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Search public engagements
- Alberta Pension Plan engagement
- Alberta Police Service transition study
- K to 6 curriculum engagement
- Persons with Developmental Disabilities Safety Standards Consultation
- 2016 Forest and Prairie Protection Act amendments engagement
- Castle and Wildland provincial parks management plan engagement
- Caribou conservation agreement engagement
- Budget 2016 consultation
- Bow Basin water management options engagement
- 10-year tourism strategy engagement
- Physician-assisted death public engagement
- Agency and Human Services Procurement Advisory Table engagement
- Alberta Firearms Advisory Committee
- Child care engagement
- Commercial tenancy support feedback
- Curriculum advisory panel
- Local election rules engagement (2020)
- Mental health and addiction advisory council
- Choice in education engagement
- Skills for Jobs Task Force
- Municipal Government Act review
- Student Transportation Task Force
- Addiction and mental health services engagement
- Cut Red Tape engagement
- Advisory Panel on Coal Communities
- Advocate for Persons with Disabilities consultation
- Wapiti river water management plan engagement
- Bow Valley human-wildlife coexistence engagement
- Energy Efficiency Advisory Panel
- Budget 2020 consultation
- Infrastructure planning engagement
- Food regulation engagement
- Human Trafficking Task Force
- Talent Advisory Council on Technology
- Transportation regulation engagement
- Vision for student learning engagement
- Alberta Energy Regulator review
- Alberta Health Services review
- Arts Professions Act engagement
- Budget 2019 consultation (February)
- Castle region tourism strategy engagement
- Child safety seat consultation
- City Charters
- Condominium rules consultation
- Conversion Therapy Working Group
- Daylight saving time engagement
- Employment standards engagement
- Farm freedom and safety engagement
- FSCD Listening sessions
- MacKinnon Report on Alberta's Finances
- Mental Health Act engagement
- Minimum wage expert panel
- Road testing engagement
- Rural crime engagement
- Supervised consumption services review
- Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction engagement
- Tobacco and smoking reduction review
- Youth employment rules engagement
- Agricultural policy framework engagement
- Commercial driver and road test engagement
- Local Authorities Election Act engagement (2018)
- Local food engagement
- OHS regulations consultation
- Sixties Scoop apology engagement
- Builder licensing engagement
- Consumer protection consultation
- Farm and Ranch workplace consultations
- Farm and ranch workplace legislation
- Glenora building – Former Royal Alberta Museum
- Indigenous off-reserve affordable housing engagement
- OHS system review
- Opioid emergency response commission
- Output Based Allocation System Engagement
- Resident and Family Councils Act - PDD consultation
- Driver medical exams engagement
- Farmer-led research engagement
- Clare’s Law phase 2 engagement
- Alberta Joint Working Group on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG)
- Alberta 2030: Building Skills for Jobs engagement
- Red tape industry panels
- Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act review
- Radiation Protection Act review
- Affordable Housing Review Panel
- Highway 697 bridge financing engagement
- RAPID Response engagement
- Species at risk engagements
- Police Act review
- Victim services engagement
- Family and Community Support Services engagement
- Moose Lake 10 km management zone plan engagement
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Fisheries engagements
- Alberta fisheries management engagement
- Fisheries Action Plan communications preference survey
- Fisheries regulation changes 2019-20 engagement
- Eastern slopes fisheries regulations engagement
- Decontamination protocol engagement for industry and construction
- Barbless hooks engagement
- Bow River fisheries regulation changes engagement
- Lac Bellevue angler survey
- Lower Athabasca region fisheries management survey
- North central native trout recovery engagement
- North Saskatchewan region fisheries management survey
- Northern pike and walleye management frameworks engagement
- South Saskatchewan region fisheries management survey
- 2021-22 Sportfishing regulations engagement
- Fisheries regulations survey
- 2022-23 Sportfishing regulations engagement
- Lake Trout Working Group for Cold Lake
- Porsild’s bryum recovery plan engagement
- Ferruginous hawk draft recovery plan engagement
- Livingstone-Porcupine Hills footprint and recreation plans engagement
- Caribou range planning engagement
- Whitebark and limber pine recovery plan engagement
- Western grebe draft recovery plan engagement
- Bow River access plan engagement
- Peregrine falcon recovery plan engagement
- Bighorn Country proposal engagement
- Minerals strategy stakeholder engagement
- Budget 2021 consultation
- Energy Diversification Advisory Committee
- Condominium dispute resolution engagement
- Climate Change Advisory Panel
- Oil Sands Emissions Limit engagement
- Automobile insurance reform committee
- Mooring standards engagement
- Utilities Consumer Advocate engagement
- Workers' Compensation Board (WCB) Review
- Workers’ compensation review
- Mobile home site issues engagement
- Labour union dues and financial disclosure engagement
- Family Support for Children with Disabilities engagement
- Alberta Crown Land Vision
