Christopher J. Lipowski, CRSP
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Christopher Lipowski obtained a diploma in psychology from Loyola College in Montreal and a bachelors degree in psychology / biology from Concordia University also in Montreal. After almost two years as Clinical Research Associate in the Cardiovascular section at Novartis Pharmaceuticals he went on to work for three years at the Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, where he attended part time graduate studies in its Psychopharmacology Division. Under the thesis supervision and guidance of Dr's. Roberta Palmour & Frank Ervin, his concept and laboratory research work led to a novel finding that CNS adenosine A1 and A2 receptors are involved in modulating fighting responses in mice, published in Life Science (1989; 44 (18):1293-301), http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2716472.
Subsequently, Christopher changed career directions and went on to receive training in occupational health and safety through auditing the entire McGill University’s graduate School of Occupational Health program. In 1993 he obtained the Canadian Registered Safety Professional (CRSP) designation http://www.bcrsp.ca/. As the University's first Health and Safety Officer, for over thirteen years he applied his knowledge in psychology towards improving safety management and used his training in occupational hygiene to develop innovative programs such as the office ergonomics prevention and remediation program. He left McGill in 2000 to work on improving his own OHS consulting firm, Pinnacle Enterprises Canada. Christopher developed one of the first mould control programs in healthcare in Canada for Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. Currently, he is working at The Ottawa Hospital as an advisor for a project developing their corporate health and safety management system based on the CAS Z1000-06 standard.
Christopher's primary professional interest is in the healthcare and university sectors. His highly respected Canadian website, Healthcare Safety Info-eLink™
( http://www.mtpinnacle.com/ ) highlights his mission that we need to seriously consider the important link between the quality of healthcare occupational safety and resulting patient care outcomes including medical error rates. He is passionate, dedicated and committed to the OHS profession. Christopher is in the final stage of completion of the Ryerson University Advanced Safety Management Certificate program.
The McGill Reporter (December 5, 1996).