Canadian Health Services Research Foundation

CEO Forum

A one-day, invitation-only annual event that brings together CEOs, senior leaders, deputy ministers and prominent experts to share their knowledge, perspective and experience on key issues in healthcare policy and management.

CEO Forum News

Save the date: 2013 CEO Forum
We look forward to seeing you at our 7th annual CEO Forum, tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, February 6, 2013.

The 2012 CEO Forum, Driving Innovation: Reinventing ambulatory and community care, provided healthcare CEOs, policy-makers and experts from across Canada the opportunity to share strategies aimed at improving coordination along the continuum of care. Our 6th annual CEO Forum took place February 15, 2012, in Montreal.

Why the CEO Forum is valuable

The CEO Forum provides a rare opportunity for healthcare leaders from across Canada to: 

• meet and network with their peers and key players in Canadian health services
• discuss the practical applications of evidence related to a relevant issue facing healthcare leadership
• share leading-edge strategies for driving high-performing and high-quality healthcare across the continuum of care, at the institutional, provincial or territorial levels

Topics of past CEO Forums 

• 2012: Driving Innovation: Reinventing ambulatory and community care
• 2011: Leadership Accountability in Canadian Healthcare: Creating the momentum to improve quality
• 2010: Metrics for Healthcare Quality: The Leader’s Role
• 2009: Service-based Funding and Paying for Performance: Experience, Evidence and Future Prospects
• 2008: Policy Imperatives to Improve Access and Wait Times: Sustainable Responses
• 2007: Healthcare Sustainability in Canada: Who Will Tell the Story?

Background: 

Always hosted in February, the first CEO Forum took place in 2007 as part of the Executive Training for Research Application (EXTRA) program. EXTRA is a two-year fellowship for senior health leaders and policymakers. As part of the fellowship, fellows undertake a change management (intervention) project. During the last learning module of the program, fellows present and report, with their chief executives, the findings of their intervention project. It is during this module that the CEO Forum takes place. Although the forum was originally intended to bring together the CEOs and fellows from EXTRA's sponsoring organizations, in 2009 it started to welcome broader participation by including a pan-Canadian group of senior decision and policy makers, as well as prominent experts.