Speakers
Dr. Robert Bell was appointed as President and CEO of University Health Network (UHN) in June 2005. An internationally recognized Orthopaedic surgeon, health care executive, clinician-scientist, and educator, Dr. Bell brings more than 20 years of experience in academic health care to leadership of Canada’s largest research hospital. From 2000 to 2005, he served as Chief Operating Officer of UHN’s Princess Margaret Hospital where he was responsible for leading Canada’s largest comprehensive cancer centre. From 2003 to 2005, he served as Regional Vice President and Chair of the Clinical Council of Cancer Care Ontario.
Dr. Bell earned a Doctor of Medicine from McGill University in 1975 and a Master’s of Science from the University of Toronto in 1981. He completed a Fellowship in Orthopaedic Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University in 1985. During his career as a clinician-scientist at the University of Toronto, he received more than five million dollars in peer reviewed funding and published more than 170 peer-reviewed papers. He participated in the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 2005. Dr. Bell is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, the American College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
Details
The $40B Ontario Healthcare industry needs to consider how we create value for our clients- whether the clients are patients within the healthcare systems or taxpayers who are footing the bills for publicly funded healthcare. The speaker will discuss value creation from the perspective of: ensuring a high reliability system; enabling high reliability governance; making decisions about marginal investments; 1% solutions; enhancing quality while lowering costs; creating centres of excellence. Bell has a variety of experiences within the Ontario system- as a primary care doctor, cancer surgeon, cancer researcher, educator and acute care management leader.