David holds a Masters of Public Administration, and a Bachelor of Business Administration. He has over 25 years experience in provincial governments in Saskatchewan and British Columbia working for the Ministries of Finance, Public Service, Culture, and Health. David joined the British Columbia public service in 1990 serving in a number of positions within the Ministry of Health including Associate Deputy Minister, Regional Programs, prior to joining the Provincial Health Services Authority.

In June 2002, David Babiuk was appointed Executive Director, Provincial Services Development and Support at the Provincial Health Services Authority. His responsibilities include: contract management process for selected tertiary and provincial programs within the Provincial Health Services Authority mandate and the project management of various province-wide development projects including telehealth and trauma.

Ellen Balka holds an Interdisciplinary Doctorate in Computer Science, Communication and Women's Studies and a Master's degree in Women's Studies from Simon Fraser University, and a BA in Geography and Environmental Studies from the University of Washington.

Ellen is a Professor at Simon Fraser University's School of Communication, and a Senior Scientist with the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation at the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute. She also serves as an Adjunct Professor to the University of Victoria's School of Health Information Sciences. Ellen is the author of Computer Networking: Spinsters on the Web (Ottawa: Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women), and Co-Editor of Women, Work and Computerization: Charting a Course to the Future (Norwell, MA: Kluwer). She is currently working on an edited collection about information technology in Canada's health sector, and a monograph about end-user's involvement with technology design. Ellen received the YWCA Women of Distinction Award for Workplace Innovation in 2003.

Ron Carere received a BSc from the University of Guelph in 1980 and his MD degree from the University of Ottawa in 1984. Ron then received his Fellowship in Internal Medicine 1988, Cardiology in 1990, and went on to complete a 2-year Fellowship in Interventional Cardiology and Research at Toronto General Hospital from 1989 to 1991. He then joined the Division of Cardiology at St Paul's in 1991 his clinical practice has focused on CCU medicine and Cardiac Interventions with a special interest in interventions in congenital heart disease. Ron served as the Associate Head of the Division of Cardiology from 1998 to 2000. In 2000 he became the Physician Director of the Heart Centre Program. In 2004 he also assumed responsibilities as the Regional Director of the Cardiac Program for the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority. He has been a member of the Provincial Advisory panel on Cardiac Health since 1995. Ron has maintained active clinical research interests in several areas including work with the BC Cardiac Registry database.

For the past three years Dan Horvat has been the Medical Director for the Northern Interior, he is now transitioning to Medical Lead, Primary Health Care for Northern Health. Over the past ten years Dan has been a family physician in Prince George, British Columbia and continues his practice a part-time basis. He also holds the rank of Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Practice, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia.

Dan has acted as a governor for organizations including; the Simon Fraser Health Region, the BC College of Family Physicians and the Western Healthcare Improvement Network. He has chaired or co-chaired numerous conferences bringing local and international leadership to British Columbia on health system improvement. Dan also worked with the BC Cancer Agency to assist with the launch of the Family Practice Oncology Network and has acted as a consultant to the Michael Smith Foundation as well as the BC Ministry of Health on Primary Care issues. He also acted as an invited expert opinion to the Commission on the Future of Healthcare in Canada (the Romanow Commission).

Andrew Ignaszewski received his medical training in Poland. He arrived in Canada in 1983 and completed his Internal Medicine training at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia before moving to University of Alberta where he finished his Adult Cardiology training. In 1994, he was recruited for medical leadership of a premier cardiac rehabilitation and prevention program at St. Pauls Hospital.

Andrew is the Medical Director of the Healthy Heart Program at St. Pauls Hospital, a cardiologist with the Heart Function Clinic at St. Pauls Hospital designed to look after all aspects of cardiac care for patients with congestive heart failure and a Cardiologist with the Heart Transplant Program at St. Pauls Hospital. Until November 1999, he was the Medical Director of the British Columbia Transplant Society.

Andrews research interests are cardiac rehabilitation and prevention, heart failure and patient outcomes following various cardiovascular interventions. He has published 37 papers and 72 abstracts in these areas. He is also involved in the teaching of medical students and medical residents at St. Pauls Hospital and has received teaching awards from the University of British Columbia.

Annemarie Kaan holds a Master of Clinical Nursing (Cardiothoracic) from the Australian Catholic University, a Cardiothoracic Nursing Certificate from St. Vincents Hospital in Sydney, Australia, and a Registered Nursing Certificate from St. Josephs Hospital in Sydney, Australia. She is also a Certified Cardiovascular Nurse in Canada, and a Certified Clinical Transplant Nurse in the USA.

With over 23 years experience in cardiothoracic nursing, Annemarie is the Clinical Nurse Specialist for Heart Failure and Transplantation. Her roles include: case manager for complicated heart failure patients, in patient heart transplant patients and Ventricular Assist Device patients. Annemarie is an Adjunct Professor with the School of Nursing at UBC and is actively involved in the Masters and BSN program providing education in her areas of expertise including heart failure, heart transplantation and mechanical circulatory support.

