Longwoods eLetter September 13, 2005

"Saskatchewan too is building a surplus courtesy of oil, diamonds and uranium" comments at a conference yesterday featuring Academic Healthcare organizations. Looking good!

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SPECIAL ISSUE: Healthcare Quarterly
Edited by Dr. Ross Baker. One issue dedicated to new patient safety strategies. Coming in October. In collaboration with the Canadian Patient Safety Institute and the Ontario Hospital Association. What is the Blueprint for Patient Safety at Sick Kids? How does a region develop a comprehensive patient safety strategy? What omissions and inconsistencies will you find during medication reconciliation? What difference does an inquest make? What are the legal issues? Who is accountable? How do you measure patient safety culture? Disclosure? What CPOE can teach you . . . and 12 more important analyses and cases. Take a sneak peak now by clicking here: Patient Safety – a Special issue. To ensure you get this extra issue of Healthcare Quarterly list here.
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Avian Flu Pandemic will do more than kill people. . . A detailed analysis from the Bank of Montreal’s BMO Nesbitt Burns Research. Made available here with their kind permission and without charge. Go to Longwoods Online.

Dr. Cooper will be a guest at Breakfast with the Chiefs on January 31, 2006. Reserve a seat with Lina Lopez.
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CONFERENCES AND EVENTS. MORE HERE.
September 14. First National CNIA conference. Nurses & Informatics: Transforming Healthcare. http://www.cnia.ca/CFP.html

September 16. Legal Debate over private health insurance in Canada. Toronto. PARTICIPANTS INCLUDE: The Hon. Roy Romanow, Michael Decter, Alan Maynard, André den Exter, Stefan Greß, Charles Wright, Carolyn Tuohy, Peter Russell, Chris Manfredi, Allan Hutchinson, Antonia Maioni, Andrew Petter, Greg Marchildon, Terry Sullivan, Tony Clement, Stanley Hartt, Claude Forget, Dr. Morris Barer, Dr. Alan Bernstein, Caroline Pitfield and leading scholars from the U of T Faculty of Law.

Please register at www.law.utoronto.ca/healthlaw

September 18. The CAHSPR Conference (register with pcharbonneau@cahspr.ca) in Montreal just prior to the International Conference on the Scientific Basis of Health Services (ICSBHS) and following the University of Montreal’s Jean-Yves-Rivard Conference.
October 31, 2005. HealthAchieve. Canada’s international healthcare show. See: http://www.healthachieve.com. Canada’s largest and most acclaimed show for policy makers, providers, suppliers and the professions.
November 04, 2005. HealthcareRounds. Julie Morath, M.S., R.N., COO at Children's Hospitals and Clinics in Minneapolis/ St. Paul, has scheduled her presentation ‘Managing Safety – A Dialogue’ from 2 to 4 pm. at the Rotman School of Management. Sponsored by Rotman Centre for Health Sector Strategy. Contact: llopez@longwoods.com. [Under Julie Morath’s leadership, Children’s Hospitals and Clinics became the first recipient of the patient safety award by the National Patient Safety Foundation for its work on establishing a culture of patient safety.]
November 6 - 11. Health Leaders Institute | from the team that designed the Dorothy Wylie Institute. Check it out.Click here http://healthleaders.ca/index.html
November 11-12, 2005. Healthcare Summit: Legal, Economic and Medical Issues. Vancouver . National conference designed to help Canadian governments (federal and provincial), administrators, clinicians and academics develop a practical blueprint for beneficial reform and recommend changes that conform to the guidelines of the recent Supreme Court of Canada decision. See: http://www.cimca.ca. “Yet another pivotal moment in Canadian history is shaping up to take place at the venerable Hotel Vancouver this fall.” Matt Borsellino, The Medical Post..

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TRANSITIONS
Steve Orsini to Assistant Deputy Minister of Finance, Ontario

Catherine Claiter to Chief Information Officer, Vancouver Island Health Authority
Fraser Edward to Marketing (Life Sciences) Research In Motion (RIM) wireless solutions
Bill Boomer to Vice-President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer, Vancouver Island Health Authority
Julie Gilbert is back. Knowledge Transfer Manager at the Change Foundation.
Mary McGillivray to Academic Vice-President StFX University, Nova Scotia (Hi Mary.)
David Ulis to lead Courtyard UK operations
Anne Trafford to Chief Information Officer, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto.
Kevin Lobo to President Johnson & Johnson Medical Products (Canada)
John Brash to Director of the new School of Biomedical Engineering at McMaster University

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NOTEWORTHY
Members of the Zimbabwe mission sharing best practices:
About HIV clinic contact Tobin Brown at Lakeridge
About HIV drug counselling contact Dipen Kalaria at Pharmacy.ca
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LEADERSHIPCAREERS – a Longwoods’ focus
Challenging Opportunities - The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
President & Chief Executive Officer - Northeast Mental Health Centre (NEMHC)
ADM, Clinical Innovation & Integration and Chief Nurse Executive - BC Ministry of Health
Field Research Associates - Institute for Work & Health
Chief Scientist - Institute for Work & Health
Postdoctoral Fellowships, Cardiac Nursing Research - Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta
Customer Relationship Managers & Implementation Support team members - Consulting Cadre
Change Specialist - Providence Health Care
Vice President, Human Resources & Support Services - Humber River Regional Hospital
Senior Consultant, Patient Flow Improvement - Vancouver Coastal Health
Senior Program Officer, Research Use - CHSRF
Agent principal ou Agente principale de programme, Utilisation de la recherche - FCRSS
The Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute - Edmonton, Alberta

LEADERSHIP PROFILES – only at Longwoods

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