Quote

“The thing with you, Jamie, is you live in a bubble. You’ve got no bloody idea what it’s like for us.” Dr. Arya Sharma looks at: The Pedagogy of Obesity Reality Shows.

Essay

“Didactic learning leads to “knows that”; experiential learning leads to “knows how.” Gaining competence in the improvement of care requires both.” Linda Headrick in this focused essay

Off the Cuff

Should you involve Physician Leaders in a project right from the start? Michael Heenan of Credit Valley thinks so… what do you think? Let the Longwoods community know by commenting on this piece and we’ll provide you with a one-year free online subscription to the journal of your choice. Click here.

Can Ontario citizens influence the future of healthcare? What will they recommend as health service priorities? Click here for information.

How many lessons have you learned in recent memory? In the ever-changing healthcare system there are lessons to be learned every day. Paul Batalden invited 14 healthcare leaders to share their stories in Longwoods latest published book Lessons Learned in changing healthcare… and how we learned them.

Malcolm Gladwell: why not to use focus groups. Click here.

Focus on Nursing Leadership: Call for Abstracts: The Emerging Face of Nursing Leadership in Canada.  Let’s get the discussion moving on where nursing leadership needs to go and how we’re going to get there.Click here.

The Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership is looking for reviewers from practice, research, education and policy.  Interested?  Click here.

Happy Anniversary! Longwoods launched it’s new, redesigned website one year ago on May 1st, 2010, We want to know what you think. This, less than one minute survey, will assist Longwoods in serving you. Click here to participate. To thank you, we will mail you, at no charge, Healthcare Quarterly Special Issue: Patient Safety Papers No. 5.

Our Editors Recommend

• Engaging Physician Leaders in Performance Measurement and Quality by Michael Heenan and David Higgins
• The Next Step on the Road to High Efficiency: Finding Common Ground between Equity and Performance by Adalsteinn D. Brown, Jeremy Veillard and Richard Prial
• More Time Where It Matters: Improving Work Environments in Home Healthcare Nursing by Karen Ray, Julie DeCicco, Nancy Lefebre and Danielle Bender
• Performance Measurement in Healthcare: Part I – Concepts and Trends from a State of the Science Review by Carol E. Adair, Elizabeth Simpson, Ann L. Casebeer, Judith M. Birdsell, Katharine A. Hayden and Steven Lewis
• Automating Data Capture from the Ontario Laboratories Information System (OLIS) for Secondary Data Uses by Lisa K. Milgram, Sara Khan, Gemma Lee and Marta Yurcan
• Religion, Condom Use Acceptability and Use within Marriage among Rural Women in Malawi by Adamson S. Muula, James C. Thomas, Audrey E. Pettifor, Ronald P. Strauss, Chirayath M. Suchindran and Steve R. Meshnick

News

• HIR Awards Grant Towards the Commercialization of the Revolutionary Verisante Aura Skin Cancer Detector Verisante Opens Market; to Present at BioFinance 2011
• Canadian Healthcare Product Registry to Help 
Patient Safety, Reduce Health System Costs
• Lawson Researcher Proves You Can Teach an Old Dog New Tricks
• The International Consortium on Anti-Virals (ICAV) announces: Dr. Luis Barreto MBBS, MD, MHSc has been elected to the Board of Directors
• National Hospice Palliative Care Week: Communities Share the Care “How Can I Help?” Lets Share the Care
• St. Michael’s Hospital Recognized as a 2011 Computerworld Honors Laureate for Innovative GIS Application
• Roche Diagnostics Canada joins the social media age to launch its new project: Accu-Chek Mobile
• Canadian Obesity Network-International Consensus: Take Action to Prevent Childhood Obesity
• Scleroderma Society of Ontario makes $456,000 investment in Research, Care and Education at St. Joe’s
• Canadian Obesity Network: Canada’s #1 Health Crisis Deserves Attention During Election
• Group from Toronto Western Hospital wins HOOPP award for innovative frontline care
• The Ottawa Hospital in Canada Joins University HealthSystem Consortium as an International Member
• Lack of interoperability limits personal health solutions
• More…

Breakfast with the Chiefs

Thursday, May, 5, 2011
Dr. Stephen Duckett, Professor in the Alberta School of Business and the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta.
Topic: Lessons from Alberta, the road less travelled
Location: University of Toronto, Health Sciences Building, Ground Floor, Room 106, 155 College Street
Sponsors: Accenture, IBM, and PwC
Registration Closed

Tuesday, June 07, 2011
Dr. Robert (Bob) Howard, President and Chief Executive Officer of St. Michael’s Hospital
Topic: to be announced
Location: St Michael’s Hospital Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute 209 Victoria St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sponsors: Accenture, IBM, Baxter, and CGI
Register here

