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Speakers

  • Seamus Blackmore

    BEng,Atlantic Canada, Health Consulting Leader, Deloitte

    Seamus Blackmore has been developing technology for over 20 years. He received a Bachelor of Computer Engineering from Memorial University of Newfoundland and currently holds the position of Atlantic Canada Health Consulting Leader at Deloitte.

    Mr. Blackmore is responsible for providing technology designs and long-term strategy for many industries, while specializing in digital health. He is a leader in Deloitte’s digital health practice and is product owner of Deloitte’s global digital health offering—Health Connect. Mr. Blackmore’s team delivers transformative projects globally in virtual health, telemedicine, long-term care, community care, home care, and remote device monitoring. He has designed many virtual health systems, including Deloitte’s U.S. military health system’s virtual care pursuit, which provides remote care in the field of war.

    Before joining Deloitte, he was chief technology officer of a telemedicine company where he developed a clinical decision support system (CDSS), a disease management platform, and a population health system. During that time, he ran the technical operations for telehealth projects all over North and South America. He has worked on projects across the spectrum of virtual health provincially, nationally, and globally. In Canada, he has provided virtual health recommendations and strategy for projects in many provinces.

  • Daniel Boivin

    LL.B., CMPA General Counsel, Partner, Gowling WLG

    Daniel Boivin is a partner in the Ottawa office of Gowling WLG, practising as a member of the advocacy group. Mr. Boivin’s practice focuses on health law and medical defence and includes acting as counsel to the Canadian Medical Protective Association and physicians.

    Mr. Boivin is a graduate of the University of Ottawa’s faculty of law and in 1993 was called to the Bar of Ontario. He has appeared before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Ontario Court of Appeal, the Federal Court, and the Supreme Court of Canada. Mr. Boivin is also a part-time professor, teaching evidence law and trial advocacy at the University of Ottawa’s faculty of law. In addition, he lectures on evidence law and advocacy skills with various organizations and gives frequent presentations on health law issues.

    Since the start of his career, Mr. Boivin has been heavily involved in promoting access to justice for the Francophone community, and in sports and culture. He is president of the Fédération des associations de juristes d’expression française de common law inc., is on the Board of Ski Québec Alpin, had a key role in the founding of the Radio communautaire francophone d’Ottawa, and is involved in the Council for the Arts in Ottawa.

  • Darren Larsen

    BSc, MD, CCFP, MPLc, Chief Medical Officer, OntarioMD

    Over his 26 years as a comprehensive care family physician, Dr. Larsen has been involved in many provincial and national health IT, quality, and leadership initiatives in Canada. He has advised and acted for OntarioMD, Joule, the Ontario Medical Association, and the Canadian Medical Association. He serves on multiple digital health, primary care, and quality committees for Health Quality Ontario, eHealth Ontario, Cancer Care Ontario, and the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. He is currently vice chair of the Cancer Quality Council of Ontario and a senior fellow at Women’s College Hospital Institute for Health System Solutions and Virtual Care (WIHV). His digital health interests include data analytics, measurement for quality improvement and accountability, physician change, and issues of scale and spread.

    Dr. Larsen obtained his Bachelor of Science at the University of Alberta, acquired his Medical Doctorate at the University of Calgary, did a residency at the University of Ottawa, and attained the Masters Certificate in Physician Leadership from York University’s Schulich School of Executive Management. He currently works as chief medical officer for OntarioMD and teaches at the University of Toronto in the department of Family and Community Medicine and in the Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation.

  • Guylaine Lefebvre

    MD, FRCSC, FACOG, Managing Director, Safe Medical Care, CMPA

    Dr. Guylaine Lefebvre is the managing director of Safe Medical Care at the Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA) and has a background in obstetrics and gynecology. She completed medical school and her residency at the University of Ottawa, followed by a fellowship in advanced gynecologic surgery at the Mayo Clinic.

    She was on staff for 10 years at the Ottawa Hospital and in 2001 joined St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto as chief of obstetrics and gynecology. At St. Michael’s she also directed a fellowship in minimally invasive gynecologic surgery and chaired the Medical Advisory Committee. She became the inaugural joint chair of women’s health for St. Michael’s and the University of Toronto.

    Dr. Lefebvre has participated in numerous education, quality improvement, and practice-specific committees provincially and nationally. She is a past president of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada and obtained international recognition of her work in women’s health through an honorary fellowship to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Queen’s Jubilee Award.

    Dr. Lefebvre was recruited to the CMPA in 2015 as director of the newly formed Department of Practice Improvement where she now leads a group committed to helping physicians and their teams continuously improve safe medical care.

  • Heidi Oetter

    MD, Registrar and CEO, College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC

    Dr. Heidi M. Oetter is the registrar of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia. She joined the College as a deputy registrar in 2004 and was responsible for many portfolios including ethics, quality assurance and peer review, and the prescription review and methadone programs. In 2008, she was appointed registrar and CEO where she is accountable for ensuring compliance with statutory obligations, implementing and monitoring the policies and strategic direction set by the College’s Board, and managing the organization’s daily operations and administration. In 2009, she transitioned the College to the Health Professions Act.

    Dr. Oetter has been recognized as a medical leader provincially and nationally. She has held past leadership positions on the Board of the British Columbia Medical Association (now Doctors of BC) and the Council of the Canadian Medical Protective Association. Currently, she sits on the Board of Directors of the Federation of Medical Regulatory Authorities of Canada, the Executive Board of the Medical Council of Canada, and the Executive Committee of the BC Health Regulators Society.

    Before joining the College, Dr. Oetter worked for 18 years as a family physician in Coquitlam, B.C. She obtained her medical degree from the University of British Columbia in 1985.