Colleen McGavin
Patient Engagement Lead, BC SUPPORT Unit
Colleen McGavin is a cancer survivor and was a family caregiver to her parents in the final years of their lives. Because of these experiences, since 2009, she has been a volunteer with Patient Voices Network. PVN is a BC Ministry of Health sponsored organization that fosters partnerships between people with personal experience of the health care system and those who work within health care or health research to make improvements in policy and practice. Colleen is now the Patient Engagement Lead for the BC Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) SUPPORT Unit. She is responsible for the development and implementation of the provincial patient engagement plan; for providing services to clients of the Unit who want to partner doing patient-orientation research; and for the Unit’s Patient Council. In 2016, she received the Partners in Research Science Ambassador award for her work in patient engagement.
Colleen McGavin is a cancer survivor and was a family caregiver to her parents in the final years of their lives. Because of these experiences, since 2009, she has been a volunteer with Patient Voices Network. PVN is a BC Ministry of Health sponsored organization that fosters partnerships between people with personal experience of the health care system and those who work within health care or health research to make improvements in policy and practice. Colleen is now the Patient Engagement Lead for the BC Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) SUPPORT Unit. She is responsible for the development and implementation of the provincial patient engagement plan; for providing services to clients of the Unit who want to partner doing patient-orientation research; and for the Unit’s Patient Council. In 2016, she received the Partners in Research Science Ambassador award for her work in patient engagement.
