Final Agenda
7:00 AM | Registration: Poster Presenters |
7:30 AM | Breakfast and General Registration |
8:00 AM | Conference Plenary and Welcome Speakers: Deputy Minister Robert Bell, OMA President Virginia Walley |
9:00 AM | Simultaneous Panel Sessions
Chronic and Patient-Centred Care – Room 716 A Emergency and Critical Care – Room 716 B Mental Health and Geriatric Care – Room 717 B Women and Children – Room 717 A |
10:30 AM | Poster Sessions – Simultaneous – Room 718
Cancer Care Cardiovascular and Stroke Care Patient Safety and Quality of Care Technology: e-Solutions and Telemedicine |
11:15 AM | Keynote Speaker: Dr. David Naylor – Why Canadian healthcare needs front-line medical innovators |
12:15 PM | Lunch |
1:00 PM | Round Table Discussion: Innovation, Integration, and Implementation Featuring: Bill Charnetski, Ontario’s Chief Innovation Strategist |
2:00 PM | Simultaneous Panel Sessions
Cancer Care – Room 716 B Cardiovascular and Stroke Care – Room 717 B Patient Safety and Quality of Care – Room 716 A Technology: e-Solutions and Telemedicine – Room 717 A |
3:30 PM | Poster Sessions – Simultaneous – Room 718
Chronic and Patient-Centred Care Emergency and Critical Care Mental Health and Geriatric Care Women and Children |
4:15 PM | Closing Ceremony in Plenary: Awards and Final Speaker
Dr. Richard Reznick and Dr. Richard Weisel |
Showcase 2016 Photos
Panel Sessions & Panelists

Peter Rossos
Chief Medical Information Officer, Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, UHN

Bernard Lawless
Acute Care Surgery, Trauma Surgery, Critical Care Medicine, St. Michael’s Hospital
Provincial Lead, Critical Care Services Ontario

David W. Clarke
Member, Innovation Fund Provincial Oversight Committee
Director, Negotiations Branch, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care

Andrea Gershon
ICES and Sunnybrook Research Institute

Stephen LaHaye
Kingston General Hospital and Queen’s University

Jack Kitts
President & Chief Executive Officer, The Ottawa Hospital

Alan J. Forster
Vice President, Quality, Performance, and Population Health, The Ottawa Hospital

Joshua Tepper
President and Chief Executive Officer, Health Quality Ontario

Davy Cheng
Member, Innovation Fund Provincial Oversight Committee
Elected Chairman of the Board of Trustees (2016-17 term) for the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS)
Distinguished University Professor & Chair/Chief
Department of Anesthesia & Perioperative Medicine
Professor, Critical Care Medicine Division, Department of Medicine, Western University

David Schramm
Acting Head, Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, The Ottawa Hospital

Lisa Calder
Director, Medical Care Analytics, The Canadian Medical Protective Association
Scientist, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Ottawa

Janet Martin
Director, Centre for Medical Evidence, Decision Integrity, Clinical Impact (MEDICI)
Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesia & Perioperative Medicine, and Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
London Health Sciences Centre & St. Joseph’s Health Care London, Western University

Richard Reznick
Professor, Department of Surgery
Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, Queen’s University
Chief Executive Officer, Southeastern Ontario Academic Medical Organization

Stephen Holzapfel
Member, Innovation Fund Provincial Oversight Committee
Director, Sexual Medicine Counselling Unit, Women’s College Hospital
Associate Professor, Departments of Family & Community Medicine and Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Toronto

Andrew Pipe
Chief, Division of Prevention and Rehabilitation, University of Ottawa Heart Institute.
Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa

John You
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Joint Member, Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Adjunct Scientist, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
Attending Staff, General Internal Medicine, Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation

Ron Levy
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Queen’s University
Attending Neurosurgeon, Kingston General Hospital and Hotel Dieu Hospital

Victor Han
Member, Innovation Fund Provincial Oversight Committee
Chair, Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine,
Director, Children’s Health Research Institute of the Lawson Health Research Institute

Lynn Guerriero
Assistant Deputy Minister, Negotiations and Accountability Management Division
Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care

Amanda Black
Division of General Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Ottawa Hospital

Elizabeth Young
Developmental Pediatrician, St. Michael’s Hospital

Orlando da Silva
Professor, Department of Paediatrics, epidemiology and biostatistics, Western University
Member, Division of Neonatal Medicine, Children’s Hospital, London Health Sciences Centre Associate Scientist, Fetal and Newborn Health Program, Children’s Health Research Institute

Robert Swenson
Member, Innovation Fund Provincial Oversight Committee
Chief of Psychiatry, The Ottawa Hospital
Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Psychiatry, University of Ottawa
Academic Representative, Ontario Medical Association, Board of Directors

Sarah Jarmain
Site Chief Mental Health Care, Chair Medical Advisory Committee & Director Medical Quality, St. Joseph’s Health Care London
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Western University

