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The Economics of Primary Care Post COVID

  • 29 Mar 2022
  • 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM
  • Webinar

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Series Host: Sandra Rotman Centre for Health Sector Strategy

Series Sponsor: Rotman Global Executive MBA for Healthcare and the Life Sciences

 

Health IT #4 - The Economics of Primary Care Post COVID

Join us for a discussion on the economic models for primary care in Ontario.  What has changed over the last two years?  Looking ahead, what is viable?  What do we want to achieve?

 

About Our Speakers:

Dr. Darren Larsen, Senior Advisor, Canadian Health Practice, Accenture
Over his 28 years as a comprehensive care Family Physician, Darren has been involved in many provincial and national Health IT, Quality and Physician Leadership initiatives in Canada.  He has contributed to multiple digital health, primary care and quality commissions for the Ontario Ministry of Health, Ontario Health (Quality, Digital Services and Cancer Care) as well as the Ontario and Canadian Medical Associations.  He is Chair of the Cancer Quality Council of Ontario, Board Director for the federal agency Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, and is a senior fellow at WIHV (Women’s College Hospital Institute for Health System Solutions and Virtual Care). His digital health interests include data analytics, measurement for quality improvement and accountability, physician change and issues of scale and spread.  With this interest he also the President of the HIMSS Ontario Chapter and a member of the HIMSS Global Public Policy Committee.

Darren obtained his Bachelor of Science at the University of Alberta, Medical Doctorate at the University of Calgary, did residency at the University of Ottawa and holds a Masters Certificate in Physician Leadership from York University’s Schulich School of Executive Management.  He is currently Senior Advisor, Canadian Healthcare at Accenture, practices at Women’s College Hospital, and teaches at the University of Toronto in the Department of Family and Community Medicine as well as the Institute for Health Policy Management and Evaluation.


Zayna Khayat, VP of Business Development & Strategy, Teladoc Health
Zayna is VP of Business Development & Strategy with Teladoc Health in Canada.Teladoc Health’s mission is to provide a new kind of healthcare experience with greater convenience, outcomes, and value. Zayna Khayat previously co-founded and led the Futures team at the national home health and aging non-profit, SE Health, as their Future Strategist. In 2017 she spent the year on secondment to the REshape Health Innovation Centre at Radboud university medical centre in Nijmegan, Netherlands where she led several initiatives to advance health innovation in the country.  From 2014 to 2017 Dr. Khayat lead health system innovation with MaRS Discovery District, a major innovation hub based in Toronto. At MaRS, Zayna and her team helped smooth the path to adoption of innovation by healthcare systems in Ontario and around the world.

Zayna is adjunct faculty with the Rotman School of Management in the Health Sector Strategy stream where she teaches a health MBA course on Healthcare Innovation. Dr. Khayat has been on the Faculty of Singularity University (Exponential Medicine) since 2016.

In 2021, Zayna will be one of 100 participants in the new reality TV Show, The Social Movement - where her and her team will engineer viable financial solutions to one of 10 Sustainable Development goals.

Dr. Khayat was previously a senior leader and adjunct faculty member with the International Centre for Health Innovation at the Ivey School of Business at Western University.

From 2010-2012, Zayna was an associate partner with SECOR Consulting/KPMG Canada. There, Zayna worked with medium and large sized public and private health and life sciences organizations in Ontario and nationally on issues of strategy and management. Prior to joining SECOR-KPMG, Zayna was a Principal with the Toronto office of The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a global management consulting firm, from 2001 to 2010.

Zayna earned her Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Toronto / Hospital for Sick Children where she was a scholar of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, studying how insulin and exercise regulate blood glucose in the muscle, and why/where this process breaks down during disease states such as diabetes. She has more than 10 publications and chapters in international journals and textbooks.

Zayna completed undergraduate studies in biochemistry at the University of Windsor, where she earned the President's Medal for top all around graduate of the University (1996) and the Board of Governor's Medal for top graduate of the biochemistry department.

Zayna speaks proficiently in French and Arabic, and is based out of Toronto where she lives with her husband and 3 children. She is proficient in French and Arabic languages (and a bit of Dutch!).



Wayne Samuels, General Manager, Medicentres Canada
Wayne leads Medicentres, which manages primary and specialty care practices, as well as occupational health clinics, across Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario.  Medicentres manages all the administrative aspects of operating a medical clinic (including billing, staffing, real estate, technology, etc.), which allows physicians the opportunity to focus exclusively on patient care, without any of the operational hassles.  In December of 2020, Medicentres was acquired by ELNA Medical, forming the largest manager of medical clinics in Canada.  ELNA is focused on leveraging advanced technology to improve health outcomes, increase access to care, and facilitate connectivity for patients and physicians throughout the healthcare system.



Erik Sande, President, Medavie Health Services
Erik Sande is the President of Medavie Health where he leads a team of healthcare professionals delivering out-of-hospital emergency medical services, mobile integrated healthcare, mobile mental health services, home based primary care and telehealth services. Prior to joining MHS, Erik was Vice President and General Manager of Home Monitoring Solutions for Philips Healthcare where he led a technology and services team that helped health-challenged people remain independent in their own homes. His mandate included markets in North America, Europe and Asia.  A dedicated community leader, he has participated on numerous boards and currently is the Chair, Healthcare Excellence Canada (former Canadian Patient Safety Institute and Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement) and is the recent Past Chair of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.

 

Questions? Rosemary Hannam: rosemary.hannam@rotman.utoronto.ca



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