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Listen to the sponsored podcast featuring Cassandra Gardner, PhD, Associate Director of Medical Affairs at BD-Canada, and Marcy Saxe-Braithwaite, DBA, Associate Vice President of Executive Search Services at The Medfall Group, as they discuss the clinical efficacy of vacuum-assisted biopsies and vacuum-assisted excision technologies in the diagnosis and treatment pathway of breast cancer and how they can help streamline patient care and conserve healthcare resources. Key messages include how health leaders can maximize diagnostic efficiency by ensuring accurate and timely detection while minimizing unnecessary procedures. Vacuum-assisted technologies require less anaesthesia, fewer supplies, shorter hospital stays, and fewer post-operative visits, making them a viable and sustainable alternative to surgery and improving health outcomes for patients.  View the article here.

Listen to the podcast by Tracee Pratt, Executive Director, Women's Health Programs at Lois Hole Hospital and Sturgeon Community Hospital in Alberta and the Women's Health Lead for the Edmonton Zone speak about the evolution and success of the robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) program in the OR, and the downstream benefits. Tracee will share insights into how they operationalized the RAS program to successfully achieve a zero-wait time for targeted gynecologic-oncology procedures.   This session is moderated by Tara Klassen, PhD, the Provincial Program Lead – Surgical Innovation and Scientist for the Evidence Decision Support Program. Tara is engaging key stakeholders in the long-term planning for RAS, while considering the evidence, health economics, and organizational impact to make evidence-informed decisions about the equitable access and expanded use of RAS in the province. This novel approach to adoption of innovation will transform the delivery of surgical care with the objective of providing timely access to high-quality surgical care, regardless of where patients reside in the province.   View the article here.

Listen to the podcast with Don Juzwishin, PhD, FCCHL, and Dan Breznitz, PhD, as they provide more detail on CIFAR's program on Innovation, Equity and the Future of Prosperity, and talk with author Jane Gingrich, PhD, about her work in the United Kingdom related to innovation strategies and how they shape citizens' public health behaviours. In an era of rising nationalism, public authorities face the temptation to lean into national sentiment to encourage citizens to engage with public health policies - from taking vaccines to promoting healthy lifestyles. Her research suggests that public health authorities should be cautious with nationalist framing, as it may be ineffective or counterproductive.  Jane Gingrich, PhD, is a Professor of comparative social policy at the University of Oxford in the Department of Social Policy and Intervention. View the article here.

Listen to the podcast by Rachelle Ashcroft, PhD, Associate Professor in the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, and cross-appointed to the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto, speak about a collaborative process she and her team  enhance team-based primary care, drawing on experiences of six disciplines working together to create new curricula as part of Team Primary Care. They assert that building capacity requires an understanding of unique disciplinary roles and elements of primary care and establishing primary care competencies would provide a common set of skills, knowledge, values and attitudes to form a foundation on which to build the capacity of the interprofessional primary care workforce. This session is moderated by Catherine Donnelly, PhD, an Associate Professor in Rehabilitation Therapy at Queen's University. Catherine's work is focused on team-based primary care with an emphasis on understanding how interprofessional primary care teams can support older adults and individuals with chronic conditions to live in their neighbourhoods and communities. View the article here.

Listen to the podcast with Helen Edwards, RN, MN, moderated by Dr. Marcy Saxe-Braithwaite, DBA, CHE, RN, as they talk about how technological advancements, like the Ivenix Infusion System, can be implemented in Canadian hospitals to support the seamless integration between infusion devices, electronic health records, and other hospital information systems, ultimately supporting the broader system of care. Helen Edwards is a clinical informatics consultant who has led initiatives focused on identifying, evaluating, procuring, as well as implementing and optimizing large-scale informatics and clinical technology solutions. Dr. Marcy Saxe-Braithwaite is a visionary leader, valued member of the HMF Editorial Board, and Associate Vice-President of Executive Search Services for the Medfall Group. View the article here.

Listen to Vania Sakelaris, CHE, and her collaborators as they offer more context about the retrospective survey of 117 physician leadership development program graduates at the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. The survey was designed to assess how the program contributed to graduates' leadership development, specifically in terms of behaviour change and work-related changes. It's further proof that there are concrete benefits to investing in training for physician leaders to advance transformation and improvement initiatives in a changing world. This podcast is moderated by Cholly Boland, MBA, MHA, the President and CEO of Winchester District Memorial Hospital and HMF Editorial Board member. You can read the full article here in the November 2023 edition of Healthcare Management Forum:  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/08404704231185550

Listen to  Peter Varga, CHE, Chief Transformation Officer at HealthHub Solutions, a Canadian leader in bedside digital health solutions, and Leslie Motz, CHE, Vice President of Patient Services at Joseph Brant Hospital in Burlington, Ontario, Canada, discuss the opportunities that digital solutions bring to healthcare and the importance of investing in digital solutions to advance healthcare system performance. To learn more about the platform and how to advance digital transformation, contact: [email protected] View the article here.

