About CAPRI

Our Leadership

Meet our leadership and administrative personnel.

Leadership and Administration

Nadia Luca
Canadian Rheumatology Association Pediatric Committee
Nadia Luca
Research Areas:

Clinical Epidemiology, Pediatric Rheumatology transition to adult care and Localized Scleroderma

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Elizabeth Stringer
Chair
Elizabeth Stringer
Research Areas:

Diagnosis, treatment, and immune mechanisms in pediatric Lyme arthritis; Transition to adult care; Shared-decision making

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Heinrike Schmeling
Past Chair
Heinrike Schmeling
Research Areas:

Clinical outcomes and personalized medicine of JIA/JDM; Clinical trials

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Lily Lim
Vice Chair
Lily Lim
Research Areas:

Adult outcomes of childhood rheumatic diseases with a focus on SLE; Machine learning; Longitudinal methodologies; Innovative cohort design

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Kim Morishita
Secretary Treasurer
Kim Morishita
Research Areas:

Pediatric ANCA-associated vasculitis; JIA outcomes

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Marinka Twilt
Chair, Scientific Protocol Evaluation Committee
Marinka Twilt
Research Areas:

Personalized medicine strategies; Temporomandibular joint arthritis; Autoinflammatory disorders

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Tania Cellucci
Chair, Research KTE Committee
Tania Cellucci
Research Areas:

Knowledge translation; Clinical research in JIA; Autoinflammatory disorders; Inflammatory brain disease

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Jaime Guzman
Chair, CAPRI Registry Committee
Jaime Guzman
Research Areas:

CAPRI JIA Registry; Clinical course and prognosis of JIA; Using research answers to improve care and quality of life

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Janet Wu
Administrative Support
Janet Wu
Research Areas:

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Committees

This CAPRI Executive Committee oversees all activities of our organization. Executive functions includes membership engagement, finance management, liaison with other research groups, organizing CAPRI meetings, informing the membership of all CAPRI activities not under the domain of subcommittees, and other administrative functions as they arise.

Elizabeth Stringer
Chair

The mandate of this committee is to review all submitted research protocols for approval as a CAPRI project. This includes relevance to pediatric rheumatology, alignment with the objectives and guidelines of CAPRI, possible impact on existing protocols, feasibility with respect to both budget and resources, possible duplication of existing protocols, and plans for authorship for the involved CAPRI members. CAPRI projects must involve at least one centre in Canada and must have at least one CAPRI member as an investigator.

Marinka Twilt
Chair, Scientific Protocol Evaluation Committee

The CAPRI Registry Committee oversees all activities of the CAPRI Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) registry. The goal of the CAPRI JIA registry is to prospectively collect information on disease course, outcomes and medication adverse events among Canadian children with JIA.

The registry will:
1. Provide answers about the expected disease outcomes and the risks of medication adverse events for patients and care providers.
2. Contribute to new insights about JIA and its treatment through yearly updates of registry findings and publication of scientific papers.
3. Allow Canadian researchers to answer their own research questions about JIA.
4. Allow comparison of JIA outcomes and treatments across Canada and with other jurisdictions, in support of quality improvement initiatives

Jaime Guzman
Chair, CAPRI Registry Committee

The mandate of the Knowledge Translation (KTE) committee is aimed at developing a cohesive and efficient method of developing and disseminating new research knowledge and key messages from CAPRI projects and to facilitate the application of research results to clinical practice for the purposes of improving care and health status for pediatric rheumatology patients in Canada.

Tania Cellucci
Chair, Research KTE Committee

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