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Johnathan Riley

Johnathan Riley was appointed Managing Director of the Canadian Arthritis Network (CAN) in November 2004 and is a non-voting member of the Board of Directors. He joined the Network in 2001 as Manager of the Disease Management Core in Vancouver, where he conducted research on a national registry of patients with osteoarthritis. In April 2002 he was appointed Director of Research, Information and Analysis and relocated to CAN's administrative office in Toronto.

Mr. Riley has had extensive experience in health care management. As Project Manager for the British Columbia Ministry of Health’s Hepatitis C Blood Recipient Notification Project, he led the public and letter notification programs. Transfusion and health records of blood recipients between 1985 and 1990 were collected from 84 British Columbia hospitals.

Mr. Riley’s experience in the British Columbia hospital sector includes work at the Chilliwack General Hospital where he completed an evaluation of the hospital’s program management structure and patient focused care delivery system. At the BC Children's and Women's Hospital, he developed a strategic communication plan for the Paediatrics Patient-Based Care Unit and revised admission criteria for The Children's Centre at Mount Saint Joseph Hospital.

Mr. Riley was actively involved as a volunteer on the executive committee of the Health Care and Epidemiology Program Alumni Association where he was the treasurer and co-leader of the 19th Annual Pacific Health Care Forum Conference. He also volunteered for the Vancouver Lifeguard Society and the Royal Life Saving Society of Canada.

Mr. Riley was awarded a B.Sc. in Biochemistry and a B.Sc. in Medical Laboratory Science as well as a Master's degree in Health Administration from the University of British Columbia.

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