CHIEF Executive Forum Spring Symposium
Details
- Date:
- May 29
- Time:
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8:00 am - 5:00 pm PDT
Venue
- Pan Pacific Vancouver
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999 Canada Place
Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 3B5 Canada - View Venue Website
Organizer
Join us knowledge-sharing, learning, and networking with public and private sector digital health leaders from across Canada. Reserve your seat at the table where important digital health conversations happen. All CHIEF Executive Forum members are invited to attend—email chief@digitalhealthcanada.com to add your name to the guest list.
The CHIEF Executive Forum 2024 Spring Symposium experience will kick off with a networking reception after the close of e-Health 2024 Conference and Tradeshow. Continue the conversations started at e-Health with a small group of industry leaders and decision-makers at the May 28 reception and the May 29 Symposium. Stay over until May 30 for the return of the popular health-delivery organization site visits. Separate registration is required for each event.
- May 28 Spring Symposium 2024 Reception
- May 29 Spring Symposium 2024
- May 30 Spring Symposium 2024 Site Visits
Schedule
May 28, 2024
| 5:30 PM |
Reception The 2024 Spring Symposium begins with a reception at The Kent on May 28 after the conclusion of e-Health. |
May 29
| 8:00am |
Networking Breakfast |
| 9:00am |
Opening Remarks
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| 9:10 am |
Opening Keynote: Embracing the uncomfortable to make magic happen in healthcare Join us for a thought-provoking session with seasoned presenter Jennifer MacGregor. Be ready to think about: A maniacal focus on the pursuit of progress. Navigating the tension between imagination and stagnation. Creating conditions for agile experimentation. Challenging conventional thinking. Building a culture that capitalizes on failures. Jennifer establishes ecosystems of opportunity, believing in elevating the brilliance from the frontline to drive momentum and establish fulcrums of change. Deriving novel solutions to our most wicked problems. Revolutionizing our industry with clarity in purpose, focused execution, affirmation of the unknown, and a passion for our mission of improving the health and well-being for all we serve. By embracing the uncomfortable—we can make magic happen! Attendees will come away from this session motivated to set up constructs that enable their organization to innovate without fear. To approach our new norms with a sense of camaraderie and comfort with the uncomfortable. And to flex some new leadership muscles and try new ways of managing complexity through experimentation and boldness.
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| 9:45am |
Roundtable Discussions |
| 10:45am |
Networking Break |
| 11:15am |
Panel Discussion: AI Deployments: Tales From The Frontlines This session brings together clinical leaders to share their firsthand experiences and lessons learned while deploying AI solutions in their respective healthcare delivery organizations. Learn how these implementers identified and prioritized high-impact AI use cases, strategically planned deployments, and overcome challenges. CHIEF Members will gain valuable insights into identifying where institutions should focus their efforts, measuring the effectiveness of AI deployments, and evaluating the return on investment. This session is designed to empower decision-makers with the knowledge needed to navigate the new AI landscape driving positive outcomes for both patients and organizations.
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| 12:15pm |
Networking Lunch |
| 1:15 pm |
Debate Session Be it resolved that: Rapid and immediate adoption, at scale, of artificial intelligence in diagnosing and treating patients is the only way to address current clinician capacity challenges.
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| 2:15pm |
Roundtable Discussions This roundtable will be an opportunity to discuss priorities for AI in healthcare as well as the responsible adoption and scaling of AI solutions in healthcare. Commentaries from this discussion will be used to produce a CHIEF Executive Forum position paper outlining guiding principles for the responsible use and scaling of AI in healthcare. |
| 3:15pm |
Networking Break |
| 3:45pm |
Fraser Health Digital Twin Project As a part of it’s vision of digitally transforming health care, Fraser Health launched a Digital Twin initiative to integrate data from across their business and care ecosystem, leveraging AI and automation. Learn as leaders from Fraser Health share how this platform enabled the opportunity to create valuable insights and interventions and key learnings on their road to digital transformation.
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| 4:45pm |
Closing Comments
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May 30
| 8:15am |
Transportation To First Site Visit (provided) |
| 9:30am |
PHSA – Red Fish Healing Centre for Mental Health and Addiction
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| 11:30am |
Transportation To Second Site (provided) |
| 12:15pm |
Providence Health Care - New St. Paul's Hospital Project
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Speakers
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Jennifer MacGregor
Jennifer MacGregor, VP Digital Provider and Patient Experience, Fraser Health - Senior Executive | Coach |Advisor | Published Tedx Speaker
Read MoreJennifer provides strategic leadership to areas of digital health, information technology, virtual health, advanced analytics, data science, digital service design and innovation.
Jennifer leads Fraser Health’s digital transformation work, modernizing technology, integrating innovation, and designing new practices into systems, programs and services to transform patient and provider experiences.
