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Time magazine names CIHR-funded study top medical breakthrough of the year. Time magazine published its top 10 medical breakthrough of 2007. An international research study led by Dr. Stephen Moses, a CIHR-funded researcher, won the coveted first place. In December 2006, two clinical trials of male circumcision proved successful in reducing HIV incidence in young men. CIHR provided over $2.5 million in funding to this study.
The Association of Canadian Academic Healthcare Organizations (ACAHO) has released this report “Moving at the Speed of Discovery: From Bench to Bedside to Business” (see full report - PDF) – which provides a framework for the country’s health research enterprise, and highlights the diversity and depth of health research within ACAHO member institutions. Page D’accueil Française
Commentary on Nation Building . . . If you are building and branding an institution & organization. . . . there are important lessons to be learned from this series of 19 papers. Download PDF
A Vancouver transplant surgeon has performed living donor kidney surgery with the use of a surgical robot. A first for Canada
Hospital Report Card [Ontario] 2007
Separate report links covering: Acute Care; Complex Continuing Care; Emergency Department Care; and Rehabilitation. Download PDF
LHADCOP: Longwoods Healthcare Acronym Dictionary for Canadian Organizations and Programs [draft #1. Send us your additions.] Click Here
Canada’s Minister of Health announced +$7 million for communities to tackle the increasing challenge of drug use among our young people. Funding is available through the Drug Strategy Community Initiatives Fund for 2008/2009 initiatives, and the deadline for proposals is February 29, 2008. For more information, please visit here.
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The Canadian Council on Health Services Accreditation (CCHSA) has been commissioned to develop and implement an accreditation “program of excellence” for Italy. Click here.
University of Toronto International Health Program Conference (UTIHP). To prepare – search your key interests here: www.WorldHealthandPopulation.com
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Today’s featured Podcast: Articles dealing with Women’s Health in Developing Countries. Listen here. Running time: 04:14 minutes
Here are the articles in print (online, that is):
1 The Obstetric Pathology of Poverty: Maternal Mortality in Kep Province, Cambodia;
2 Maternal Chronic Ill Health Negatively Affects Child Survival in a Poor Rural Population of Pakistan; and
3 The Relationship of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence to Sexual-Risk Behaviour among Refugee Women in Sub-Saharan Africa
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A partnership between health services researchers from Queen's University and the University of Ottawa, a community nursing agency and a home care authority in Ottawa led to major improvements in the quality of care for people with leg ulcers. The synthesis of both external and local evidence played a key role in the adoption of an evidence-based protocol and provided the critical context to support a significant reorganization of the existing service delivery model. This case demonstrates that, with a collaborative partnership approach, systematic and transparent research processes can be rapidly developed to support policy change. Listen (Right-click to download) Running time: 10:38 minutes
Here is the article in print (online, that is): A Community-Researcher Alliance to Improve Chronic Wound Care
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2008 Calendar of Breakfast with the Chiefs - Great minds in Dialogue (Locations to be announced)
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 – Toronto
Dr. Robert Bell, President and Chief Executive Officer, University Health Network,
Dr. Jonathan Irish, Chief, Department of Surgical Oncology, University Health Network and Mount Sinai Hospital, Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Toronto and
Dr. Tak Mak, Director of Advanced Medical Discovery Institute and The Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research and Senior Scientist, Division of Stem Cell and Developmental Biology and Advanced Medical Discovery Institute/Ontario Cancer Institute.
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, CGI, OHA
February 2008 – Toronto (date to be announced)
Dr. Ben Chan, Chief Executive Officer, Ontario Health Quality Council and Michael Decter, Chair of Wait Time Data Certification Council for Ontario
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, CGI, OHA
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 – Toronto
Dr. Michael Guerriere, Managing Partner of Courtyard Group, Chair, Ryerson University and Editor-in-Chief for Electronic Healthcare.
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, CGI, OHA
Thursday, April 17, 2008 - Toronto
Dr. Alan Hudson, Lead of Access to Services/Wait Times for the Health Results Team, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, CGI, OHA
For more information on upcoming speakers or to view past presentations Click Here
See our most recent Breakfast with the Chiefs video: What is the research telling us about the quality of work-life for nurses and its implications for their retention and recruitment? Tom Closson: healthcare management consultant & Past President and Chief Executive Officer of University Health Network (UHN) and Linda O'Brien-Pallas: Professor, University of Toronto, CHSRF/CIHR National Chair, Nursing Health Human Resources. To view presentation click here.
