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Barry McLellan, MD
President and CEO, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Dr. McLellan is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Ontario. In this role, Dr. McLellan provides leadership for one of Canada's largest academic health sciences centres with 10,000 staff and physicians, 1,200 beds and an annual budget of more than $850 million. Prior to his position as President and CEO at Sunnybrook, he was the Chief Coroner for Ontario.

Dr. McLellan graduated from the University of Toronto with a Medical Doctorate in 1981 and subsequently trained in Emergency Medicine, receiving a Fellowship in 1985 (Specialist in Emergency Medicine). Dr. McLellan was the director of the Trauma Program and Vice President of Specialty Services at Sunnybrook. He was also the Director of the hospital's Emergency Department, Base Hospital Program (paramedic program) and Trauma Research.

Dr. McLellan is a Full Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto. He has published more than 65 scientific papers, written a textbook on trauma care and lectured extensively, including international presentations in the fields of trauma care and forensic investigation.

Beverley A. Orser, MD, FRCPC, PhD
Associate Professor of Anesthesia and Physiology, University of Toronto

Dr. Beverley A. Orser is Professor of Anesthesia and Physiology at the University of Toronto, a Canada Research Chair in Anesthesia and a practising anesthesiologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences. She received a Medical Doctorate from Queen's University in 1981, a Fellowship from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 1987, and a PhD in medical science from the University of Toronto in 1995. She completed postgraduate clinical training programs at the Royal Columbian Hospital, McMaster University, Oxford University and the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the molecular mechanism of anesthetics and analgesics. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Anesthesia and operating grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Her clinical studies focus on simple but effective ways to improve patient safety in the operating room. She co-founded the Institute for Safe Medication Practices Canada, the first Canadian reporting system for medication errors and the Patient Safety Committee of the Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society. She has also chaired the Canadian Standards Association Subcommittee on the Labeling and Packaging of Drugs and helped to develop a tool that can be used to assess drug hazards in the operating room. Her recent efforts have been directed to the implementation of safety checklists for patients undergoing surgery. Dr. Orser's work has been recognized through numerous awards, including a Canada Research Chair, the first Frontiers in Anesthesia Research Award from the International Anesthesia Research Society and a Research Recognition Award from the Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society. She has also received the Recognition Award from the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (United States), the Premier's Research Excellence Award (Ontario) and a Career Scientist Award from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.

Carolyn E. Hoffman, RN, MN
Vice President, Clinical Performance Improvement for Alberta Health Services

Carolyn E. Hoffman RN, MN, is the Vice President, Clinical Performance Improvement for Alberta Health Services, the largest healthcare delivery organization in Canada. In this role, Carolyn leads the Patient Safety, Clinical Quality Improvement, Improvement Design & Delivery, and Improvement Capacity Building teams. She is also Senior Advisor to the World Health Organization's High 5s Initiative with responsibilities that include chairing the Event Analysis Subcommittee and Collaborative Learning Committee.

Carolyn has senior leadership experience in hospital operations, provincial government, and quality improvement with a focus on patient safety. She was most recently the Executive Director of Critical Care, Emergency, Trauma, Cardiac Services and the Northern Health Services Network at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton. Carolyn was also the internal lead for the development and launch of the Safer Healthcare Now! National Campaign supported by the Canadian Patient Safety Institute (Director of Operations, Ontario to British Columbia).

Carolyn is a co-author of the Canadian Incident Analysis Framework (pending publication); the lead author of the 2008 consultation paper on the development of a Canadian Adverse Event Reporting and Learning System; and co-author of the Canadian Root Cause Analysis Framework (2006) as well as the Canadian Patient Safety Dictionary (2003).

Eleanor Morton, Hons BAS
Risk Manager - retired

Eleanor Morton, retired, is the former Vice President, Risk Management of HIROC (Healthcare Insurance Reciprocal of Canada). She holds an Honours BAS from York University, trained as a Health Information Management professional and holds a certificate in Health Services Management from the Canadian Healthcare Association. Eleanor has had extensive experience in healthcare organizations in Canada and Australia, with a number of those years dedicated to work in the fields of health information management, research, quality improvement and risk management.

Prior to joining HIROC Eleanor operated her own consulting business providing services to Ontario home care programs, the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) and HIROC. Eleanor is on the Board of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) Canada, is on the respective editorial boards of Risk Management in Canadian Health Care and the ISMP Canada Safety Bulletin. Eleanor is also a member of the Board of The Anne Johnston Health Station in Toronto.

Emily Lap Sum Musing, RPh, BScPhm, MHSc, ACPR, FCSHP, CHE
Executive Director of Pharmacy, Patient Safety Officer, Director of Clinical Risk and Quality, University Health Network

Emily Musing is the Executive Director of Pharmacy, Clinical Risk and Quality at the University Health Network As such; she manages both the inpatient and outpatient pharmacy services across UHN's three sites. She is also responsible for providing leadership related to clinical risk and quality as UHN's Patient Safety Officer.

Emily received her Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto and her Master of Health Science in Health Administration from the Department of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. She is a Certified Health Executive with the Canadian College of Health Leaders and a Fellow with the American College of Healthcare Executives and the Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists. She is an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Pharmacy and has an adjunct appointment with the department of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine, and is a faculty member of the Centre for Patient Safety, University of Toronto.

Emily completed the Patient Safety Executive Development Program with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (2010). Other leadership activities include Emily's previous roles as an Ontario Trailblazer for Safer Healthcare Now!, member on the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Expert Panel on Quality and Safety, and Co-chair of the Council of Academic Hospitals of Ontario Drug and Therapeutics Committee. She is currently Vice Chair of the recently established Death Investigation Oversight Council reporting to the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services and recently joined the Board for the Canadian Patient Safety Institute.

