In Conversation with Jane Philpott

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Health for All: An Evening with Dr. Jane Philpott

“A profoundly insightful meditation of what health—physical, mental, spiritual, and societal—really means, coupled with a thoughtful analysis of the links between health and politics. Health For All is a healing balm for what ails Canadian health care, and democracy more broadly.” —André Picard

Join Dr. Jane Philpott, one of Canada's most respected and high-profile health professionals (and former federal Minister of Health), for an inspiring conversation about her new memoir/manifesto Health for All: A Doctor's Prescription for a Healthier Canada. Discover why Jane is calling for a radical disruption in a health care system that many believe to be broken with an ambitious, once-in-a-generation reset of health systems with universal access to primary care teams. “This book is just like its author: brave, thoughtful, full of practical ideas and brimming with hope.” —Danielle Martin MD

An audience Q&A and book signing will follow the onstage event. Books available for sale from Novel Idea onsite. 

 

Monday, April 8th
7:00 – 8:00 pm
Confederation Place Hotel
237 Ontario St, Kingston, ON, K7L 2Z4, Canada

 

Tickets:

$20 General Admission for those who can afford the regular price
PWYC options: $5, $10 and $15 based on your ability.

This offseason event is included in your Golden Ticket Festival Pass.

About the speakers:

 

   Dr. 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 based in Kingston, Ontario. She is a medical doctor, a Professor of Family Medicine, and former Member of Parliament. Under Dr. Philpott’s leadership, Queen’s Health Sciences has introduced several innovations in health professions education, including a new campus for the MD Program focused on training family doctors, as well as an expanded educational partnership with the Weeneebayko Area Health Authority.

Prior to politics, Jane spent the first decade of her medical career in Niger, West Africa. She was a family doctor in Markham-Stouffville, Ontario for 17 years and became Chief of Family Medicine at Markham Stouffville Hospital in 2008. From 2015 to 2019 she served as Canada’s Minister of Health, Minister of Indigenous Services, President of the Treasury Board and Minister of Digital Government. She played a lead role in policies that shaped Canada: bringing Syrian refugees to Canada; legislating Medical Assistance in Dying; negotiating a health accord with resources for mental health and home care; improving infrastructure for First Nations to provide clean water on reserve; and reforming child welfare to reduce the over-apprehension of Indigenous children.

 

    Dr. Christopher Simpson 

Chris Simpson was born in Moncton in 1967 and raised in Nackawic, a small pulp mill town of 1,000 people in western New Brunswick.  Torn between pursuing a career in music or medicine, he obtained a BSc at the University of New Brunswick while playing saxophone with The Thomists, a 20-piece big swing band based in Fredericton and well-known across the Atlantic provinces.  

He went on to medical school at Dalhousie University in Halifax and obtained his MD in 1992.  He subsequently completed internal medicine and cardiology training at Queen’s University in Kingston and then a Heart and Stroke Foundation Clinical and Research Fellowship in Cardiac Electrophysiology at the University of Western Ontario, under the supervision of Dr. George Klein. 

After returning to Kingston in 1999, he founded the Heart Rhythm Program at Kingston General Hospital, establishing catheter ablation and implantable defibrillator programs as well as the inherited heart rhythm disease clinic. From 2006-2016 he served as Professor and Head of Cardiology at Queen’s University, as well as Medical Director of the Cardiac Programs at Kingston General Hospital/Hotel Dieu Hospital.  From 2016-2021, he served as the Vice-Dean (Clinical) of the Queen’s University Faculty of Health Sciences and Medical Director of the Southeastern Ontario Academic Medical Organization (SEAMO), stepping in as Acting Dean of the Faculty and Acting CEO of SEAMO for 6 months in 2019.

Currently, he is the Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Executive at Ontario Health – the provincial agency overseeing Ontario’s health care system.  He is also an Affiliate Scientist with the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES-Queen’s) and a member of the Queen’s School of Policy Studies Health Policy Council.