Vol.5 No.14 | July 12, 2012

News and notes

• Would you hire a smoker?
• Save the healthcare system. Eat up and smoke
• Sick healthcare system made Canadians lose more than $3-billion in economic activity in 2011: Fraser Institute
• Can employers buy staff monogamy?
• Study finds link between employee engagement and profit
• How turf battles shred workplace morale
• Is your best worker crying inside?
• How to keep star staff from jumping to bigger ships
• Don’t sweep older workers under the rug
• Nurses who see bullying more likely to quit than those bullied
• Ontario’s Doctors File Charter Challenge with Superior Court
• Stevenson Memorial Hospital used in nursing scam
• Government settles in nurses’ discrimination complaint; settlement could top $200 million
• Provincial Governments Across Canada Are Working With Their Doctors, Why Not Ontario?
• Physician Shortage in the U.S. Threatens Physician Supply in Ontario
• More news here

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Developing Leadership within an Academic Medical Department in Canada: A Road Map for Increasing Leadership Span
Peter S. Craighead, Ronald Anderson and Rosemary Sargent

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Transitions

Tim Murphy to board of Ontario Stroke Network
Mario Tino to board of Ontario Stroke Network
Bernard (Bernie) Blais to CEO, Bruyère Continuing Care, Ottawa
Sandra Graham to board chair, Bruyère Continuing Care, Ottawa
Lawrence Prout to President & CEO of the Children's Hospital Foundation of Manitoba
Dr. Bruce Kowaluk to President, The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba
Colonel Homer Tien to Canadian Forces Major Sir Frederick Banting Term Chair in Military Trauma Research, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Dwight Nelson, to retire as President and CEO of the Regina Qu’Appelle Health Region, SK
Rubin Cohen to Director, Downsview Services for Seniors, Toronto, ON
Andrea Demchuk to Director, Downsview Services for Seniors, Toronto, ON
Sonia del Castillo to Director, Downsview Services for Seniors, Toronto, ON
Tony Iantorno to President and CEO, RX Canada, Mississauga ON
Akeela Jamal to Director, Clinical Documentation Improvement, Salumatics, Mississauga, ON
Jon Fairest to President and CEO of Sanofi Canada
Pat Campbell to the Board of Directors, The Change Foundation
Jay S. Hennick to Chair of the Board of Directors, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON
Brent S. Belzberg to Chair of the Board, Mount Sinai Hospital Foundation, Toronto, ON
Janet Yale to President and Chief Executive Officer, The Arthritis Society
Ken Ready to Chair, the National Board of Directors, The Arthritis Society
Paul Lucas to Special Assistant to the Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Queen’s University
Paul Lirette to President, GlaxoSmithKline
Manitoba reduces Regional Health Authorities to 5 (from 11)
Doug Lauvstad to Chair, Northern Regional Health Authority, MB
Margaret MacDonald to Chair, Western Regional Health Authority, MB
Denise Harder to Chair, Southern Regional Health Authority, MB
Diane Kelly to Chair, Interlake-Eastern Regional Health Authority, MB
Dr. John Wade to Chair, Winnipeg-Churchill health region, MB

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