Nova Scotia Campus (DMNS)

Dalhousie University
5849 University Ave,

CRC Building, Room C-115

PO Box 15000
Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
Phone: 902-494-3232
Fax: 902-494-1313

 

 

 

New Brunswick Campus (DMNB)

Dalhousie University

100 Tucker Park Road
Saint John, NB
E2L 4L5
Phone: 506-636-6007
Fax: 506-636-6001

 

Student Affairs - New Brunswick

Find the contact information for the New Brunswick Student Affairs team below.

 

Dr. Lisa Sutherland - Assistant Dean

Dr. Renea Leskie - Director

Renea Leskie

Rebecca Comeau - Advisor

RebeccaComeauDMNB

Email: Advisor, DMNB

Lisa Russell - Learner Engagement Coordinator

Student Affairs - Nova Scotia

Find the following contact information for the Nova Scotian Student Affairs team below.

 

Dr. Suzanne Zinck - Assistant Dean

Dr. Suzanne Zinck

To book a meeting with Dr. Zinck please click here.
Email: Assistant Dean, DMNS

Tyler Hall - Director

Director, DMNS

To book a meeting with Tyler please click here.
Email: Director, DMNS

Rigel Biscione Cruz - Advisor

Advisor, DMNS

To book a meeting with Rigel please click here.
Email: Advisor, DMNS

Gail Hodder - Learner Engagement Coordinator

Tanya Matheson - Evaluation Specialist

Tanya Matheson

Email: Evaluation Specialist, DMNS

Alvaro (Al) Tomas - Learner Communications Manager

PLANS - Black Health

PLANS (Promoting Leadership in health for African Nova Scotians) seeks to increase representation of African Nova Scotians in the health professions through recruitment and retention, community collaborations and partnerships to improve health outcomes within the African Nova Scotian community.

 

Dr. Leah Jones - Academic Director, Black Health

Al Tomas

Dr. Leah Jones, a family physician, is originally from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, with roots to the historic African Nova Scotian community of Whitney Pier.  In 2022, Dr. Jones was appointed as the first Academic Director, Black Health, at Dalhousie Medical School. She also chairs the Black Learners Admissions Subcommittee, which helps to facilitate entrance into Dalhousie Medicine for Black students and co-chairs PLANS, a Dalhousie initiative that provides programs to increase representation of African Nova Scotians in health careers.

Academics aside, Dr. Jones practices addictions medicine at Direction 180 in Halifax and as part of the Inpatient Addiction Medicine Service (IAMCS) at the Halifax Infirmary. She also provides primary care through the Nova Scotia Sisterhood, a program by Nova Scotia Health that serves women in historic Black communities in Nova Scotia.

Email: Academic Director, Black Health 

Timi Idris - Manager, PLANS

Al Tomas

Email: PLANS@dal.ca

Distributed Site Representatives

KW - Indigenous Health

Keknu’tmasiek Ta’n Tel Welo’ltimk (KW) (pronounced: gag-new-d-muss-seeg dawn dell well-oh-l-dim-k) is a Mi’kmaw phrase that translates to “We are Learning to be Well”.  KW seeks to support healthy Indigenous communities across Wabanaki and beyond through medical education that is based on Etuaptmumk - Two-Eyed Seeing. KW is a central gathering point among a network of support, knowledge, and training related to Indigenous health in Wabanaki.

 

Dr. Brent Young MD, MSc, CCFP - Academic Director of Indigenous Health, Assistant Professor

Al Tomas

Dr. Brent Young (he, him) is Anishinaabe and a member of Sandy Bay First Nation. His mother is a Sixties Scoop Survivor, and his grandmother was a survivor of Sandy Bay Indian Residential School. He was born and raised in Unama’ki. He is a family physician at Sipekne’katik Health Centre, academic director for Indigenous health at Dalhousie Medical School, and founding clinical lead of Wije’winen Health Centre. He played a key role in supporting the Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre in establishing this multidisciplinary primary care service for the urban Indigenous community of Halifax in 2022. Through his leadership, Dalhousie Medical School has seen a substantial increase in the number of Indigenous medical students being admitted through a new Indigenous Admissions Pathway. This pathway is poised to become a key driver of the Indigenous physician workforce in the region and across Canada. He has also contributed to several national efforts to advance Indigenous health, notably as co-chair of the Anti-Racism Work Group with the National Consortium of Indigenous Medical Education and as a member of the Indigenous Health Committee with the Canadian College of Family Physicians. His primary area of interest is dismantling anti-Indigenous racism in healthcare systems using strengths-based frameworks.

Email: GHO@dal.ca
For meeting requests, please contact Jessica Kerr

Faith Julien - Program Manager

Al Tomas

Email: kw@dal.ca