Provincial Director
Sacha is passionate about improving care and support for people impacted by stroke. This began while working clinically as an occupational therapist, and has grown through her work with partners provincially and nationally. In 2018, Sacha completed her Masters' degree in Health Leadership at Royal Roads University. She has a keen interest in finding creative solutions to complex problems, understanding diverse perspectives, and the integration of art and science of transforming large-scale health systems.
Lead, Provincial Clinical Initiatives & Innovation
John is a Registered Nurse with a background in rehabilitation, geriatric, surgical, medical and neuroscience care. Previously with Island Health he was the Regional Manager, Neurology Clinics. He brings a front line operations perspective, as well as a passion for Indigenous Health and patient-centred care. For SSBC John will develop and manage clinical improvement initiatives across the stroke continuum of care, working in partnership with all of the regional health authorities.
Lead, Provincial Clinical Initiatives & Innovation
Jenna, with a master's degree in Rehabilitation Sciences, has experience across the stroke continuum bringing clinical, quality, and leadership experience from work at VCH, Doctors of BC and her own speech therapy practice. She has a special interest in rural, remote and indigenous health. Jenna will work from the interior health region to lead provincial clinical improvement initiatives for SSBC.
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Ali is a Registered Nurse with a background in inpatient medical and surgical neurosciences, emergency, and research, and has her Masters degree in Health Leadership. Prior to joining SSBC, she spent 6 years working as a Hyperacute stroke nurse and a Clinical Nurse Leader and Educator for the Stroke Rapid Assessment Unit at Victoria General Hospital. With SSBC, Ali is responsible for working strategically across multiple internal and external stakeholders to promote and apply best practices of stroke care across the province.
Lead, Health System Quality and Evaluation
Reed has a background in Health Informatics from UVic, with special interest in improvement sciences, evaluation, systems, and leadership. Reed joins us from Interior Health where, most recently, he was the Manager, Quality & Patient Safety. At SSBC his focus is on the development of a health system quality, data & analytics program, which will include quality standard implementation, stroke registry expansion, and provincial reporting enhancement.
Business Analyst, Data & Analytics
Saida completed a BSc in Health Sciences with a focus on population health and statistics. She is passionate about how data can drive systemic change to achieve better patient outcomes. She brings strong analytical experience from Cardiac Services BC, where she was instrumental in the development of the Stroke Registry dashboard. Saida will help develop and operationalize SSBC's data and analytics strategy.
Business Analyst, Data & Analytics
Mahmood is a physician by background, with over 8 years of experience in Population and Public Health, and epidemiology. He worked in areas of Maternal and Newborn Health, Chronic Diseases, and Infectious Diseases, where he mainly dealt with quantitative aspects of survey data. He also has a Masters, Data Science, from UBC, and is very passionate about inferential statistics, predictive analysis and dashboards. Mahmood will partner with Saida Harle to further handle SSBC's data and analytics strategy.
Project Manager
Justine has a background in health sciences with a focus on population and quantitative health. She provides project management support to Stroke Services BC, across a variety of provincial stroke initiatives.
Program Assistant
Alexis has a BSc in Nutritional Sciences with a post graduate diploma in Rehabilitation & Disability Management and brings a wealth of experience to SSBC from working across various sectors. She provides operational and administrative assistance to the team, as well as coordinating information management.