Strategic Planning Council

Dr. Howard Clasky -Critical Care Lead Central East LHIN

Dr. Howard Clasky was named as the critical care leader for the Central East LHIN on May 4, 2006. As the critical care leader, Dr. Clasky will help implement the province’s plan to improve access to critical care services. He will also work with the CEO of the Central East LHIN to develop plans on the best use of critical care resources in the area. Additionally Dr. Clasky will work with the other 12 critical care leaders in other LHINs to come together as a provincial group to provide advice to the government on critical care issues.

Dr. Clasky is director of the intensive care unit at Scarborough General Hospital – General Division.

Lewis Hooper -eHealth Lead for Central East LHIN

Lewis has over 20 years of health care experience and has worked in an executive position in both large and small hospitals. Lewis has extensive information management experience including the development and implementation of shared information systems between hospital partners. He has significant consulting experience, primarily in the application and use of information to support strategic planning and funding.

Lewis has served on a number of province wide initiatives including the Health Services Restructuring Commission, the Ontario Third Party Review, and the Central Negotiations Team with MOHLTC, he has had significant involvement with the JPPC, and health care reform in other provinces.

Currently, Lewis is the Chief Information Officer and e-health lead for the Central East LHIN consisting of 8 hospitals and 4 Community Care Access Centres. As the e-health lead for the Central East LHIN, Lewis co-chairs the group of 14 e-health Leads.  He is also Chair of the Central East LHIN's e-Health Steering Committee.

Lewis has a BSC in Pharmacy and a Masters in Health Administration from the University of Toronto. He is a member of the Canadian Council of Health Services
Executives.

He has lived in the Toronto area for 20 years and is married with one son.

Dr. John Peto - Chair, Seamless Care for Seniors Network

Dr. Peto is a Geriatrician – one of the very few such specialists here in the Central East
LHIN.  A graduate of the U of T Faculty of Medicine, he trained in Internal Medicine at the University of Alberta and in Geriatric Medicine at the Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Centre in Queens, New York. He gained his fellowship in Internal Medicine in 1980 and his fellowship in Geriatric Medicine in 1983 and has been Chief of Geriatric Medicine at the Rouge Valley Health System since 1986.

Dr. George Buldo - Co-Chair, Chronic Disease Prevention and Management Network

Dr. George Buldo graduated from the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, where he trained in Internal Medicine and Nephrology. He has been in fulltime clinical practice, initially in the Dialysis Program at Oshawa General Hospital, since 1997. In 1999, he was the founding physician of the Advanced Renal Insufficiency Clinic, and in 2001 was appointed Medical Director of the Regional Nephrology System. Now known as the Kidney Care Clinic, this clinic is an integral component to the success of the Lakeridge Health Regional Nephrology System, which in 2006 was recognized by the CCHSA as demonstrating Leading Practices. His private practice is based at the Oshawa Clinic. Since 2004, he has also served as the Medical Director of the Medicine Program, and Chief of the Department of Medicine at Lakeridge. Areas of particular interest are health care system design as it pertains to quality, access and efficiency of care.

Dr. Don Harterre - Co-Chair, Chronic Disease Prevention and Management Network

Dr. Harterre grew up in Montreal, received a B.A. from McGill University and his MD from UBC in 1964 and started general practice in Peterborough in 1966. 

Highlights of his career there included being named Family Physician of the Year for Eastern Ontario and receiving the coveted Glenn Sawyer Award from the Ontario Medical Association for services to the profession and the community.

He is a Certificant and a Fellow of the Ontario College of Family Physicians.
His administrative posts have included being President of the Peterborough County Medical Society, President and Vice-President of the Medical Staff of Peterborough Regional Health Centre and Chief of Staff, Peterborough Regional Health Centre. Since retiring from active family medicine in 2002 he has been physician lead for Peterborough’s Family Health Teams.

