Board of Directors 2010-11
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Jim Bovard
Dr. Jim Bovard is a member of SportMedBC's Board of Directors and a Sports Physician practicing in North Vancouver. Jim is a team physician for Major League Soccer's Vancouver Whitecaps FC, along with Skate Canada, and is a consultant to the Canadian Sailing Team.
Dr. Bovard was also the Venue Medical Officer for Figure Skating at the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games and Chief Medical Officer for the 2008 Canadian Figure Skating Championships.
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Lynda Cannell
Lynda Cannell is the President and CEO of SportMedBC.
As one of the original founders, Ms. Cannell has been an integral part of SportMedBC since 1982. From developing programs to promoting and nurturing world-class podium performances, Ms. Cannell is a pioneer within the sport health, sport safety and sport science community.
Among Ms. Cannell's significant accomplishments, she has supported numerous Canadian teams at Olympic Games, World University Games and World Police and Fire Games. Ms. Cannell has served on boards and advisory committees for organizations including the Canadian Centre for Ethics and Sport, Sport Medicine and Science Council of Canada, National Alliance for Safe Sport, Sport BC, BC Centre for Community Child Health Research, and BC Medical Association.
She was also a member of USANA Health Sciences Sports Advisory Board and served as member of the medical advisory board for the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee.
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Leslie Clisby
Leslie began working with professional athletes in 1999. She has experience working in clinics, on site at events and traveling with teams.
Leslie holds post graduate certificates in sport injuries, physiology, sport first responder and athletic taping. She is a member of the Canadian Sport Massage Therapy Association and sits on the SportMedBC's Board of Directors.
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David Cox
Dr. David Cox is a Clinical Psychologist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Simon Fraser University. He is currently the Director of Clinical Training for the Clinical Psychology program.
Over the past twenty-five years he has served as a Sport Psychologist for many of Canada's provincial and national sports organizations and athletes at both the amateur and professional ranks.
Dr. Cox is the Chair of the SportMedBC Board of Directors.
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Isabel Grondin
Isabel is a certified athletic therapist and a physiotherapist with a certificate in sport physiotherapy. She graduated from the University of Alberta with a Masters in Science specialized in muscle injury in 1992.
Isabel practices in Duncan and Sidney and is the Head Therapist for Rugby Canada. She has had many opportunities to work on the international scene more specifically at the 1999 Pan-Am Games and the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympics as part of the Canadian Olympic Association's health team. Isabel is a member of the Canadian Athletic Therapists Association's Board of Directors and just completed her term as the president of the association.
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Christopher MacLean
Dr. MacLean has been in the custom foot orthotic industry for 18 years. During which time, he completed a M.Sc. (Human Kinetics) degree at University of British Columbia and a Ph.D. in Biomechanics at University of Massachusetts Amherst.
His primary interests include the mechanism of orthopaedic injury in sports (running and cutting sports); the development of exercise and footwear interventions; and diabetic foot dynamics.
Dr. MacLean's research interests inlude the mechanism of overuse running injuries; lower extremity pathomechanics; influence of footwear design and custom orthoses; and the role of functional variability in orthopaedic injury mechanism.
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Kate Milne
Professional member of the Canadian Society of Exercise Physiology,the Vocational Rehabilitation Society of Canada,the Clinical Exercise Physiology Association,the American College of Sports Medicine,and the International Association for Worksite Health Promotion.
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Marc Rizzardo
Marc has been involved with elite athletics in Canada for the past 20 years. Through his strong relationship with EA Sports and the NHL's Minnesota Wild, Marc has worked with some of the world's top athletes from the NBA, NHL and NFL. He has been the head coach for the Langara Men's soccer team since 1986 and won a gold medal with the BC Western Canada Games Team in 2003.
Marc has a post graduate Diploma in Sports Physiotherapy and was the Chief Therapist for Canada's Pan Am Games Medical team in 2007. He is a Clinical Instructor in the UBC School of Rehabilitation Sciences and Pysiotherapy Consultant for the Riverdance Dance Company, Canada's National Soccer and Fencing Teams.
As a member of the medical team, Marc has been to the Canada Games, World University Games, Pan American Games and the Olympic Games. He is a National Examiner for Sports Physiotherapy Canada and volunteers extensively - BC Summer Games, the Vancouver Sun Run, the 24 Hr. Relay, Vancouver Marathon and Triathlons.
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Joseph Stern
Dr. Joseph Stern has been an active part of the Vancouver podiatric medicine community for over 20 years. Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, he grew up in Vancouver, and later went to the University of British Columbia where he completed a Bachelor of Science degree.
After finishing at UBC, Joseph wanted to merge his interests in health care, biomechanics and sport making podiatry an obvious first choice of professions. He went on to study at Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine in Philadelphia.
When Dr. Stern isn't caring for his hectic downtown practice or acting as an advisor to various sport and health related advisory boards including his role as a SportMedBC board member, he can be found coaching his children's baseball teams or walking the trails of Pacific Spirit Park with his wife and the family dog.
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Jim Verners
Jim received his post-graduate Fellowship in the College of Chiropractic Sports Sciences (Canada)in 2004. He graduated from the University of Alberta with a degree in Physical Education. He is also on the Board of Directors for the CCSS(C).
A former competitive runner, Jim plays recreational hockey and soccer but is most often found on the golf course.
Jim has worked previously with both the Men's and Women's National hockey teams, the Victoria United Soccer team of the Pacific Coast Soccer League, Pacific Coast Swim Club as well as many National and International events.
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Mike Wilkinson
Mike practices sports and rehab medicine in Vancouver. He qualified at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa and completed an internship and medical officer post in East London (SA). After further training in sports medicine, emergency, aviation and hyperbaric/diving medicine, he emigrated to Canada.
He holds the CASM Diploma in Sports Medicine and an MBA, Queens University. He is the CMO for the Canadian Rowing team, a team physician for the Vancouver Canucks, Canadian and BC senior Rugby Teams, was a physician for the Canadian 2004 and 2008 Olympic teams and the CMO for the 2007 Canadian Pan Ams team.
He was the Director of medical services for the 2010 Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic games and serves as a member of the SMCBC and Own the Podium board of directors.