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The Plan for Health Care
Members of the Team
As part of the Ontario government's plan for health system transformation, the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care appointed a Health Results Team in September 2004. This dedicated team of industry experts is responsible for leading the implementation of key areas of the government's change agenda.
Many significant results have been achieved since the seven members of the team were appointed by Minister George Smitherman in September 2004.
For example, under the leadership of Gail Paech, Health Results Team Lead for System Integration, the Local Health System Integration Act 2006 was passed on March 1, 2006, marking the successful implementation of Ontario's 14 Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs). Gail Paech, an assistant deputy minister at the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care since July 1998 and the former President and CEO of Toronto East General Hospital, developed the strategic policy framework to support the government's decision to create LHINs. This policy work formed the founding principles and basis for the legislation that has established the LHINs.
Fellow team members, Gloria Bishop and Barbara Hall, were integral to the team's success during the first year of its mandate. They both drew upon their extensive experience in public relations, Gloria, as Lead for External Communications, and Barbara, as Lead for Community Relations, in ensuring that the message for change was carried across the province and in forging new relationships with stakeholders across the system.
Listed below are the biographies for the team's Executive Lead, Hugh MacLeod, and the team members for Information Management, Access to Services/Wait Times and Primary Care.
In the fall of 2006, Hugh MacLeod will publish his second annual report on the progress, milestones and success achieved by the team.
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Hugh MacLeod (Executive Lead)
Hugh MacLeod is the Executive Lead of the Health Results Team. This past February, he was appointed Assistant Deputy Minister, Accountability and Performance Division, for the Ministry of Health and Long-Term.
Previously, Hugh MacLeod was the Assistant Deputy Minister of the ministry's Acute Services Division. He has considerable experience in the health sector having previously served in several senior level positions in British Columbia.
Hugh MacLeod has served as Associate Faculty in the Masters of Arts Leadership Program at Royal Roads University, Part-Time Faculty in the Health Studies Program at the British Columbia Institute Of Technology and the University of British Columbia, and Associate Faculty in the Master of Public Safety Program at the Justice Institute of British Columbia.
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Adalsteinn Brown (Lead of Information Management)
Adalsteinn (Steini) D. Brown is Information Management Lead for the Health Results Team. This past March, he was appointed Assistant Deputy Minister, Health System Strategy Division, for the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.
Steini is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (HPME), Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Toronto.
Until recently, he was the Principal Investigator for the Hospital Report Research Collaborative. This project develops balanced scorecards for acute care, emergency department care, chronic care, rehabilitation and mental health, and integrates women's health and nursing perspectives. Steini also served as an advisor to the World Health Organization, major hospital networks, HMOs, insurance companies, and investment banks in Canada, the US, Europe, and the Far East.
Steini graduated magna cum laude (government) from Harvard in 1993. He received his D.Phil from the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Oxford in 2002. He was a Harvard National Scholar and a Rhodes Scholar. In recognition of his work on performance measurement, he was named one of Canada's Top 40 Under 40 in 2003.
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Dr. Alan Hudson (Lead of Access to Services/Wait Times)
Dr. Alan Hudson is leading Access to Services/Wait Times for the Health Results Team.
Dr. Hudson, President and CEO of Cancer Care Ontario since April 2002, has led the integration of 11 cancer centres with their host hospitals.
From 1991 – 2000, Dr. Hudson was President and CEO of Toronto's University Health Network. During that time, he led the integration of Princess Margaret Hospital with the Toronto Hospital and the incorporation of Doctor's Hospital, creating the University Health Network.
Prior to being appointed President and CEO, Dr. Hudson served as McCutcheon Chair and Surgeon in Chief at Toronto Hospital from 1989-1991. And from 1970 to 1989, Dr. Hudson was a leading neurosurgeon at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto where he co-founded a laboratory which garnered an international reputation for innovation in neurosurgery research.
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Dr. Jim MacLean (Lead of Primary Care)
Dr. Jim MacLean is the Health Results Team lead for Primary Care.
Dr. MacLean has been President and CEO of Markham Stouffville Hospital since April 1999, having previously served as Chief of Staff at the hospital from May 1986 until November 1998.
Dr. MacLean chaired the York Region District Health Council's Task Force responsible for redeveloping health care services for York Region.
He is currently the Chair of the Toronto East Network (TEN) CEO group. Dr. MacLean is also a member of the OHA's eHealth Council and Management Board's Advisory Committee on e Government. In addition, he serves on the Board of Smart Systems for Health Agency, the Child Health Network, and the Healthcare Insurance Reciprocal of Canada.
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