About this Event
The podcast ensures that the tenets of Vernissage Health, a unique leadership development initiative, is available to all IHPME students. It offers an opportunity to engage diverse, established health care leaders who share their experiences and provide IHPME students and other emerging leaders with insights and wisdom gleaned from their health care leadership journey.
We are excited to launch the podcast with a live webinar featuring two special guests: Matt Anderson, President and CEO of Ontario Health, and Camille Orridge, Senior Fellow at the Wellesley Institute.
The webinar is free and will explore leadership concepts and how they relate to current health system issues like the pandemic, BIPOC racism and system restructuring. A Q&A will follow. Please register to participate.
Learn more about our guests:
Matthew Anderson, President and CEO of Ontario Health
Matthew Anderson is an experienced health care leader, team-builder and advocate for positive change. He is widely respected across Ontario’s health care system for his intense focus on the needs and experiences of patients and caregivers. Before joining Ontario Health, Matthew was President and CEO of Lakeridge Health, one of the largest community hospital systems in the province. He spent over three years overseeing the operation of five hospitals with four emergency departments and more than 5,000 physicians and staff, working with community partners to build a regional system of care for families in the Durham Region.
Matthew has been working in health care since 1992, and he has risen quickly through the ranks. He became Chief Information Officer of University Health Network (UHN) in 1998, and a Vice President at UHN in 2000. In 2008, he was named CEO of the Toronto Central Local Health Integration Network and in 2010, became CEO of William Osler Health System.
Camille Orridge, Senior Fellow at the Wellesley Institute
Camille Orridge is a Senior Fellow at Wellesley Institute. Previously, while at TCLHIN, Camille made health equity an increasing priority. Some of her achievements include launching Language Services Toronto, a telephone interpretation service for non-English speaking patients of Toronto’s hospitals that markedly improved aspects of access to Toronto’s hospitals. Her efforts on the Resource Matching and Referral Program and the Integrated Client Care Project that patients receive timely care, and the right care, and receive necessary supports to remain in the community.
Her previous posts also found her effectively advocating and working for health equity. While CEO of the Toronto Central Community Care Access Centre, she worked to better serve Toronto’s aging and diverse population through strengthening the community health sector.
Camille is a passionate advocate for social change and health equity. Among her many achievements, she co-founded Pathways to Education, the successful stay-in-school program for high-school students.
In 2012, Camille was among the top 25 Women of Influence in Health and previously in 2011, she was awarded the Health Equity Council Woman of Distinction Award. In 2014 she received the Excellence in Medicine Award from the African Canadian Achievement Awards.
Camille holds a Master’s degree in Health Administration from the University of Toronto.
If you have questions about the webinar and podcast series, please email:
Matthew Goulbourne, MHSc graduate (2020) and student co-lead of the podcast, m.goulbourne@mail.utoronto.ca
Sarah Sawaya, MHI student (2021) and student co-lead of the podcast, sarah.sawaya@mail.utoronto.ca
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