Our Board of Directors
Diana Daghofer (Co-Chair)
Diana Daghofer is a writer and strategic planner focused on health promotion. She has been an active volunteer all of her life, most recently as a board member of the Saunders-Matthey Cancer Prevention Coalition. She is founding member of the Breast Reconstruction Support Team and a member of Breast Cancer Action Ottawa. After raising a family in Ottawa, Diana is relocating to the fresh air and mountains of British Columbia.
Jake Cole (Co-Chair)
As a federal public servant he led Canada’s R-2000 Home Energy program (focussed on energy efficiency and health) and represented Canada’s R&D international efforts in renewable energies. He introduced an unprecedented health promotion program into a major federal agency and is a long standing member of the Canadian Organic Growers. He co-founded the Federal Workplace Wellness Network, an association of some 80 individuals representing 25 federal agencies. He led the environmental program at the Canadian Coast Guard introducing new approaches both within CCG and in cooperation with other federal agencies.He volunteers with the Canadian Mental Health Association. He has written submissions to the Romanow and Kirby health commissions, Federal Ministers of Health, and the Ontario Minister of health promotion. He understands the connections between healthy living, environment, and health outcomes and the personal and economic benefits of improving the health of Canadians. He has been a longstanding advocate of health promotion rather than the sickness treatment priority of our current medical system. He was the Canada’s Green Party Shadow Cabinet member for Health Promotion and was the party’s candidate in the federal riding of Carleton-Mississippi Mills, west of Ottawa.
Joanna Reardon (Youth Chair)
A recent HBA graduate from the Richard Ivey School of Business, Joanna Reardon is a business analyst focused on loyalty strategy with LoyaltyOne in Toronto. She is co-founder of LoyaltyOne’s Women’s Leadership Initiative and manages the Women in Leadership Speaker Series, recruiting leading female executive speakers from high-profile organizations. She is a health, outdoor and travel enthusiast and is eager to bring her passion and business mindset to cancer prevention.
Pauline Cheslock (Secretary)
Pauline Cheslock is currently the Chair of the Windsor Cancer Prevention Coalition (WCPC). She sits on the City’s Windsor Essex County Environment Committee (WECEC). Pauline worked with the City of Windsor to pass their Pesticide by-law, which was eventually passed in 2005. Pauline won the Cancer Prevention award in 2006. Pauline is married to Jim and they have two children – Courtney and Brendan and together they all live a very active life. She lost her beloved mother Tina to pancreatic cancer in 2000, with Tina also suffering skin and breast cancer. She is dedicated to providing a healthier environment for her family to benefit from. She lives a chemical free – organic lifestyle and tries to promote this way of life to all around her. She is currently launching an anti-idling campaign in school zones to help protect children from harmful gases.
Savayda Jarone
Savayda Jarone has a practice as a medical herbalist in Halifax, NS, where she teaches people how to use herbal medicines to create better health. She does so in the clinic, garden, and in the wilds of Nova Scotia where she leads herb walks to identify medicines produced by nature’s pharmacy. As a fertility awareness educator, she helps women to either prevent or plan pregnancy naturally. She teaches a year long course on holistic living in attunement with the seasons, and leads an eight week cancer wellness and prevention series. Through these programs, workshops, her clinical practice, and regular columns in two local magazines, she teaches preventative medicine and the age old skill of self-care through natural means.
Sandra Madray
Sandra Madray is a co-founder of the non-profit, volunteer organization, Chemical Sensitivities Manitoba which focuses on the awareness and acceptance of chemical sensitivities, chemical usage and safe chemical substitution. She is actively involved in pesticides and other environmental issues. She represents Chemical Sensitivities Manitoba as a founding member of the Children’s Health and Environment Partnership and is a member of the Steering Committee of the Manitoba Eco-Network.
Dave Renaud
Dave Renaud is a Union Environment Representative for Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) at the GM Oshawa Autoplex, and President of the CAW Durham Regional Environment Council (CAW DREC) representing 10 regional locals with 33,500 members. Dave is leading CAW DREC through education, political action, and community involvement by opposing Durham Region plans to build an incinerator. In 2006, he was the recipient of that year’s Bud Jimmerfield Award, named after the President of CAW Local 89, who passed away from cancer of the esophagus caused by exposure to metalworking fluids, who challenged CAW members to go back to their workplaces and their locals, and work to prevent occupational and environmental cancers.
Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg
Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg PhD, MES, holds a Masters in Environmental Studies (York University) and a PhD (University of Toronto). An education and film consultant, she researches, writes and speaks on environmental health, equality, social, economic and environmental justice, peace and energy issues. She has worked with the National Film Board, school boards, non-governmental organizations, health professional and policy groups on these issues. She was principle research consultant and associate producer of the documentary video, Exposure: Environmental Links to Breast Cancer and researcher/writer of the accompanying guidebook Taking Action for a Healthy Future. She has led numerous training trainers workshops using these materials as educational tools. She recently researched and produced Toxic Trespass, a documentary on children’s health and the environment as a co production with the National Film Board of Canada.and has co-written the accompanying educational resource guide, Taking Action on Children’s Health and the Environment. She is also Volunteer Education Coordinator of the Women’s Healthy Environments Network (WHEN) and teaches Environmental Health at the University of Toronto. As a grandmother, she stresses the importance of our work for future generations on a healthy peaceful planet.
Susan G. Tataryn
Susan is the principal of a boutique Business and Tax Law Firm in Ottawa, Ontario. She has been an advisor over the last 11 years to various businesses from small independents to large enterprises, including those in the health care, technology and life science sectors while also working with artists, designers and others in the fashion, entertainment and hospitality industries. Susan is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan where she obtained Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws degrees. She obtained the Chartered Accountant (CA) designation in 1990. She was called to the Saskatchewan bar in 1993 and the Ontario bar in 2000. Susan also currently sits on the Board of Directors of the Hills of Erin Cancer Prevention Foundation, and previously on the Board of Big Brothers and Big Sisters, Ottawa.
Our Honorary Directors
Sharon Batt
Dr. Warren Bell, MD
Mae Burrows
Dr. Graham Chance
Michael Gilbertson, PhD
Ruth Grier
Dr. Trevor Hancock
Henry Lickers
Elizabeth May
Ann Phillips, PhD
Larry Stoffman
Dr. David Swann, MPP
Our Staff
Judy Field
Judy Field is the publisher of Healthwise Ottawa, a local health and wellness magazine that focuses on active living. She has an extensive background in printing and publishing. She worked for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario for 13 years, organizing events and fundraising campaigns in the Ottawa area. Judy is an active long-distance walker, spinner and cyclist.
Bradford Duplisea
Bradford Duplisea has worked as a sustainable community project coordinator, public interest researcher, and advocate on a wide range of environmental and public health issues. From beautiful Prince Edward Island, Bradford currently lives in Ottawa where he leads the e-Communications initiatives of Prevent Cancer Now. When not working Bradford enjoys photography and riding his bike.
