Author, Facilitator, Consultant
“In order to carry a positive action, we must develop here a positive vision.” Dalai Lama
BC Pomeroy is a Queer Researcher, an Award-Winning Patient Public Engagement Specialist, an Author and Speaker, and an uninvited settler-person on the shared, traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Snuneymuxw (snuh-nay-moe) territory also known as Gabriola Island, British Columbia.
BC has a particular interest in Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Accessibility (JEDIA+) and has co-developed a Trauma & Resiliency Informed Practice program for Patient Public Engagement; a strength-based approach to patient public experience. Their unique combination of education, professional experience and lived experience has exposed them to progressively senior leadership opportunities in a variety of health care and research environments; from community laboratory services to patient safety, and quality improvement. BC landed in patient- oriented research after her daughter, Sophia, passed away in 2017 from a rare, complex, chronic disease at the age of 16. They sit on the board of BC Patient Safety Quality Council Oversight & Advisory, Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research Evidence Alliance, and Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research.
BC has a particular interest in Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Accessibility (JEDIA+) and has co-developed a Trauma & Resiliency Informed Practice program for Patient Public Engagement; a strength-based approach to patient public experience. Their unique combination of education, professional experience and lived experience has exposed them to progressively senior leadership opportunities in a variety of health care and research environments; from community laboratory services to patient safety, and quality improvement. BC landed in patient- oriented research after her daughter, Sophia, passed away in 2017 from a rare, complex, chronic disease at the age of 16. They sit on the board of BC Patient Safety Quality Council Oversight & Advisory, Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research Evidence Alliance, and Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research.
Engagement happens in all areas of our system and we know effective engagement is when there is alignment of interest between the systems and the people they touch.
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We hold this truth as self-evident: our lives, work, and well-being are interdependent. Everything and everyone is — or can be — connected. This new reality challenges the traditional logic when it comes to patient engagement, community, healthcare, systems and leadership development.