The small print: Subscribers do have more options. If you are a personal journal subscriber and represent public healthcare management, practice, education, research or policy you can attend any and all of the breakfasts. If you are a member of a commercial / service organization you have other options. Please contact Susan Hale for more information. Not yet a member, but would like to join Breakfast with the Chiefs? Contact Lina Lopez, for more information.
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January 9, 2008: Toronto, ON. OACCAC Knowledge and Inspiration 2008 Conference Call for Papers. Submissions are being accepted on the OACCAC website. Click here.
January 10-11, 2008: Miami, FL. Nursing Excellence: Bringing Best Evidence to the Point of Care. This inaugural South Florida Winter Evidence-Based Nursing Conference will spotlight nursing excellence and evidence based practice. This conference will be of interest to nurses in practice positions, researcher practice projects, educators engaged in curriculum change and administrators committed to achieving excellence. The primary purpose of the conference is to provide a forum for advancing the goal of nursing excellence through bringing best evidence to the point of care. For details click here.
January 16, 2008: Toronto, ON. Healthcare Leaders’ Dialogue on Governance Renewal. Ontario’s health care system is still very much in the early stages of a “fundamental transformation”. One of the key questions that has been raised as the system undergoes transformation to a regionally integrated model is “Will local governance survive?” For details click here.
January 25-26, 2008: Toronto, ON. Model World Health Organization Conference 2008. Nursing Students of Ontario (NSO, an official RNAO Interest Group) will host its first conference at Toronto’s Ryerson University. Attendees will participate in a simulation of a Model World Health Organization, representing 193-countries and debating foreign health policies regarding terrorism and corresponding health services: the two topic areas of debate include policies regarding child soldiers, and preparing for bioterrorism as a planned epidemic. For more information, click here or contact Jennifer Yoon.
February 5-6, 2008. Red Deer, AB. David Thompson Health Region Hospital Emergency Care and Patient Flow Forum: "Today's Solutions that Work". This National Conference will bring together leaders and decision-makers in emergency health services (physicians, nursing, paramedics), quality improvement, health administration, government, and academia to explore and share "Today's Solutions That Work" in reducing wait time challenges facing our emergency departments today. You will acquire tools for improving input, throughput, and output in our health care system today and into the future. Click here for details.
February 10 - 12, Banff, AB - AllerGen's 3rd Annual Research Conference. Join Canada's top allergic and related immune disease experts at innovation from cell to society3. To register please visit here
February 12-14, 2008: Edmonton, AB. Accelerating Primary Care 2008. Hosted by the University of Alberta and Capital Health to explore leading practice and innovation to accelerate primary care. For details click here.
March 3-4, 2008: Mississauga, ON, 2nd Annual Healthcare Safety Forum presented by the Canadian Standards Association and Ontario Safety Association for Community & Healthcare.s Toronto Airport Hilton. Click here for more information.
March 6-7, 2008. Toronto, ON. “Forging Ahead…Evidence to Innovation” – Saint Elizabeth Health Care Conference 2008. The objective of this event is to celebrate the centennial year of Saint Elizabeth Health Care and to promote the use of research, evidence and innovation at the individual, organizational and systems levels of health care. This two day conference will examine three themes: 1) how technology and consumer empowerment are leading to innovations in the delivery of healthcare (on an individual level), 2) fostering an organizational culture that supports the use of research evidence and innovation (at the organizational level), and 3) exploring how research, evidence and innovation are being used to inform policy and the future of health care (at a systems level). Registration is now open for the conference. For details click here
March 10-12, 2008: Berlin, Germany. World Health Care Congress Europe 2008. 600 health leaders share best practices and successful initiatives for improved delivery and outcomes in Europe. Participating thought leaders include health ministers, leading government officials, hospital directors, IT innovators, decision makers from public and private insurance funds, pharmaceutical and medical device companies, and heath care industry suppliers. For details click here.
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Kevin Smith to Board of Directors of Canada Foundation of Innovation
Dr. Roderick McInnes, the Scientific Director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research's Institute of Genetics, to the Order of Ontario
Bob Gardner to Special Advisor for Health Equity, The Toronto Central LHIN
Pamela Fralick to President and CEO, Canadian Healthcare Association
Gren Smith-Windsor to Associate Deputy Minister of Health [and acting Deputy Minister], Saskatchewan
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