NEW COLLEGE BOARD APPOINTMENTS

The board of the College of Speech and Hearing Health Professionals will be made up of 12 members. The board is made up of eight professional members and four public members, including one still to be appointed. After the first year, the board will elect professional members.

Full biographies of members are available at www.lcs.gov.bc.ca/BRDO/currentBoards.asp.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERS:

Audiologists

Claude (Chuck) Fuller –

Claude (Chuck) Fuller is the regional manager and co-director of audiology with Island Hearing Services and is the former owner and an audiologist with Abbotsford Hearing Clinic. Fuller is active in his community and serves as a section leader and group commissioner with Scouts Canada. He is a member of the Canadian Academy of Audiology, the BC Association of Speech Language Pathologists and Audiologists and the Canadian Association of Speech Language Pathologists and Audiologists.

Mark K. Hansen –

Mark K. Hansen is an audiologist and owner of the Sound Hearing Clinic. He has also worked as an audiologist at the Fraserview Hearing and Speech Clinic, Scarborough Grace Hospital and Ken County Children’s Treatment Centre. Hansen is the treasurer and past president of the BC Association of Speech Language Pathologists and Audiologists (BCASLPA). He is a member of a number of professional associations including the BCASLPA, the Canadian Association of Speech language Pathologists and Audiologists, the American Speech and Hearing Association and the Hearing Aid Dealers and Consultants of BC.

Hearing Instrument Practitioners

Sandra Bichard –

Sandra Bichard is the co-owner of the Richmond Hearing Consultants. She is president of the Hearing Instrument Specialists Society of BC and serves on the editorial board of the Hearing Professional, the official journal of the International Hearing Society. Bichard became a licensed hearing aid consultant in 1994 and received national board certification in hearing instrument sciences in 1997.

C. Louise Parton –

Louise Parton has been a licensed hearing aid dealer since 1972 and has owned and operated the Greater Victoria Hearing consultants since 1980. Parton is chair of the Government Relations Committee, a member of the International Hearing Society and a member of the Hearing Instrument Specialists Society. She is also active in her community and is chair of the Cridge Centre for the Family and a member of the Community Economic Development Corporation. Parton has received awards from the City of Victoria and the Victoria Chamber of Commerce for her volunteer work.

Speech Language Pathologists

Christy Faraher-Amidon –

Christy Faraher-Amidon is a speech language pathologist and director of communication therapy with the Development Centre for Child Development in Surrey. Faraher-Amidon was previously a district speech language pathologist with the Delta School District and a staff speech language pathologist with Surrey Memorial Hospital. She is a member of the American Speech Language Hearing Association, the BC Association of Speech Language Pathologists and Audiologists and the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication. Faraher-Amidon holds bachelor and master of arts degrees from Northern Illinois University

Mardi Lowe-Heistad –

Mardi Lowe-Heistad is a speech language pathologist and the director, professional practice and integration with Fraser Health. Over the past 20 years, she has held various roles at Fraser Health, including manager, rehabilitation services; professional practice consultant; and, clinical practice leader, speech language pathology. Lowe-Heistad is a former board member of the South Fraser Health Region and the former co-chair of the college working group with the speech language pathologists and audiologists. She volunteers in the community with the Surrey Canadian Baseball Association, Scouts Canada, West Whalley Secondary School and BC pets n Friends. Lowe-Heistad is a member of the BC Association of Speech language Pathologists and Audiologists, the Canadian Association of Speech Language Pathologists and Audiologists, and the American Speech and Hearing Association.

Gail F. Poole –

Gail Poole is the proprietor of Gail Poole Consulting. Her previous experience includes her work as an adjunct professor and instructor of health law in the Department of Health Information Science at the University of Victoria, northern coordinator with the Provincial Health Ethics Society and a speech language pathologist with the Greater Victoria Hospital Society. Poole is an advocacy counsellor with the BC Association of Speech Language Pathologists and Audiologists (BCASLPA) and a volunteer reader with VoicePrint Canada. She has served on the boards of a number of associations including as member and vice-president of the Victoria AM Tourism Association and president and member of the Manitoba Speech and hearing Association. Poole is a member of BCASLPA and the Canadian Association of Speech Language Pathologists and Audiologists.

Linda A. Rammage –

Linda Rammage is the director of the Provincial Voice Care Resource program, a research associate with the University of British Columbia, Department of Surgery, and an instructor and associate clinical professor with UBC’s School of Audiology and Speech Science. Rammage is past president of the Canadian Association of Speech Language Pathologists and Audiologists (CASLPA) and a director of the Provincial Voice Care Resource Program. She is also former president of the BC Association of Speech Language Pathologists and Audiologists and a former director of the Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology. Rammage is a member of the CASLPA, BCASLPA and the American Speech Language Hearing Association.

PUBLIC MEMBERS: Note three members have been appointed with a fourth pending.

Donald A. Amos –

Don Amos has over 20 years of local community and provincial services. He served as mayor of the Town of Sidney from 1996 until 2008. Amos is a director on the Capital Regional District (CRD) board and is the CRD’s appointee to the BC Municipal Finance Authority. He has also held a number of board and association positions in his community and is a former president of the Sidney Rotary Club, charter president of the Sidney-by-the-Sea Rotary Club and former treasurer of the Peninsula Community Association. Amos is a former Royal Canadian Mounted Police Officer in Manitoba and worked for the Security and Intelligence Branch in Ottawa.

Jane Baynham –

Jane Baynham holds a bachelor of education degree from the University of British Columbia and is an elementary school teacher with the North Vancouver School District. She is a member of the West Vancouver Community Centre board, a chair with the North Shore Youth Safe House Advisory Committee, a member and chair of the North Shore Family Court/Youth Justice Committee, member and chair of the West Vancouver Community Services Advisory Commission and a member of Action 21.

William W. Winnett –

William W. Winnett is president and director of the management consulting firm, Winnett Management Inc. He has also held several executive positions including, chairman of Lignol Energy Corporation, senior consultant and chief financial officer of the BC Treaty Commission and treasurer and comptroller of BC Hydro. Winnett is a former director of the Vancouver Canucks, the BC Lions and Sport BC. He has served on a number of federal and provincial advisory boards and was awarded the Governor General’s medal commemorating the 125^th anniversary of the confederation of Canada.

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