Gayle Walter and Ronica Rooks in conversation with Drs. Juliana Perez and William Leonard about their article, "Developing Equity-Focused Education in Academic Public Health: A Multiple-Step Model", which appeared in the Pedagogy of Anti-racism special issue (Volume 7, Issue 4). Read the full transcript here.

Listen to Patrick Patterson, PhD, and Jenna Roddick, MSc, from the AGE-WELL National Innovation Hub APPTA in Fredericton, New Brunswick as they discuss how to maintain equitable access to virtual care following the pandemic. They conducted a narrative scoping review to understand barriers related to the sustained adoption of virtual primary care delivery, and can identify areas in which policy shifts are needed to drive digital innovation. View the article here.

Implicit bias is a topic many faculty/instructors may feel uncomfortable teaching and discussing with their students. In this podcast, Dr. Gayle Walter and Dr. Ronica Rooks, who currently serve on the editorial board of Pedagogy in Health Promotion, speak with Dr. Krista Mincey, an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at Mercer University School of Medicine. Dr. Mincey's article, "Teaching about Bias to Undergraduate Students in an Introduction to Public Health Course" is featured in PHP's special issue on the Pedagogy of Antiracism and available for download here: ttps://doi.org/10.1177/23733799211031942 You can also find the transcript for this episode here.

In conversation with Dr. Tyler Derreth- co-hosted by Dr. Ronica Rooks and Dr. Gayle Walter from the PHP Special Issue: The Pedagogy of Antiracism In this @PHP_SOPHE podcast, Dr. Ronica Rooks (@RonicaRooks) and Dr. Gayle Walter (@gwalter1409) talk with Dr. R. Tyler Derreth (@drderreth) about his paper with co-authors, Dr. Vanya Jones and Mindi B. Levin, entitled, "Preparing Public Health Professionals to Address Social Injustices Through Critical Service-Learning." The authors discuss the importance of critical applications of experiential learning and their work at the SOURCE, the Service-Learning and Community Engagement Center at John Hopkins University.   This podcast is based on the Pedagogy in Health Promotion special issue on "The Pedagogy of Antiracism."  You can view this article as well as the entire issue at https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/phpa/7/4  You can also find the transcript for this episode here.

Listen to the podcast by Health Cities where authors discuss Primary Care Networks within Central Alberta and how they partnered with a technology provider to rapidly implement Home Health Monitoring for patients with chronic diseases. The outcomes are very positive. Home health monitoring has the potential to alleviate the economic burden of chronic disease in Alberta, serving as the national standard for a rapid technological response to a pandemic. View the article here.

Listen to the podcast with Dr. Bridget Duffy, moderated by Dr. Gurprit Randhawa, who has recently joined the First Nations Health Authority as the Director of eHealth & Virtual Care Innovation. Dr. Bridget Duffy, the Chief Medical Officer of Vocera Communications, discusses the Declaration of Principles designed to  expand the definition of safety to include safeguarding psychological and emotional well-being of team members, promoting health justice by declaring equity and anti-racism as core components of safety, and ensuring physical safety, which includes a zero-harm program to eliminate workplace violence.  View the article here.

An interview with 2020 winner, Dr. Michael Harvey about his award-winning paper, "How Do We Explain the Social, Political, and Economic Determinants of Health? A Call for the Inclusion of Social Theories of Health Inequality Within U.S.-Based Public Health Pedagogy". Click Here to view the article.

Join a conversation with the Canadian Alcohol Use Disorder Society about a better treatment approach for Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD). AUD is a chronic relapsing disease that can be treated with a combination of pharmacotherapies and counselling. This approach provides hope to providers and patients that AUD is a treatable medical condition, while also averting significant costs to the healthcare system. To view the article, please click here.

Listen to the podcast by Dr. Rhonda Collins, DNP, RN, FAAN, moderated by Dr. Marcy Saxe-Braithwaite, DBA, CHE, as they talk about how health leaders can operationalize "the voice of the nursing workforce" and reduce cognitive overload for nurses. To view the article, please click here

In this podcast for HMF's May issue, Larry Arshoff, President of Diagnosis, Solutions & Results Inc., interviews his co-authors on their article entitled "Laboratory medicine: The exemplar for value-based healthcare".   To view the article, click here.

