W. ANTON HART
Publisher & CEO, Longwoods Publishing Corporation and Chair of the HealthcareBoard 

PROFILE: AT WORK

Longwoods publishes academic, scientific and professional journals focused on healthcare and allied services. The journals are supplemented by weekly eletters, an extensive social media program and a complete library of back issues.

The HealthcareBoard produces related learning programs to translate and further disseminate research, ideas and leading practices in support of providers, managers, and policy makers of healthcare and health services. Leaders from the system share their individual and corporate practices and know-how at one-hour sessions dubbed Breakfast with the Chiefs. More extensive coverage is provided at all-day conferences known as HealthcareRounds. Individual think tanks are routinely set up to ensure we are current and understand the priorities of the healthcare system

Both the publishing group and the board collaborate with universities, institutes, societies, academic health sciences centres, think tanks and individual healthcare providers and policy makers. Board membership is international and includes institutional, individual and corporate members focused on knowledge translation using both publishing and learning tools.

Author | selected articles

• About the Editor-in-Chief | Profile of Dr. Dorothy Pringle. Nursing Leadership (CJNL), 16(1) 2003: 19-20
• Prowess under Pressure: David Levine, New Chief Executive Officer of the Ottawa Hospital. Healthcare Quarterly, 2(2) 1998:37-42
• Reflections on a Conversation with Brian Postl: Can Healthcare Research Make a Difference to Policy and Practice? Healthcare Policy 1(1) 2005: 44-47
• Reflections on Conversations with Robert Bell and Michael Guerriere: What Is Relevant Research? Healthcare Policy 1(2) 2006: 71-77
• When Leaders Talk to Leaders. Healthcare Policy 1(3) 2006: 31-35
• Report of the Methadone Maintenance Treatment Practices Task Force. March 2007. Prepared for and presented to the Minister of Health and Long-term Care for Ontario.
• The Longwoods eLetter. Review of news, intelligence, programs and publications serving the researchers and academics, and providers, managers and policy makers of healthcare and services. Longwoods.com. Weekly since March 2005.

Publisher | Journals | Special Issues | Books

• Healthcare Quarterly (four issues a year since 1997)
• HealthcarePapers (four issues a year since 1999)
• Law & Governance (online library since 2000)
• Electronic Healthcare (four issues a year since 2001)
• Longwoods Review (four issues a year since 2002)
• Nursing Leadership (CJNL) (four issues a year since 2003)
• World Health & Population (four issues a year since 2005)
• Healthcare Policy (four issues a year since 2005)
• The Pulse of Renewal: Nursing Human Resources | Single Report. September 2005
• Patient Safety Papers: Special Issue | annual account of best practices
• Longwoods eLetter. (52 issues a year since 2005)
• ehealthrecord.info (27 issues a year since 2005)
• Healthy Workplaces. Special Report | October 2006
• Change: The Challenge of CPOE. Special Report | October 2006
• Strategic Levers. Special Report | October 2007
• High Performance Healthcare Systems. Edited by Dr. Ross Baker | September 2008

Presenter | the art and science of publishing

• Institute of Health Services and Policy (Canada). Fall 2005
• Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (Canada). Fall 2005
• The Health Care Public Relations Association (Canada). May 2005
• Canadian Healthcare Information Technology Trade Association. November 2006
• Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions. January 2007
• Local Health Integration Networks (Ontario). October 2007
• Private Companies. Various.

Producer | Electronic services

• Longwoods TV learning channel (video library)
• Longwoods Radio (podcast library)
• Longwoods Case Study Library

Producer | Healthcare Rounds in collaboration with:

• Ottawa Hospital (Healthcare communication)
• The Bank of Nova Scotia (Governance)
• Sunnybrook Hospital (healthcare innovation)
• University Health Network (IT)
• Hospital for Sick Children (Telemedicine)
• Calgary Health Region (Regionalization)
• London Health Sciences Centre (Robotics)
• Ontario Telemedicine Network (Telemedicine)

Producer | Lecture series
Producer of more than 100 lectures under the banners: "Breakfast with the Chiefs" and "Great Minds in Dialog" In collaboration with:

• University of Toronto
• University of British Columbia
• University Health Network (Toronto)
• Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto)
• Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto)
• British Columbia's Women's and Children's Hospitals (Vancouver)
• Montreal Health and Social Service Agency

Producer | Workshops

• Ideas Panel to explore impact of SARS on multiple stakeholder relations
• Ideas Panel to explore new information management in hospital pharmacies
• Ideas Panel to explore high performance healthcare opportunities for regional / integrated management models

PROFILE: IN THE COMMUNITY

Anton Hart is the founding publisher of Longwoods Publishing Corporation and Chair of the HealthcareBoard producing various learning programs. Longwoods publishes academic, scientific and professional journals and information about healthcare and services. The HealthcareBoard produces related learning programs to translate research, ideas and best practices in support of providers, managers, and policy makers of healthcare and health services. These programs are popularly known as HealthcareRounds and Breakfast with the Chiefs.

Awards adjudicated and presented annually include: the Ted Freedman Award, the International Best Practices Awards, and the Nursing Leadership Award(s).

Publications were founded in collaboration with many distinguished academics but principally, Dr. Peggy Leatt now retired from the University of Toronto and the University of North Carolina.

The publications include: Healthcare Quarterly; HealthcarePapers; Healthcare Policy; Nursing Leadership; World Health & Population; ElectronicHealthcare; Law & Governance; Books; Special Issues; and an extensive collection of Essays

Anton chaired the Ontario Task Force on Methadone Maintenance Treatment Practices and served on the board of the Ontario Hospital Association, the board of the Sherbourne Health Centre in Toronto and the Health Information Exchange Education Task Force for the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) as well as the computer network Ability OnLine serving young people with disabilities or chronic illnesses, the GiveLife.ca communications task force, and the knowledge translation panel of the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation. He was a long-standing board chair serving the Canadian Obesity Network until he retired in 2015.

Anton has served as an adviser to Canadian Métis and off-reserve aboriginal peoples; the Ontario Hospital Association's education program; the communication program for the University of Toronto's Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation and the Chicago-based HIMSS global health system analytics initiative.

PERSONAL CONTEXT

Born in Oog in Al the Netherlands. Came to Canada with parents and six siblings in the early 50s. Has called Toronto home since 1969. As a preteen earned his keep by picking the summer tomato crop for H. J. Heinz and winning regional public speaking honors for school and county. For years had Gestetner ink-stained fingers from publishing all church publications for his cleric father - part of a stoic Calvinist upbringing and schooling. Baccalaureate education (Calvin College, Economics) that is best remembered for living and working and schooling in the inner city of Grand Rapids Michigan during the American inner city riots of the sixties. Began a communications and corporate marketing career at Bristol Myers Products and Canadian technology innovator - Urban Transportation Development Corporation. Founded a corporate communications company in 1985: served General Motors, Arthur Anderson, Saudi Traders, the Learning Company, Governments, Newcourt Financial, Softkey and Rio Algom Mining. This initiative evolved into Longwoods Publishing Corporation which launched (in collaboration with Dr. Peggy Leatt) its first journal in 1997.

Look for Anton at auctions and markets in search of art and books. He supports emerging artists, prefers vintage clothing, mission oak and wind-up watches while favoring the music of Glenn Gould, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton and Michael Kaeshammer - all of which finds him in tune with one daughter, five sons and their children.

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Posted 2017/11/28 at 08:19 PM EST