Speakers
Keynote speakers | Workshop presenters
Keynote speakers
- Michael Leonard, MD, a physician leader for patient safety at Kaiser Permanente
- Lee Lipsenthal, MD, medical director of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute, Sausalito
- Robert Ouellet, MD, Canadian Medical Association (CMA) President
- Michael Gallery, PhD, President and Founder for OPIS, LLC
- Jack Silversin, DMD, DrPH, President, Amicus Inc.
- Saum Sutaria, MD, Principal, McKinsey & Co.
 Michael Gallery, PhD, CAE
President, OPIS, LLC
Dr. Gallery has a doctorate in instructional design, research, and performance measurement. During his 23-year career with the American College of Emergency Physicians, he held a variety of positions, including 14 years as the college's chief operating officer.
Dr. Gallery has also held a variety of leadership positions in the association management profession. He is an ASAE fellow and a past chair of the certifying body for the profession. He has authored more than 40 books, magazine and journal articles and presented at over 50 national and international meetings in his career. He was the recipient of TSAE's Professional Excellence Award in 2001.
Dr. Gallery recently served as the chair of the Center for Association Leadership's Measures of Success Project. This landmark research effort in association management applied the work of Jim Collin's Good to Great to association management. By comparing good associations to visionary ones, the measures task force identified those factors uniquely shared by visionary associations. Jim Collins served as an advisor to the project and wrote the forward to the task force's book on the results: 7 Measures of Success: What Remarkable Associations Do That Others Don't. The book is ASAE's best selling title, with over 12,000 copies sold since its release in August 2006.
 Lee Lipsenthal, MD
Lee Lipsenthal, an internist with postgraduate training in cholesterol disorders, has served as the Medical Director of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito with Dean Ornish, California for 10 years. His research area is heart disease prevention.
Dr. Lipsenthal consults with major medical centres, health research organizations and corporations on health and wellness. He also teaches workshops and faculty, world-wide, in the area of physician health and relationships, working with major organizations such as Kaiser-Permanente, Cleveland Clinic, the American Medical Association as well as many large universities, hospitals and medical groups.
He is the author of Finding Balance in a Medical Life as well as a chapter contributor to many medical text books.
 Robert Ouellet, MD, CSPQ, FRCPC
President of the Canadian Medical Association, 2008-2009
Dr. Ouellet began practising medicine in 1975 in the Mauricie region of Quebec, where he joined the Department of Radiology of the Trois-Rivières Regional Medical Hospital, Saint-Marie Pavilion, and of the Saint-Joseph Hospital in La Tuque. In 1978, he became the director of the Clinique de radiologie des Récollets in Trois-Rivières. Six years later, he settled in the Montréal area, where he successively served in the Radiology Department of the Cité de la Santé de Laval and of the L.H.-Lafontaine Hospital in Montréal and at the Centre hospitalier ambulatoire régional de Laval. In 1985, he was promoted to Head of the Radiology Department of the Cité de la Santé de Laval.
In 1987, Dr. Ouellet and a few colleagues launched Tomo-Concorde, Canada's first private CT scan clinic. In 1997, he created Réso-Concorde, Laval's first private MRI clinic. In 2000, he opened a second MRI clinic in Laval, Réso-Carrefour.
In 2004, Dr. Ouellet became the director of 2 diagnostic radiology clinics - Radiologie Concorde in Laval and Imagerie Terrebonne in Terrebonne, which he transformed by bringing in cutting-edge digital radiologic technology.
Dr. Ouellet is currently continuing his radiology and management work at the five clinics he runs, and provides radiology services at the LH-Lafontaine Hospital. He has worked in both in the public and private sector for close to 20 years.
Robert Ouellet
Président de l'Association médicale canadienne, 2008-2009
En 1975, le Dr Ouellet entreprend sa carrière de médecin en Mauricie au service du département de radiologie de l'Hôpital Sainte-Marie de Trois-Rivières et celui de l'Hôpital Saint-Joseph de La Tuque. En 1978, il devient directeur et fondateur de la Clinique de radiologie des Récollets à Trois-Rivières. Six ans plus tard, il s'installe dans la région de Montréal où il devient successivement membre du département de radiologie de la Cité de la Santé de Laval, celui de l'Hôpital L.H. Lafontaine de Montréal ainsi que du Centre Hospitalier Ambulatoire Régional de Laval (CHARL). En 1985, il devient chef du Département de Radiologie à la Cité de la Santé de Laval.
Plus tard, Dr Ouellet crée et dirige Tomo-Concorde qui deviendra la première clinique privée de tomographie axiale au Canada en 1987. En 1997, il crée Réso-Concorde, la première clinique privée de résonance magnétique à Laval. Une deuxième clinique d'IRM, Réso-Carrefour voit le jour à Laval en 2000.
En 2004, le Dr Ouellet devient directeur de deux cliniques de radiologie diagnostique, la Radiologie Concorde à Laval et l'Imagerie Terrebonne à Terrebonne, qu'il transforme entièrement pour les amener à la fine pointe de la technologie numérique en radiologie.
Aujourd'hui, le Dr Ouellet poursuit son travail de radiologiste et de gestionnaire dans les cinq cliniques qu'il dirige et participe à la prestation de services de radiologie à l'Hôpital LH Lafontaine.
 Saum Sutaria, MD
Principal, McKinsey & Co
Saum Sutaria is a Principal in the Silicon Valley office of McKinsey & Company, where he has been for almost a decade. His interests are in the heath care sector with a special emphasis on health care delivery and financing. He leads McKinsey's North American Health Systems practice. His focus is in the area of large scale performance transformations of health care delivery systems, including in unionized environments.