Listen to the podcast by Eileen Pepler, PhD, and guests as she emphasizes the need to view the intersection of public safety and public health through a new lens to break down the traditional information silos of the many agencies that serve vulnerable populations and the impact of inadequate community-based mental health services.   To view the article click here.

Listen to the podcast by Reg Joseph, the CEO of Health City, as he discusses how Health City has worked with numerous stakeholders to develop new pathways of care that drive better outcomes and economic development in the health sector. He focuses on data, artificial intelligence and extended reality platforms. Health City is known for connecting industry and healthcare and focusing on innovation that can benefit both.   To view the article, click here.

Listen to the podcast by Allison Bodnar and Lisa Woodill, and moderated by Ken Tremblay, FCCHL, as they talk about the costing study results of the Community Pharmacist-led Anticoagulation Management Service and what it means for patients and system-level pharmacy care.   To view the article click here.

Listen to the podcast by Rhonda Collins, DNP, RN, FAAN, as she discusses how to reduce the cognitive load for nurses and other healthcare professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic.   To view the article, click here.

In this podcast for HMF's May issue, Brandon Landry, Customer Success Coordinator at Molecular You, interviews Ash Anwar on his article entitled "Value-Based Healthcare Delivery Through Metabolomics-Based Personalized Health Platform".   To view the article, click here.

Listen to Dr. Craig Stephen as he talks about the link between the social and biophysical determinants of infectious disease outbreaks and the concept of ecosystem stewardship. Craig is the CEO of the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative and a Professor at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine.   To view the article click here.

Listen to Trina Fyfe, PhD, and Geoffrey Payne, PhD, as they discuss how rural providers face challenges using clinical practice guidelines and outline a case study in British Columbia related to maternity care and the prevention of Rhesus D factor alloimmunization. Trina is a librarian and researcher at UNBC and Geoffrey is the Vice-President of Research at UNBC.   To view the article click here.

In this podcast for HMF's January issue, Nina Coutinho, Product Lead at Shopify, interviews Adam Kassam and Naila Kassam on their article entitled "Artificial intelligence in healthcare: A Canadian context".   To view the article, click here.

Listen to Alan Forster, MD, and his team discuss how The Ottawa Hospital (TOH) developed a Just Culture. They describe the concept of a Just Culture, why TOH initiated this transformation, and some of its early impacts. Forster is the VP of Innovation and Quality at the TOH.   To view the article click here.

An interview between Jody Early and authors, Kelly Bentley and Stephanie Swan, regarding the PHP 2019 Paper of the Year, "Service Learning: A Useful Pedagogy to Engage Community Health Education Students in a Resource Management and Grant Writing Course".

Listen to the podcast by Izabela Szelest and her team as they discuss Canada's opioid crisis and how it disproportionately affects people who use drugs alone at home. Szelest and her co-authors synthesized recent literature related to technology-enabled harm reduction strategies and corroborated their findings with key informants, including family members of people who use drugs and policy makers in the area of opioid use.   To view the article click here.

Listen to Dr. Anthony Mazzarelli's podcast as he talks about the importance of kindness and empathy and how these principles can improve health outcomes and reduce workplace stress and burnout.   To view the article click here.  

Listen to a podcast about TRAM, an initiative started by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Graham Boeckh Foundation. TRAM or the Transformational Research in Adolescent Mental Health (TRAM) initiative, was the first of the Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research programs, providing $25 million over 5 years to foster collaboration and placing youth and their families at the centre of integrated youth services. It lead to a pan-Canadian research and evaluation network with 14 sites within six provinces and one territory. Several integrated youth centres have developed out of this initiative, recognizing the need to connect people in these communities.   To view the article, click here. To learn more about TRAM, click here.  

In this podcast for HMF's March issue, Lynn Roberts, Research Associate at Centre for Studies in Primary Care, interviews colleage Colleen Grady on her article entitled "Establishing learning objectives for a leadership skills development curriculum in family medicine".   To view the article, click here.    

In this podcast for HMF's December 2018 issue, Alika Lafontaine, MD, FRCPC, interviews colleague Christopher Lafontaine, MEd, on their article entitled "A retrospective on reconciliation by design".   To view the article, click here.

In this podcast for HMF's November 2018 issue, Philip DeSouza the Manager of Communications and Marketing at HIROC, interviews colleague Polly Stevens, the Vice President of Health Care Risk Management, on their article entitled "Questions Healthcare Boards Should Ask Senior Leaders About Risk".   To view the article, click here.  

