Clinic Staff
This list includes members on staff within the clinic or closely involved in the multidisciplinary services available through the clinic.
Doug Hobson BSc, MD, FRCPC Neurology
Co-director Movement Disorder Program and Movement Disorder Neurologist
Doug Hobson was raised in St James until moving to La Salle Manitoba in grade 8. He decided to enter Medicine after 3 years obtaining a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics and Zoology. Following his Medicine degree (1981) he completed a Rotating Internship and then entered a residency in Neurology under Section Head, Dr R T Ross. His final year of training (1987) included an elective in Movement Disorders at Columbia University in New York under Dr Stanley Fahn. Upon return to Winnipeg he began private practice Neurology at the Winnipeg Clinic and gradually expanded his Movement Disorder Practice. He is an Assistant Professor with the University of Manitoba, and serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of Parkinson's Society Canada.
Movement Disorder Clinic Role: Movement Disorder Neurologist and Consultant.
Jerry Krcek B.A., MSc, PhD(Med.Sci), MD, FRCSC Neurosurgery
Co-director Movement Disorder Program and Functional Movement Disorder Surgeon
Associate Professor University of Manitoba Royal College Certification -1992 Neurosurgery , Working within a Movement Disorder Specialist Practice since 1993.
Movement Disorder Clinic Role: Currently based at Health Science Centre where he performs surgery for a variety of different movement disorders.
Andrew Borys B.Sc, B.Sc (Med), M.D., CCFP, FRCPC Neurology
Movement Disorder Neurologist
Andrew Borys is from Winnipeg. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in 1995 and subsequently trained as a Family Physician. He received his certification in Family Medicine in 1997. He practiced in a variety of settings, both urban and rural, from 1997 to 2002. He entered training again and completed his residency in Adult Neurology in 2005.
Recipient of the 2006 PSC - BI Movement Disorder Clinical Fellowship Grant
Royal College Certification - 2006
9 previous years in Medical Practice. He has completed a one year training experience in Movement Disorders.
Movement Disorder Clinic Role:
Movement Disorder Neurologist & Consultant.
Shaun Hobson, RN
Clinical Research Coordinator and Clinic Coordinator
Shaun grew up in Dauphin and graduated from Health Science Centre School of Nursing in 1982. She worked full time at the Dauphin General Hospital until 1983 when she moved to Winnipeg and began working at St Boniface General Hospital on an Oncology, GI, and Medical Ward for 10 years. In 1990 she was hired by the Winnipeg Parkinson's Chapter as a Community Resource Nurse, a job she held for 8 years. In 1993 she began working within a Movement Disorder practice at the Winnipeg Clinic in charge of coordinating clinical research trials and was involved in assessing and managing Movement Disorder patients undergoing surgical treatment. After a 2 1/2 year move with this practice to the St Boniface Clinic she moved to the Movement Disorder Clinic at Deer Lodge Hospital on opening day in July 2006.
Movement Disorder Clinic Role: Shaun predominately works with clinical pharmaceutical studies. She is involved with all aspects from regulatory documents, IRB submission, recruitment, study visits and maintaining all study documents and study patients. Due to her years of experience and knowledge base, she is involved in the training of other staff and continues to follow and assess the clinics Huntington's patients. She also serves a variety of administrative roles, especialy in relation to the electronic medical record system within the clinic.
She serves on the Board of Parkinson Society Manitoba as acting Treasurer and Chair of the Patient Services Committee.
Joanne Malenko, RN
Resource Nurse and Outreach Coordinator
Joanne graduated from St. Boniface School of Nursing in 1977. She worked full time at St Boniface hospital for 29 years. Areas of work included General Medical wards as well as General, Plastic and Day Surgery, Emergency, Pre-op assessment, Cardiology, Ambulatory Care Surgery and Medicine. While working in AC-Medicine she became the primary care nurse at the St Boniface Movement Disorder Clinic, a role that continued for 8 years. She had been the Parkinson's Resource Nurse for Manitoba for the 6 years prior to joining the Movement Disorder Clinic in August 2006.
Movement Disorder Clinic Role: Assisting physicians, patient and family education and counseling, replying to phone in questions, community lecturing and health professional education. etc. Parkinson's family support and community resource link.
She serves on the Patient Services Committee of Parkinson's Society Manitoba.
