Chris Clement

Director General, Core COVID Team, Correctional Service Canada

Chris Clement is the Director General of the Core COVID Team at Correctional Service Canada (CSC). For over two years she led CSC’s response and mitigation of COVID-19 impacts in 43 federal correctional facilities across Canada. Under Chris’s guidance, the Core COVID team developed policy and strategy to support CSC’s COVID-19 response including infection prevention and control activities, Emergency Operations Committee (EOCs) to support outbreak management, and early warning surveillance system to monitor COVID -19 activity, implementing testing strategies, contact tracing, active screening of staff, visitors and contractors, distributing Personal Protective Equipment, and implementing the COVID-19 vaccine campaign. With over two decades of experience in the medical field, Chris has held many positions such as Clinical Director (Mental Health) at The Ottawa Hospital, Director (Emergency, Hematology/Oncology and Inpatient Medicine) at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, and the Vice President for Quality and Professional Practice, and the Chief Nurse Executive at the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group. Chris has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Victoria and a Masters of Arts in Health Leadership from Royal Roads University.

Dr. Kathy Suh

National Infectious Diseases Medical Advisor, Correctional Service Canada

Dr. Suh is currently the National Infectious Diseases Medical Advisor with Correctional Service Canada. She is an infectious diseases and infection control physician. Between 2006 and 2013 she was the Associate Medical Director, and from 2014 to 2021 the Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control at The Ottawa Hospital (TOH), an 1100 bed academic healthcare facility in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She is a practicing infectious diseases physician at TOH and a Professor of Medicine at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Suh completed her undergraduate medical training and post-graduate training in internal medicine and infectious diseases at the University of Ottawa, and a fellowship in hospital epidemiology at the University of Rochester, Rochester NY. She is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (FRCPC) and is certified in infection control by the Certification Board of Infection Control and Epidemiology (CIC).