-site data extractions
- Liaison for the Health Information Management professionals in the WCCHN centres
- Monitors data quality and recommends data quality improvement initiatives
- Works closely with key stakeholders to identify and plan enhancements to the WCCHN and CardioAccess (STS) databases
Mike Scott – Data Support
Primary Office in Saskatoon
Email: mike.scott@albertahealthservices.ca
- Provides technical support for the main WCCHN applications and client areas, ensuring that the application used by their clients functions effectively and reliably
- Coordinates with the Database Project Manager, WCCHN, and/or clinical personnel on problem scope, impact, and characteristics, and identifies complex problems’ causes
- Manages relationship with software vendors to coordinate problem resolutions effectively and timely
- Monitors systems to ensure stable operations and optimum performance of systems are proactively maintained
- Works closely with other IT groups to coordinate solutions for customer; creates and updates support documents and procedures
Karen Lam – Administrative Assistant
Primary Office in Calgary
Email: karen.lam2@albertahealthservices.ca
- Works closely with all WCCHN centres, committees, programs, and family groups to schedule meetings, educational events, Telehealth sessions and conferences
- Prepares various reports, documents, profiling materials, newsletters; responds to general inquiries to the WCCHN office; and maintains up-to-date contact lists
- Manages invoices and reimbursements submitted to the WCCHN office
- Coordinates travel for the WCCHN office staff
- Maintains and updates the WCCHN website