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| Susan Fitzpatrick is Assistant Deputy Minister of Negotiations and Accountability Management Division, responsible for a large healthcare programs portfolio, including health services, primary care, negotiations and provincial programs. Since 1982, Susan has held progressively responsible positions within the ministry, including serving as Manager and then Director in the Provider Services Branch, and Manager of Project Delivery for the Photo Health Card Project. Susan has a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Western Ontario and a Masters in Public Administration from Queen’s University.
“I like being able to participate in important healthcare issues, having influence on what we develop and implement, and working with ministry staff and stakeholders,” she says. “I also enjoy the interesting and challenging high-profile negotiations work I’ve been privileged to contribute to." |
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| For more than 20 years, Dr. Brian Goldman has been a highly regarded emergency physician at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital. He's also parlayed his medical expertise into an award-winning career in medical journalism. Millions of Canadians know Brian as CBC Radio One's house doctor, serving up information and advice on matters medical to 20 afternoon shows across the country. In addition, he created and hosts the radio program, White Coat, Black Art, which demystifies the world of medicine by taking listeners through the doors of hospitals and doctors' offices, behind the curtain to where the gurney lies. Doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals explain how the system works, and why, with a refreshing level of honesty. Brian was health reporter for The National, CBC Television's flagship news program, and for CBC TV's The Health Show. He served as Senior Production Executive during the launch year of Discovery Health Channel, Canada's only 24-hour channel devoted to health programming.
He lives in Toronto with his wife and two children. |
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| John Horne (PhD) is an adjunct professor at Faculty of Social and Applied Sciences, Royal Roads University, Victoria, B.C. He is also a consulting health economist and hospital administrator. John is the former Chief Operating Officer at Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre (HSC) and a former professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba. At HSC, he was a member of the Board from 1983–1989 and a full-time senior executive from 1989–2004. He retired as Chief Operating Officer in January 2004. At the University of Manitoba, he was a member of the Faculty of Medicine for 31 years and retired in April 2005. John later held appointments as a Visiting Scholar (2004–2005) and Adjunct Professor (2005–2009) in the School of Health Information Science at the University of Victoria. As an academic health economist, he has published articles on user fees, hospital costs, medical manpower, healthcare technology and healthcare policy. Among many accomplishments and positions, he has been a member and chair of the Expert Group on National Health Expenditures of the Canadian Institute for Health Information, has co-hosted the the Harkness Canadian Policy Briefing Tour
for CHSRF and the Commonwealth Fund’s International Program in Health Policy and Practice, was a consultant to the 1979 Health Services Review chaired by Mr. Justice Emmett Hall and was a founding co-editor of Healthcare Policy. John currently serves as a director and treasurer of the Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research. |
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| Dr. Jeff Turnbull practises internal medicine both at The Ottawa Hospital and at several shelters associated with Ottawa Inner City Health. He started his post-residency career on the faculty at the University of Western Ontario, after which he was recruited to the University of Ottawa in 1991, serving for several years as vice-dean for Medical Education. Dr. Turnbull was also a key figure in the Educating Future Physicians for Ontario Project, and served as president of the Medical Council of Canada. In 2001 he was appointed chair of the Department of Medicine, a position he held until 2008 when he became chief of staff at The Ottawa Hospital. Through the 1990s, Dr. Turnbull became increasingly interested in providing better clinical care to Ottawa’s homeless population. Along with others, he wondered whether a medical program that combined supervised alcohol consumption with compassionate clinical care would improve health outcomes. He helped start Ottawa’s Inner City Health Project and has been its medical director since its inception. Ottawa Inner City Health has won numerous awards and received inter national acclaim for its efforts. For this and other contributions, Dr. Turnbull received the Order of Canada in 2007. He was also recognized as the Physician of the Year by the Academy of Medicine of Ottawa in 2008. Dr. Turnbull received the CMAE-Ian Hart Award for Distinguished Contribution to Medical Education in 2007, the Ontario Medal for Good Citizenship in 2006 and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada’s Mentor of the Year award in 2003. |
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| Dr. Denis A. Roy is currently Vice-President of Scientific Affairs at the Institut national de santé publique du Québec.
A strong proponent of health services research, Denis has significant experience leading health services organizations and departments, including Public Health at the Montreal Regional Board of Health and Social Services, Centre de coordination de la lutte contre le cancer du Québec, and Information and Knowledge Management for the Agence de la santé et des services sociaux de la Montérégie. In addition to his current position, Denis is active in numerous leading organizations and initiatives, including: the Board of Trustees of the Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research, the CPAC Cancer Performance Steering Committee, the Expert Analytic Group on Health Reports of the Canadian Institute of Health Information and the CHSRF /CPSI Governance for Patient Safety Committee. Denis is associate professor at the Social and Preventive Medicine Department, University of Montreal, and is affiliated with the Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Medicine Department of McGill University and the Community Health Department at the University of Sherbrooke.
He holds a masters degree in public health at the University of California in Berkeley, as well as a masters in epidemiology and a speciality degree in community health at McGill University.
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