Thought Leaders
The industry Thought Leaders below share their vision and experience about important topics such as:
- Hospital without walls – Bring care to the patient outside of the hospital to prevent admissions and ensure people are getting the right care, in the right place, at the right time.
- Health System thinking – Move from a hospital-centric mindset and approach to a regional health care system-centric model.
- Reimagining patient care after COVID-19 – Apply what we have learned to make patient care better going forward.
- Reimagining work after COVID-19 – Apply what we have learned to make working at the hospital better going forward.
- Racism, diversity and inclusion – Address racism to enhance health equity, diversity and inclusion (for patients and staff).
- Academic Health Sciences Centres – Build the Academic Health Sciences Centre of the future.
- Research & Innovation – Advance the possibilities for research and innovation at TBRHSC and TBRHRI.
Watch some (or all!) of the videos below to inspire your creative thinking about ways to improve our Hospital and the care we provide to patients and their families in Northwestern Ontario.
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Jos de Blok
Jos de Blok is the founder and CEO of Buurtzorg (neighborhood nursing), a Dutch organization with more than 10,000 employees, offering community based (home) care services to more than 70,000 patients a year. Founded in 2006 with one team of four nurses, Buurtzorg has transformed home-based health care and it has created an innovative method for […]
Colleen Varcoe, PhD, RN
Dr. Colleen Varcoe is a leader in research on violence and inequity, with emphasis on women’s and Indigenous people’s health. Her research is currently focused on interventions to mitigate the health effects of violence for women who have experienced partner violence, and interventions to help health care settings, such as Emergency Departments, promote equity. She […]
Douglas Semple
Douglas is a member of the Kasabonika Lake First Nation in Northern Ontario but currently lives in Thunder Bay Ontario. As with many of his peers he experienced the Federal Government’s residential school’s policy but has refused to be a victim of it and instead has chosen to be victor. The energy of this choice […]
Cindy Fedell
Cindy is the Regional Chief Information Officer for the Northwestern Ontario hospitals, recently returning to her hometown of Thunder Bay. She is currently driving the advancement of digital health here. Previously, as the Executive Chief Digital and Information Officer at her last hospital, she was responsible for bringing the hospital from one of the lowest […]
Steve Moore
Steve Moore has worked for the NHS for most of the last 30 years and have had the great privilege of holding the position of Chief Executive in Hywel Dda since January 2015. Much of his senior career has involved working in rural areas including leading the Primary Care Trust in Cornwall and Isles of […]
Dr. Chris Simpson
On Feb. 1, 2021, Dr. Chris Simpson was appointed as Ontario Health’s Executive Vice-President, Medical. In this role, he provides medical leadership and clinical expertise to Ontario Health’s Clinical Institutes and Quality Programs Portfolio, and more broadly across Ontario Health. He defines, develops and evaluates programs and models of care consistent with Ontario Health’s mandate […]
Shirlee Sharkey
Shirlee is the President and CEO of Saint Elizabeth Health (SE Health), a national social enterprise that shares its knowledge, provides the best care, and helps each client to realize their most meaningful goals for health and wellbeing. Under Shirlee’s leadership, the not-for-profit charitable organization has enjoyed exponential growth and expansion, and facilitated transformative solutions in […]
Anthony Dale
Anthony is President and CEO of the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA). Appointed to this role in 2013, he is dedicated to an agenda of policy innovation, relationship building and high standards of member engagement and service. He has been at the OHA since 2004, most recently as Vice President, Policy and Public Affairs. Previously he served […]
Dr. Michael Schull
Dr. Michael Schull is CEO and Senior Scientist at ICES, Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto, and a Senior Scientist at the Sunnybrook Research Institute. Located on the campus of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre with satellite sites at Queen’s University, the University of Ottawa, Western University, McMaster University, and Health […]