2010 Health Policy Conference
Lost in Knowledge Translation? Innovations in Health Human Resources Policy

March 30-31, 2010
Sheraton Wall Centre, Vancouver BC

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Conference Overview For those governing and managing our health care systems, making the best use of our valuable human resources is a top priority. But while highly skilled workers form the backbone of all health care systems, most agree that our health human resources (HHR) are poorly deployed in Canada and in most other advanced health care systems in the world. HHR-related issues continue to emerge as a top priority in every “Listening for Direction” type of exercise in Canada. So how can we get from where we are, to where we could be? If system efficiencies and improvements to the quality of care are to be found, they will, for the most part, be a product of HHR-related innovation. What types of HHR innovations are being put in place and why do they work? What innovations are currently being tested or evaluated? What obstacles prevent innovation? And what may be the impact of innovative HHR practices? These questions along with many others will be explored in CHSPR’s 22nd Annual Conference. Join us for our day and a half event where an international line-up of speakers will share their expertise and insights from across the full HHR policy spectrum including training, communications, organization, financing, regulation and policy.

Selected Topics

• Challenges to health human resources innovation
• “Success factors” and “Success stories” in health human resource innovation
• Implications of small area clinical practice variations for health human resources policy
• The innovation potential in new clinical models of care
• The training milieu – innovation incubator, or change impediment?
• Managing change, productivity and performance

Confirmed Speakers

Ivy Bourgeault, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa

Edward Brown, CEO, Ontario Telemedicine Network

Cindy Cruickshank, Project Co-Lead, Model of Care Initiative in Nova Scotia

Stephen Duckett, President & CEO, Alberta Health Services

Robert Evans, Faculty, UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research

Elliott Fisher, Dartmouth Medical College, US

Katherine Fraser, Interim Sr Director, Acute and Tertiary Care Nova Scotia Department of Health

John Gilbert, College of Health Disciplines, University of British Columbia

Jack Kitts, CEO, The Ottawa Hospital

David Levine, President & CEO, Agence de la Santé et des Services Sociaux de Montréal

Steven Lewis, Consultant, Access Consulting Ltd.

Kate Lorig, Patient Education Research Center, Stanford University

Alan Maynard, University of York, England

Linda McGillis-Hall, Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto

Patrick McGowan, Centre for Aging, University of Victoria

Brian Postl, President & CEO, Winnipeg Regional Health Authority

Marlene Raasok, School of Health Sciences, Conestoga College

Michael Rachlis, Health Policy Consultant, Toronto

Lynn Stevenson, VP & Chief Nurse Executive, Vancouver Island Health Authority

Cathy Ulrich, CEO, Northern (BC) Health

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