Her passion for technology in health care is centred on leveraging digital tools and technology to enhance the health system, including improving operational efficiencies, service navigation and quality.Read Less -
Dr. JD Schwalm
Cardiologist and Scientist at Hamilton Health Sciences and the Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University
Read MoreDr. Schwalm is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology at McMaster University. He is an Interventional Cardiologist at Hamilton Health Sciences and Niagara Health with clinical interests in both coronary and structural interventions (including Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair). Dr Schwalm is the site lead for cardiology at the Hamilton General Hospital, a Scientist at the Population Health Research Institute and the Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Implementation (CEBI). His research focus is knowledge translation/implementation sciences as it relates to the field of cardiology at the patient, physician, and health system level. Dr Schwalm has authored over 75 peer-reviewed publications and 4 book chapters.
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Dr. Payal Agarwal
Integrated Chief Information and Innovation Officer, St. Mary's + Grand River Hospital
Read MoreDr. Payal Agarwal is a practicing family physician in Toronto. She holds an undergraduate degree in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo, where she refined her software design and development skills while working at several technology companies. During her medical studies at the University of Toronto, Payal’s research efforts focused on the development of novel technologies to improve health care delivery and education. As an Innovation Fellow at WIHV, Payal is currently focused on the creation of new models of care by adapting proven methodologies from the design, technology and entrepreneurship fields, with a specific focus on virtual care.
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Sheazin Premji
Executive Director - The Centre for Advanced Analytics, Data Science and Innovation at Fraser Health Authority
Read MoreSheazin Premji is the Executive Director for The Centre for Advanced Analytics, Data Science and Innovation for the Fraser Health Authority. She has over 20 years of experience in leading strategic healthcare system transformations. She takes a patient and provider centric view to lead teams which redesign and optimize services with a focus to achieve positive outcomes and impacts. Sheazin leads an interdisciplinary team of consultants to data scientists and engineers driven to create artificial intelligence solutions that work in partnership with clinicians and patients to navigate complex systems and reduce administrative burden. She leverages best practices, innovation, consulting and change expertise with analytical solutioning in enabling digital transformation within Fraser Health.
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Ted Scott
Vice President Innovation and Partnerships, Hamilton Health Sciences
Read MoreI am an innovative leader, excited by opportunities to create high-performing teams to work on some of the most challenging problems in health and education. As Vice President of Innovation at Hamilton Health Sciences, I lead a diverse group of experts working to use technology, care model innovation, and the patient voice to improve health care outcomes. I founded the Innovation function leveraging collaborations with research, quality, and industry to create sustaining models of care, tools, and products that will shape the future of health care. I am passionate about collaborations and partnerships that can generate patient-centric, more inclusive, and equitable outcomes.
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Dr. Alexandra Greenhill
Founder CEO and Chief Medical Officer, Careteam Technologies
Read MoreDr. Alexandra T. Greenhill is an ER and family medicine doctor, one of the leading physicians in digital health innovation, one of the co-editors of the "AI in Clinical Medicine" book (Wiley, 2023).
Dr. Greenhill is the Founder CEO and Chief Medical Officer of Careteam Technologies, a next gen care platform enabling health teams to support patients with complex health issues along the journey from symptoms to diagnosis to treatment. She is also on the Boards of Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) and Cancer Research Society, as well Chair of the Board for the Vancouver Foundation and for Physician Innovators.
Dr. Greenhill is adept at translating digital developments into meaningful advancements to help people live life well. She believes entrepreneurship and technology hold the answers to the greatest issues we face today, including in health care - where the increasing complexity leads to confusion and costs and a huge and growing gap between what is possible and what is happening.Read Less -
Dr. Darren Larsen
Physician, Health Informatician, Leader, Consultant
Read MoreOver his 31 years as a comprehensive care Family Physician, Dr. Darren Larsen has beeninvolved in many provincial and national Health IT, Quality and Physician Leadership initiativesin Canada. He has contributed to multiple digital health, primary careand quality commissionsfor the Ontario Ministry of Health, Ontario Health (Quality, Digital Services and Cancer Care) aswell as the Ontario and Canadian Medical Associations. He is Chair of the Cancer QualityCouncil of Ontario, Board Director for the federal agency Canadian Partnership Against Cancer,and is a senior fellow at WIHV (Women’s College Hospital Institute for Health System Solutionsand Virtual Care). His digital health interests include data analytics, measurement for qualityimprovement and accountability, physician change and issues of scale and spread. With thisinterest he is also the President of the HIMSS Ontario Chapter and a member of the HIMSSGlobal Public Policy Committee.Dr. Darren Larsen obtained his Bachelor of Science at the University of Alberta, MedicalDoctorate at the University of Calgary, did residency at the University of Ottawa and holds aMasters Certificate in Physician Leadership from York University’s Schulich School of Executive Management. He is currently Corporate Medical Officer and Chief Medical Director of TELUSHealth Care Centres, practices at Women’s College Hospital, and teaches at the University ofToronto in the Department of Family and Community Medicine as well as the Institute forHealth Policy Management and Evaluation.
