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Leslie was Faculty Director of the Executive Masters in Public Administration Program and the Cascade Executive Programs at the University of Washington in Seattle.听 She has also taught and consulted to medical schools, teaching hospitals, foundations, and nonprofit organizations on issues related to financial management, integrated health delivery, and strategic planning.

Breitner is co-author (with the late Professor Robert N. Anthony) of the popular accounting books and .

For much of the past decade, Professor Mintzberg has worked with colleagues from Canada, England, France, India, and Japan to develop new approaches to management education.

In his role as Faculty Director of the IMHL, Professor Mintzberg both teaches in the program and helps lead its modules. To read more about Henry Mintzberg, go to

He holds a research professorship on organizational models and social impact. Professor Barin Cruz has worked in projects supported by the InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB), the Government of Quebec, Desjardins International Development, among several others.

He currently serves as a board member at the Maison de l鈥檌nnovation social 鈥� MIS, an organization that aims at reinforcing the managerial capabilities of social enterprises in Quebec. His research projects focus on sustainability, social responsibility and social impact and they have been published in journals such as Journal of Management Studies, Organization, World Development, Business & Society, Journal of Business Ethics, Management Decision, Journal of Cleaner Production, among others.

Completed the residency training program in Neurosurgery at the University of Manitoba, Canada in 1998. He is American Board & Canadian Board Certified Neurosurgeon.

Dr. AlYamany is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He is certified in Cerebrovascular Surgery, Neurooncology & Skull base surgery from the University of Toronto, Canada. He completed the Masters degree in Health Administration at Washington University in St. Louis, USA in 2008.

Serving as the Chief Executive Officer of King Fahad Medical City, his main duties are to formulate, define, communicate and materialize the KFMC mission statement, values and corporate objectives. He established an executive administration of Patient Experience, Business Intelligence Office, process re-engineering, and Innovation & Research Centers. He leads, directs and coordinates the senior management team to achieve the formulated strategic objectives of King Fahad Medical City and Saudi Health and continues to serve as a neurosurgeon.

A Member of the Board of Trustees of the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties. Chairs the Board of Directors of the Self Finance Development Fund as a standalone organization to help fund KFMC. A member of many local and international professional associations, published neurosurgeon and health administrator. Interested in health economics, organizational behavior and healthcare policies & a prominent leader in healthcare management as well as in neurosurgery in Saudi Arabia.

He is a graduate of Guy鈥檚 Hospital Medical School, London University and received his BA Hons and MA in Neurophysiology from Cambridge University. He completed his Family Practice training in the United Kingdom before training in Pediatrics in Harrow and Oxford, England. He completed his training as a neonatologist in Edmonton, Alberta and subsequently worked as a general pediatrician in Lethbridge, Alberta. From 1996-2007, he was a neonatologist at the Janeway Children鈥檚 Health and Rehabilitation Centre in St. John鈥檚, Newfoundland and Labrador, on faculty at Memorial University (where he received his MEd (Information Technology).

Dr. Aziz鈥檚 academic interests lie in interprofessional medical education and knowledge translation. He is editor of the EPIQ quality improvement workshop for Canadian NICUs and is a member of the Canadian Neonatal Network Governing Board (a research network) and the Canadian Neonatal Foundation Board (a registered Canadian charity). He is a past member of the Neonatal Task Force of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation and a member (Past Chair) of the Neonatal Life Support Writing Group of the American Heart Association 鈥� both these organizations develop and disseminate neonatal resuscitation science internationally.

He is married to Carolyn, a retired family practitioner, and they have 4 children and one new grandchild. He has lived and studied in Africa, Europe, and Canada. Travelling is his passion, and he has volunteered for perinatal projects in China, India, and Ethiopia. He was a SCUBA instructor in a past life and is now a ski instructor. In summer he spends time falling off his mountain bike.

His work began with studies on familial aggregation in AD and evolved to twin studies of heritability and environmental risk factors. He then founded the Cache County Study of Memory in Aging, a longitudinal investigation of genetic and environmental antecedents of AD, which has produced over 100 scientific papers. He was Chair of the Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease Anti-inflammatory Prevention Trial (ADAPT), a randomized controlled trial to evaluate nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs as agents for the primary prevention of AD in healthy elderly people, and INTREPAD, a similar trial among healthy elderly at high risk

John's research included the investigation of the possible effects of these drugs on the earliest signs of the disease. In 2010 he joined the 海角社区 faculty as Director of the new Centre for Studies on Prevention of AD (StoP-AD) at the Douglas Mental Health Research Institute. The Centre is devoted to identification and quantitation of markers of AD in its pre-symptomatic stage, and to preliminary testing of experimental strategies for their capacity to prevent progression of the disease toward the symptomatic illness.

