Lorraine Bayliss is a qualified teacher at both secondary and elementary levels with additional qualifications as a teacher of the gifted and learning disabled. Also served as a board wide resource teacher for the second largest board in North America, and later as a school administrator. Her motivation for getting involved with patient oriented research is having lived with juvenile onset diabetes for 48 years.
She has been invited to serve as the chair of the Citizens’ Panel with the Ontario Drug Policy Research Network. Being in education led Lorraine to being actively involved as (SPOR) Masterclass faculty member co-presenting with the faculty from the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry the Western Centre for Public Health and Family Medicine on the Conduct and use of Patient Oriented Research.
Lorraine has acted as a presenter for the current online Masterclass Webinar, a presenter at TUTOR – Transdisciplinary Understanding and Training on Research – Primary Health Care (TUTOR-PHC) Western University. She also serves on the OSSU Patient Partnership Working Group PPWG and as a member of Patient Advisors Network (PAN).
Lorraine has co-presented at Primary Health Care Research Day on the success of a Partners in Research course for patients and researchers; and for an award winning poster at the North American Primary Health Care Conference. She has helped organized a support group at Women’s College Hospital and later Toronto General for Type 1 diabetics. Lorraine also serves as an advisory member for the Type 1 Diabetic Think Tank (T1DTT). In her younger days she actually worked with Dr. Charles Best, co-discoverer of insulin.