March 24, 2009

Ann Trafford to the dual role of Vice President, Information Management and Chief Information Officer at Bridgepoint Health and St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto (ON)
Dr. Robert Howard to President and CEO, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto (ON)
Susanne Bjerno to Vice President, CFO and CIO, Guelph General Hospital
Paul Faguy is at Sidra Medical & Research Center in Doha, Qatar
Steven Lawrence to McKesson Canada as Senior Client Executive
Colin Smith to Consulting Director, Health Practice, Sierra Systems
Paddy Meade dismissed from Alberta's Ministry of Health

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March 17, 2009 

Carlos Rizo to Chief Imagineer, Health Strategy Innovation Cell, based at Massey College, University of Toronto
Gerald Savoie, Chief Executive Office, to leave Ottawa's Montfort Hospital in October
Peter Szota to inaugural Executive Director, Grand River Community Health Centre (ON)
Dr. Nancy Whitmore to Chief of Staff and Vice President Medical Affairs, St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital (ON)
Audrey Whitney, dismissed from position of pastor for Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital (ON) to reduce the deficit
Bruce Babcock to the Board of Governors, St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital (ON)
Mark Fulton to the Board of Governors, St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital (ON)
Dave Warden to the Board of Governors, St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital (ON)
Tom Marks to the Board of Governors, St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital (ON)
Jean Fotheringhame to the Board of Governors, St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital (ON)
Henry J. Pankrantz to Northumberland Hills (ON) Hospital board of directors
Tony Rockingham to Assistant Deputy Minister, Innovation and Commercialization for Ontario’s Ministry of Research and Innovation (MRI)

TRANSITIONS

March 10, 2009

Brian Ktytor to Chief Information Officer (CIO) and e-Health Lead, the North West Local Health Integration Network [formerly Dean of the School of Aviation, Confederation College]
Vickie Kaminski, Sue Matthews, Paul Temple, Ken Tremblay to Operational Review Team, Cambridge Memorial Hospital
Sue Matthews to Vice President Patient Services and Chief Nursing Executive, Niagara Health System (since January)
Dr. Charmaine Roye to Chief of Staff, Brantford General Hospital
Marni Schecter to Executive Director, Lupus Ontario
Dr. Kaveh Shojania to Inaugural Director, University of Toronto Centre for Patient Safety

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March 3/09

Vickie Kaminski to President and Chief Executive Officer of Eastern Health, Newfoundland and Labrador. More.
Jonathan Lomas to senior scholar in residence at the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Ontario
Marianne Walker, President & CEO, St. Joseph’s Health Centre, Guelph, to member of the Board of Directors of the Ontario Hospital Association
Dr. Allon Reddoch to Chair, the Health Care Review Steering Committee, Yukon
Dr. Jim Yong Kim, Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, to President of Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH
Carol Clemenhagen to Program Leader for the Global Health Research Initiative, a partnership of the Canadian International Development Agency, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, International Research Development Centre, Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada.

February 24, 2009

Dr. Joanne Hope to interim chief of staff, the Niagara Health System (ON)
Dr. Keith Greenway had been acting as interim chief of staff, the Niagara Health System (ON)
Dr. William Shragge had been chief of staff, the Niagara Health System (ON)
Bhavdeep Singh to Chief Executive Officer, Hospital chain Fortis Healthcare, New Delhi India
Dr. André Corriveau to Chief Medical Officer of Health, Alberta
John N. Wallace to President and Chief Executive Officer, The Caldwell Partners International Inc.

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February 17, 2009

Paula McColgan to Executive Lead, Strategy and Network Development and Executive Director, Bridgepoint Collaboratory for Research and Innovation, Bridgepoint Health
Dr. Stephen Duckett to President and Chief Executive Officer, Alberta Health Services (March 23, 2009.) More (PDF).
Barry Monaghan to Interim CEO, Huronia District Hospital (ON)
Dr. Charmaine Roye to Chief of Staff, Brantford General Hospital (ON)

February 10, 2009 

Neil Seeman to Director and Primary Investigator, Health Strategy Innovation Cell, based at Massey College, University of Toronto
Robert Donelson to Vice-president of Development and Alumni relations, University of Waterloo
Michael Barrett to CEO of the South West Local Health Integration Network, Ontario
Dr. Calvin Stiller to Chair of the Board of Directors of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Dr. Kaveh Shojania to inaugural Director, the new University of Toronto Centre for Patient Safety
Dr. Jack Taunton to Chief Medical Officer for the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games
Dr. Charmaine Roye to Chief of Staff, Brantford General Hospital

February 3, 2009

Dr. Shoo Lee to Paediatrician-in-Chief, Mount Sinai Hospital and head of the neonatology department at the University of Toronto
Dr. Paula Rochon to Vice-President, Research Women’s College Hospital, Toronto
Dean Johnson to President Sodexo Canada
David J. Mitchell to President & CEO Public Policy Forum
Jill Tettmann to Acting Chief Executive Officer, North Simcoe Muskoka LHIN
[And in the “better late than never” department]
Dr. Jack Kitts (President & CEO, The Ottawa Hospital) to Chair of the Board of Directors, of the Board of Directors, Association of Academic Healthcare Organizations
Ida Goodreau (President & CEO, Vancouver Coastal Health Authority) to Member of the Board of Directors, of the Board of Directors, Association of Academic Healthcare Organizations (for a few more weeks)
Dr. Arthur Porter (Executive Director & CEO, McGill University Health Centre) to Member of the Board of Directors, of the Board of Directors, Association of Academic Healthcare Organizations
Christine Power (President & CEO, Capital District Health Authority) to Member of the Board of Directors, of the Board of Directors, Association of Academic Healthcare Organizations
Glenn Brimacombe to President and CEO Association of Canadian Academic Healthcare Organizations
Robert Mosher to Vice President Marketing, TSO3

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