Renée Krcek RN, BN
Movement Disorder Functional Surgical Support Nurse
Renée's post-secondary education began at Loyalist College in Belleville, Ontario where she earned a diploma in Nursing and became an R.N.A. She worked for several years in her hometown on a medical/surgical unit in a local hospital. She eventually moved west to attend the University of Calgary where she earned her Bachelor of Nursing degree. While attending University she joined the Nursing staff of Foothills hospital in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences. There she gained valuable experience working with patients compromised with various
neurological problems including movement disorders. Her scope expanded when
she took a position working as a Clinical Research Coordinator also in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences.
She eventually moved on to work for industry as a Clinical Research Associate monitoring clinical trial across western Canada. After two years she was promoted to a Clinical Research Regional Management position also covering all of western Canada. In 1999 she left this position to follow her husband overseas where she worked her first year in a large teaching hospital and research centre in the Oncology
Department as a manager in the data unit. Her second year was taken up with
an Assurance and Compliance management position in the Office of Research
Affairs.
The couple found themselves in Winnipeg soon after arriving back in Canada where Renée accepted a position as a Movement Disorder Surgical nurse with Dr. Hobson, a renowned Manitoba Movement Disorders Neurologist, who was then located at the Winnipeg Clinic. Two moves later she finds herself at the Deer Lodge Centre, Movement Disorder Clinic where she continues in the same work capacity. Her main duties are pre-operative and
post-operative patient coordination and assessment; she is the main IPG
programmer for post-operative patients receiving Deep Brain Stimulation; she
acts in the capacity as liaison between the Movement Disorders Team members
and other allied health professionals, and; works as an educator for movement disorder patients, their families/caregivers and other health care professionals.
Currently she is a member in good standing of Manitoba's and Alberta's Association of Registered Nurses; The Movement Disorder Society, and; The Canadian Association of Neuroscience Nurses.
Sandra Funk BSW, RSW, Certificate in Gerontology
Sandra graduated from the University of Manitoba, School of Social Work in 1976. She began her career working at the CNIB as the social worker and case manager for older adults with visual impairment, and was later promoted to District Supervisor. She left the CNIB in 1986 to join the Huntington Society of Canada as the Director of the Manitoba Resource Centre, providing social work services to individuals with Huntington disease and their families, and education to other professionals. Sandra continues to work part-time for the Huntington Society and has relocated this office into the Movement Disorder Clinic, in addition to working part-time as the clinic social worker. Sandra also worked for the Parkinson Society Manitoba and Misericordia Health Care for Lungs prior to coming to the clinic.
Movement Disorder Clinic Role: Assists the individual and family in the adjustment to their illness through short-term counselling, information, advocacy to ensure access to programs and services, and help in locating and accessing community resources and services. Provides information and educational sessions for other healthcare professionals when requested.
Robin Walmsley
Certification: Canadian Board Registration of Electroneurophysiologic Technologists (1977)
Neurophysiologist since 1987.
Robin was first employed in Portage la Prairie, Mb as an Electroencephalograph (EEG) technologist at the Developmental Centre, an institute for the mentally disabled. He continued employment there until 1980 where he moved into Winnipeg and performed EEGs at the Misericordia Hosptial and a private neurologists office. In 1994, he started work at the Winnipeg clinic and continued there until 2004 performing electroencephalograms, nerve conduction studies, sleep studies, evoked potentials and assisted in electromyogram studies and electromyogram assisted botox injection procedures. From 2004 to 2006, he performed neurophysiologic testing at the St. Boniface Clinic and has now settled in the role of Neurophysiologic Technologist in the Movement Disorder Clinic.
Movement Disorder Clinic Role: He performs or assists in the neurophysiologic testing as required as part of the general needs arising from our clinic's population. Includes performing Electroencepahlograms (EEGs), Nerve Conduction Studies (NCS), Evoked Potentials (VEPs, SEPs and AEPs), assisting in Electromyogram (EMG) guided botulinum toxin injections, as well as performing IT troubleshooting in the clinic.
Andrea Kilgour, PhD Neuropsychology
Clinical Neuropsychologist University of Manitoba - Department of Psychology since 2003.
Part of the functional neurosurgical team within the movement disorder program.
Barry Campbell, MD. FRCP(c)
Geriatric Psychiatrist
Ina Varga
Administrative Assistant
Renée Worrell
Receptionist
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