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Noah lives and works in Toronto and the traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, Anishnabeg, Chippewa, Haudenosaunne, and Wendat peoples. He is a researcher, advocate, and student at the University of Toronto\u2019s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, where he is completing a PhD in Adult Education and Community Development. His research interests lie in transgender health and community development, in particular regarding autism. More about his work can be found at www.noahjadams.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Robyn Hodgson (she\/her)” position=”Past President” image_url=”https:\/\/cpath.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/robyn-hodgson-3619986038.jpg” admin_label=”Robyn Hodgson” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Robyn is an RN in London, Ontario. Her early career was diversified, with 20 years focused on rural health, emergency and critical care. She has been focused on transgender care since 2017, focusing on barriers to access, improving provider education, and increasing trans representation in this field. Having started first in a position with Rainbow Health Ontario, she returned to her childhood home of London, where she has found healing and purpose in providing access to the kind and quality of care she could not find in her youth. She continues to advocate provincially and federally for safe, competent and timely access to what is seldom acknowledged, but well-documented as, lifesaving care.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Jake Farr (he\/they)” position=”Treasurer” image_url=”https:\/\/cpath.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Jake-Farr.jpg” admin_label=”Jake Farr” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Jake is a community leader, educator, advocate, and registered clinical social worker (Ontario), with an MSW specializing in addictions and 2SLGBTQI health. Prior to becoming a full time social worker, Jake earned a BS in Business Admin and worked as a business executive. Jake works to advocate for trans healthcare as chair of the Canadian Medical Association’s patient voice. You can find out more about Jake at www.authenticselfcs.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Charles-Olivier Basile” position=”Board Member” image_url=”https:\/\/cpath.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Charles-Olivier-copy-scaled.jpg” admin_label=”Charles-Olivier Basile” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Charles-Olivier\u00a0is a family physician who has been providing gender affirming care to transgender and nonbinary individuals in Montreal since 2017. He is actively involved in educating healthcare professionals and has delivered numerous talks and training sessions \u2014 with the aim of increasing the number of providers and improving access to care. He co-founded a Community of practice for healthcare providers in Qu\u00e9bec, aimed at increasing the number of providers offering gender-affirming care through peer support and shared learning.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Javi Fuentes Bernal (they\/them)” position=”Board Member” image_url=”https:\/\/cpath.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Javi-e1758740475250.jpg” admin_label=”Javi Fuentes Bernal” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Javi\u00a0is a social worker and PhD candidate in Social Work at the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al. With a background in community-based research and mental health, Javi specializes in trans-affirmative, trauma-informed, arts-based and decolonial approaches to care. Their clinical practice focuses on supporting trans, gender-diverse and migrant individuals navigating systemic barriers to health and legal recognition. Javi has worked with 2SLGBTQI+ organizations and clinics in Qu\u00e9bec, integrating somatic practices, cultural safety, and peer support into their interventions.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Shane Forrest (they\/them)” position=”Board Member” image_url=”https:\/\/cpath.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Shane-scaled.jpg” admin_label=”Shane Forrest” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Shane\u00a0is an Anishinaabe-M\u00e9tis Two-Spirit educator, community researcher, and registered social worker. Shane holds an MSW in Social Work (Indigenous Trauma and Resiliency) from the University of Toronto, a Bachelor of Education (Indigenous Studies) from York University, and a Honours Bachelor of Arts in Indigenous Studies and Celtic Studies from the University of Toronto. Shane has dedicated most of their professional career to co-creating community-driven, youth-led, and trauma informed research and evaluation. As a Senior Researcher at the Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres (OFIFC), they support Friendship Centres communities conducting community-driven research grounded in Indigenous methodologies.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>Shane is passionate about being on the land, plant medicines, caring for children, artmaking, and building affirming cultural spaces for Two-Spirit and trans youth in their communities. Shane has worked in the fields of sexual health and reproductive rights, land-based education, front line peer support and crisis intervention, community-based arts, and grassroots community development. They primarily work with 2SLGBTQQIA+ young people and urban Indigenous communities across Ontario. Through their work with the Native Youth Sexual Health Network, Shane has been teaching about cultural safety, youth-voiced health promotion, and accessible education regarding Two-Spirit, trans, and queer affirming care for 15 years. They also serve on the leadership team for the Transgender Professional Association for Transgender Health (TPATH).<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”matthew bettina heinz (he\/they)” position=”Board Member” linkedin_url=”https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/matthew-heinz-57263645\/?originalSubdomain=c” admin_label=”matthew bettina heinz” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n matthew\u00a0is a professor in the College of Interdisciplinary Studies at Royal Roads University, which is located on the traditional lands of the Lekwungen-speaking peoples, the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations. He has led a community-guided transgender needs assessment for Vancouver Island (2013) and an applied research project focusing on the needs of 2SLGBTQ+ seniors in British Columbia (2023). A communication scholar, he also examines interpersonal communication dynamics involving trans and gender diverse people. His work has appeared in\u00a0<\/span>The Journal of Pragmatics<\/span><\/i>,\u00a0<\/span>Multilingua<\/span><\/i>,\u00a0<\/span>Communication Teacher<\/span><\/i>,\u00a0<\/span>SAGE Open<\/span><\/i>,\u00a0<\/span>The Journal of International Communication<\/span><\/i>,\u00a0<\/span>Communication Studies<\/span><\/i>, the\u00a0<\/span>Journal of Cognition and Communication<\/span><\/i>\u00a0and other peer-reviewed journals and books. He published\u00a0<\/span>Entering Transmasculinity:\u00a0 The Inevitability of Discourse\u00a0<\/span><\/i>(Intellect Press, UK) in 2016. He has previously served on the CPATH Board<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Ken (Jun) Koike” position=”Secretary” image_url=”https:\/\/cpath.