Executive & Committees
Canadian Paediatric Orthopaedic Group (CPOG)
CPOG Executive
President: Deb Bartley (London)
Vice-President: Anthony Cooper (Vancouver)
Secretary: Megan Cashin (St John’s)
Treasurer: Kevin Smit (Ottawa)
Past-President: Ron El-Hawary (Halifax)
Member-at-Large: Katie Rooks (Saskatoon)
Member-at-Large: Maxime Coté (Quebec City)
For all general inquiries or to reach the CPOG Executive, please contact cpog@canorth.org.
CPOG Committees
Communications Committee
Communications Committee
Patricia Larouche (Levis, QC) – Chair
Maxime Coté (Quebec, QC) – Executive member
Lori Anne Archer (Winnipeg, MB)
Courtney Bull (Vancouver, BC)
Elaine Rioux Trottier (Montreal, QC)
Louis Bezuidenhout (Edmonton, AB)
Education Committee
Finance / Governance Committee
Research Committee
CPOG Past Presidents
Kishore Mulpuri
2012-2015 CPOG President
MBBS, MS (Ortho), MHSc (Epi)
Associate Professor
Pediatric Orthopedics
University of British Columbia
Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon
BC Children’s Hospital
Vancouver, BC
Sukhdeep K. Dulai
2015-2019 CPOG President
MD, MHSc, FRCSC
Associate Professor
Department of Surgery
University of Alberta
Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon
Stollery Children’s Hospital
Edmonton, AB
Ron El-Hawary
2019-2021 CPOG President
MD, MSc, FRCS(C)
Professor
Department of Surgery
Dalhousie University
Chief of Orthopaedics
IWK Health Centre
Halifax, NS
Debra Bartley
2021-2023 CPOG President
MD, FRCS(C)
Associate Professor of Surgery
Western University
Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon
Children’s Hospital of Western Ontario
London, ON