Annemarie is a member of the International Society for Heart Transplantation, Heart Failure Society of America, Canadian Council of Cardiovascular Nurses and is on Editorial Review Boards of Progress in Transplantation and the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation

Jose holds a PhD from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, a Masters of Arts in Medical Anthropology from the Humanities and Social Sciences in Medicine program and a B.Sc. in Dietetics and Human Nutrition from McGill University.

She is currently an Assistant Professor with Community Health Programs at the University of Northern British Columbia. She holds an appointment with the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba, and is affiliated with the Manitoba First Nations Centre for Aboriginal Health Research (MFN-CAHR).

Joses research interests focus on the policies and financing mechanisms set in place in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Colombia to support the continued development of indigenous primary health services and improve access to primary health care services. Jose has been working with indigenous controlled primary health care services since 1989, and continues to work closely with indigenous health organizations at the local, regional, national and international levels.

Scott received his doctoral training in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of British Columbia in the area of cardiac rehabilitation. He is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Kinesiology at Simon Fraser University who also holds cross appointments at the University of British Columbia and St. Paul's Hospital. Scott holds a Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator Award and a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar Award.

Scotts research interests include the prevention of cardiovascular disease and management of those with disease. Scott is the BCATPR leader whose interest in telehealth began during his PhD training within the Healthy Heart Program at St. Paul's Hospital. While conducting research into cardiac rehabilitation programs, Scott recognized that physical access to these highly effective programs was a barrier for many patients to attend. Using the Internet as a medium for communicating with patients, Scott began his foray into telehealth research. His research is currently funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Heart and Stroke Foundation of BC and Yukon and the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research.

Dr  Levin is currently a Professor of Medicine at University of BC, and Co-director of the Clinical Investigator Program at UBC. She is the Executive director of the BC Provincial Renal Agency, an organization which manages and co-ordinates the care of patients with kidney disease in the province of BC, and which has developed and maintained the provincial registry for renal patients.

She is the Chair of Curriculum Committee for the National KRESCENT (Kidney Research and Education SCientist EducatioN Training program). In addition she is outgoing Chair of the NKF KDOQI guideline process, and is on the Board of Directors and Executive committee of the newly formed KDIGO, an international group providing collaborative structure for outcomes research and guideline development in CKD.

Her research and clinical activities focus on chronic kidney disease, co morbidities associated with CKD, mechanisms of disease and health outcomes research. She is active in mentoring young investigators in kidney related research, and holds numerous grants for clinical studies.  She has received funding from CIHR ( NET Grant), Kidney Foundation of Canada, and is the principal investigator on a number of studies funded by industry but designed and developed by investigators. She was awarded a team planning grant from Michael Smith Foundation to develop a research strategy for the study of complex patients (INTEGRATION), and most recently a Health Innovation Fund Grant from the Ministry of Health, British Columbia for $6 million to develop and evaluate a model of coordinated specialist care for complex patients.

Kenneth is a Professor of Psychology and Community Health at the University of Northern British Columbia. He is world renowned for his work on the study of pain as well as hypertension. He has published well over 50 papers and book chapters. His work is currently funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Heart and Stroke Foundation (BC and Yukon) and the British Columbia Medical Services Foundation. He has been elected Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association in recognition of his distinguished contributions to the science and profession of psychology.

Kenneth Prkachin's research deals with health psychology, clinical psychology, pain expression, and the biobehavioural determinants of heart disease. Dr. Prkachin also directs the activities of the Psychophysiology Laboratory.

Richard Scott is an Associate Professor in the Global e-Health Research and Training Program of the Centre for Innovation in Health Technology, University of Calgary. He examines the role of e-health (telehealth + health informatics) in the globalization of healthcare, including aspects impacting the implementation and integration of e-health globally and locally (‘glocal’ e-health). He also promotes the application of ‘culturally sensitive and technologically appropriate’ e-health solutions in the international context, and is pursuing collaborative research in Asian, African, and Latin American and Caribbean countries.

Internationally, Richard is a member of the Advisory Board of the Commonwealth e-Health Programme, member of the U21 Global e-Health Committee, Chairperson of the WHO GOe-U21 Global e-Health Policy Working Group, and Chairperson of the UN-OOSA e-Health Policy Working Group. Nationally, Richard is a member of Infoway’s Benefits Evaluation Expert Advisory Committee, and has participated as an expert on many similar committees for other Canadian agencies.

Richard was a Founding member of the Canadian Society of Telehealth (CST) in 1998, President of CST (2004-2006), and is now the Immediate Past-President and current Chairperson of the CST’s International Committee. Richard is also Director of NTConsulting, providing education and services in e-health development and assessment.