Alumni

Message from the President

Alumni Recognition Event - October 20, 2005

It's not too late to Register for the Society of Graduates Alumni Recognition Event! (secure online Visa/MasterCard payment is now available through Moneris).

This event, which includes the SOG Annual General Meeting will be held on Thursday, October 20, 2005 from 5:30 – 8:00 pm at the University Club of Toronto ( 380 University Avenue ).

Come out and celebrate the accomplishments of your colleagues, meet new and old colleagues and learn about exciting trends in health care management.

The event will celebrate the Class of 1980 -- our twenty-five year silver anniversary class and the first MHSc class. We will also recognize the work of our colleagues with awards and hear from an outstanding speaker, Dr. Ian McKillop speaking on “Drowning in Data: What is a Healthcare Executive To Do?”

Dr. Ian McKillop holds the JW Graham Research Chair in Health Information Systems at the University of Waterloo where he helps lead UW's I deas for Health Informatics Cluster, a group dedicated to promoting electronic innovations in data, evidence and application systems in medical and health settings. He is also an Adjunct Scientist with the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) and Adjunct Faculty with the Department of HPME.

For more information contact Malak Sidky at msidky@rogers.com or 416-459-0266 or see the HPME website.

Leadership and Innovation

Alumni Profile

Alumni of the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (HPME) are involved in a broad range of leadership activities across the health care sector. To promote greater awareness of the many accomplishments and innovations of this diverse group, we are pleased to include alumni profiles as a regular feature of the NewsBytes.

In this issue, Ken Tremblay contributes a piece on HPME's first MHSc students, the Class of 1980. Ken, former class representative and graduate of this class, is now the President and CEO of Chatham-Kent Health Alliance.

Ken Tremblay - "The Class of 1980"

This year we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Class of 1980.  While anyone who works in healthcare for 25 years is deserving enough, the Class of '80 requires special note.  Theirs was the first class to receive a Master of Health Sciences degree.  There were some growing pains for the Department as students would receive a graduate degree from the Faculty of Medicine. Defining the bar while simultaneously raising it were frustrating activities for a rather diverse class.

But let's look at them now. The healthcare landscape has been shaped and reshaped by successive governments, commissions, innovations in both clinical and information technology, downsizing and re-engineering in human resources, organizational processes and models of care.

The 1980 class has encountered a raft of nouns new to health care over the years: merger, alliance, regionalization, integration, downsizing, case costing, revenue generation, restructuring...and the list goes on.  

They have functioned under the health care platforms of Liberal, Conservative and New Democrat provincial governments.  The Ministers of Health who have carried responsibility during their careers are many: Messrs Timbrell, Grossman, Witmer, Wilson, Smitherman, Lankin.  Their deputy ministers have included names known to many of us:  Messrs Dyer, Decter, Hassen, Sapsford, Barkin, Lozon.

The 1980 class has persisted through the ebb and flow of providers, practitioners, consultants and observed the OHA as it went through its several iterations of advocacy, education and leadership under Alan Hay, Gordon Cunningham, Dennis Timbrell, David MacKinnon and Hilary Short.

Yep - these folks have seen change and lots of it.  C'mon out and help us celebrate 25 interesting years of their careers and leadership - they'll appreciate it.

See you there!

Ken Tremblay

On the Move

Dr. Norman Hill New VP, Medical Affairs at Trillium

Dr. Norman Hill, (Diploma in Health Administration, Class of ‘00) has been appointed as Vice President, Medical Affairs at Trillium Health Centre. This is a newly created position which replaces the position of Deputy Chief of Staff, formely held by Dr. Hill. Ken White, President and CEO of Trillium stated that “Norm Hill…has demonstrated an extraordinary capacity to address the administrative complexities of (the) Trillium Medical Staff team and office over his seven years as Deputy Chief of Staff. I am delighted to welcome him to this position (VP, Medical Affairs).” Congratulations, Norm.

Dr. Linda Li Accepts Harold Robinson-Arthritis Society Chair

Dr. Linda Li (PhD, Class of '04) will be joining the School of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of British Columbia as Assistant Professor in January 2006. She has accepted the Harold Robinson – Arthritis Society Chair in Arthritic Disease. Dr. Li is currently completing a CIHR Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Knowledge Transfer and Exchange at the Ottawa Health Research Institute.

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