Upcoming Speakers – Details and registration will be announced in this space soon or sign up for New Events Alerts to be the 1st to know

Dr. Robert Bell, Dr. Mary Ferguson-Paré and Sholom Glouberman – September 2011

Past Presentations can be found here.  All Audio and Video Presentations can be found here.
Corporate Canada looking to participate in these highly visible programs can contact Matthew Hart at mhart@longwoods.com
Healthcare Institutions who would like to send their staff to participate in these programs can contact Sarah Lieberman at slieberman@longwoods.com
For sponsorship information, please contact Matthew Hart at 416-864-9667 x113 or email mhart@longwoods.com

The small print: Breakfast with the Chiefs registration requirements for individuals working at Healthcare Facilities: To attend any or all sessions over a season, you must hold a current subscription to at least one Longwoods’ journal. A one- time registration fee will also be available for certain events, to be announced upon opening of registration. If you are not sure of your status and want more information please contact Sarah Lieberman at slieberman@longwoods.com.

Conferences

• May 4-5, 2011: Markham, ON. Ontario Gerontology Association, 30th Annual Conference
• May 8-10, 2011: Toronto, ON. 4th Annual HSCN National Healthcare Supply Chain Conference
• May 9-12, 2011: Halifax, NS. CAHSPR Conference 2011: Renewing Federalism, Improving Health Care: Can This Marriage Be Saved?
• May 11-13, 2011: Toronto, ON. Innovation and Leadership in Rural and Northern Health Care
• May 11-14, 2011: Vancouver, BC. Effecting change through influence
• May 16, 2011: London, ON. What is Collaborative Practice Anyway: How IPC is Working in Health Care
• May 24-27, 2011: Toronto, ON. Dorothy Wylie Nursing and Health Leaders Institute
• May 25-27, 2011: Muskoka, ON. First Annual National Nursing Executives Summit
• May 26, 2011: Toronto, ON. HPME Society of Graduates Education Day 2011
• June 6-7, 2011: Whistler, BC. National Healthcare Leadership Conference (NHLC) / Conférence nationale sur le leadership dans les soins de santé (CNLSS)
• June 9-10, 2011: Toronto, ON. Physician Leadership Summit
• June 17-19, 2011: Waterloo, ON. Applied Health Informatics Bootcamp
• June 22-24, 2011: Toronto, ON. OACCAC Knowledge and Inspiration 2011

Add your conference to the Longwoods eLetter here
Conferences on the Longwoods site
Ontario Hospital Association conferences.
Events in Global Health at the University of North Carolina
For more information please contact conferences@longwoods.com

Transitions

Tracy Kitch to Senior Vice President, Patient Services & Chief Nursing Executive, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON (Erratum)
Dr. Kellie Leitch to Member of Parliament
Dr. Albert Aguayo, OC inducted into the national Medical Hall of Fame
Dr. John Bienenstock, CM inducted into the national Medical Hall of Fame
Dr. Jonathan C. Meakins, CBE (1882-1959) inducted into the national Medical Hall of Fame
Dr. Paul David, CC, GOQ (1919-1999) inducted into the national Medical Hall of Fame
Dr. Allan Ronald, OC inducted into the national Medical Hall of Fame
Dr. D. Lorne Tyrrell, OC inducted into the national Medical Hall of Fame

Send your transitions to transitions@longwoods.com
See more Transitions here.

Featured Careers

See the entire list of leadership and nursing careers at Jobs.Longwoods.com

• Assistant Deputy Minister, Health Sector IM / IT – BC Public Service Agency, Victoria, BC
• Assistant Deputy Minister, Population and Public Health – BC Public Service Agency, Victoria, BC
• Vice President, Human Resources & Chief Human Resources Officer – Hôpital régional de Sudbury Regional Hospital, Sudbury, ON
• Senior Policy Advisor – Health Council of Canada, Toronto, ON
• Manager- Rehabilitation and Continuing Care – Rouge Valley Health System, Scarborough, ON
• Senior Director, Patient Care Services – Hotel Dieu Hospital, Kingston, ON
• Chief Executive Officer – OMA, Toronto, ON
• Program Manager(s), Quality Improvement – Health Quality Ontario, Toronto, ON
• Assistant Professor (Health Policy) – The Faculty of Health Sciences, UWO, London, Ontario
• Vice President, Patient Services – The Scarborough Hospital, Scarborough, ON
• Manager, Occupational Health and Safety Services (OHS) – Sheridan Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning, Toronto, ON

For more information or to post a position go to Jobs.Longwoods.com or email Susan Hale

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