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Heidi Giesbrecht
Senior Executive Director, Strategy, Innovation & Portfolio Management, PHSA
Read MoreHeidi Giesbrecht is Senior Executive Director for Strategy, Innovation and Portfolio Management with Digital Health Innovation at the Provincial Health Services Authority in partnership with the B.C. Ministry of Health. She has dedicated her career to advancing technologies that transform healthcare. Heidi is a strategic leader that guides teams to bridge the gap between innovative technologies and enhanced patient outcomes by drawing on her dynamic career in the B.C. provincial government and private sector. Heidi has a Master of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering and a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from McGill University. Prior to BC Public Sector, she led the design, development, adoption, and regulatory clearance of a diverse portfolio of medical devices and digital health solutions for multiple private sector organizations.
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Kimberlyn McGrail, MPH, PhD
Professor, University of British Columbia and Scientific Director and CEO, Health Data Research Network Canada
Read MoreDr. McGrail is a Professor in the UBC School of Population and Public Health and Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, and Scientific Director of Population Data BC and Health Data Research Network Canada. Her research interests are quantitative policy evaluation and all aspects of population data science. In 2019-2020 she participated as a member of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Task Force on AI4Health and from 2020-2022 she was a member of the Expert Working Group for the Pan-Canadian Health Data Strategy. She is currently a Canadian representative to with the Global Partnership for AI as part of the data governance working group, and sits on a number of other data-related advisory committees. She holds a PhD in Health Care and Epidemiology from the University of British Columbia, and a Master’s in Public Health from the University of Michigan.
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Marc Koehn
Managing Director, Health Practice Portfolio Lead (Canada), Accenture
Read MoreMarc is a senior consultant with more than 25 years of progressive and varied experience in providing healthcare IT/IM-focused management consulting services both within BC and across Canada. His wide market knowledge, strong analytical skills and technical expertise combined with his advanced and well-honed general management, facilitation and communication abilities allow him to deal effectively with a wide range of business and technical challenges – both at strategic and operational levels. Engagements have ranged from strategic facilitation through project management of complex, mutli-agency initiatives, to hands-on delivery of specific program, solution or analysis initiatives. Marc has extensive and broad experience in taking a leadership role, developing productive relationships among diverse and boundary spanning stakeholder groups to maintain momentum on large, time critical, and complex business projects. As chief operating officer and member of the executive team for Gevity Consulting Inc., Marc oversees a broad array of projects from proposal / bid stage through to successful client delivery.
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Aneet Sahota
Executive Director, Virtual Health, Community and Connected Systems
Read MoreAneet Sahota is Director, Health Informatics at Fraser Health. She has been working at Fraser Health in the Health Informatics and eHealth & Integration portfolios on various clinical system and integration initiatives for the past 8 years. Aneet holds a B.Sc. in Psychology and a B.Sc. in Health Information Science from the University of Victoria.
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Kristelle Heinrichs
Executive Director, MHSU
Read MoreKristelle has worked in the health care field for 25 years with over 15 years of experience within progressive leadership roles in Mental Health and Substance Use Services (MHSU) in Fraser Health. Most recently, Kristelle held a director position within the MHSU portfolio where she was responsible for MHSU services in Surrey as well as regional programs and projects. Kristelle brings a client-centred, collaborative and compassionate approach to leadership with a desire to build partnerships that lead to system change which will make a difference to the patients, clients, families and natural supports that we serve.
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Casper Shyr, PhD
Senior Director of Advanced Analytics and Data Science, Fraser Health Authority
Read MoreCasper Shyr is a Senior Director of Advanced Analytics and Data Science at Fraser Health Authority, where he provides visionary leadership at the intersection of healthcare operations and advanced data methodologies. He holds a PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of British Columbia and has a robust educational foundational in Computer Science and Biology. With extensive experience in the healthcare sector, Casper is recognized as an educator, strategic leader, and researcher. His expertise spans consulting in healthcare operations, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
At Fraser Health Authority, Casper drives the development and application of cutting-edge data science and operations research techniques to enhance healthcare delivery, optimize patient access and flow, and improve care quality. Leading an interdisciplinary team of skilled data scientists and advanced analytics professionals, Casper focuses on creating innovative analytical solutions to support clinical programs, including:
Predictive Modelling: Utilizing machine learning, artificial intelligence, and simulation to generate valuable data insights
Strategic Data Utilization: Enhancing the adoption and integration of data-driven decision-making within healthcare systems.
Collaborative Engagement: Fostering partnerships with healthcare professionals an business leaders to drive systemic improvements through real-time analytics.Read Less
