Beyond COVID: The business of healthcare

Scott Carson is a professor at Smith School of Business, specializing in governance and strategy. He is formerly the Stauffer-Dunning Chair of Policy Studies and Executive Director of the Queen's School of Policy Studies. Scott’s career has combined business, government and academe. He was the head of corporate finance for a major Canadian bank, CEO of an Ontario government secretariat, and the Dean of two Canadian university business schools. He is the former Chair of the Board of Kingston General Hospital. He is the co-editor of three recent books on Canadian healthcare governance: Toward a Healthcare Strategy for Canadians; Managing a Canadian Healthcare Strategy and A Canadian Healthcare Innovation Agenda: Policy, Governance and Strategy.

Dr. Jane Philpott is the Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Director of the School of Medicine at Queen's University, and CEO of the Southeastern Ontario Academic Medical Organization. She is a medical doctor, a Professor of Family Medicine, and former Member of Parliament. Prior to politics, Jane spent the first decade of her medical career in Niger, West Africa. She was a family doctor in Markham-Stouffville for 17 years and became Chief of Family Medicine at Markham Stouffville Hospital in 2008. From 2015 to 2019 she served as federal Minister of Health, Minister of Indigenous Services, President of the Treasury Board and Minister of Digital Government. She is currently the Chair of the Ontario Health Data Council and was recently appointed as a Commissioner to the Global Commission on Drug Policy.

Mark Rochon is Senior Executive Advisor, Global and Canadian Healthcare Practices at KPMG Canada. He has over 25 years of senior healthcare leadership experience including as Interim President and CEO of Health Quality Ontario and Interim President & CEO of the Ontario Hospital Association. He was founding President and CEO of the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and founding CEO of the Health Services Restructuring Commission, where he led a province-wide initiative to reconfigure Ontario hospitals and other related elements of the health service system. He also served as President and CEO of Humber Memorial Hospital. Mark has been an advisor to government on the policy and legal framework that governs the operation of hospitals as well as healthcare funding reform. He is the co-author of Riding the Third Rail – The Story of the Health Services Restructuring Commission.

Don Drummond is the Stauffer-Dunning Fellow and adjunct professor at the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University. In 2011-12, he served as chair for the Commission on the Reform of Ontario’s Public Services. Don previously held progressively more senior positions in the areas of economic analysis and forecasting, fiscal policy and tax policy during almost 23 years with Finance Canada. His last three positions were, respectively Assistant Deputy Minister of Fiscal Policy and Economic Analysis, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister of Tax Policy and Legislation and most recently, Associate Deputy Minister. He subsequently was Senior Vice-President and Chief Economist for TD Bank, where he took the lead with TD Economics’ work in analyzing and forecasting economic performance in Canada and abroad.