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Co-Chairs

Larry Myette, MD, MPH T. Larry Myette, BSc (Pharm), MD, MPH, DABPM, CIME

Director and Occupational Medicine Consultant, Strategic Workplace Health, Healthcare Benefit Trust

Dr. Myette is a former Command Surgeon (senior physician) of the Canadian Navy and Regional Medical Officer at the Occupational Health and Safety Agency of Health Canada.  He has been with Healthcare Benefit Trust since 1999 and is currently Director, Strategic Workplace Health and Occupational Medicine Consultant. Dr. Myette holds degrees in Pharmacy, Medicine and Public Health, is certified as a specialist in Occupational Medicine and is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at UBC.  He was Co-Chair of the Depression in the Workplace Collaborative and co-author of a comprehensive report, Depression & Work Function: Bridging the Gap Between Mental Health Care & the Workplace (which can be down-loaded at www.carmha.ca).  Dr. Myette is also the Medical Advisor on Mental Health in the Workplace to the Global Business and Economic Roundtable on Mental Health and Addictions, and Co-Leader of the Depression in the Workplace Project of the American College Of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Dr. Myette is a member of the Canadian Council on Integrated Healthcare and his special interests are in the area of integrated workplace health management, population health, chronic disease management and mental health in the workplace.

Larry Myette, MD, MPH

 

Celina Dunn, HBSc, MD, CCFP

Manager of Medical Services, WorkSafeBC

Celina Dunn received her MD in Calgary in 1985, followed by her Family Practice residency in 1987.  She worked in Calgary and Halifax in family practice and cancer care until 1992 when she moved to Vancouver and joined The Workers’ Compensation Board of BC (now commonly known as WorkSafeBC).  Celina worked as a Medical Advisor for WorkSafeBC until 2000, when she became Manager of Medical Services.  Dr. Dunn is a clinical instructor with the Department of Family Practice at the University of British Columbia. She has been active in educational and outreach projects for physicians in the province of BC and involved in various evidence-based reviews at WorkSafeBC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



       

 
 
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