There is an urgent need to stabilize the health care system — as well as growing calls for its transformation.
Solutions are not in short supply. But getting from now to next depends on bold choices.
The CMA is hosting a series of events to tackle those choices, bringing together physicians with other health stakeholders for unfiltered debate.
Join us for the next session of Bold Choices in Health Care — December 8, 2022 — to discuss the issue at the heart of an effective and efficient health system: How we deliver care to our patients.
To start the conversation, we’ve compiled some key considerations for how we can rethink health care delivery and make the shift from fragmented care to an integrated health system.
Dr. Alika Lafontaine will host a panel featuring:
Dr. Brian Goldman, Emergency physician, author and broadcaster
Brian is a long-time emergency physician at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, a veteran medical broadcaster and the bestselling author of four books.
His latest book, The Power of Teamwork, examines health care’s embrace of a new teamwork model and draws on ground-breaking research to demonstrate how a team-based approach to medicine, combined with the power of kindness, can improve all aspects of the health system.
For the past 15 years, Brian has hosted the CBC’s award-winning radio show White Coat, Black Art, where he takes listeners ‘behind the scenes’ at hospitals and doctors’ offices. He also hosts the CBC’s weekly health podcast The Dose.
Deb Matthews, former Ontario Minister of Health and Long-Term Care
Deb spent 15 years in the Ontario Legislature representing the riding of London North Centre in the Liberal governments of Dalton McGuinty and Kathleen Wynne. She held several cabinet posts, including as Minister of Health and Long-Term Care and as President of the Treasury Board. She served as Deputy Premier from 2013 to 2018.
As Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, Deb focused on improving access to care and the quality of patient care. One of her major achievements was the passage of the Excellent Care For All Act in 2010, that strengthens the health care system’s accountability to deliver high quality patient care.
Deb is currently a Senior Fellow at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health in Toronto and consults on health care innovations.
Dr. Rita McCracken, Family physician and primary care services and workforce researcher
Rita is a family physician in East Vancouver and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Practice at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She is studying the family doctor shortage in BC, and with team members, is creating ways to measure changes in the availability of primary care after new health policy and care delivery models are introduced.
Medicine is Rita’s second career. She spent 10 years working in Human Resources before completing medical school at the University of Calgary in 2006 and her doctoral studies at UBC in 2018.
Claire Snyman, author and patient advocate
Claire is a member of the Canadian Medical Association’s advisory group Patient Voice.
A Vancouver-based writer, speaker and advocate, her work includes two books on her lived experience – Two Steps Forward: Embracing Life with a Brain Tumor and ACTIVATE: How to Save Your Life in a Complex Health Care System – and a study with neurosurgeons at Johns Hopkins University on headache disability.
Claire’s advocacy interests include patient agency, safety and improved access to care.
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