Prof. Breitner has authored over 200 publications and is known as an outstanding teacher. He has mentored more than 20 doctoral and post-doctoral students who have gone on to hold full-time academic appointments.

Re-shaping healthcare systems is both complex and emotive work. Andy鈥檚 approach enables leaders to gain insights into the way systems function, and to apply these insights to new ways of thinking and working together. Andy leverages a range of tools and qualifications in support of this work - including Systems Thinking, Systemic Constellations, and the iEQ9 psychometric profiling tool. He also incorporates mindfulness practices, guided by his Black Belt in TaeKwonDo and PADI Rescue Diver qualifications.

More broadly, Andy works extensively with Boston Consulting Group, supporting Managing Directors and Partners to build more Psychologically Safe operating environments for their people. He is also consulting on a major new initiative to re-think how Youth Criminal Justice is delivered in the UK.

In 2018 Andy took time off work and moved to South Africa to spend 18 months volunteering with global not-for-profit organisation Oasis. He worked with marginalised youth, delivering employability training and contributing to the development of a pioneering programme to fast-track young black South Africans into the teaching profession.

Prior to this, Andy was the first facilitator to join the Forward Institute, a highly regarded non-profit institute enabling senior leaders to explore and engage with issues of responsible leadership within their own organisations. He also partnered with Olympic Gold Medallist Michael Johnson to establish a Young Leaders programme for highly talented young athletes from all around the world.

Outside of work Andy is married to Anna (a yoga instructor with a specialism in trauma), and they have three wonderful kids. He is a passionate cyclist and can often be found escaping the city out in the Kent countryside.

He holds a Masters of Management from the Desautels Faculty of Management and a Masters Certificate in Healthcare Management from the Schulich School of Business, York University. His main administrative interests include coaching for quality and its influence on the development of innovative service delivery models. He is the Vice President of the Canadian Association of Pathologists and serves on several boards, including the Gynecologic Cancer Advisory Committee to Cancer Care Ontario. Matthew is active in post-graduate medical education, having developed a competency-based curriculum for resident remediation in the anatomical pathology residency program at University of Toronto. He is also an examiner with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada as well as an active member of their Anatomical Pathology Examination Development Committee.

Dr. Denis鈥� stature as a leader in his field is evident in the various appointments and honours he has held and received: member of the Academy of Social Sciences of the Royal Society of Canada (2002), fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (2007) and chair of the advisory board of CIHR鈥檚 Institute of Health Services and Policy Research (2009-2012). Since 2000, he has obtained three competitive research Chairs: the CHSRF/CIHR Chair on health system transformation and governance (2000-2010) as Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Medical School of Montreal University, a Canada Research Chair (CRC-tier 1) Chair on health system governance (2010-2017) as professor at the ENAP (National School of Public Administration) and a CRC-Tier 1 on health system design and adaptation as Professor of Health Policy and Management at the School of Public Health of Montreal University.

He was director of the Interdisciplinary Research Group in Health at the Universit茅 de Montr茅al (2006-2010). In 2013, he was co-organizer of the EGOS (European Group of Organizational Studies) annual conference at HEC Montreal-Universit茅 de Montr茅al. In March 2015 he was appointed Visiting Professor at the Department of Management, King's College London and International Visiting Fellow at the King鈥檚 Fund (London) between 2014-2016.

He has published 185 scientific papers, 65 book chapters and obtained $5M in peer-reviewed research funding as PI or co-PI. His work has been published in top health policy and management journals like BMC Health Services Research, Implementation Science, Family Practice and Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. While Dr Denis鈥� research has primarily taken place in healthcare settings, because of his strong theoretical location in organization theory and strategy, his ideas and findings are transferable to the broader field of organizational science. Indeed, the wider value of his research has been demonstrated through publications in top management and public sector journals like Human Relations, Milbank Quarterly, Organization Science, Public Administration, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Academy of Management Journal and Academy of Management Annals. Since 2016, he is co-editor of the Palgrave series on Organizational Behaviours in Health Care since 2017 Associate Editor of BMC Health Services Research. In addition, since 2000, he had worked closely as senior advisor with the Canadian Foundation on Health Improvement to support their portfolio of collaborative health improvements across Canada and their health system transformation initiatives.