On a more personal note, he and his wife Gwen have 3 children and 8 grandchildren. He continues to be an enthusiastic cross-county and downhill skier, golfer, curler, canoeist and bridge player and always has time for good fellowship, good music and fine dining.

Dr. Prendergast trained in medicine and psychiatry in Ireland, and has worked in the Ontario mental health system for the last 25 years.  He has provided medical leadership at Whitby Mental Health Centre for that last 15 years. 

At the University of Toronto, Dr. Prendergast is the Executive Vice-Chair, Department of Psychiatry, an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Occupational Therapy, and a Co-Director of the Health Systems Program.  He is an examiner for the specialty of psychiatry with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and is also a member of the Ontario Review Board (which oversees mentally disordered offenders in Ontario). 

He is part of a project team which has worked to include mental health in the Hospital Report process in Ontario.  Dr. Prendergast is also a member of the Board of Directors of Surrey Place Centre.

Dr. Christopher Jyu - Co-Chair, Primary Care Working Group

Dr. Jyu is a comprehensive care physician who practices at a private office, a walk-in clinic, and a number of local Emergency Departments in the GTA. 

Dr. Jyu has enjoyed a successful career, which has included his championing a number of major initiatives, such as the creation of the first after-hours patient care delivery system in Scarborough (Centenary After-Hours Clinic Inc.) in 1989, the creation of the first Family Health Group (FHG) in Scarborough in 2003, and the implementation of the first Alternative Funding Arrangement (AFA) Program at Emergency Department, The Scarborough Hospital (TSH), General Campus, in 2004. 

Dr. Jyu is an elected Board member of the Ontario Medical Association (OMA) and OntarioMD.  He is a member of the Chinese Canadian Medical Society (CCMS).  Dr. Jyu is an active staff member at both the Rouge Valley Health System and The Scarborough Hospital.  He is a courtesy staff member at the Toronto East General Hospital, North York General Hospital, and Lakeridge Health Corporation.  He is involved in a number of charitable activities, including being a member of the Scarborough Chinese Outreach Committee (SCOC). He chairs several Continuing Medical Education (CME) Committees. 

Dr. Jyu is a Collaborative Member and Co-Chair of the Primary Care Working Group (PCWG) of CE LHIN. He is a member of Emergency Department Task Group (EDTG) and Steering Committee for Clinical Services Planning (CSP) of CE LHIN. Dr. Jyu is the Lead Family Physician, Orthopedic Expert Panel, Ontario.  He is a committee member of Physician-LHIN-MOHLTC Tripartite Committee (PLTC), Ontario.  He chairs the OMA-CE LHIN Physician Engagement Committee.

Dr. Jyu graduated from the University of Manitoba with a degree in Science (B.Sc.) and Medicine (M.D.).  He obtained his Executive MBA degree at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.  Dr. Jyu is a Certificant in both Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine from the College of Family Physician of Canada with the designation of CCFP and CCFP (EM).  He holds a Fellowship from the College of Family Physician of Canada with the designation of FCFP. He has a Diploma from the American Board of Urgent Care Medicine. Dr. Jyu is a Lecturer at the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto.

Sheila Neuburger - Chair, Alternate Level of Care (ALC) TaskGroup

Sheila Neuburger, MSW, RSW, is the Vice-President of Clinical Services at Whitby Mental Health Centre. In that capacity, she provides strategic leadership to our Clinical Services programs.   Key focuses during this first year post divestment have been the re organization of the clinical services portfolio to enhance service delivery and patient flow.  Several new partnerships have been developed to foster innovative care delivery models with other 

Sheila has extensive experience in the health care sector, demonstrated by leadership positions of increasing responsibility at The Scarborough Hospital.  Her previous roles include unit manager (rehab and specialized geriatrics), department manager (social work and discharge planners) and Patient Care Director, General and Subspecialty Medicine. 

She was on the Board of Directors, Scarborough CCAC from its inception in 1998 to its divestment in December 2006. 

