Dane is a PhD Candidate at the School of Public Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo. He also works at the Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation at the University of Toronto and the Centre for Studies in Primary Care at Queen's University. Dane’s overarching career goal is to improve the lives of individuals with or at risk of mental illness through rigorous health services and policy research. He has co-authored 14 publications and has presented 11 research items at conferences. Dane has received funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the University of Toronto and has participated in multiple paid summer research programs.• 5 years research experience across public health, not-for-profit, academic and hospital settings • 5 years project management experience building extensive relationships across diverse stakeholders including academics, graduate students, clinician-scientists, medical trainees, public health practitioners, and community organizations• Deep knowledge regarding mental health and addictions policies and programs, community mental health services, and quality improvement in psychiatry• Skilled in quantitative and qualitative research designs and statistics including scoping, systematic and rapid reviews/syntheses, performance measurement, health policy analyses, program evaluation, and epidemiology • Proficient using IBM SPSS Statistics and Microsoft productsEmail: dmauerva@uwaterloo.ca