Appointee Biographies

BARBARA PROCTOR

Barbara Proctor is a retired Registered Nurse with a 40-year career in Acute Care Nursing in hospitals in the GTA and 7 years of homecare nursing in Prince Edward County. She has served as a Municipal Councillor for Prince Edward County, former member of Hastings Prince Edward Emergency Services Board, has served as Chair of PEC Municipal Healthcare Advisory Committee, volunteered on local boards and organizations. Barbara is Past President of the Rotary Club of Picton, a Paul Harris Fellow and current President and Chair of the Prince Edward County Community Care for Seniors Association.

STEPHEN BIRD

Stephen Bird is a retired lawyer. He graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School of York University and holds an M.A. from the University of Waterloo. For most of his career, Mr. Bird worked as a lawyer for a community legal clinic in eastern Ontario. He has served on the Board of Directors and the Governance Committee for the Perth and Smiths Falls District Hospital as well as for many years on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of Lanark Renfrew Health and Community Services (now ConnectWell Community Health). He has been a reviewer for the Canadian Centre for Accreditation and Imagine Canada. He is currently on the Board of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario.