Mailing Address
Health Professions Regulatory Advisory Council
56 Wellesley St W.,
12th Floor
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M5S 2S3
Telephone and Facsimile
Toll-Free: 1-888-377-7746
Telephone: 416-326-1550.
Fax: 416-326-1549
Council
Thomas Corcoran, ICD.D, MBA, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Chair
Thomas Corcoran has held senior domestic and international executive roles at IBM Canada, IBM Corporation (Armonk, New York), Confederation Life, KPMG and Canada Life (Canada and U.K.). Specializing in corporate restructuring and performance management, he is now focusing his energy on corporate governance. Over the past 12 years, Mr. Corcoran has held a number of corporate directorships and is currently Chairman of NexgenRx Inc., an electronic health claims paying service, Chairman, MEMOTEXT Corporation, a medication compliance service provider, Director, LifeCapital Holdings Inc. and Advisory Board member, ArtsandTV, a digital media company. He is also Chair of the ICD Ontario Chapter, and a member of the MaRS Advisory Board Selection Panel. In addition to being the immediate past Chair of Bridgepoint Hospital and past Chair of the Bridgepoint Foundation, Mr. Corcoran's community service record includes : Governor, University of Waterloo; Director, Granite Club; Chair, President's Advisory Council, University of Waterloo; Chair, Board of Governor's, Crescent School; Director, National Ballet of Canada; President & Chair, Ontario Chamber of Commerce; Director, Canadian Chamber of Commerce and Director, YMCA Youth Enterprise Centres of Canada.
Martha Powell
Martha Powell returned to her hometown of Thunder Bay after spending 20+ years in corporate communications and production in Toronto. From a production secretary for Pierre Berton at My Country Productions to a sixteen-year stint at McGrath & Associates where she started as a production assistant and ended as president of the company, to Senior Vice President of a national mutual fund company, and subsequently owning her own marketing communications agency, she has always been dedicated to the best possible quality of production and marketing communications standards for her clients. She has excelled in production and research in many business sectors including financial, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, automotive and public service. Martha has served on several corporate and not-for-profit boards of directors, specifically: McGrath & Associates Inc.; Side Effects Corporation; Spin Productions Inc.; Triangle Productions Inc.; Motivation Industrial Equipment Corp.; and, Habitat for Humanity, Thunder Bay Affiliate Chairperson, Fundraising Committee, 2009/10.
Rex Roman, PhD
Dr. Rex Roman is currently a Vice-Chair of the Research Ethics Board of Women's College Hospital. Rex recently completed a Fellowship in Mental Health and Ethics with the Department of Psychiatry at Women's College Hospital. Prior to that he worked for the Mississauga Halton Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) leading a demographic study of mental health resource allocation. He has also been a Fellow with the Joint Centre for Bioethics. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Toronto.
Peggy Taillon
Peggy Taillon has lead the Canadian Council on Social Development (CCSD), Canada's longest established social policy and research organization, through an unprecedented period of renewal since 2008. Immediately prior to CCSD, Peggy served as the Senior Vice-President at The Ottawa Hospital, and was previously Executive Director of Ontario's Mental Health Implementation Task Force. Today Peggy's diverse voluntary roles include the International Initiatives for Mental Health and Disability Leadership, the Inner City Health Project, the Ontario Accessibility Secretariat Advisory Council and the Canadian Reference Group on Population Health under the Public Health Agency of Canada. Peggy also founded HERA Mission of Canada which undertakes many development projects empowering women and children in Western Kenya. Originally from the small northern Ontario town of South Porcupine, Peggy was educated in Toronto and Ottawa and holds degrees in Social Work and Law, as well as advanced diplomas in mediation and negotiation.
Said Tsouli
Said Tsouli holds an MBA from INSEEC Paris, France and is currently an Account Manager at Royal Bank of Canada and a Business Consultant at Incon Industrial Ltd. In the past, Mr. Tsouli has been the President of Samar Portfolio, a shipping company. Mr. Tsouli has been on the Board of Directors for French Canadian Association of Ontario (ACFO de London-Sarnia) at the executive level. As well, Mr. Tsouli been involved heavily with the London Muslim Mosque and was the previous Executive Director for the London, Ontario chapter of the Muslim Association of Canada. Mr. Tsouli was also the Executive Director for Regroupement Multiculturel Francophone de London and a member of L'Assemblée de la francophonie de l'Ontario
