Date Published: March 17th, 2021
Lillian Chen & Tina Cheng Entry-to-PharmD Student (Candidate 2022) & Master of Public Health Student (In progress), University of British Columbia Lillian and Tina are the winners of this year’s Health Talks Student Contest! Lillian is a Doctor of Pharmacy student at the University of British Columbia. She is passionate…
Date Published: March 4th, 2021
Agnes Binagwaho Vice Chancellor, University of Global Health Equity Professor Agnes Binagwaho, MD, M(Ped), PHD is the Vice Chancellor of the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE), an initiative of Partners In Health focused on changing health care delivery around the world by training global health professionals who strive to…
Date Published: March 4th, 2021
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond Senior Associate Counsel, Woodward & Company Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond was appointed on June 19, 2020, by Health Minister Adrian Dix to lead an investigation into Indigenous-specific racism in the British Columbia health care system. A member of Saskatchewan’s Muskeg Lake Cree Nation, Turpel-Lafond served as a Saskatchewan…
Date Published: March 26th, 2019
Jeffrey Braithwaite is Founding Director of the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Director of the Centre for Healthcare Resilience and Implementation Science and Professor of Health Systems Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He spoke at Quality Forum 2019 on Wednesday, February 27. Jeffrey has…
Date Published: December 31st, 2018
At Quips, Quandaries And Comebacks: A Quality Debate, four great speakers debated an important – and contentious – motion related to improving the quality of care in BC’s health system: Be it resolved that… we need disciplined execution of existing improvements more than innovative approaches to delivering care to achieve…
Date Published: June 11th, 2020
Diarmid is the coordinator of the climate change and health program at the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters. His training is on the ecology of infectious disease and public health, and he has worked on climate change and health for 20 years. Diarmid has played key roles in the development…
Date Published: August 4th, 2017
Quality Forum 2017 brought together more than 1,200 participants over its three days. First, a “pre-Forum day” featured two full-day sessions: we partnered with the Joint Collaborative Committees to examine how to improve patients’ primary, surgical and rural care journeys, as well as with the First Nations Health Authority to…
Date Published: April 19th, 2018
Quality Forum 2018 brought together more than 1,200 participants over its three days. First, a “pre-Forum day” featured two full-day sessions: 180 people learned how to plan for and assess lasting change, and we again partnered with the Joint Collaborative Committees to examine successful and emerging initiatives and collaborative approaches…
Date Published: March 19th, 2021
Carrie Marr Chief Executive Officer, Clinical Excellence Commission (Australia) Chief Executive of the Clinical Excellence Commission, Carrie Marr has a passionate focus on quality improvement and patient safety. Carrie began her professional health career in Scotland as a nurse before a move into nursing education, followed by specialization in organization…
Date Published: March 26th, 2019
At Quips, Quandaries And Comebacks: A Quality Debate, four great speakers argued for and against this important – and divided – motion related to improving the quality of care in BC’s health system: Be it resolved that… health care performance data should be public to advance better care. “FOR” Team…
Date Published: January 3rd, 2019
Jim Easton has been an executive in the health care system in England for over 25 years, where he has held leadership positions in hospital services, mental health, primary care and national policy. During his plenary presentation at Quality Forum 2016, Jim told us his five big ideas that can…
Date Published: January 3rd, 2019
We asked best friends Chanteya Waterman and Hannah O’Donnell to tell us about their hopes for health care. On February 24, 2016, Hannah and Chanteya taught us what it means to dream big – no matter your age – with their three ambitious hopes. Eleven-year-olds Hannah and Chanteya took Change…
Date Published: March 21st, 2018
At Quality Forum 2017, David Matear, Senior Operating Director of the Northern Lights Regional Health Centre and Fort McMurray Area for Alberta Health Services, shared the story of how health care teams responded to the devastating wildfire that began on May 1, 2016. The residents of Fort McMurray were forced…
Date Published: March 26th, 2018
At Quips, Quandaries And Comebacks: A Quality Debate, four great speakers argued an important – and contentious – motion related to improving the quality of care in BC’s health system: Be it resolved that advances in technology and artificial intelligence are putting the art of medicine at risk. “FOR” Team…
Date Published: March 23rd, 2018
Tim Omer, citizen health hacker and Type 1 Diabetic, was a plenary speaker at Quality Forum 2018 on February 22. Tim Omer worked in the IT industry specializing in the implementation of business systems and processes that empower staff with the right technology. As a Type 1 diabetic for over…
Date Published: January 3rd, 2019
At Quips, Quandaries And Comebacks: A Quality Debate, four great speakers debated an important – and contentious – claim related to improving the quality of care in BC’s health system: Accountability hinders improvement. “FOR” Team Lakshman Swamy Internal Medicine Resident, Boston Medical Center Linda Dempster Vice-President, Patient Experience, Fraser Health…
Date Published: March 26th, 2019
Chris Pointon is the Co-Founder and Global Campaign Advisor of #HelloMyNameIs, a campaign he and his wife Kate Granger created to encourage compassionate care. He spoke at Quality Forum 2019 on Thursday, February 28. “Play the cards in life you’ve been dealt” – these words are what Kate and I…
Date Published: June 11th, 2020
Natasha Jung is a multi-disciplinary creative and leader with a passion for diverse storytelling, community and people. She is the Founder and Executive Producer of Cold Tea Collective, a media company and community for, by and about Asian millennials navigating their identities through storytelling. She founded this collective when she…
Date Published: March 23rd, 2018
Camila Lajolo, Corporate Manager for Quality & Patient Safety at Associação Congregação de Santa Catarina, Brazil, presented the closing plenary at Quality Forum 2018 on February 23. Camila is one of the leaders of ACSC’s successful safety program. In 2017 she spent nine months working as Technical Officer with the…
Date Published: June 11th, 2020
A mutual friend and long-standing patient safety champion suggested Ali and Rob should meet in the summer of 2019. Since discovering a shared passion for patient safety and overlapping values, they haven’t stopped talking and working together to promote relationship-centric change in health care. Injured as a result of a…
