Event Details
Thursday November 17, 2016
8:00 am to 4:30 pm
Metro Toronto Convention Centre
South Building – 700 Level
Conference Highlights
The Innovation Fund Showcase will bring together Academic Physicians, Health Care Leaders, Government Leaders and Institutional Administrators for one day to discuss new approaches to health care delivery in Ontario. In addition, the Showcase will highlight 80 of the best Innovation Fund research projects that have the demonstrated potential to transform health care delivery in the Province.
The event will feature keynote speaker David Naylor to speak about the theme – Innovation, Integration and Implementation. Deputy Minister of Health and Long-Term Care Robert Bell, Ontario Medical Association President Virginia Walley and AFP Chair Barry Rubin will provide opening remarks.
A Round Table Session will discuss how individual project leaders and health system funding partners can assist projects to successfully move from innovative ideas to working and implemented solutions province-wide.
The conference will include 8 panel sessions made up of experts discussing key themes and related challenges.
Awards will be given out to best, most innovative, and most promising project showcased in each of these 8 categories.
Come and take part in this one-day event to network and explore how Ontario’s Academic Physicians are innovating to deliver better heath care to Ontarians.
Featured Guests

David Naylor
Professor of Medicine and
President Emeritus at the University of Toronto

Robert Bell
Deputy Minister
Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care

Virginia Walley
President
Ontario Medical Association

Barry Rubin
Professor of Surgery at the University of Toronto and
Chair, Academic Physicians Alternative Funding Plan
2016 Award Winners
CANCER CARE AWARD

Peter Lovrics
Hamilton Academic Health Sciences Organization
CARDIOVASCULAR AND STROKE CARE AWARD

David Birnie
University of Ottawa Heart Institute
CHRONIC CARE AND PATIENT-CENTRED CARE AWARD

Homer Yang
The Ottawa Hospital
EMERGENCY AND CRITICAL CARE AWARD

André Carlos Amaral
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
MENTAL HEALTH AND GERIATRIC CARE AWARD

Simone Vigod
Women’s College Hospital
PATIENT SAFETY AND QUALITY OF CARE AWARD

Sukhbir Singh
The Ottawa Hospital
TECHNOLOGY: E-SOLUTIONS AND TELEMEDICINE AWARD

Alexander Logan
Mount Sinai Hospital and University Health Network
WOMEN AND CHILDREN AWARD

Orlando da Silva
Academic Medicine Organization of Southwestern Ontario
2016 Awardee Photos
2015 Award Winners
SYSTEM COORDINATION, GUIDELINES, and EDUCATION AWARD

Robert Gratton
AMOSO (a city wide association of London Health Science Centre, St Joseph’s Healthcare, London, Western University and the Clinical Teachers Association at Western)
CANCER CARE AND MENTAL HEALTH AWARD

Nick Power
AMOSO (a city wide association of London Health Science Centre, St Joseph’s Healthcare, London, Western University and the Clinical Teachers Association at Western)
EVIDENCE – AND PATIENT-CENTRED CARE AWARD

Nick Daneman
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
CARDIOVASCULAR, EMERGENCY, AND CRITICAL CARE AWARD

Lisa Mielniczuk
University of Ottawa Heart Institute
TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS AWARD

Lakshmikumar Venkat Raghavan
University Health Network