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Flood study engagements
- Athabasca flood study engagement
- Bow and Elbow River flood study engagement
- Camrose flood study engagement
- Cardston flood study engagement
- Drumheller flood study engagement
- Fort Macleod flood study engagement
- Medicine Hat flood study engagement
- North Saskatchewan River flood study engagement
- Peace River flood study engagement
- Pincher Creek flood study engagement
- Priddis flood study engagement
- Red Deer River flood study engagement
- Sheep River flood study engagement
- Siksika Bow River flood study engagement
- Slave Lake flood study engagement
- St. Albert flood study engagement
- Upper Bow River flood study engagement
- Fort McMurray flood study engagement
- Upper Red Deer River flood study engagement
- Fort Vermilion flood study engagement
- Highwood River flood study engagement
- Sustainable outdoor recreation engagement
- Financing Highway 697 project engagement
- Kitaskino Nuwenëné Wildland Park engagement
- Persons with Developmental Disabilities Committee
- Reviewing Alberta's continuing care system
- Cold Lake Sub-regional Plan engagement
- Bull trout recovery plan engagement
- Roadside worker safety engagement
- Bistcho Lake Sub-regional Plan engagement
- Extended Producer Responsibility engagement
- Energy storage engagement
- OHS Code review
- Sub-regional planning engagements
- Coal policy engagement
- Updated draft K-6 curriculum engagement
- Feral Horse Advisory Committee
- Supporting Alberta Working Parents Advisory Group
- Fish Creek Provincial Park trails engagement
- Bow River Reservoir Options engagement
- Skilled trades and apprenticeship engagement
- Child and Youth Well-Being Review
- Agricultural Policy Framework engagement (2021-23)
- Elder abuse prevention engagement
- Local Food Council
- Surface water quality management framework engagements
- Privacy protection engagement
- Fair Deal Panel
- Strategic Aviation Advisory Council
- Education Services Agreement draft standards engagement
- Wildlife Management and the Vision for Recreational Hunting engagement
- Rural economic development engagement
- Wild turkey management engagement
- Drinking water standards engagement
- Provincial police service engagement
- Surveys Act engagement
- Modernizing cooperative legislation engagement
- Photo radar engagement
- Budget 2022 consultation
- Coordinated Community Response to Homelessness Task Force
- Research Commercialization Working Group
- Mine Financial Security Program engagement
- West Bragg Creek Trails Master Plan engagement
- Made in Alberta engagement
- Potable water regulation updates engagement
- Stormwater management engagement
- Alberta EMS Provincial Advisory Committee
- Edmonton Metro Region Economic Recovery Working Group
- Calgary Office Revitalization and Expansion Working Group
- Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park management plan engagement
- Regulated property assessment model engagement
- Personal Property Security engagement
- Big Island Provincial Park engagement
- Private sector pensions review engagement
- Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction Regulation Review
- Career Education Task Force
- Parkdale Home stakeholder engagement
- Lower Athabasca Regional Plan review engagement
- Anti-racism engagement
- New teacher code of conduct engagement
- Modernizing Alberta's Primary Health Care System
- New homebuyer protection engagement
- Budget 2023 consultation
- Premier’s Advisory Task Force on Ukraine
- Public Security Indigenous Advisory Committee
- Digital Strategy engagement
- Edmonton Public Safety and Community Response Task Force
- Calgary Public Safety and Community Response Task Force
- Legislature grounds improvement engagement
- 2023-24 Sportfishing Regulation Engagement
- Public Health Emergencies Governance Review Panel
- Post-secondary gender-based violence stakeholder engagement
- Diabetes Working Group
- Tiny Cryptantha Recovery Plan engagement
- Small-Flowered Sand-Verbena Recovery Plan engagement
- Fort Chipewyan working group
- Recovery Expert Advisory Panel
- Improving the health system
- Public inquiry into anti-Alberta energy campaigns
- Glossary of terms
- Public engagements 2012 to 2015
Overview
The Recovery Expert Advisory Panel will provide ongoing advice to strengthen and inform Alberta’s recovery-oriented systems of care for addiction and mental health.
A recovery-oriented system of care is a coordinated network of personalized, community-based services for people at risk of or experiencing addiction and mental health challenges. It provides access to a full continuum of services and supports, from prevention and intervention to treatment and recovery.
The panel's work will help ensure we continue to build a recovery-oriented system of care that will provide effective, compassionate care for Albertans seeking recovery from addiction and mental health challenges.
Status
Ongoing
Who is listening
Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions
Panel mandate
The Recovery Expert Advisory Panel will provide ongoing advice to the the Minister of Mental Health and Addiction on:
- best practices
- research and innovation
- policy and standards development
- evaluation and outcomes reporting
The panel's work will continue until February 2024, with a possibility of extension.
Panel members
The panel is made up of 15 experts from diverse fields, including frontline specialists, researchers, physicians, Indigenous leaders, policy experts and other respected leaders.
