| June 17, 1999
Understanding the New World of Health Care Rotman School, Harvard Launch Health Policy Management Program For Senior Executives.
TORONTO - Over 60 top-level health care executives will gather at U of T's Rotman School of Management beginning June 20 for a new one-week program entitled "Understanding the New World of Health Care". Participants include CEOs and senior physicians from top Canadian hospitals, as well as policymakers and leaders from health care service organizations.
"Providing a program that is relevant, focused and brings together high-level thinkers and decision makers is what Rotman Executive Education is all about," says Roger L. Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management. "These are times of change and challenge for the health care sector, and Rotman aims to play a role in helping executives address these challenges. The number of applications to this intensive Program has been so great, that we've scheduled a second offering for October 1999."
"Understanding the New World of Health Care" is offered through a ground-breaking partnership between Rotman's Executive Development Programs, Harvard University's Division of Health Policy Research & Education, the U of T Department of Health Administration and the U of T's Joint Centre for Bioethics. The program is designed to equip leaders in the health care field with new insights for understanding and contributing to the development of the Canadian health care system. Sessions cover such topics as: The Economics of Health; Management Issues in the Restructuring of the Health Care Sector; Making Mergers Work; Perspectives on Public/Private Partnerships in Health Care Delivery; Information Management; and The Anatomy and Physiology of Health Care Funding.
Session leaders include faculty from the University of Toronto and Harvard University, along with industry leaders and special guests - including former Ontario Premier Bob Rae, who will share insights about understanding government and its officials.
Program Directors are: Joseph D'Cruz,, D.B.A, Professor of Strategy at Rotman; Martin McKneally, M.D., Professor of Surgery in the Department of Surgery and Joint Centre for Bioethics at U of T, and Miles Shore, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Visiting Scholar at the Kennedy School of Government.
"By bringing physicians, managers, and policy makers together with some of the leading experts in strategic management and health care issues, the University of Toronto is fulfilling a demonstrated need for a management perspective in the evolution of this field," explains Rotman's Joseph D'Cruz. "We are pleased to provide an important cross-disciplinary perspective for a sector undergoing considerable upheaval."
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