Biography: Stuart McAulay

Stuart McAulay has been involved with the aviation maintenance industry for the past 30 years after graduating from Centennial College in 1986. Being exposed to small aircraft from a young age provided the spark for a career in maintaining aircraft. After his Apprenticeship, Stuart went on to obtain his AME license and has worked exclusively in general aviation. He has also been involved in nearly every aspect of setting up and managing several Approved Maintenance Organizations.

He has held positions ranging from Technician, Safety Manager, Quality Manager, Trainer, Consultant and Director of Maintenance. Stuart has often contributed to technical publications over the years and has been a longtime member and Resource Person for the AME Association of Ontario. He is a past recipient of the Aviall High Achievement Award for mentoring youth in aviation and he continues to be a sincere advocate for mental health after periodic struggles with mental illness throughout his career.

Biography: Eileen Maloney-White

Eileen Maloney-White, BSc, RN, LNC-CSp, COHN COHN(C) CCWS FACLNC is an Occupational Health Nurse and manager with Health Services at Jazz Aviation in Vancouver Canada.  She also has a consulting company, Special Care Consultants.

Ms. White is an accomplished Occupational Health Nurse and is a former director on the American Board of Occupational Health Nurses; she is a member of the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses, American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Aerospace Medical Association and the Canadian Society of Addiction Medicine. She is the Provincial Representative for B.C on the International Nurses Society on Addictions. She is a mentor in Occupational Health Nursing for the Canadian Nurses Association and serves as chair of the Early Intervention Program Health, with the College of Registered Nurses of British Columbia, which addresses addiction and mental health issues in nurses. 

Ms. White lectures, teaches and is a presenter on maintaining safe and healthy workplaces, addiction in the workplace and corporate wellness. 

She is a certified COHN by the American Board for Occupational Health Nurses and COHN(C) with the Canadian Nurses Association. She is a legal nurse consultant certified specialist and is a Fellow with the American College of Legal Nurse Consultants.

Biography: Dr. Brendan Adams

Dr. Brendan Adams is an occupational physician from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He received a B.Sc. and M.Sc. from University of Toronto, and his M.D. from University of Calgary. He is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine. He has been in practice for more than 30 years. He is certified by the Canadian College of Family Practice as well as the Canadian Board of Occupational Medicine. He is a certified addiction physician, American Board of Addiction Medicine, and belongs to both the American and Canadian Societies of Addiction Medicine. He travels extensively teaching Addiction Medicine across North America.

He consults with both labour and management groups concerning disability, occupational medicine and addictions. Licenced as an instrument rated commercial pilot, his particular areas of interest are aviation and addiction medicine, and he is the assistant medical director, flight operations, WestJet, Medical Consultant, Flight Operations Jazz as well as the medical consultant for a variety of professional airline pilots’ alcohol and drug rehabilitation programs including ALPA Canada. He is also the Medical Consultant for the addictions recovery program of the Calgary Police Service.