OTRU Directors

The OTRU Directors (from left to right): Robert Schwartz, Roberta Ferrence and Mel Martin.

• Robert Schwartz, Executive Director, Associate Professor, and Principal Investigator (Executive Assistant - Cynthia Warn)
• Roberta Ferrence, Deputy Director and Principal Investigator (Executive Assistant - Lynn Tyndall )

• Pam Kaufman, Assistant Professor
• Sue Keller-Olaman, Research Associate
• Alexey Babayan, Research Associate
• Michael Chaiton, Assistant Professor
• Maritt Kirst, Assistant Professor
• Shawn O'Connor, Senior Research Associate

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Research, Evaluation and Knowledge Exchange

• Jaklyn Andrews, Research Officer
• Tracey Borland, Research Officer
• Lori Diemert, Research Officer
• Emily DiSante, Research Officer
• Jolene Dubray, Research Officer
• David Ip, Research Officer
• Jaclyn Kaye, Research Officer
• Rita Luk, Research Officer
• Cora McCloy, Research Officer

• Graham Mecredy, Research Officer
• Anne Philipneri, Research Officer
• Lynn Planinac, Research Officer
• Marilyn Pope, Research Officer
• Emily Taylor, Research Officer
• Diane van Abbe, Information Coordinator
• Erika Yates, Research Coordinator
• Bo Zhang, Research Officer

• Mel Martin, Director of Operations
• Sandra Caswell, Project Coordinator
• Sonja Johnston, Web Administrator
• Milena Khazak, Financial Assistant

• Marian Smith, Administrative Assistant
• Lynn Tyndall: Executive Assistant
• Cynthia Warn, Administrative Assistant

• Catherine Mah, Head, Scientist, and Assistant Professor

• Helen Thang, Research Coordinator

OTRU also has staff within the Population Health Research Group at the University of Waterloo.