Hi, I'm Mark Roseman

Mark developed an unhealthy interest in computers early, was a self-taught programmer from age 13, and a gifted hardcore geek. He completed his B.Sc. in computer science with a minor in philosophy at the University of Calgary.

He completed his M.Sc. and spent several years as an academic researcher in user experience and leveraging technology to enhance interpersonal collaboration. This dynamic field combines computer science, engineering, psychology, management science, sociology, and anthropology.

He authored or co-authored over 25 peer-reviewed conference and journal papers, book chapters, and other publications and was a prolific leader and contributor to multiple open-source software projects.

He was an out-of-the-box software innovator on multiple commercial systems. He built a company to commercialize his academic work on collaboration tools, which was later sold. He then independently created and marketed several more commercial software applications, created the definitive community resource on a popular graphical user interface toolkit, and published a companion book.

In parallel with this, Mark had a front-row seat as his wife Pauline Lysak completed medical school and a psychiatry residency and became a patient-centred changemaker in mental health. Mark provided support on the business side of her practice. As his most recent software company wound down, he became more involved in the front-office and patient-education side of her growing practice.

Mark developed a passion for mental health advocacy. Together, they published a book to help patients navigate a broken mental health system, and he helped create the technology and marketing infrastructure for innovative programs she created.

Long forceful on social media, in 2022, he began using his comprehensive knowledge of complex systems, organizational behaviour, and group dynamics to inform and influence many grassroots patient and physician organizations advocating for system change.

As an independent — and often irreverent — voice, he helped increase awareness of systemic rot and political grift in healthcare. A frequent conduit for muzzled whistleblowers within the healthcare system, his cogent analysis and critiques have become widely heeded.