Patient Engagement

The Mind the Gap project enhances facility-based hemodialysis care through patient involvement at all stages.

Patient partners are an essential part of Mind the Gap and have been involved in the following areas of the project:

  • Study design and topics of focus
  • Developing questionnaires, focus group guides and surveys
  • Recruitment
  • Analysis
  • Dissemination of results

Patient partners’ perspectives are invaluable to the project and we thank our partners for their continuing contributions.

Meet our Patient Partners

Click the photos below to read each team member’s bio

Arlene Desjarlais

Manitoba

Loretta Lee

Alberta

Michael McCormick

Ontario

Timothy Slater

Ontario

Hans Vorster

Ontario

Samantha Schellenberg

Manitoba

Earl Halcrow

Manitoba

Charles Cook

Ontario

Cathy Du Val

Ontario

Reena Davis

Nova Scotia

Patient
Voices

“As a patient partner, it is very meaningful to be on the “ground floor” of building a mental health pathway. Giving feedback on wording and giving the patient perspective on the many aspects of building a pathway has been an interesting process and it’s not over yet.”

–Loretta, a patient partner