Queen’s Health Sciences (QHS) leadership team discuss how to improve our health care system, and how the faculty is positioned to play a leading role in that transformation. Join QHS Dean Dr. Jane Philpott and Vice-Deans Dr. Erna Snelgrove-Clarke, the Director of the School of Nursing, and Dr. Stephanie Nixon, Director of the School of Rehabilitation Therapy, for this important discussion on how to improve training, models of care, and patient outcomes.
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Meet the panelists
Jane Philpott
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 currently serves as the Ministers' Special Advisor for the Ontario Health Data Platform and was recently elected to the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
Erna Snelgrove-Clarke
Dr. Erna Snelgrove-Clarke is the Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Director of the School of Nursing at Queen’s University. After earning her Bachelor of Nursing degree in 1986, she began her obstetrical career and has continued this clinical career. Erna is a strong advocate for advancing women’s health and a dedicated supporter of collaborating with interdisciplinary health care providers to implementing evidence to improve outcomes for maternal and newborn health. She completed her PhD in 2010. No stranger to public service, Erna has worked with the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care as well as the Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation, building a framework to improve patient outcomes. She has produced nearly 40 funded research projects, on nearly half of which she served as principal investigator, and was a CIHR Embedded Clinical researcher at the IWK Health Centre’s Birth and Antepartum Units in Halifax.
Stephanie Nixon
Dr. Stephanie Nixon is the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Director of the School of Rehabilitation Therapy at Queen’s University. She has been a physiotherapist, global health researcher and activist scholar for over 25 years. Much of her research explores how systems of oppression shape health research, education and practice. In 2019, she published the Coin Model of Privilege and Critical Allyship: Implications for Health, an article that translates core concepts in anti-oppression with a focus on accountable action among people in positions of privilege. An expert in the field of global health and rehabilitation, she co-founded and was director of the International Centre for Disability and Rehabilitation from 2012-2021. Recently she has served as a member of the Provincial COVID-19 Bioethics Table and the Ontario Indigenous Bioethics Reference Group. She also continues to organize with the grassroots anti-racism collective, SURJ-TO.
Meet the moderator
Chris Simpson
Dr. Chris Simpson is Executive Vice President (Medical) at Ontario Health. He works clinically as a cardiologist at Kingston Health Sciences Centre and holds a GFT faculty position as Professor in the Queen’s University Department of Medicine. He was the 2014-15 President of the Canadian Medical Association and in 2020-21 was President of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
