Our Team
Dr. Christine Gibson
Founder, Director
Christine is a family doctor and social innovator who helps both people and populations build resilience. She is a storyseeker, a global health consultant, and an expert in trauma healing - her book The Modern Trauma Toolkit will be released spring 2023. She also runs Safer Spaces Trainings, to help organizations become trauma-informed. A TEDx alumni, Avenue Top 40 Under 40, and graduate of the Banff Centre’s Getting to Maybe - Christine works on a systems-level approach to changemaking. She has an MD from the University of Toronto and a Masters in Medical Education from the University of Dundee. She has studied psychotherapy, social innovation, and multiple healing practices. She runs an international non-profit and was a CFP podcast host. Learn more about her HERE. See her “why” HERE and her linkedin.
Denise Kokaram
Director
For many years, Denise has been a passionate advocate for oral health access and equity in Canada. Travelling and volunteerism instilled a deep sense of social responsibility and cultural humility, providing a solid foundation for Denise’s work with priority populations.
Continuing her vision as the Chief Operating Officer of Nation’s Dental, she is also a strong advocate for psychological safety in the workplace, and a firm believer in the benefits of improving social determinants of health for all citizens. Check out her linkedin.
Aishwarya Khanduja
Technical Advisor
Aishwarya is a graduate of the prestigious Masters of Bioscience Enterprise at Cambridge. Since, she has worked in digital women’s health and is now helping digital pathology as strategist at Proscia. She founder and CEO of LoopEducation, a social enterprise making higher education in Canada equitable and accessible. She is also a health innovator, focused on the implementation of clinical AI systems. The 24-year old is a TEDx speaker, a Global Youth Leader, a Top 20 Under 25, Top 30 Under 30, 2x Immigrants of Distinction finalist, NEXT36 finalist, and a true social innovator.
Dr. Monty Ghosh
Clinical Advisor
Monty Ghosh is an Internist and Addiction Specialist, as well as researcher and program developer in Edmonton and Calgary. He works with multiple community based not for profit organizations to provide support for marginalized populations. He also helps foster and create unique programs to support those living with substance use, experiencing homelessness, and with other vulnerabilities. Not only did Dr. Ghosh graduate from a Masters in Public Health from Harvard - he gave the graduation speech for all grad students in 2022.
Check out his linkedin.
Jake Jennings
Operational Advisor
Jake is currently the Executive Director of the Foothills PCN in Calgary. Generally a curious guy, Jake is currently exploring the question of how to create healthy and effective organizations. In the past he has worked as a primary care paramedic, managed interprofessional community based mental health and primary healthcare programs, and is a founding board member of the Veterans Transition Network, a national non-profit organization. He is a graduate of Royal Roads University’s Master of Business Administration program with a specialization in leadership and Prescott College’s Master of Arts program in Counselling Psychology. He is currently enrolled in the Doctor of Business Administration program at the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary studying the diffusion of innovation in healthcare.
Dr. Stacy Lee Lockerbie, Director
Stacy Lee Lockerbie is a cultural anthropologist. Her dissertation explored Transnational adoption practices between Canada and China with a focus on the subjective experiences of motherhood and ideas around kinship. Dr. Lockerbie has since worked at the University of Calgary in applied health sciences collaborating with Inner City Physicians and nurses on topics related to vulnerable populations in Calgary. Her research is qualitative and, community-based exploring topics such as the emotional wellness of Canadian newcomers, foster care in Indigenous communities, pregnancy in street-affected youth and active substance use, housing and income insecurity.
Dr. Christine Kennedy, Director
Christine is a practicing physician and health economist who graduated from the University of Calgary medical school, Queen's University, and Trinity College, University of Oxford. She practices in public health and preventive medicine, occupational medicine, and family medicine and has a particular passion for advocating for improved prevention and supports around cancer and mental well-being and addiction care in the diverse populations she serves. She practices family medicine (at Chipewyan Prairie Dene First Nation), public health (environmental) and occupational medicine in Alberta, Canada. She has published approximately 35 peer reviewed scientific papers.