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​MEET THE TEAM

Community Advisory Board (CAB)
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Amelia Tekwahtonti McGregor

Amelia Tekwahtonti McGregor, a revered community leader and knowledge holder, was one of the founding members of CAB in 1994.  She provides vital contributions to KSDPP for Indigenous research methodology, health promotion and community education. In addition, she has nurtured everyone including the many students. For her inspiring leadership, McGill University awarded her an Honorary Doctor of Science in 2023.

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David (Davey) Diabo

Davey is a community member who brings many years of experience to KSDPP in the field of Recreation, as he was formerly the Director of the Kahnawá:ke Youth Center.​

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Dianne Labelle

Diane Labelle (no pronouns) has 40+ years of experience in the world of education as a teacher, consultant, administrator and presenter. Diane is the Regional Pedagogical Counselor for the First Nations Adult Education School Council and works at decolonizing the curriculum in order to better serve the Indigenous learners of the many nations in the region. She has campaigned for the rights of Two-Spirit people since 1976, as a specialist and researcher, and is often invited to speak on the issue of gender and colonialism.
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Philip Deering​

​Philip, ​Professor at Concordia University,  joined CAB in 2010. He brings many years of knowledge in business and cultural knowledge to KSDPP.

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Kyle Delisle

​Kyle Delisle is a Kanien’kehá:ka of Kahnawá:ke.  He worked for over 20  years with the Kahnawá:ke Economic Development Commission (Tewatohnhi’saktha), including three years as CEO, during which, he was involved with the Harvard Project on Native American Economic Development.  He also served as Vice President – Finance of Kahnawá:ke Sustainable Energies, a subsidiary of Tewatohnhi’saktha that developed and implemented a 24MW wind farm on the South Shore of Montreal. He was also CEO of Mohawk Internet Technologies, an internet service provider owned by Kahnawá:ke and previously managed by Tewatohnhi’saktha.  Kyle served on the Executive of the International Intertribal Trade and Investment Organization and on the Membership Committee of the International Economic Development Council. He is now Executive Director and President of the Kahnawake Business Contribution Foundation, a not-for-profit that focuses efforts on providing equality of opportunity for the children of Kahnawá:ke. Kyle has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Concordia University and a Master’s of Business Administration degree from Cornell University and Queen’s University.
 

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Wahéhshon Whitebean

Wahéhshon is the Education Research Consultant and Ethics Chair at the Kahnawà:ke Education Center. She was appointed to the Research Team in 2021, and then to CAB in 2022. She is a PhD candidate in Educational Studies at McGill University in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education. Wahéhshon has extensive experience in community work, leadership, and language/culture reclamation. The primary focus of her work and research is on language/culture revitalization, Indigenous education, and Onkwehón:we pathways to health and well-being.

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Chantal Haddad​

Chantal is a professional Dietitian/Nutritionist at the Kateri Memorial Hospital Centre and has been a CAB member since the beginning of KSDPP in 1994. Her contribution to diet and nutrition is immeasurable. She continues her service to the community in her current role of Dietitian and Nutrition.   

KSDPP Staff
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Nadine Montour

Bookkeeper
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Nadine previously worked  as  Finance Manager at  Kateri Memorial Hospital Centre before retiring and joining the KSDPP team in 2021 . She enjoys spending time with her grandchildren and at her cabin in Tiowero:ton.​​​

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Kim Delormier

Communications Coordinator
Kim joined KSDPP in March 2025. She has an extensive background in graphic design and communications, working both independently and within various community organizations, and beyond. Kim enjoys the outdoors, caring for her animals and most of all, spending time with her granddaughter.
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Lori Diabo-McComber

Administrative Assistant to KSDPP and Diabetes Action Canada

​Lori joined KSDPP in 2021 and is responsible to organize meetings, recording, and transcription of meeting minutes, and ensuring follow up. Lori retired in 2020 after 29 years at Kateri Memorial Hospital Centre, the last 22 years as Executive Assistant. She enjoys spending time with her grandchildren, reading and doing jig saw puzzles. ​

Kaylia Marquis

Organizational Development Consultant
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Coreen Delormier

Program Director
Coreen joined KSDPP as Program Director in October 2024. With over 20 years of hands-on experience building connections and fostering collaboration among businesses, organizations, and stakeholders, she brings strong leadership and a deep commitment to advancing KSDPP’s mission and values.


