Our Team
Kara L. McDonald, MSc
Kara’s primary focus is epidemiology surveillance projects where she has previously worked for the BC Ministry of Health, the BC Centre for Disease Control, as a iPHIS/Surveillance Epidemiologist, and with the Public Health Agency of Canada, as a Syndromic Surveillance Epidemiologist, where she participated in a real-time bio-surveillance and response readiness pilot project in Winnipeg, MB.
Kara also worked on the development of an HIV profile for the Fraser Health Authority. Her research on childhood asthma (presented at the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology’s Annual Conference), HIV/AIDs and Public Health surveillance has been published in medical publication Currently Kara is working as a Subject Matter Expert on the BC/Yukon Implementation of the Panorama Project.
Terry Chan, BSc.
Terry has a Bachelor of Science, with a double major in Computer Science and in Psychology. He has extensive experience in relational database administration and technical support. During his 18 years in the Information Technology field, Terry has excelled at providing database and application support in mission critical production environments at BC Ministry of Forests, BC Ministry of Community Services, BC Ministry of Environment and PSERC, as well as participating in development projects throughout that period. He is currently the lead technical resource for the British Columbia iPHIS production system, as well as for the National iPHIS project.
Terry quickly acquires knowledge and integrates into diverse environments to provide client-centered solutions. He is visionary in anticipating and building capacity into systems for potential future organizational requirements and excels in ensuring accurate match of technology to cost-effectiveness, user-orientation and system integrity.
Tanya Beaumont, BSc.
Tanya has Bachelor of Science degrees in Psychology and in Health Information Science. She has wide-ranging experience in research projects and methodology as well as proven technical ability in design and development of database management systems.
Over 8 years experience in Health Information Management, including Business Analyst and Project Management experience, Tanya has organized and led several train-the-trainer and user training sessions, and provided implementation support, and managed and developed training material and online help applications
Tanya has project managed healthcare projects at the provincial, territorial and federal levels. She brings to ACG a strong understanding of Public Health information management issues, systems design, data processing and analysis, collaboration between agencies and integration of best practices into systems support.
She is currently Project Manager for the Northwest Territories iPHIS Support Project and BC Corrections Primary Assessment & Care Module (PAC) Project. She managed and participated in several rounds of requirements gathering, supporting the developers during development, user acceptance testing, and implementing release into Production. Tanya excels at delivering projects on-time and on-budget using methodologies detailed in the Project Management Institute's Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoK).
Robin Card, CCHRA
Robin is a Business Analyst and Trainer with more than nine years of experience in health information collection, management, validation, analysis and reporting, business and systems analysis, clinical applications training, online help and training material development. She has a Health Information Technology Diploma (CCHRA/CHIMA Certified) and Oracle Programming Language I.
She has been a Clinical Informatics Application Trainer/Educational Analyst at Vancouver Island Health Authority; an Electronic Health Record and eSignature Trainer with the BC Provincial Health Services Authority; and a Health Information Analyst with the Calgary Health Region, where she aided in the development of web-enabled data collection, Balanced Scorecard, Key Indicator Reporting and Workload Measurement Systems. She also provided iPHIS – PAC user training, implementation support, online testing and online help development for the BC Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General.
Most recently, Robin worked as a training co-coordinator in Halifax on Nova Scotia’s Panorama Implementation Planning Project. Currently, Robin is working with the Panorama Centre of Excellence helping facilitate working group meetings with BC and Yukon’s health authoring representatives.
Nafeesa Punjani
Nafeesa is currently completing a Bachelor of Health Sciences degree from the University of Western Ontario, with a specialization in Health Sciences. She has iPHIS experience with the British Columbia Provincial Health Services Authority, where she assisted with user acceptance testing and regression testing during the various test cycles prior to the 6.5 version upgrade. She also has experience in training health professionals with the iPHIS system and has provided application support to iPHIS users in BC and in the Yukon Territory.
Nafeesa has also worked for the British Columbia Ministry of Health on the Panorama project as a quality assurance tester, where she participated in testing both the English and French versions.
Nafeesa has previously worked as a Business Analyst on the Primary Access and Care Module (PAC) project where she participated in several rounds of user acceptance testing and implementing the release into Production. Following the release she provided PAC training manual development for the BC Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General.
Currently, Nafeesa is working on the BC Yukon Implementation of the Panorama project completing testing, defect analysis, and configuration.
Sue Fox, BSc.
Sue is a Business Analyst with more than 15 years of experience in the Information Technology industry. Her background includes roles as Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, Technical Writer and Programmer on a number of development projects, many of them dealing with Public Health applications. She has extensive experience in gathering and documenting business requirements, creating software specifications and writing user manuals.
She currently works with ACG on Panorama, the Pan-Canadian Electronic Public Health Surveillance system and is a Business Analyst for the Integrated Public Health Information System – Primary Assessment and Care Module (iPHIS – PAC) project for the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General (BC Corrections). PAC is a large-scale Web-based application used to monitor detailed heath information for incarcerated individuals.