Living with three chronic diseases for more than three decades, and thus a significant user of healthcare services, Mr. Dumez has been actively involved in developing the concept of 鈥淧atient Partnership.鈥� He first explored the concept in his Masters鈥� dissertation. Since then he has pursued the development of patient partners by training patients with chronic diseases, working on the boards of various community organizations and speaking in workshops and conferences addressed to healthcare professionals.

In October 2010, Mr. Dumez became the first director of new Office of Patient Partner Expertise of the University of Montreal鈥檚 Faculty of Medicine. Since summer of 2016, Mr. Dumez now co-directs the new Centre of Excellence on Partnering with Patients and the Public of University of Montreal. The mission of the centre is to make collaborating with patients and the public a science, a culture and the new standard to improve the health of all and the (health) experience of each.

Mr Dumez is on the Board of Director of the Health Research fund of Quebec (FQR-S), of the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement (CFHI), of the World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH) and of the Cardiac Arrhythmia Network of Canada (CANet). During the last years, he was also a special advisor for HSO/Accreditation Canada CEO supporting the development and implementation of the patient partnership strategy but also a member of the advisory council for the implementation of a national pharmacare in Canada. Finally, since recently is a member of the BMJ patient panel and now the CMAJ editorial advisory board.

As Chair, he was responsible for overseeing the largest clinical department of the 海角社区 Faculty of Medicine and its academic network, which includes the MUHC, the Jewish General Hospital, St. Mary鈥檚 Hospital Center and the Douglas Mental Health University Institute, among other partners.

In addition to his administrative successes as Chair and Physician-in-Chief, Dr. Eidelman has served as Director of 海角社区鈥檚 renowned Division of Respiratory Diseases. After receiving his MDCM (Doctor of Medicine and Master of Surgery) degree in 1979, Dr. Eidelman continued training in internal medicine at the University of Toronto, first at St. Michael鈥檚 Hospital and then at Toronto General Hospital. He returned to Montreal to pursue advanced training in respiratory medicine and research at 海角社区. He is an accomplished clinician-scientist, whose research in inflammatory disorders of the airways is based at the Meakins-Christie Laboratories in Montreal. He is also a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.

Dr. Eidelman is active in clinical medicine and research in Canada and internationally and currently serves on various boards, including that of the West-Central Montreal Integrated University Health and Social Services Center.

In his humanitarian journey, Hossam has been for past 10 years Vice President for the Canadian Red Cross. He has also worked with ICRC, IFRC, Norwegian Red Cross and Palestine Red Crescent.

Hossam has been leading the preparedness and response to complex humanitarian emergencies 鈥� including epidemics, earthquakes, hurricanes, and wars. He has managed teams responding to catastrophic events domestically and internationally. He has also focused on the capacity strengthening of National Societies, learning and innovation.

His extensive experience includes assignments to more than thirty-five countries and led complex humanitarian negotiations. He completed a one-year assignment as Senior Consultant for the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, where he developed a guidance document for medical teams responding to health emergencies in armed conflict and insecure environments. Hossam has a Bachelor of Science in Clinical Biochemistry from the University of Alberta, a Certificate in Healthcare Management from the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, and a PhD in Health Management from City University in London, England. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia and guest faculty at 海角社区 and McMaster Universities. He teaches disaster response and healthcare in complex humanitarian crises. He has authored or edited more than a dozen publications and presentations on issues dealing with humanitarian work, disaster response, healthcare and medical technology, and capacity building.

Hossam, who is married and is a father of two, is fluent in English and Arabic, and possesses a basic grasp of French.

Through his research, he argues that emergent initiatives increase the recruitment of diverse stakeholders, foster creativity, and yield impactful social and environmental outcomes. Originally from Israel, Dror lives in Vermont with his wife and three daughters.