Alison Freeland
Associate Dean Medical Education (Regional), Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, VP Quality, Education and Patient Relations, Trillium Health Partners

Michael Robertson
Director, Capacity Planning and Priorities Branch, Strategic Policy and Planning Division, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care

Simone Vigod
Scientist, Women’s College Research Institute
Psychiatrist and Lead, Reproductive Life Stages Program, Women’s College Hospital
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
Adjunct Scientist, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES)

Cindy Grief
Director for Mental Health, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto

Peter Pisters
President and CEO, University Health Network

Ralph Meyer
Vice President, Oncology and Palliative Care, Hamilton Health Sciences
Regional Vice President, Cancer Care Ontario
Professor, Department of Oncology, McMaster University

William Orovan
Member, Innovation Fund Provincial Oversight Committee
Chair, Academic Health Sciences Centre Alternative Funding Plan Governance Organizations, Hamilton Academic Health Sciences Organization
Professor, Urology and Urological Oncology, McMaster University
Associate Dean, Clinical Services Faculty of Health Sciences

Robin McLeod
VP, Clinical Programs and Quality Initiatives, Cancer Care Ontario

Kathleen Pritchard
Staff oncologist, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Senior Scientist SHSC Research Institute;
Clinical Director, Ontario Clinical Oncology Group, Cancer Care Ontario
Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto

Raymond Viola
Palliative Care physician and Associate Professor, Division of Palliative Medicine, Department of Medicine at Queen’s University, with cross-appointments in the Departments of Family Medicine, Oncology, and Community Health and Epidemiology

Robert J. Howard
President and CEO, St. Michael’s Hospital

Kevin Smith
CEO St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton
Member, Board of Directors, Cardiac Care Network of Ontario

Kori Kingsbury
CEO, Cardiac Care Network of Ontario

Roy Masters
Member, Innovation Fund Provincial Oversight Committee
Cardiac Surgeon, University of Ottawa Heart Institute
Professor of Cardiac Surgery, University of Ottawa

Rick Swartz
Scientist, Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute
Scientist, Canadian Partnership for Stroke Recovery
Director, Sunnybrook stroke research unit
Medical director, North & East GTA Regional Stroke Program
Assistant professor, Neurology, Faculty of medicine, University of Toronto
Director, U of T Stroke Program

David Mikulis
Senior Scientist, Krembil Toronto Western Research Institute
Neuroradiologist, Toronto Western Hospital
Professor and Co-Director, Department of Medical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Cancer Clinical Research Unit (CCRU), Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

Derek So
Cardiologist and Clinician Investigator, University of Ottawa Heart Institute
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa
Program Director, Adult Interventional Cardiology Program, University of Ottawa Heart Institute

Claudio Martin
Chair/Chief and Medical Director, Critical Care Western and London Hospitals
Professor, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University
Scientist, Centre for Critical Illness Research, Lawson Health Research Institute
Attending Physician, Critical Care Trauma Centre, London Health Sciences Centre
President of the Canadian Critical Care Society.

Douglas Sinclair
Executive Vice President, Programs
Chief Medical Officer, St. Michael’s Hospital

Homer Tien
Medical Director, Tory Regional Trauma Centre
Associate Scientist, Sunnybrook Research Institute
Chief Medical Officer, Ornge

Niall Ferguson
Head of Critical Care Medicine, University Health Network and Mount Sinai Hospital
Associate Professor of Medicine and Physiology, University of Toronto
Scientist, Toronto Western Research Institute
Critical Care Lead, Toronto-Central Local Health Integration Network

Damon Dagnone
Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Queen’s University
Director, Simulation Olympics
Poster Sessions Photos
Featured Guests
Speakers:

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

Richard Weisel
Chair, Innovation Fund Provincial Oversight Committee

Richard Reznick
Professor, Department of Surgery
Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, Queen’s University
Chief Executive Officer, Southeastern Ontario Academic Medical Organization
Round Table on Innovation, Integration, and Implementation Participants:

Michael Hillmer
IFPOC Member, Executive Director, Information Management, Data, and Analytics, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care

Ilse Treurnicht
Chief Executive Officer, MaRS Discovery District

Barry Rubin
Professor of Surgery at the University of Toronto and Chair, Academic Physicians Alternative Funding Plan

Neil Fraser
President, Medtronic Canada & Regional Vice President – Canada, Medtronic plc

Marko Simunovic
Project Lead from Hamilton (HHSC) for The Quality Improvement in Colorectal Cancer in Local Health Integration Network 4 (LHIN4) Project (QICC-L4)

Leanne Casaubon
Project Lead from Toronto (UHN) for The Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA) And Minor Stroke (TAMS) Unit Ambulatory Care Model Provides More Efficient Care with Clinical Outcomes Similar to Inpatient Care