Founding Partners
The following people were signatories on the original grant application as representatives of their partner agencies or institutions. As such, they are the founding partners of the CDPA. These people or their delegates function as the governance body of the CDPA, which is the decision making and reporting body that gives oversight to all of the research teams associated with the CDPA.
| Partner | Affliation |
|---|---|
| Community Partners: | |
| Bill Adair | Executive Director, Canadian Paraplegic Association Ontario (Community Lead) |
| Deborah Gold | Director of Research, Canadian National Institute for the Blind |
| David Hinton | Former National Executive Director, Canadian Paraplegic Association |
| Katherine Hum-Antonopoulos | VP Programs and Services, Canadian Hearing Society |
| Cathy Moore | National Director, Consumer and Government Relations, Canadian National Institute for the Blind |
| Max Beck | CEO, Easter Seals Canada |
| Steven Christianson | National Manager, Government Relations & Advocacy, Ontario March of Dimes |
| Academic Partners: | |
| Mary Ann McColl | Associate Director Research, Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, Queen's University, and Professor, School of Rehabilitation Therapy and Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen's University |
| Alice Aiken | Assistant Professor, Queen's School of Rehabilitation Therapy |
| Jerome Bickenbach | Professor, Philosophy / Law, Queen's University, CEO |
| Will Boyce | Professor, Faculty of Education, Queen"s University |
| Lyn Jongbloed | Professor, School of Rehabilitation Science, University British Columbia |
| Audrey Kobayashi | Professor, Department of Geography, Queen's University |
| Mary Law | Professor, School of Rehabilitation Science, McMaster University |
| Kathleen Norman | Assistant Professor, School of Rehabilitation Therapy, Queen's University |
| Helene Ouellette-Kuntz | Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health & Epidemiology, Queen's University |
| Vianne Timmons | President, University of Regina |
| Policy Partners: | |
| Abdou Saouab | Knowledge Planning and Knowledge Exchange, HRSDC |
| Ellen Waxman | Assistant Deputy Minister, Ontario Accessibility Directorate |