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Ken.jpeg” admin_label=”Ken Koike” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Ken (Jun), MPH, PMP,\u00a0is a public health professional with experience in reproductive and sexual health, HIV research, trans health, and bioethics. He is Public Health Project Manager at the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada and has previously held roles with Planned Parenthood, and the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. He has served in governance and advisory roles with GLMA, Rainbow Health Ontario, and the Mental Health Commission of Canada. He holds a Master of Public Health from Simon Fraser University and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Devon MacFarlane (he\/they)” position=”Board Member” admin_label=”Devon MacFarlane” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Devon has worked in multiple roles in health care and in government advancing access to care for trans and non-binary people, and 2SLGBTQI+ health more broadly.<\/p>\n While managing Health Canada\u2019s Sexual and Reproductive Health Fund, Devon was Health Canada\u2019s representative to the whole-of-government initiative to\u00a0develop Canada\u2019s 2SLGBTQI+ Action Plan. \u00a0<\/span>As a former Director of Rainbow Health Ontario, Devon led the Trans Health Expansion, a partnership between Sherbourne Health (including Rainbow Health Ontario), Women\u2019s College Hospital, and CAMH. \u00a0<\/span>Also while at Rainbow Health Ontario, Devon served as an expert witness in support of Bill C-16, which added gender identity and expression in the Canadian Human Rights Act in 2017, and, in 2019 was the opening witness for the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health\u2019s study on LGBT2SQ health in Canada.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n Devon served on CPATH\u2019s Board from 2012-2017. In this time, he served as President for two years, and he co-chaired the 2015 conference, and chaired the 2019 conference.<\/p>\n Devon lives in Toronto on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and Wendat peoples.\u00a0 This territory is overed by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Julie Temple Newhook (she\/her)” position=”Board Member” image_url=”https:\/\/cpath.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Julie-scaled.jpeg” admin_label=”Julie Temple Newhook” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Julie\u00a0has over a decade of experience doing research, advocacy, and peer support with trans and 2S youth and their families. She lives in St. John\u2019s, Ktaqmkuk (Newfoundland), is cis, queer, and of white settler ancestry.\u00a0 She founded the CPATH Child, Youth, and Family committee back in 2018, and is excited to get back to this important work!<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Dr. Mari-Lynne Sinnott” position=”Board Member” image_url=”https:\/\/cpath.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Mari-Lynne.jpg” admin_label=”Dr. Mari-Lynne Sinnott” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Mari-Lynne\u00a0is a family physician based in St. John\u2019s, Newfoundland, where she has been providing comprehensive primary care since 2015. A graduate of Memorial University, she completed both her medical degree and family medicine residency at the institution. As part of her primary care practice, Dr. Sinnott leads one of the largest transgender healthcare practices in Atlantic Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>Deeply committed to medical education, she is actively involved in teaching medical students and residents. She has played a key role in developing formal transgender health curricula at Memorial University in undergraduate medical education, as well as the Care of Underserved Populations (CUP) Enhanced Skills Family Medicine Program. She also serves as the main preceptor for the urban component of the CUP program.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>Dr. Sinnott is engaged in both local and national research focused on transgender health, contributing to the advancement of equitable and evidence-based care. Outside of medicine, she enjoys traveling, reading, and hiking with her dog, Frankie.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Fran\u00e7oise Susset (she\/her)” position=”Board Member” image_url=”https:\/\/cpath.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/francoisesusset-copy.jpg” admin_label=”Fran\u00e7oise Susset” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Fran\u00e7oise Psy.D. co-founded the Institute for Trans Health, which she has directed since 2011. She is a trauma-informed clinical psychologist and couple and family therapist with more than 30 years of experience working with LGBTQ+ individuals, couples and families. She is a member of the clinical team at the Meraki Health Center, located in Tiohti\u00e0:ke (Montreal). Fran\u00e7oise is particularly interested in the assessment and clinical follow-up of trans and gender diverse adults and adolescents, during and beyond transition. She also works with people who question their transition journey or their trans or nonbinary gender identity. Fran\u00e7oise works closely with families supporting gender creative children in order to help families and schools question concepts associated with sexuality, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression. Fran\u00e7oise is part of the training and mentoring team of the GEI (Global Education Initiative) program of WPATH, of which she has been a member since 2005. She is the former president of the Canadian Professional Association for Transgender Health (CPATH).<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_team_member][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Noah lives and works in Toronto and the traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, Anishnabeg, Chippewa, Haudenosaunne, and Wendat peoples. 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