From 2010 to 2013, Tim was Dean of the James P. Grant School of Public Health at BRAC University in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Senior Advisor to the BRAC Health Program. From 2003 to 2010, he was Assistant Director General at the World Health Organization (WHO). Prior to this, he served as Director of the Health Equity Theme at the Rockefeller Foundation.

Earlier in his career, he was an attending physician of internal medicine at Brigham and Women鈥檚 Hospital in Boston and was Assistant Professor in International Health Economics at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Tim has been at the forefront of advancing global health equity and strengthening health systems delivery for more than 20 years. At WHO, he led the Commission on Social Determinants of Health and oversaw the production of the annual World Health Report. He has been a co-founder of many partnerships including the Global Alliance on Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) as well as efforts to increase access to HIV treatment for mothers and innovative approaches to training community-based midwives in Bangladesh.

Tim received his Medical Degree from McMaster University in Canada and was a Research and Internal Medicine Resident at Brigham and Women鈥檚 Hospital. He earned a D.Phil. in Agricultural Economics from University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

He completed his bachelor of science at 海角社区 (Psychology 1989), his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the Universit茅 du Qu茅bec 脿 Montr茅al (1995) and his MD at Universit茅 de Montr茅al (2003). His residency training in family medicine was conducted at U Montreal (2005), followed by a certification in emergency medicine CCFP (EM) (2009). He recently completed the Mini-MBA Executive Development Course 1 at 海角社区 (January 2018).

His research interests include rural emergency and trauma care as well as psychological factors associated with the practice of emergency medicine as well as physician wellness. Since 2018 he has embarked on a national speaking tour with the CMA and has reached more than 2000 with his presentation: Top Evidenced-based Stress Management Techniques for the Doctor and his Patients. Dr Fleet has published more than 70 scientific articles/book chapters and one book.

Between 2006 and 2010, Dr Fleet worked as a rural emergency physician / Chair of the Emergency Department at Kootenay Lake hospital in Nelson BC. His experience in this hospital, after it underwent the major health care cuts, has inspired his current research program. Dr Fleet and his team have become international leaders in the field of rural emergency medicine research. In 2019 Dr Fleet and colleagues founded the Living Lab hospital Charlevoix. A user driven novel approach to the implementation of innovations in rural emergency care.

Finally, Fleet is the rural representative on the board of l鈥橝ssociation des M茅decins d鈥橴rgence du Qu茅bec. And is a member of the 鈥淩ural medicine road map鈥� committee of the College of Family Physicians of Canada.

Gittell has authored dozens of peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals, and several books for a broader audience. For example, The Southwest Airlines Way (2003) and High-Performance Healthcare (2009) demonstrate how relational coordination drives performance, and how organizations support or undermine its development depending on the design and implementation of their structures. Transforming Relationships for High Performance: The Power of Relational Coordination (2016) shows how relational, structural and work process interventions together enable organizations to achieve sustainable positive change. Her new methods textbook, Relational Analytics: Guidelines for Analysis and Action, will be available in May 2021.

Gittell received her PhD from the MIT Sloan School of Management and taught at the Harvard Business School before joining the faculty of Brandeis University in 2001. She serves as Treasurer for the Seacoast NAACP, on the Advisory Board for the Greater Seacoast Community Health Center, on the Advisory Board for the Relational Coordination Research Collaborative, and on the Editorial Review Board for the Academy of Management Review. She is currently co-leading the Relational Society Project to explore multi-level systems change in communities around the world.

Jay has extensive experience counseling U.S. corporations on employment law matters arising under federal, state, and local laws.

Jay is a Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School, NY where he teaches 鈥淣egotiation Workshop.鈥� He is also a Course Lecturer at the Desautels Faculty of Management at 海角社区, Montr茅al, Canada, where he teaches Negotiations and Conflict Resolution for the MBA and Bcom programs. His work in the Faculty of Management has won him the Distinguished Teaching Award in recognition of outstanding teaching in the undergraduate program. Jay also teaches in modules of both the International Masters Program for Managers, and the International Management in Health Leadership programs, co-founded by Henry Mintzberg. On occasion, Jay teaches Business Fundamentals for Musicians for the Schulich School of Music at 海角社区 and also on occasion, conducts seminars and workshops on Contract Negotiations and Conflict Resolution for 海角社区鈥檚 School of Continuing Studies. Most recently, he was invited to lecture at the National University of Singapore, Singapore, and Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu, China.

