AppsForHealth 2012: Keynote Speakers
Kevin J. Leonard, MBA, PhD, CMA
- Associate Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation (IHPME), University of Toronto
- Founder/Executive Director, Patient Destiny (www.patientdestiny.com)
- Executive Director of the IMPROVE IT Institute – Indices Measuring Performance Relating Outcomes, Value and Expenditure from Information Technology
- Research Scientist with the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, University Health Network.
Kevin Leonard received his PhD from the Joint Doctoral Program in Montreal where he specialized in Statistics and Information Systems Theory for Business. He has two primary areas of research: (i) the implementation of electronic health records (EHRs) along with researching issues pertaining to the development and implementation of patient-focused information technology (Personal Health Records or PHRs); (ii) the creation and implementation of metrics for performance measurement of the Information Technology (IT) investment within healthcare.
Kevin has Crohn’s disease and has had frequent and extensive interactions with the healthcare system. He is a strong believer in patient empowerment and the critical role patients play in managing their care in consultation and collaboration with their health providers. Through Patient Destiny, Kevin is working to promote the recognition of “patients as partners in their healthcare”.
Dr. Joseph Cafazzo
Dr. Joseph Cafazzo is Lead for the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, a state-of-the-art research facility devoted to the evaluation and design of healthcare technology, hosting seventy researchers and staff. Dr. Cafazzo has been an active researcher of the use of technology to facilitate patient self-care of complex chronic conditions such as diabetes, end-stage renal disease, and congestive heart failure. He is also active in ethnographic research related new modes of patient care mediated by technology, such as the Hospital-at-Home, and the Personal Health Record (PHR).
Dr. Joseph Cafazzo has advised and conducted research for public sector policy makers and private sector medical technology companies on the design and safety of technology in healthcare. He is Senior Director of UHN Healthcare Human Factors - the largest group of its kind devoted to the application of human factors engineering to problems of healthcare delivery and patient safety. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, and the Institute of Biomaterials and BiomedicalEngineering, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, where he teaches and conducts research in the areas of human factors, clinical engineering, and health informatics.
In 2010 he was the recipient of the Career Scientist award by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care. In 2011, Dr. Cafazzo was named Clinical Lead, Design and Engineering, of the newly established Techna Institute, University Health Network.