John W. Senders, PhD
Scientific Consultant to ISMP, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto

John W. Senders, A.B. (Exp. Psych.) Harvard College (1948); Ph.D. (Math. Psych.) Tilburg (1983). He has taught and researched Human Factors Engineering, Medical Safety and Psychology for more than 50 years and has published numerous papers and reports on those topics.

He became interested in the study of human error in 1973 and has spoken and written diversely on that topic. In 1980 he organized the first conference ever held on the topic of human error: The Clambake Conference on "The Nature and Source of Human Error". The second Clambake Conference was held at Bellagio, Italy under the sponsorship of NATO and the Rockefeller Foundation. In 2001 he became a member of the Editorial Board of Quality and Safety in Health Care (a journal of the BMJ Group). In the same year he received the Cheers Award from the Institute for Safe Medication Practices with the citation: "Recognizing actions that have set a standard of excellence in the prevention of medication errors."

For more than 25 years he has served as scientific advisor and investigator on matters of human error, and as expert witness in litigation stemming from errors and accidents in hospitals and other environments. As Principal Scientific Consultant of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (Pennsylvania), as co-founder of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices-Canada, and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices-Canada, he has been continually involved in the analysis of medical misadventures.

He is currently Professor Emeritus of Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. He was Adjunct Professor of Law at the Osgoode Hall School of Law of York University (Toronto), and James Marsh Professor-at-Large of the University of Vermont. In 2003/04 he was Professor of Safety Science in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Medical School of the University of Miami.

Michael Cohen, MS, RPh
President, ISMP US

Michael Cohen, RPh, MS, ScD, is president of The Institute for Safe Medication Practices, a non-profit healthcare organization in the United States that specializes in understanding the causes of medication errors and providing error-reduction strategies to the healthcare community, policy makers, and the public. He is editor of the textbook, Medication Errors (2007 American Pharmaceutical Association) and serves as co-editor of the ISMP Medication Safety Alert! publications that reach over 2 million health professionals and consumers in the US, as well as regulatory authorities and others in over 30 foreign countries. Dr. Cohen is vice-chair of the Sentinel Event Advisory Group for the Joint Commission and served recently as a member of the National Quality Forum's Voluntary Consensus Standards Maintenance Committee (CSMC) on Safe Practices. He currently serves as a consultant to the FDA Drug Safety and Risk Management Committee. In 2005 he was recognized as a MacArthur Fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Ruth Wilson, MD, CCFP*
Department of Family Medicine, Queen's University

Dr. Ruth Wilson is the Associate Director of Health Policy at the College of Family Physicians of Canada and outgoing Chair of the Canadian Medical Forum, a roundtable of CEOs and presidents of Canada's major medical organizations. She is a practising family physician and educator. A professor of family medicine at Queen's University, she was Chair of the department for ten years. From 2001-2004, she served as Chair of the Ontario Family Health Network, a provincial government agency created to implement primary care reform in Ontario. This effort laid the groundwork for the widespread primary care models in Ontario including Family Health Teams.

Her practice as a family physician includes eleven years in remote communities in Canada, and twenty-two years in Kingston, Ontario, where she includes obstetrics in her practice. Her international experience includes helping establish family medicine in the immediate post-conflict situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Wilson's research interests are in women's health, aboriginal health, and the lessons from these areas that affect the determinants of health. She is co-author of the Women's Health chapters of the Oxford Textbook of Primary Care, and editor of Implementing Primary Care Reform: Barriers and Facilitators. She is outgoing Chair of the National Drug Scheduling Advisory Committee.

She is the recipient of a Canada 125 Medal. In May 2002, Wilson received an honorary Doctor of Laws from Thompson Rivers University. In 2010 Wilson was named one of two 5 Star Doctors by WONCA, the World Organization of Family Doctors. Also in 2010 she was named one of Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women.

W. Morley Lemon, PhD, FCA, CPA
Professor Emeritus, University of Waterloo

W. Morley Lemon PhD, (University of Texas at Austin); FCA (Ontario), CPA (Texas) is Professor Emeritus, University of Waterloo. He was the PricewaterhouseCoopers Professor of Auditing at his retirement in 2004. Morley a KPMG Audit Research Fellow from 1985 to 1986 and a Visiting Professor at the University of Texas at Austin (Fall 2003, Spring 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009) and the University of Auckland (Spring 2004, 2005).

Morley received the University of Waterloo Distinguished Teacher Award in 1998, the ICAO Award of Outstanding Merit in 2003, CAAA L.S. Rosen Outstanding Educator Award in 2004, and the American Accounting Association Auditing Section Distinguished Service Award in 2010.

Service to the profession includes the CICA Auditing Standards Board 1996-2000 and several CICA Task Forces. Morley also served on the Canada/US/UK Joint Working Group to Examine Audit Methodology (1999-2000) and was co-author of Developments in the Audit Methodologies of Large Accounting Firms published by the Auditing Practices Board, London in 2000.

Service to the academy includes membership on a number of CAAA committees and membership on the AAA Council and of a number of AAA committees. Morley has presented papers in Canada, the U.S., Australia and China. and has papers published in several journals and monographs.

Other service includes membership on the Boards of Transparency International Canada, The Salvation Army Toronto Grace Health Centre (including two years as Chair, and ISMP Canada.

*Board Chairperson

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