Jay鈥檚 consulting and teaching are largely informed by his extensive management experience as well as his collaborative efforts with management scholars throughout the US and Canada on research examining employee satisfaction, retention, organizational culture, managing inclusive work forces, and employee selection. He is often called upon to assist managers with developing core competencies of leveraging talent within diverse environments.

In addition to his work for corporations, Jay has counseled and represented the United States Senate offices in employment law matters, and researched the impact of particular provisions of the U.S. Constitution on workplace policy. Before working for the Senate, Jay worked in New York City for Proskauer Rose LLP, one of the largest U.S. law firms, with a national reputation for its Labor and Employment practice. While at Proskauer, Jay investigated charges of discrimination for private and public sector clients. He counseled human resource managers and senior executives on a broad range of labor and employment issues arising under federal and state labor and employment laws.

Jay holds a Juris Doctorate from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Brass Performance from Boston University.

He joined OHSU in 2001 when Oregon Graduate Institute became the OGI School of Science & Engineering at OHSU. In 2004 he again became Head of the Department of Management in Science & Technology, which subsequently became the Division of Management in the OHSU School of Medicine.听 As head of the Division of Management he co-led the development of the OHSU-Portland State University MBA in Healthcare Management and the Paths to Leadership program for faculty in the School of Medicine. 听He stepped down from his division head position in December 2016 but continues to be heavily involved in teaching (health systems and policy, leadership and management, quality and patient safety).听 He has a growing interest in global health, particularly in developing countries. 听He has a B.S. in Chemistry (University of Michigan, 1963), Ph.D. in Chemistry (University of California, Berkeley, 1968), and M. Management (海角社区, International Masters for Health Leadership, 2008).听听

He has spent another two decades honing his thinking as a consultant and teacher, activities that have taken him around the world.

David runs an 听and his articles have been published in leading business publications such as the Financial Times, Globe and Mail, Harvard Business Review, Strategy+Business, and several academic journals. His first book, Crisis & Renewal: Meeting the Challenge of Organizational Change, was published by the Harvard Business School Press in 1995 and was reprinted in paperback in 2002. The second book, Learning from the Links: Mastering Management Using Lessons From Golf (The Free Press 2002) broke new ground in understanding what it takes to create excellence through practice. The third book, The New Ecology of Leadership: Business Mastery in a Chaotic World (Columbia University Press 2012), is an extraordinary integration of management thought and practice from a systems perspective. It has recently been published in paperback.

For 10 years David was Executive Vice-President of a large North American industrial distributor. He holds an MBA (Finance) from the University of Chicago and a BA (Psychology) from the University of the Witwatersrand. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Regina鈥檚 Kenneth Levene Graduate School of Business and Adjunct Faculty with the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina. He is also a Contributing Editor to Strategy+Business, where he reviews books on management.

Previously, Firas worked as a health policy researcher at the Research Unit on Humanitarian Stakes and Practices (UREPH) at M茅decins Sans Fronti猫res (MSF) in Geneva, Switzerland. He also worked in the department of Child and Maternal Health at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland. Firas has expertise in medicine, education, health policy, knowledge translation and health emergencies working with relief and intergovernmental organizations.

Firas attended St. George鈥檚 University School of Medicine in 2005 where he graduated MD with Research Distinction. He also hold a Masters of Management (IMHL) from 海角社区 (2014), and both a Masters of Health Professions Education (2014) and a Graduate Certificate in Population Health Risk Assessment and Management (2012) from the University of Ottawa.

He graduated from the University of Manitoba with an MD in 1976 and completed his residency training in Urology at Harvard University. He holds an MSc in quality improvement and patient safety (QIPS) from the University of Toronto (2015) & is expecting to complete a Master鈥檚 in Management (IMHL) at 海角社区 in 2021. He received the Michael Decter Scholarship in Health Policy while studying at 海角社区, which was focused on moral distress in health care workers, and also was the theme of his final paper.

