- 1) Learn about ultrasonographer’s responsibilities to become a member of a regulated profession.
- 2) Learn about Ultrasound regulation
- 3) Learn about Renal Transplant Ultrasound
- 4) Understand Portal Hypertension (causes, recognition, 2D and Doppler findings, scanning techniques)
- 5) Understand Fetal Brain and Spine Ultrasound (identify a variety of fetal anomalies)
- 6) Increase awareness and understanding of Ultrasound role in remote areas of Canada
- 7) Learn about Elastography
- 8) Increase their awareness of cultural sensitivity in Canadian Health Care Providers
- – Ms. Debbie TARSHIS, LLB, chair of the Self-Regulatory Bodies Practice group
- – Mr. Tom HAYWARD, Sonography Canada, Executive Director
- – Mr. Greg TOFFNER, MHS, BSc, RTR, President and CEO OAMRS
- – Mr. Leonardo FAUNDEZ, MA-Ed BSc RTNM RDMS, CRGS CRVS, Sonographer and Entrepreneur
- – Mr. Ray LAPPALAINEN,RTR, CRGS, Director OAMRS, Council member CMRTO
- – Mr. John R. PEACOCK,CRGS, Educator
- – Ms. Janice SCHARF, BSc. RDMS, CRGS, FSC, Clinical Applications Specialist
- – Mr. Bradley TIMKO, MRT(R), BEd, HBSc
Short Biographies
Ms. Debbie TARSHIS: Ms. Tarshis is counsel at the law firm of WeirFoulds LLP. WeirFoulds is a medium-sized law firm in Ontario which has provided legal services to its clients for over 150 years. She acts as general counsel to professional regulatory bodies, including providing ongoing advice to the Colleges’ Registrars, boards of directors and committees on all of their policies, procedures and programs to regulate the professions in the public interest. She provides advice to the Colleges on legislative initiatives that affect their statutory mandate and the practice of the professions, and assists in preparing submissions to government advisory bodies and legislative standing committees. She also assists in the drafting and negotiation with government officials of regulations to be made under the relevant statute and their presentation to government from a policy and legal perspective. She has advised newly established regulatory bodies in developing their regulatory frameworks, by-laws and policies and procedures, and existing regulatory bodies in adding and integrating a new profession into an existing regulatory framework. Debbie also provides advice on privacy law. She has developed leading expertise in the impact of privacy legislation on key stakeholders in the health care, research, professional regulatory and social services sector. Debbie has provided advice on the impact of the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act and provincial Personal Health Information Protection Act. She has provided advice to organizations on compliance with privacy legislation and the handling of privacy breaches.
Mr. Tom HAYWARD: Mr. Hayward is the Executive Director of Sonography Canada, a position he held for four years before retiring in 2016 and has recently returned to on an interim basis. Prior to joining Sonography Canada, Tom worked as a management consultant and prior to that held a variety of positions in strategic planning, business plan development, financial analysis and corporate operations across a spectrum of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations.
Mr. Greg TOFFNER: Mr. TOFFNER is President and CEO of the Ontario Association of Medical Radiation Sciences (OAMRS). Prior to his appointment with the OAMRS, Greg worked as full time faculty in the undergraduate Medical Radiation Sciences program at the Mohawk-McMaster Institute for Applied Health Sciences in Hamilton; Health Services Manager at a hospital in Northwestern Ontario; and a front line Medical Radiation Technologist before that. Greg has been involved in numerous research studies that have been published and has presented across Canada and abroad. He completed a Master of Health Studies degree in 2014, Leadership specialization at Athabasca University and completed his thesis research on Change Management.
Mr. Leonardo FAUNDEZ: Prof. FAUNDEZ is currently working in three roles. He is the owner/founder of Aprende Canada where I offer continuing education to sonographers. A Clinical Education Specialist at Exact Imaging in charge of the training program for users of a new transrectal ultrasound system. And a sonographer at UHN. Prof. Faundez graduated as a Nuclear Medicine technologist in 1996 and switched to ultrasound in 1997. Worked as a full-time sonographer and clinical instructor for about 7 years at UHN and small healthcare facilities. He also worked as an ultrasound faculty at Michener for 10 years. He got my Master degree in education in 2008 from Central Michigan University. He enjoys travelling with my wife, playing soccer and DJing
Mr. Ray LAPPALAINEN: Mr. LAPPALAINEN has been a sonographer for over 35 years. I have worked in various capacities in the profession: a sole sonographer in a small hospital, sonographer in large teaching hospital, clinical instructor, senior sonographer in a teaching hospital, applications specialist for an ultrasound sales company, and an assistant manager of a diagnostic imaging department. I have been involved with ultrasound education and have had positions on the board of directors of provincial and national ultrasound associations for many years, and I now sit on the Council of the CMRTO as one of the sonographer representatives.
Mr. John R. PEACOCK: Mr. PEACOCK graduated with Dean’s Honour’s from MoHawk College from all Healthcare programs he attended, including both Radiography and Diagnostic Medical Sonography. He is a past recipient, of the Upjohn Ltd Award for Patient Care and the Toshiba Canada Ltd award for Outstanding Achievement in Ultrasound Imaging Procedures. John received invaluable clinical experience at the Henderson General Hospital (associated with the Regional Cancer Centre), St. Joseph’s Hospital and McMaster University Medical Centre in Hamilton, Ontario which is the reason he was sought out to set up and run the Community Based Ultrasound Program for Sioux Lookout Zone remote regions. On behalf of Health Canada he was recruited by former Zone Hospital, and the University of Toronto’s Northern Medical Program in Sioux Lookout Ontario, for a 3 month pilot project to set up the Community Outreach Ultrasound Program beginning February 1, 1996. He decided to stay and work the program as both administrator and active sonographer because he saw the value of the program in saving mothers and their unborn children in this underserviced remote region. He worked full time for over twenty years to ensure the First Nation’s people in the Sioux Lookout Zone had quality Diagnostic Sonography in their communities, reducing wait times and benefits similar to the rest of the country. He left that position in the spring of 2017 and now has time for his other passion of educating and spreading the word about Adverse Childhood Experiences and the effects trauma has on children and the adults they become on which he has a unique perspective working with this population.
Ms. Janice SCHARF: Ms. SCHARF Ms. SCHARF is a clinical applications specialist responsible for promoting Philips Healthcare ultrasound equipment in Canada. She works as part of an account team to ensure modality results are reached according to account plans and targets. She worked as a clinical educational and sales specialist for SonoSite, Inc, Canada and as associate clinical instructor in Lehigh Valley Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Allentown, PA.
Mr. Bradley TIMKO: Mr. TIMKO Mr. Timko holds a current Position as Medical Radiation Technologist at Alliston Diagnostic Centre; he worked formerly as a Manager of General/interventional Radiology and CT Services at (2013-2015) and as an MRT(R) at Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre (2007-2013). He also was a Professor of Mathematics at Confederation College and a High School teacher of Chemistry and Science.
