Paula Orecklin

• Seven years of active engagement in patient advisory and patient partnership work on local, provincial, national, and international levels.
• Engaged with healthcare research, service delivery, and patient-led groups, at all levels of healthcare professional post-secondary education, within regulatory systems, health technology, and both non-governmental and governmental organizations.
• Extensive experience with committee work, policy review, and assessment of accessibility and accommodations.
• Public speaker who connects with audiences, from small groups to larger audiences, including webinars, conferences, and panels, both in-person and virtually.
• Spoken to elementary, middle, and high school classrooms, college, bachelor, graduate, PhD, and post-doctoral students on topics ranging from pain and neurology in language to accessibility and inclusion.

Co-author 

• PP126 Direct Patient Involvement In HTA In Canada And Brazil: The Patients’ Perspectives, Silva, A., Orecklin, P., Ferrite, S., International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 38, S1, S82-S82, 10.1017/S0266462322002471

Mentioned

• Creating a patient and community advisory committee at the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, Berglas, S., Vautour, N., Bell, D., International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 37, 1, E19, 10.1017/S0266462320002251
• Five lessons from a year of virtual patient partnerships, Diana Duong, CMAJ, 193, 29, E1145-E1146, 10.1503/cmaj.1095953

• Shared Health’s Patient and Family Advisor Network, 2023, The Family Healthcare Experience nursing course about family dynamics of patient and caregivers
• George and Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation, 2021, 2023, Preparing for Hybrid Engagement, Lessons Learned Engaging Virtually in a Pandemic, University of Manitoba pharmacy doctoral students in their first and third years about issues patients face and stigma against people with chronic pain, Meeting People Where They’re At: The Importance of Trauma Informed Engagement workshop at the 2021 SPOR Northwest Virtual Institute, Graduate students in Knowledge Translation course, Patient Engagement in Developing a Provincial Patient and Family Advisor Network, discussing Shared Health’s Patient and Family Advisor Network and its development
• Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, 2020, CADTH and Patients: A Paradigm Shift to Seeking Patient and Community Partnership
• Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, 2017, 2019, Family nursing class on relationships with caregivers and family dynamics, Red River College
• University of Winnipeg, 2017, 2018, Metaphors used in describing pain and the neurological significance of word choice to linguistics class
• Rick Hansen Foundation, 2016, 2021, Presented personal story and ideas of accessibility and inclusion to elementary, middle, and high schools
• University of New England, 2013, Featured speaker to an audience of 1,000 healthcare students at conference “The Science of Pain, The Art of Healing”

• Featured in promotional material for the Patient and Family Advisor Network of Manitoba (2023)
• First co-author of “Direct Patient Involvement in HTA in Canada and Brazil: The Patients Perspectives,” best poster winner at the Health Technology Assessment International Conference (2022)
• Appeared in Canadian Medical Association Journal article “Five lessons from a year of virtual patient partnerships” on Centre for Healthcare Innovation webinar (2021)
• Received HTAi Patient and Citizen Involvement in HTA Interest Group PASS scholarship to virtually attend the HTAi Annual Meetings (2021 and 2022)
• Featured in “True Collaboration,” a title page article of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority’s Wave Magazine. Discussed the success of policy changes resulting from my involvement in a Collaborative Care Workshop (2018)
• Provincial contact for Promoting Awareness of Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy/Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, Canada’s national CRPS organization; provide peer counseling when needed (2015 - Present)
• Carried the Olympic Torch for the Vancouver Olympic Games on behalf of all Canadians with chronic pain (2010)