During his 4-decade career in academic medicine, Dr. Koyle has been known for his innovations and contributions, specifically, to the fields of pediatric urology, oncology and transplantation, and more recently related to his research in QIPS, learning health systems, ERAS (Enhanced Recovery After Surgery), and moral distress in healthcare workers. To date, he has contributed over 400 publications and chapters to the literature and has co-edited 8 major textbooks. He is Assistant Editor of the Journal of Pediatric Urology, as well as Associate Editor of Dialogues in Pediatric Urology and the Canadian Urological Association Journal. Dr. Koyle is the past president of the Society for Pediatric Urology and the American Association of Pediatric Urologists and is the current President of the Pediatric ERAS Society. He has been honored as the only American to be awarded lifetime membership in the British Association for Pediatric Urology and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England on merit, for his contributions to pediatric urology and pediatric surgery.

He is married to Ellen, a physician and is the father of 3 children, and recently became a grandparent for a second time this April. He is an avid reader, enjoys movies (especially classics) and music of all kinds, travel, food and wine, and is an avid sports fan who wishes he still could participate in athletics as actively as he once did, but now is obsessed with the Peleton, thanks to COVID 19!

She began MSF field work in 1996 and has undertaken over twenty missions since in Central Africa, Central Asia and the Middle East. Her operational contributions range from introducing comprehensive medical care for survivors of sexual violence to developing a telemedicine platform connecting physicians in remote sites with medical specialists worldwide. In 2014, in the face of an ineffective global response to the Ebola crisis in West Africa, she spearheaded a campaign to marshal world support, addressing the United Nations General Assembly and urging world leaders to take immediate action. She has also spoken twice at the United Nations Security Council to denounce attacks on hospitals, healthcare workers and patients in armed conflicts.

A staunch advocate of anchoring MSF鈥檚 identity in field based, quality-driven patient care, she seeks to introduce the same focus into the global health arena. She has received many awards, including the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada鈥檚 Teasdale-Corti Humanitarian Award 2013 and Officer of the Government of Quebec.

She is a member of Ordre des psychologues du Quebec (1984), Canadian Psychological Association (1984), American Psychological Association (1986), as well as of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations (1996).

He is currently studying Interprofessional teams at Beth Israel Lahey Medical Center in Boston where he has identified workforce diversity as an impediment to effective communication and relationship building between and within teams. His dissertation focuses on the use of RC principles to uncover role-based and minority identity discrimination on health care teams.

Olaleye received an MBA degree with a focus on Health Systems Management from the Charlton College of Business at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He also received his Pharmacy degree from the University of Ibadan Nigeria. Prior to joining the Heller School, he completed an Administrative Residency with Steward Health Care System in Massachusetts. He has also worked at Care New England Corporate of Rhode Island and with government-owned hospitals in Abuja, Nigeria.

Madhu serves as a Consultant to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He serves on the STAG-TB committee of WHO, Geneva; Scientific Advisory Committee of FIND, Geneva; and Access Advisory Committee of TB Alliance, New York. He has previously served on the Coordinating Board of the Stop TB Partnership. He is on the editorial boards of Lancet Infectious Diseases, PLoS Medicine, PLoS ONE, International Journal of TB and Lung Disease, among others. Madhu鈥檚 research is mainly focused on improving the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, especially in high-burden countries like India and South Africa. His research is supported by grant funding from the Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, and Canadian Institutes of Health Research. He has more than 200 peer-reviewed publications. He is recipient of the Union Scientific Prize, Chanchlani Global Health Research Award, and Haile T. Debas Prize. He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada.

Prior to joining OU, Professor Phelps served as Associate Dean of Executive Programs and Education, Professor of Strategy and Organization, and Marcel Desautels Faculty Fellow at the Desautels Faculty of Management, 海角社区. As Associate Dean, he was a member of the faculty鈥檚 executive and academic committees, oversaw three executive masters programs and the 海角社区 Executive Institute, and led the development and implementation of the faculty鈥檚 five-year strategic plan.

Before 海角社区, Professor Phelps was a member of the Strategy and Business Policy faculty at HEC Paris, where he directed large bespoke executive programs. Prior to that, he was an Assistant Professor of Management and Organization and Dempsey Faculty Fellow at the Foster School of Business, University of Washington.

Professor Phelps received his Ph.D. from the Stern School of Business, New York University and MBA and BA degrees from San Diego State University.