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Shannon Udy

Research Consultant
Shannon Udy is the Research Coordinator at KSDPP and a citizen of the Métis Nation of British Columbia. She is a registered dietitian and has worked in partnership with KSDPP since 2021, completing her Master of Science in Human Nutrition at McGill University, under the supervision of Dr. Treena Delormier. Her research supported community food security and Indigenous food sovereignty in Kahnawà:ke.

The Research Team
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Brittany Wenniserí:iostha Jock

Bear Clan from Akwesasne
Assistant Professor, Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition & Environment (CINE), McGill University

​​​[email protected]
www.mcgill.ca/nutrition/staff/professors/brittany-wenniseriiostha-jock​
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Ann C. Macaulay

Professor, ​Department of Family Medicine, McGill University
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"I am dedicated to participatory research for Indigenous health"

[email protected]
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www.mcgill.ca/familymed/ann-macaulay

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Donna Ivimey

Research Coordinator, CMT
​Pathways Project​​


[email protected]
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Treena Delormier

​​Scientific Director of KSDPP
​Associate Professor, School of Human Nutrition, McGill University

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[email protected]
www.mcgill.ca/nutrition/staff/professors/treena-wasontiio-delormier

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Sarah Fraser

​​Professor, Faculté des arts et des sciences - École de psychoéducation, Université de Montréal
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[email protected]

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Katsitsiio Splicer

Katsi’tsí:io, Onkwehonwe from Kahnawà:ke, is a research coordinator for youth-led, action-based research that explores how to engage youth in community. She is passionate about the journey of decolonization and re-indigenizing aspects of life, in particular her mind and way of living. She has a six-year-old daughter and a "dog-daughter", teaches yoga and is passionate about physical and wholistic health. Although she has a masters of health science in mental health and a masters of social work in the Indigenous field of study, she is learning there is more to life than Western education and understandings of “work” and has been on a journey to live sustainably. ​​
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Alex M. McComber

​Community Advisor and Researcher, KSDPP
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Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, McGill University

​[email protected]
www.mcgill.ca/familymed/alex-m-mccomber

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Lucie Lévesque

​Professor​, School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen's University

[email protected]
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skhs.queensu.ca/people/faculty/lucie-levesque-phd/

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Sonia Périllat-Amédée

​Research Assistant
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Sonia started working with KSDPP in 2018 through her Master's in Human Nutrition at McGill. She is now working as research assistant to Treena Delormier on the Community Mobilization Training project and the Québec Network Environment for Indigenous Health Research.


[email protected]

Student Trainees

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​Brittany McBeath

PhD Candidate

​Brittany is a Kanyen'kehá:ka woman of mixed ancestry from Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. She has been studying under the supervision of Dr. Lucie Lévesque in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen's University, in partnership with KSDPP since 2017.

​​[email protected]

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Grace deHaan

Undergraduate Student Trainee, School
​of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen's University
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Hariata Tai Rakena

​​PhD Candidate at The Johns Hopkins University ​

​Māori Indigenous international public health practitioner and researcher engaged in a master's research project in partnership with KSDPP

[email protected]
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​www.linkedin.com/in/hariata-tai-rakena-a4766579/

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Cameron Hare

Undergraduate Student Trainee, School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen's University

[email protected]
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Colin Baillie

PhD Candidate

Colin is a ​PhD Candidate from Queen's University and has been a KSDPP Research Team Member Since 2014.

[email protected]
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Victoria Taylor

​Undergraduate Student Trainee, School
​of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen's University
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Former Student Trainees
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Trainee

Shannon Blake

​*Shannon Udy

​Danial Vagharfard

​Elena Tresierra-Farbridge

​*Hariata Tai Rakena

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*Olivia Franks


Colin P.T. Baillie

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​*Brittany McBeath


*Leslie Ann Stacey

​*Andrea Ianni


*Morgan Philips


Cedric Jamet

Jonathan Salsberg


Soultana Macridis

Evangeline Seganathy

*Sarah Horne


Lindsay Hogan


Maedeh Khayyat Kholghi

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Jayne Murdoch


*Treena Delormier


​Sherri Bisset


Shannon Dow


Elizabeth Doxsee


Allison Kirby


*Laura Salmon


Gisèle Guilbault


Michelle Jimenez


*Ojistoh Horn


​Mary Trifonopoulos

Research Supervisor

Alex McComber

Treena Delormier
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​Lucie Lévesque