Dr. Keith Humphreys (Chair)
Dr. Keith Humphreys holds the Esther Ting Memorial Professorship of Psychiatry at Stanford University and has published more than 350 peer-reviewed articles focusing on addiction, mutual help groups for chronic diseases, and public policy. He is the deputy editor-in-chief for the journal 'Addiction' and was a former drug policy advisor for 2 different U.S. presidential administrations.
Dr. Nathaniel Day (Vice chair)
Dr. Nathaniel Day is the medical director of addiction, mental health and correctional health services with Alberta Health Services. He is an addiction medicine specialist and helped implement and expand Alberta’s award-winning Virtual Opioid Dependency Program. Dr. Day also served on the Minister’s Opioid Emergency Response Commission.
Chief Charles Weaselhead (Vice chair)
Taatsiikiipoyii Charles Weaselhead, Chancellor at the University of Lethbridge, is the former Chief of the Blood Tribe and the former Treaty 7 Grand Chief. He is a board member and vice-chair with the Blood Tribe Department of Health and continues to advance many health and wellness initiatives to improve the health care and recovery outcomes of Indigenous peoples.
Dr. Ray Baker
Dr. Ray Baker is a former addiction and family medicine physician currently serving as a medical educator and recovery management consultant after retiring from clinical practice. Dr. Baker designed and instituted the first comprehensive addiction medicine curriculum at the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Medicine. In 2022, he received the lifetime achievement award from the Canadian Society of Addiction Medicine.
Dr. Victoria Burns
Dr. Victoria Burns is an associate professor at the University of Calgary, registered social worker and a person in long-term recovery. Her research focuses on homelessness, stigma, disability, addiction and recovery. Dr. Burns is also the founder and director of Recovery on Campus Alberta, an Alberta-wide peer-driven community that supports faculty, staff and students in their recovery.
Dr. Charl Els
Dr. Charl Els works full-time as assistant registrar (Continuing Competence) at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta. He is also a clinical professor in the department of psychiatry and the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre, University of Alberta. Dr. Els is the principal author of several systematic reviews on opioids and workplace drug testing, as well as the national Canadian position statement on cannabis in safety-sensitive workplaces.
Blair Gibbs
Blair Gibbs is a respected policy advisor specializing in criminal justice innovation and police reform, as well as the implications of drug regulation and legalization. He previously served as special advisor to the British Prime Minister, a senior policy advisor to the U.K.’s justice minister, and was also the policing advisor to the Mayor of London.
Dr. John Kelly
Dr. John Kelly is a professor of psychiatry in addiction medicine at Harvard Medical School and the founder and director of the Recovery Research Institute at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where he also serves as the associate director of the Center for Addiction Medicine and the program director of the Addiction Recovery Management Service. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles, reviews, chapters and books in the field of addiction medicine.
Chief William (Billy) Morin
Billy Morin is the former Chief of Enoch Cree Nation, serving 3 consecutive terms as the youngest chief in Enoch’s modern history. He also served as Grand Chief of the Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations. As Chief, Billy partnered with several wellness operators to build a recovery-oriented system of care strategy for Enoch Cree Nation. Chief Morin is currently a managing director at Axxcelus Capital and volunteers on the board of the Alberta Cancer Foundation.
Dr. Anna Lembke
Dr. Lembke is currently serving as a professor and medical director of Addiction Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is also program director of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Fellowship and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. Dr. Lembke is a widely published researcher and bestselling author of 'Drug Dealer, MD, How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked', 'Why It’s So Hard to Stop' and 'Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence'.
Dr. Johanna O'Flaherty
Dr. Johanna O’Flaherty is a psychologist, an expert in crisis management, and a renowned expert in the field of trauma, addiction and recovery. She is the former CEO of Central Recovery Treatment and vice president of Treatment Services at the Betty Ford Center. Dr. O’Flaherty presents globally on the subject of healing ancestral trauma and addiction. She works with airline employees and first responders, teaching, preparing, and assisting in the aftermath of disasters.
Kelly J. Ogle
Kelly J. Ogle is the Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. Ogle is a serial entrepreneur, scholar, and published author and has served on the boards of several companies and not-for-profits. He holds the ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors.
Dr. Julian Somers
Dr. Julian Somers is a clinical psychologist whose work addresses harm reduction and recovery from addiction. He has led large studies investigating ways of helping people who experience addiction, mental illness and homelessness. He has created advanced information systems for public health surveillance and to evaluate the effectiveness of policies and services.
Tom Stamatakis
Tom Stamatakis has served with the Vancouver Police Department for 31 years and is an officer of the Order of Merit of the Police Forces in Canada. He has been on the Canadian Police Association Board of Directors since 2003, serving as president since 2011. Stamatakis serves on several federal and provincial advisory boards and committees.
Dr. Rob Tanguay
Dr. Rob Tanguay is a psychiatrist who completed 2 fellowships, one in Addiction Medicine and Pain Medicine. He is a clinical assistant professor with the departments of Psychiatry and Surgery at the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary and the chief medical officer at The Newly Institute.
News
- International experts focus on recovery in Alberta (February 22, 2023)
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