His client service spans corporate strategy, organization development, business unit strategy, clinical operations effectiveness, clinical quality and patient safety improvement, purchasing and supply management, physician engagement, international growth/partnerships, clinical IT strategy, and health system reform. He has served 12 major US and Canadian health care systems as well as clients in the UK, Germany, Japan, and India.
Prior to joining McKinsey & Company, Saum had and still maintains an associate clinical faculty appointment at the University of California at San Francisco. Dr. Sutaria received his MD from the University of California at Sand Diego where he was a Howard Hughes Fellow and completed his post graduate training at the University of California at San Francisco. In addition, he holds a BSc in Molecular and Cellular Biology and a BA in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley where he received the University Medal.
Background reading
Dr Sutaria will be discussing "Innovation in health system performance: how
integration will propel Alberta’s transformation." He has provided the following reports as supplementary reading:
Workshop presenters
- Execution: The forgotten element of planning - Michael Gallery, PhD, CAE
- Engagement: the leadership challenge of the decade - Linda Tarrant, CSP, HOF
- Physician leadership and evidence-informed change:
EXTRA Interventions - panel
- Negotiating for yourself — achieving maximum
professional satisfaction and fair economic reward - Cathy Cordell and Mark Schonfeld
- Careers in medical leadership for women: attracting
and supporting talent - Gillian Kernaghan, MD
- Engaging physicians and promoting adoption of
electronic health information systems - Jim MacLean, MD
- Frustrated with processes that waste limited time
and resources? — Sandy Clark, Suzanne Raymond
- The emotionally intelligent approach to the physician - Dr. Lee Lipsenthal, ABIHM
- Distributed medical education: engaging the teachers - Galt Wilson, MD, MSc FCFP
- Modernize professionalism by recreating the
compact - Jack Silversin, DMD, DrPH,
- Better performance: the road to success lies in self-awareness - Geoff Rowlands
- Who’s side are you on? The schizoid realities of
physicians in administrative positions - Becky Temple, MD, and Alexandra
Tcheremenska-Greenhill, MD
- Physicians’ hearts & minds: strategies for successful
engagement of physicians within academic health
sciences centres - Raj Bhatla, MD, James P. O’Brien, MD, Keith Rose, MD, Owen Heisler, MD
 Jim MacLean, MD
Senior Vice President - Clinical Adoption and Chief Physician Executive, Canada Health Infoway
Dr. Jim MacLean is a veteran of the Canadian health care industry with a clear understanding of the benefits to be derived from systems integration within health care and the powerful effect information and communications technology can have on health care in Canada.
Jim's passion for the industry has propelled him throughout his career of more than 25 years; he has been an active member on multiple boards and task forces while working as a family physician administrator and leader.
During his 18 year tenure at the Markham Stouffville Hospital (from 1986 until 2004) Jim held senior positions, including Chief of Staff and President and CEO.
Prior to joining the Markham Stouffville Hospital, Jim worked as a family physician (from 1981 until 1999). In addition, he has worked with the Ontario Public Service as the executive lead for the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care's Family Health Team initiative where he led the establishment of 150 Family Health Teams.
As Senior Vice President, Clinical Adoption, and Chief Physician Executive at Infoway, Jim works with the Canadian clinician population during this transition period of implementing electronic health records nationwide.
 Linda Tarrant, CSP, HOF
Linda Tarrant is a strategist, planner, master facilitator and change management expert. She has consulted with over 400 health care organizations across Canada to plan and manage significant change initiatives and to develop the leadership skills to support the implementation of those changes. Her clients include Ministries of Health, health regions/systems, hospitals, community health services, health care professional groups and associations.
Linda has been involved with the Physician Manager Institute (PMI) since its inception. Linda is an author, a psychologist and highly sought after keynote speaker. She is practical, down-to-earth and experienced in helping organizations deal with difficult and sensitive issues. Linda was the first woman to be inducted into the Canadian Speaking Hall of Fame and she holds the prestigious designation of Certified Speaking Professional.
Sandy Clark
Master Change Agent (GE), Six Sigma Black Belt (GE), Lean Leader (U of Michigan)
Sandy Clark brings over 20 years of healthcare experience to GE’s Performance Solutions team. Prior to joining GE Healthcare in 1995 as a CT Applications Specialist, Sandy held several Diagnostic Imaging positions, including supervising a CT department at a Trauma Centre in Toronto. Today, she is a veteran member of the Performance Solutions team and has led and contributed to over 40 complex client engagements including skills transfer across Canada and the United States. Sandy is a GE Certified Six Sigma Black Belt, a University of Michigan certified Lean for Healthcare practitioner and a GE Master Change Agent. Sandy earned her MRT(R) at the Michener Institute of Technology in Toronto.
Suzanne Raymond
Lean Leader (U of Michigan), Six Sigma Black Belt (GE)
Suzanne Raymond brings to the Performance Solutions team over 25 years of experience with project management, management development and general management in Sales, Service, Quality, Operations, R&D and Organizational Development. She has worked in many industries, including Healthcare, Banking, IT, Fire and Security and Food. In her 8 years with Performance Solutions, Suzanne has worked on over 35 projects in 16 healthcare organizations, throughout Canada and in 4 European countries. She holds an MBA from York University and a BSc (Biochemistry) from the University of Guelph. Suzanne is a GE Certified Six Sigma Black Belt, a University of Michigan Certified Lean for Healthcare practitioner and is fluent in French.
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