​Alex McComber

​​Lee Schaefer

​
Lucie Lévesque


Lucie Lévesque

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​Lucie Lévesque


Alex M. McComber

​Lucie Lévesque

​
Steve Jordan


Warren Linds

Spencer Moore


Enrique Garcia

Ann Macaulay

Kathryn Gray-Donald


Enrique Garcia


Gillian Bartlett/Jon Salsberg

Kathryn Gray Donald

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Katherine Frohlich/Louise Potvin

​Margaret Cargo/Louise Potvin

Nadia Ferrara


Lucie Lévesque


Lucie Lévesque


Kathryn Gray-Donald


Louise Potvin/Lucie Lévesque

Olivier Receveur 


Gilles Paradis


​Harriet Kuhnlein 
Degree

BHSc

MSc
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​BHSc

​BA

​MA

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MSc


MSc

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MSc


MEd

MSc

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PhD


MA

PhD


PhD

MSc

MSc


MA


MSc


MSc


PhD


​MSc


MA


MA


MA


MSc


MSc


MSc


MSc


MSc
Graduation 

2025

2024
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​2024

2023
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​2021

​
2021


2021

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​2020


2020

​2019

​
2019


2016

2015


2015

2014

2013


2013


2013


2012


2011


​2008


2006


2006


2005


2004


2001


1999


1999


​1995
Institution, Department

Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa

McGill University, School of Human Nutrition

​Faculty of Health Sciences, Queen's University

​Sociology, Concordia University

​McGill University, Dept. of Kinesiology and Physical Education
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​Queen's University, School of Kinesiology and Health Studies 

​Queen's University, School of Kinesiology and Health Studies 

​Queen's University, School of Kinesiology and Health Studies ​

McGill University, Faculty of Education

​Queen's University, School of Kinesiology and Health Studies

McGill University, Dept of Integrated Studies in Education

Concordia University, Applied Human Sciences

​Queen's University, School of Kinesiology and Health Studies 

McGill University, Kinesiology

McGill University, Dept. of Family Medicine

​McGill University, School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition  ​

MsGill University, Dept. of Kinesiology and Physical Education

McGill University, Dept. of Family Medicine

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McGill University, School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition

University of Montreal, Social and Prev. Medicine


Université de Montréal, Santé Communautaire


Concordia University, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology

​Queen's University, School of Kinesiology and Health Studies 

​Queen's University, School of Kinesiology and Health Studies 

McGill University, School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition

Université de Montréal, Dépt. de médecine sociale et préventive

McGill University, School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition

McGill University, Epidemiology & Biostatistics​
McGill University, School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition 

Postdoctoral Fellow

Jonathan Salsberg

Marie-Claude Tremblay

*Treena Delormier


Margaret Cargo

​Lucie Lévesque
​Supervisor

Gillian Bartlett

Ann Macaulay/Debbie Martin

Elaine Power


Louise Potvin

Lise Gauvin/Louise Potvin 
​Year(s)

2017

2014-2016

​2011


1999-2000

​1998-2001
​Institution, Department

McGill University, Dept. of Family Medicine, PRAM

McGill University, Dept. of Family Medicine, PRAM

​Queen's University, School of Kinesiology and Health Studies

University of Montreal, Social & Prev. Medicine

​University of Montreal, Social & Prev. Medicine  
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* Indigenous students

Past Members

Jonathan Salsberg - Senior Lecturer, University of Limerick, Ireland

Pierre Haddad - Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Université de Montréal

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    • Meet the Team
    • Past Events
    • COMMUNITY PHOTOS
    • Funding
    • Website Translation
  • Research & Training
    • Overview
    • KSDPP Code Of Research Ethics
    • Past Projects >
      • Community Mobilization Training
    • Current Projects >
      • Community-2-Community Exchange
    • KSDPP Research Report: August 2023 — August 2024
    • Quebec NEIHR
    • Quebec Indigenous Mentorship Network Program (QIMP)
    • Indigenous Youth Mentorship Program (IYMP)
    • Skátne Ionkwaweientehtaonhátie (for youth under 35)
    • Awards
    • Publications
    • Presentations
    • Posters
    • KSDPP Webinars
  • Community Initiatives
    • Brown Bag Lunch
    • Men's Get Fit
    • Project Playground
  • Healthy Lifestyles
    • Healthy Eating >
      • The Early Years
      • Children
      • Youth
      • Adults
      • Older Adults
      • Recipes and Resources
    • PHYSICAL ACTIVITY >
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      • Children and Youth
      • Youth and Adults
      • Older adults
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