CAMRT-AB Events

Jennie Gilbert is a Leadership Development Specialist and a facilitator of a wide range of courses for corporate participants. Her professional time is split between SAIT, corporate, and non-profit organisations. Jennie also creates and delivers developmental sessions for businesses, as well as being involved in a number of webinars and podcasts.

Jennie’s career has given her a broad range of solid experience across the fields of education, corporate business both profit and non-profit organisations, from England to Canada, a few trips to Everest Base Camp and all the adventures that a family of five bring – she joins us today with an energy and commitment towards helping Leaders shift mindsets and practices to effective leadership in todays environments!

Meghan Donohoe is a leadership expert, organizational strategist, and thought-provoking facilitator. As co-founder of Pebble, she is at the forefront of reshaping leadership in a world of accelerating change and complexity. Meghan blends her deep expertise in leadership, well-being, culture, and innovation to help leaders shift their mindsets, drive meaningful change, and create more human-centric workplaces.

With over a decade of experience leading People & Culture strategies and a Master’s in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Meghan bridges evidence-based research with pragmatic approaches to transform leaders, teams, and organizational cultures. She is currently completing her PhD, focusing on leadership stress and well-being, further strengthening her mission to infuse humanity into leadership practices.

A sought-after speaker and workshop facilitator, Meghan is known for her ability to inspire and challenge thinking across industries. She has shared her expertise at major platforms such as SXSW 2024, DisruptHR, MESH, and ConvergX. Meghan also co-developed “Leaders for Humanity”, an interactive card game gaining global attention for helping leaders reimagine the future of leadership and shape new strategies for navigating complexity.

Passionate about transforming the future of work, Meghan’s mission is deeply personal—aiming to revolutionize the workplace for her young daughters so that, 15 years from now, today’s work practices will seem as outdated as smoking on airplanes.

Alison Naylor is a Certified Child Life Specialist (CCLS) and Child Life Educator at the Stollery Children’s Hospital and holds a master’s degree in Child Life and Pediatric Psychosocial Care. Alison has been a Child Life Specialist for 19 years and has worked most of that time supporting children in oncology/hematology, including those undergoing radiation treatment.

Jennifer Brown

Jennifer Brown is the Associate Dean for the School of Health and Public Safety at SAIT. She has been an x-ray technologist for 25 years and is passionate about her profession and educating and supporting the next generation. She has worked at SAIT for the past 20 years through progressively different roles. She is actively involved with CAMRT as the Alberta Director on the Board. She is an Accreditation Canada surveyor and is working on her Doctorate of Education. Throughout all of this she has maintained regular work as a x-ray technologist for Alberta Health Services as she believes that the patient is at the heart of all we do and therefore heads up the Patient Partnership Committee at SAIT which has worked to implement the Patient Partnership Initiative.

Amanda Jacques

Amanda Jacques has been a radiation therapist since 2010 after completing her training in Edmonton at the Cross Cancer Institute. She is passionate about improving the experiences of patients, and has demonstrated this passion throughout her career. When a pediatric patient didn’t want to be sedated for their radiation treatment, and wanted to have breakfast and go swimming with siblings – Amanda began to learn about and implement ‘play preparation’ to reduce the use of general anesthetic in pediatric radiotherapy. This pivotal experience lead her to complete a Masters Degree in Professional Communications.

While working as a cancer patient education specialists, Amanda helped build, transform, and harmonize educational resources using Adult Learning Principles, HealthChange Methodology, feedback from Patient Advisors, and patient voices through digital stories. This approach helped to build content focused on empowering patients to be active participants in their care.

Most recently Amanda has been working to shift the perceptions of lung cancer in primary care providers and the public – to acknowledge never smokers as silent victims who navigate a frustrating path to their diagnosis due to the belief that ‘only smokers get lung cancer’. A key piece of this transformative work is connecting the audience with a patients’ story, and feeling the discomfort when realizing that anyone with lungs can get lung cancer.

Outside of work Amanda seeks joy in her family, friendships, hobbies, and stepping outside of her comfort zone.

Michelle Clapperton

Michelle Clapperton is a registered nurse who graduated from the University of Calgary in 1999 with a bachelor’s in nursing and recently completed her master’s in nursing in 2022. Michelle’s clinical background for the last 25 years has been in cardiology and neonatal intensive care. She has a passion for patient and family centered care and recently expanded her focus in this area as a consultant for the Calgary Zone patient and family centered care under the Calgary Zone Integrated Quality Management Team.

She is a born and raised Calgarian and enjoys hiking and camping in the mountains.

Heather Roy

Heather Roy is a patient advisor and is serving as the RadFlix Director of Operations for both Canada and the United States.

Heather has extensive experience in the non-profit world, in particular with charities that support families dealing with a diagnosis of childhood cancer. Beyond her professional experience, Heather comes to us with personal experience in childhood cancer, having navigated a diagnosis of neuroblastoma with her daughter from 2018-2020. She has a huge heart for advocacy for better treatments and mental health support for childhood cancer patients, survivors, and their families.

Heather has a degree in Behavioural Sciences with a focus in Psychology and is currently a student at the University of Calgary working on her Masters in Social Work. She has a particular interest in the mental health and well-being of children, adolescents, and their families during a medical crisis, specifically during radiation treatments.

