About us

Portrait of Dr. Krissy Doyle-Thomas

Krissy Doyle-Thomas, PhD, MSc, BA
MCREB Co-Chair

Program Coordinator and Professor
Mental Health and Disability Management Program
Brain Disorders Management Program
School of Allied Health

Specializations: Health Research, Neuroscience

Inspiring Quote: "Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do." - Potter Stewart


Portrait of Gail Martin

Gail Martin, PhD, BSc
MCREB Co-Chair and Community Member

Consultant & Expert Advisor (Innovation Factory, Innovate Niagara)

Specializations: Health Research, Life Sciences, Innovation, Business Development

Inspiring Quote: "The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation" - Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)

 


Portrait of Maria Berrafati

Maria Berrafati, PhD, MA, BA

Professor, Communication Coordinator, School of Community, Justice and Liberal Studies

Specializations: Communication (Diploma/Degree Programs), Curriculum Development and ESL

Inspiring Quote: "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill.

 

 


Portrait of Pamela Ingleton

Pamela Ingleton, PhD, MA

Professor, Communication and Liberal Studies

Specializations: English and Cultural Studies; Education (Scholarly and Applied Research on student success, essential skills, and assessment; Educational Faculty development)

Inspiring Quote: "Data are never neutral." - Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein (among others)

 

 


Portrait of Andrea Johnson

Andrea Johnson, MA

General Manager, Centre for Emerging Research Initiatives - IDEAWORKS

Specializations: Applied Research, Research Project Management, Innovation, Educational Administration

Inspiring Quote: "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas A. Edison

 

 


Portrait of Cameron Redsell-Montgomerie

Cameron Redsell-Montgomerie, MSc, BSc,

Professor, Mathematics and Statistics

Specialization: Statistics

Inspiring Quote: "The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not." - Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh.

 

 


Portrait of Ela Smith

Ela Smith (Gee waniway eekwe (Whirling wind woman)), RECE, MSW, RSW

Professor, Teaching & Learning Consultant, Indigenous Education

Specializations: Indigenous Education, Social Development Studies & Social Work

Inspiring Quote: "Do the best you can, until you know better. Then, when you know better, do better." - Maya Angelou

 

 


Portrait of Mini Thomas

Mini Thomas, PhD, P.Eng.

Professor, Computer Science and Information Technology

Specialization: Software Engineering

Inspiring Quote: "The time is always right to do what is right."  - Martin Luther King Jr.

 

 


Portrait of Michelle Tomson

Michelle Tomson, PhD, BCBA, RBA

Professor, Autism & Behavioural Science - Mohawk College
Honours Human Behavior - McMaster University
Applied Health Studies

Specialization: Applied Health Studies

Inspiring Quote: "The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence." – Jiddu Krishnamurt

 


Portrait of Janice Henry-Clarke

Janice Henry-Clarke, B.Ed

Research Ethics Board Coordinator

Inspiring Quote: “Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.” — C.S. Lewis