In this podcast for HMF's September 2018 issue, Mary J. McNally, RN, the Chief Patient Experience Office at William Osler Health System, interviews colleagues Gurwinder Gill, Director of Health Equity and Inclusion at William Osler Health System, and Vin Berman, interim VP of Human Resources and Organizational Development at William Osler Health System,  on their article entitled "Effective Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Practices".   To view the article, click here.  

In this podcast for HMF's July 2018 issue, Asher Lurie, Communications Specialist at St. Elizabeth Health Care, interviews Paul Holyoke, PhD, Director of the St. Elizabeth Research Center, about his article entitled "Why some patients who do not need hospitalization cannot leave: A case study of reviews in 6 Canadian hospitals".    To view the article, click here. 

In this podcast for HMF's May 2018 issue, Ron Lindstrom, PhD, FCCHL, former Editor in Chief of Healthcare Management Forum, Adjunct Professor in the School of Population and Public Health and an Associate Member in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of British Columbia, interviews Paul Mohapel, MSc, MA, PhD, President of Mohapel Consulting, concerning Paul's article entitled "The neurobiology of focus and distraction: The case for incorporating mindfulness into leadership".    To view the article, click here. 

In this podcast for HMF's March 2018 issue, Jennifer Rees, the Lead Senior Consultant in The Engagement and Patient Experience Department, a section within Alberta Health Services (AHS), interviews Sarah Singh, a Senior Patient and Family Engagement Consultant at AHS, and Lona Leiran, co-chair of the provincial patient and family advisory group at AHS, concerning the article entitled "Patient and family engagement in Alberta Health Services: Improving care delivery and research outcomes", which Sarah wrote with a number of AHS colleagues.    To view the article, click here. 

Theo Stickley discusses the Arts, Health and Wellbeing special issue which focuses on the important recent contributions and developments made in the understanding and possible implementation of how various activities in the arts can improve public health. Posted January 2018. Read the associated Special Issue here.

Dr. Kathleen Roe, DrPH, MPH, Editor-in-Chief of Health Promotion Practice, reads her commentary "It Takes a Village", published in volume 19 issue 1 of HPP. 

In this podcast for HMF's January 2018 issue, Dr. Lynne Nakashima, PharmD, Provincial Pharmacy Director for BC Cancer, discusses her article "Evolution of cancer treatment and evolving challenges."    To view the article, click here. 

In this podcast for HMF's November 2017 issue, Kim de Haan, OT Reg., BHSc, MHM, and Kerrie Dewachter, RN, OT Reg., BHSc, BSc, MHM, discuss their article "Value agenda for heart failure model in Ontario: Application of the Porter model."    To view the article, click here.

In this podcast for HMF's September 2017 issue, Dr. Peter Lachman, CEO of The International Society of Quality in Health Care, and Wendy Nicklin RN, President-Elect of ISQua, discuss their article "Effectively leading for quality."    To view the article, click here.

In this podcast Dr. Gambescia, Editor in Chief of Pedagogy in Health Promotion, interviews Dr. Kirsten Rodgers from Georgia College and State University, and Dr. Sarah Bass from Temple University concerning PHP's March 2017 issue on "The Contribution of Liberal Arts to Public Health Preprofessional Preparation". Dr. Rodgers and Dr. Bass authored two of the articles in this issue.  Click here to read the articles in this issue. 

In this podcast Dr. Gambescia, Editor in Chief of Pedagogy in Health Promotion, interviews Dr. Melissa (Moose) Alperin and Dr. Tanya Uden-Holman concerning PHP's new special supplement entitled "U.S. Public Health Learning Network: Innovative Competency-Based Training for the Public Health Workforce". Dr. Alperin, Dr. Uden-Holman, and Dr. Kirsten Colbaugh Rodgers served as the guest editors for this special supplement.  Click here to read the articles in this supplement. 

In this podcast for HMF's July 2017 issue, Dr. Renate Ilse, Vice President, Clinical Programs at The Ottawa Hospital, discusses the article "Using structured incentives to increase value for money in an academic health sciences centre" with her coauthors Guy J. Hebert, MD, FRCPC, chair of the board of The Ottawa Hospital Academic Medical Organization (TOHAMO), Alan J. Forster, MD, FRCPC, MSc, Vice President, Quality, Performance and Population Health at the Ottawa Hospital, and Connie Colasante, MHA, executive director of TOHAMO.    To view the article, click here.

Professor Lisa Ackerley discusses the key issues regarding food safety as well as approaches to help tackle health problems such as obesity.  May 2017, Read the associated article here: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1757913917702604