Kathleen Dennis is a patient-partner and former registered nurse with over two decades of humanitarian-aid experience, bringing a global, systems-oriented perspective to improving care for infection-associated chronic conditions. She has served as a Lived Experience Advisor in developing clinical assessment tools for Fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, and POTS, helping bridge patient experience and clinical practice. Her firsthand experience with these conditions adds essential insight to the committee.

Sarah Townsend, PhD, (retired) has lived with ME for 25 years. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Genetics at UBC. She taught Advanced Immunology and her laboratory researched how cells of the immune system talk to each other and turn each other on and off. Her work contributed to new treatments for cancer and autoimmune diseases, and a technique she invented continues to be helpful to scientists, including during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sarah is most herself engaging in wide-ranging, nerdy conversations, and spending time outdoors in the mountains. Her timer has become her best friend, helping her do things in tiny chunks to avoid crashes.

Kelly Lautt, ME|FM Society of BC Board Member, is an accomplished business strategy and management consultant with over three decades of experience, and currently serves as Chair of the Board of a Canadian BioTech company. Her diverse professional background spanning business process improvement, computational modeling, and statistical analysis, combined with her personal advocacy experience as the mother of a teenager living with ME, brings both strategic expertise and deep personal commitment to advancing support for the ME/FM community.

​​Dr. Luis Nacul, (MD, PhD) formerly the Principal Investigator of the Complex Chronic Diseases Research Program at BC Women's Hospital and Clinical Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia. He is internationally recognized as co-founder and former Director of the CureME Research Programme at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where he led the UK ME/CFS Biobank and contributed to the European ME/CFS research network EUROMENE.

Dr. Elizabeth Zubek, (BScMed, MD, CCFP, FCFP) is a practicing Family Physician in British Columbia with expertise in caring for patients with complex chronic conditions. She operates a personalized medical practice in Maple Ridge, providing both in-office and telehealth services with a focus on individualized patient care.

Hilary Robertson, ME|FM Society of BC Board chair, brings extensive leadership experience from executive positions in health administration, private practice consulting, and academic roles teaching Leadership and Humanitarian studies at Royal Roads University. As a collaborator and systems practitioner with lived experience of ME and FM, she is uniquely positioned to champion systemic improvements for those living with and caring for people affected by these conditions.