Lindsay Timm is our Executive Director. Before joining CCSN on staff, Lindsay was a volunteer helping to organize fundraising events and always coming up with new and innovative ideas and project proposals for fundraising. As a staff member, she started out as our Administrative Coordinator where she gained valuable experience in how to support the office through organization, active participation in projects, and supporting the educational and awareness goals of CCSN. She also took on the responsibility of learning how to complete patient voice submissions for the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) process.
Lindsay then tackled the opportunity of being our Community Engagement Manager. In this role she worked closely with patients, survivors, and caregivers within our network. She also fostered new and existing partnerships with organizations that align with CCSN’s mission and vision. She also organized community events around World Cancer Day and National Cancer Survivors’ Day each year to bring together the patient community with decision makers to foster conversation around cancer care issues. She continued to develop her skills in completing HTA patient voice submissions so that the Canadian Drug Agency (CDA) and Institut national d’excellence en santé et en services sociaux (INESSS) consider the patient perspective in the decision-making process.
Lindsay has been leading the presentation of our All-party Cancer Caucuses across the country. The skills and knowledge learned during these meetings have helped equip her with new perspectives and ideas on how to support and communicate effectively with decision and policy makers.
Throughout the time that Lindsay has been with CCSN she has gained valuable knowledge and experience through each role she has held. She attributes a great amount of her learning to being able to work closely with Jackie Manthorne and observe how to navigate through different environments and situations. Jackie’s guidance and sharing of her knowledge has made all the difference in how prepared Lindsay feels to take on this new role. She is also grateful to the partnering organizations that she closely works with for being a source of knowledge and guidance.
Lindsay is a graduate of the Early Childhood Education program at Algonquin College. She enjoys knitting, reading, music, and listening to podcasts. She enjoys walks throughout her neighbourhood with her dog.