Krembil Centre
Outreach

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Transformations in our Canadian healthcare systems are needed to ensure survivability, to bolster its resilience to future shock and disruption and, most significantly, adapt to new ideas and innovations. The role of value-based healthcare is integral to this future. The virtual summit explored the essential principles of value-based healthcare and how they can drive transformative changes in the Canadian healthcare system.

The Krembil Centre for Health Management and Leadership participated in CONNECT 2023, an Alumni Conference to make continual connections with the community. At the conference, the Centre showcased its ambitious goals and Professor Mapa shared his vision for driving progress and innovation in healthcare management and leadership fields. Dr. Abi Sriharan, Krembil Centre Research Director and Senior Scientist presented research findings on “Key Healthcare Leadership Competencies: Perspectives from Current Healthcare Leaders”. Her ground-breaking research sheds light on the crucial competencies necessary to tackle the most pressing healthcare challenges and outline strategies for fostering successful leaders.

The fourth Krembil Healthcare Leadership Summit presented emerging research on healthcare leadership and explored how leaders and healthcare organizations can utilize adaptive leadership approaches. The summit also explained what style of leadership is best suited to navigate disruption and help shape the healthcare sector of tomorrow.

Speakers at Advancing Healthcare through Leadership Research: Bri S. Darboh (MBA’22) (top-left), Iris Yusupov (MBA’22) (centre), Professor Joseph Mapa (top right), Eric McNulty (bottom-left), Dr. Abi Sriharan (bottom-right)

Our panel members comprised Dr. Abi Sriharan, Research Director and Senior Scientist, Krembil Centre for Health Management and Leadership, Eric McNulty, Associate Director for the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative, Harvard University, Iris Yusupov (MBA’22), Sessional Instructor, Schulich School of Business, Ph.D. Candidate, Faculty of Health, York University, and Bri S. Darboh (MBA’22), Sessional Instructor, Schulich School of Business, Ph.D. Candidate, Faculty of Health, York University. The insightful discussion was moderated by Professor. Joseph Mapa, Krembil Chair in Health Management and Leadership.

The third Krembil Healthcare Leadership Summit explored how AI-driven automation technologies can transform the health industry and discussed essential principles for responsible adoption of these technologies for better healthcare.

Speakers at A.I. and Digital Technologies for Better Healthcare: Dr. Amol Verma (top left), Dr. Abi Sriharan (top right), Dr. Leo Anthony Celi (bottom)

The panel comprised of Dr. Leo Anthony Celi, Clinical Research Director and Principal Research Scientist, MIT Laboratory for Computational Physiology and Staff Physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Dr. Amol Verma, Clinician-Scientist at St. Michael’s Hospital and Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. Dr. Leo spoke about machine bias and global perspectives related to Artificial Intelligence. He was joined by Dr. Amol who presented how Canada is leveraging digital technologies to improve healthcare. The insightful discussion was moderated by Dr. Abi Sriharan, Krembil Centre Research Director and Senior Scientist at the Schulich School of Business.

The Krembil Centre for Health Leadership and Management, in collaboration with Accenture, hosted their second Leadership Summit on March 30, 2022, themed on Workplace Culture, Talent, And Leadership in the Covid Era

Dean Detlev Zwick, and Centre Chair Joseph Mapa, along with the health sector experts joined the thought leadership event to discuss the future of the workplace culture in the healthcare sector along with topics of shifting labour dynamics, workforce burnout and attrition, and responsible leadership.

The panel comprised of Karen Forward, Managing Director, Human Potential at Accenture, Sean Hinton, Founder and CEO at SkyHive Technologies; and Dr. Abi Sriharan, Senior Krembil Fellow, Krembil Centre for Health Management and Leadership, Director of Leadership Wellness Lab. The insightful discussion was moderated by Jimmy Yang (MBA ’07), Managing Director and National Health Industry Leader, Accenture.

In addition to our Summits, the Centre will be making continual connections with our alumni with educational sessions.

Our first session themed on “The Great Disruption: Impact and Key Shifts in Healthcare” was organized on February 16, 2022, with 130+ registrations. An informative and engaging panel comprising of Rina Lamba (MBA ’19), Director, Public Health, York Region; Lauren Rinaldo (MSTM ’17, MBA ’21), Epic Project Training Lead, Scarborough Health Network; Andrea Spencer (MBA ’13), Principal (Consulting), Optimus SBR discussed about new perspectives about how we work and want to work, how to innovate, how to seize new opportunities, and how to lead in a world where technology can be embraced at lightning speed. The session was hosted by Keith Loo (MBA ’12), CEO, Skinopathy and moderated by Joseph Mapa, Krembil Chair in Health Management and Leadership.

On September 23, 2021, Schulich’s newly established Krembil Centre for Health Management and Leadership, in collaboration with Deloitte, hosted our launch summit to celebrate leadership and help reshape the best practices in our industry.

The Summit was preceded with the official launch of our Centre. Robert Krembil (MBA ’71, Hon LLD ’00) and members of his family along with Dean Detlev Zwick, President and Vice-Chancellor Rhonda L. Lenton, Dean Emeritus Dezsö J. Horváth, and Krembil Chair Joseph Mapa launched the Centre with great enthusiasm and aspirations.

Our first Leadership Summit which followed, took stock, and reflected on the ideas of renowned thought leaders in four vital and timely areas of healthcare: 1. Long-Term Care and the Impact of COVID; 2. The Digital Future of Healthcare; 3. The Role of AI and Data Analytics, and 4. Reimagining the Healthcare Workforce.