Dr. Brian O’Rourke, President and CEO of CADTH, today announced changes to the leadership of the Canadian Drug Expert Committee.

Dr. Lindsay Nicolle has been appointed the new Chair of the committee and Dr. James Silvius has been appointed Vice-Chair. Their appointments are for two and three-year terms respectively and are effective September 1, 2014.

Dr. Nicolle is an internationally recognized expert in infectious diseases, with a focus on infections in long-term care facilities. She is a professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Microbiology at the University of Manitoba, and a consultant in adult infectious diseases at the Health Sciences Centre Winnipeg and the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority. She was the founding editor of the Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases, subsequently theCanadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, and served as the journal’s editor-in-chief for 20 years. Most recently, she served as Vice-Chair of the Canadian Drug Expert Committee from 2011 to 2014. Dr. Nicolle succeeds former Chair, Dr. Robert Peterson.

For more details, go to: http://www.cadth.ca/en/media-centre/announcements