Sheila has participated in several committees related to ALC issues and brings a strong system perspective to the issues. 

She started her career as a psychiatric social worker and it is that experience that ignited her commitment to patient focused care. 

Dr. Kathy Chapman - Emergency Department Lead for the Central East LHIN; Chair, Emergency Department Task Group

Biography to be provided

Dr. David Ryan - Chair, Geriatric Expertise in Emergency Department Project Team

Dr. David Patrick Ryan is a consulting psychologist in aging, organizational behavior, continuing health professional education and knowledge translation.

He is Director of Education and Knowledge to Practice Processes for the Regional Geriatric Program of Toronto and an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto where he consults on inter-professional practice, e-learning and the Knowledge to Practice Process.

His present interests are inter-organizational and networked practice, the knowledge to practice process, informal learning and self assessments of competence.  He builds online resources such as the RGP Knowledge to Practice Portal, directs a distributed inter-professional work team of 11 educators in the Psychogeriatric Resource Consultation Program in Toronto, and chairs the Provincial Geriatric Emergency Management Program (GEM) Liaison Working Group, the emerging GEM Nursing Network and the GTA Rehabilitation Network Knowledge to Practice Committee and he co-chairs the RGP’s Senior Friendly Hospital Project. David developed the “build-a-case” variant of case based learning and the Dimensions of Teamwork Survey. His ongoing research collaborations include, inter-professional pain management during rehabilitation transitions following hip fracture, a blended methods intervention to improve colon cancer staging by surgeons and pathologists, a memory enhancing cell-phone, technology enabled frailty focused services, inter-professional mentoring, inter-professional coaching and the prevention of delirium in the ED, and the Provincial Geriatric Emergency Management evaluation.

Heather Reid - Co-Chair, Rehabilitation Task Group

Heather Reid is Program General Manager of Continuing Care and Rehabilitation, and more recently, the acute care Medical Program (Centenary) at the Rouge Valley Health System: Rouge Valley Centenary in Scarborough and Rouge Valley Ajax/Pickering in Ajax. She has been with Rouge Valley for 5 years, coming to the hospital after 18 years at St. John’s Rehabilitation Hospital progressing from various direct care roles to management positions.

Heather holds a Masters of Health Sciences, Health Administration (Toronto) and a Bachelor of Science, Physical Therapy.

Heather has worked with patients of all ages from young adult to geriatrics and with many different health populations. She has always been very active in her communities, including guest lecturer at University of Toronto. Currently her various external linkages and committee work include the Regional Geriatric Program, the GTA Rehabilitation Network, St. Michael’s Operating Committee (Stroke Care), the Frail Elderly Alliance of Durham Region and the Total Joint Network. This work enables Heather to link with members of the community and other facilities, and to continue exploring initiatives to enhance the health care of the populations in the Scarborough community and beyond. Heather played a leadership role in implementing the new care delivery model for patients requiring total hip and knee replacement surgery at her facility - a care model aimed at allowing greater access to surgery for those patients on waiting lists. Heather also continues to work very closely with the Scarborough Community Care Access Centre to plan for improved integration of services for various groups.

On a personal note, Heather is also the proud parent of 2 daughters, Taylor age 12 and Lauren, age 10. She enjoys spending time with husband Dennis, her father and grandmother, and her brother and his family. Heather’s other interests include golfing, roller-blading, curling and reading.

Shelly Santerre - Co-Chair, Rehabilitation Task Group

Shelley Santerre is currently the Clinical Leader of Post Acute Specialty Services (PASS) Program at Lakeridge Health Corporation, with a professional designation as a Physiotherapist.  She has been with Lakeridge Health since 1995.  She has also worked at Rouge Valley Health System, and the Ottawa Hospital – Heart Institute.  Most recently, she has been involved in the Stoke definitions framework with the GTA Rehab Network and is a Member of the Toronto ABI Network.  Shelley completed the Masters of Health Science (Health Administration) in 2005.