Professor Phelps鈥檚 research, which has been published in leading management journals, intersects strategy, entrepreneurship and innovation, and has been cited over 6,000 times according to Google Scholar. His book,听Cracked It! How to Solve Big Problems and Sell Solutions Like Top Strategy Consultants听(co-authored with Bernard Garrette and Olivier Sibony), was published in 2018 by Palgrave Macmillan and has garnered considerable media attention. He has received multiple research awards and research grants, and is a member of the editorial boards of four leading academic journals.

Professor Phelps is currently the Chair of the Academy of Management Technology and Innovation Management Division and past Chair of the Knowledge and Innovation Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society. In 2011, he initiated and co-founded the European Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Doctoral Consortium and continues to serve on its executive committee.

Professor Phelps has delivered keynote presentations, executive training programs and consulting engagements to more than 70 organizations in Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. He has designed and directed numerous executive development programs, including the HEC Paris-Atos GOLD Talent Development Program, which received the EFMD Excellence in Practice Award for best custom talent development program. In recognition of his teaching excellence, he received the Pierre Vernimmen BNP Paribas Award at HEC Paris and undergraduate and MBA professor of the year awards at the University of Washington.

The NBHC is recognized as a credible source of information thanks to the establishment of generally accepted indicators pertaining to population health and health service quality through stakeholder engagement. The use of this info has grown significantly in the past decade, particularly among community stakeholders.

Prior to joining the NBHC, Mr. Robichaud entered the public health-care sector as Vice President, Planning and Operations, with the Beaus茅jour Regional Health Authority.

Previously, Mr. Robichaud was Vice president for Atlantic Canada with the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB), where he advocated for small and medium-sized businesses in all areas of public policy, including economic development, fiscal policies and labour force development. His years of experience with CFIB also provided valuable learnings in the areas of organizational management, as the organization undertook transformational changes in its management practices and significantly growing its membership.

Mr. Robichaud has completed his ICD-Rotman Director Education Program and has contributed his time to several boards. Recently, he focused his involvement with the Universit茅 de Moncton as President of the Alumni, Member of the Board of Governors and Chair of the Finance Committee.

Today, Mr. Sauv茅 is overseeing the Red Cross as it enhances its disaster response capabilities through the use of technology and innovative digital platforms. For the past twenty years, Mr. Sauv茅 has been involved in several health and social service committees, associations and executive boards. He holds a Bsc from the Universit茅 du Qu茅bec 脿 Montreal and is a graduate of 海角社区鈥檚 International Masters in Health Leadership (IMHL).

Dr.Selim graduated from Ain Shams University in Egypt where she completed her residency training in cardiology and earned a Master's Degree in 2001 and a Ph.D. in 2008 in cardiovascular medicine. As a lecturer in the cardiology department, she has taught clinical cardiology to undergraduates and graduates and has had extensive experience supervising and advising students in their thesis in cardiology.听Dr.Selim鈥檚 special interest and passion for preventive cardiology have led her to co-found Egypt鈥檚 first multidisciplinary cardiac rehabilitation program, a huge milestone in the quality of care of patients with heart diseases.听She led a variety of activities to advocate for health promotion, smoking cessation, and control of risk factors among the health illiterate and underprivileged sectors of the community.听Her research and publications focused on the impact of water-pipe smoking, a widely spread practice among the youth, on coronary heart disease.听In 2011, Dr. Selim authored 鈥� Living with heart failure: everything a patient with heart failure needs to know鈥� - a book in Arabic.听In 2013, she enrolled in the International Masters of Health Leadership at 海角社区. Her thesis focused on developing innovative and cost-effective models that improve patient care and tools to assess healthcare staff engagement.听Dr. Selim is currently an Adjunct Professor at 海角社区 and advises IMHL participants in their reflection and final papers.

Following a successful corporate career in HR and Management Development, Sharon directed and taught on executive MBAs and other corporate executive programmes at Lancaster University Management School for ten years, and still holds a visiting role there. In 2003, she joined The Leadership Trust, where she was Director of Research until January 2011.

She has held the role of Cycle Director for the well-known global International Masters Programme in Practicing Management (IMPM) since 2006. This work has enabled her to work with executives in numerous countries and in seven major business schools. Sharon currently works with business schools in the UK and overseas, providing programme development, tutoring and supervision, executive teaching, organisational and leadership development and research.

Sharon has a PhD in Management and an MBA (Distinction) from Lancaster University. She is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and has served as a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Lancaster, Gloucestershire, Worcester, University of West of England, and Newcastle.