Heather has been the recipient of several awards, including the prestigious Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Medal for her betterment of the province of Alberta where she currently lives with her family.

Sandra Dobson

Sandra Dobson is the Academic Chair for the SAIT MRT programs

The Ascent would not be  possible without the support of our Sponsors. Interested in becoming a sponsor? Find the prospectus and sponsorship application here.

Platinum Sponsor, Welcome Reception

MIC is Canada’s largest radiology partnership with a team of over 100 radiologists with diverse sub-specialties and areas of expertise. We are an expert and trusted partner to Edmonton and surrounding area primary care practitioners and specialists. Together with over 500 extensively trained technologists and support staff who are passionate about their work, we play an essential role in providing diagnostic imaging services in 17 Edmonton area hospitals & community health centres and 13 MIC Clinics. We are committed to the health and vitality of everyone who calls the Edmonton area home. From our customer support team to our technologists to our radiologists, everyone works together to make a difference in the lives of our patients and in ensuring that their medical imaging is handled with the utmost professionalism and confidence.

www.mic.ca

Gold Sponsor, Speaker

As a Life Science company and reliable partner, Bayer in Radiology is committed to developing products, tools and services all aimed at increasing diagnostic confidence and operational efficiency.

While constantly endeavoring to further optimize contrast media and injection, we continue to pave the way in new and emerging branches such as radiology informatics.

A wide range of products, best-in-class service, expertise and know-how – that is what Bayer in Radiology stands for.

www.radiology.bayer.ca

Silver Sponsor, Award

Founded in 1954, Christie Innomed is committed to provide innovative medical technologies and leading-edge service solutions helping to maximize efficiency while improving the quality and the safety of patient care pathway in North America. Christie Innomed is a leader in Medical Imaging Equipment Solutions, Health IT Solutions and Service Solutions & Multi-Vendor Services (MVS), with over 200 dedicated specialists serving more than 2,500 hospitals and clinics across Canada and the United States. Its goal is to empower healthcare institutions to imagine more by providing innovative technologies in the areas of health IT solutions, medical imaging, medical informatics, and related services.

www.christieinnomed.com

Bronze Sponsor, Refreshment

BioSyent is a Canadian specialty pharmaceutical company dedicated to improving the lives of patients and supporting healthcare providers with unique and innovative products.

www.biosyent.com

Bronze Sponsor, Refreshment

AstraZeneca is a science-led biopharmaceutical company pushing the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines.

www.astrazeneca.ca  

Bronze Sponsor, Refreshment

Embark on a rewarding career with Canada Diagnostic Centres (CDC), a trailblazer in diagnostic imaging since 1993. Excellence in patient care fuels our passion. As a leading provider of diagnostic services and image-guided procedures in Western Canada, we take pride in our 43 radiologist-led community clinic sites strategically positioned across Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, and British Columbia. Join our dynamic team and contribute to our comprehensive suite of services, including MRI, CT, Ultrasound, Echocardiography, Nuclear Medicine, Mammography, X-ray, Bone Density, GI Fluoroscopy, image-guided biopsies, and state-of-the-art pain management procedures.

www.canadadiagnostics.ca

Exhibitor

BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world and is advancing the world of health by improving medical discovery, diagnostics and the delivery of care. The company supports the heroes on the frontlines of healthcare by developing innovative technology, services and solutions that help advance both clinical therapy for patients and clinical process for healthcare providers. BD and more than 70,000 employees have a passion and commitment to help enhance the safety and efficiency of clinicians’ care delivery process, enable laboratory scientists to accurately detect disease and advance researchers’ capabilities to develop the next generation of diagnostics and therapeutics. BD has a presence in virtually every country and partners with organizations around the world to address some of the most challenging global health issues. By working in close collaboration with customers, BD can help enhance outcomes, lower costs, increase efficiencies, improve safety and expand access to healthcare.

www.bd.com/en-us

Exhibitor

GE HealthCare is a leading global medical technology, pharmaceutical diagnostics, and digital solutions innovator, dedicated to providing integrated solutions, services, and data analytics to make hospitals more efficient, clinicians more effective, therapies more precise, and patients healthier and happier.

We have extensive reach throughout the global healthcare system for medical technology, pharmaceutical diagnostics, and digital solutions, underpinned by resilient, sustainable practices and products, and a commitment to growing access to care.

GE HealthCare is an $18 billion business with over 50,000 employees committed to making it easier for clinicians to give quality care and improve patient outcomes.

Each year, we serve more than 1 billion patients, facilitating more than 2 billion procedures. Our installed base includes over 4 million pieces of equipment in our Imaging, Ultrasound, Patient Care Solutions, and Pharmaceutical Diagnostics segments.

With a global footprint and vast installed base of four million devices and as an established global leader, GE HealthCare is an enabler of connected care, improved clinical insights, and better outcomes that is uniquely positioned to deliver superior results, reliable partnerships, and sustainable growth.

We have been leveraging advancements in machine learning and AI for the last decade to improve diagnosis quality and enhance radiology and clinical workflows.

www.gehealthcare.ca