Home
Contact Us History Home
Program Speakers Registration and
Accommodation Webcast Sponsors Call for Poster Abstracts

halifax@buksa.com


Click here to visit the Adobe websiteDownload Adobe Acrobat


2009
Montreal, Quebec
Oct. 22 to 24

2010
Halifax, Nova Scotia
October

 home < | >
Organizing Committee | Accreditation Print Page

A provocative forum for leaders to advance safety, cultivate relationships, and shape the future of healthcare.

Thank you to all of those delegates who were able to join us in Winnipeg for the Symposium and to those of you who joined us online for the webcast. We hope that you enjoyed the learning and sharing we participated in.

Speaker presentations are now available. You can download the complete .zip file here or visit the speakers page to download individual documents.

Mark your calendar for next year's symposium in Montreal, October 22 to 24, 2009.

The Canadian Healthcare Safety Symposium 8 continues the tradition of the Halifax Series of symposia. This event has proven to be Canada's unique gathering of individuals and organizations with a desire to improve healthcare safety and enhance the overall quality of our healthcare system. The Halifax Series helps provide a better understanding of the phenomena of health system hazards, the behaviours of patients and healthcare providers, environmental and organizational factors, and the role of regulators.

Theme: Healthcare and the Law

  • How are legal issues affecting your work in healthcare and the delivery of healthcare services in Canada?
  • Do you find yourself facing more and more difficult conversations with patients, clients, co-workers and administrators on issues related to healthcare safety?
  • What do we do when personal, professional and system responsibilities for ensuring safety collide?
  • Do healthcare practitioners, administrators, and lawyers see eye to eye on healthcare legal issues, such as disclosure and apology?
  • How can we advance healthcare safety while protecting the rights of patients, professionals and healthcare organizations?
Increasingly, healthcare professionals and administrators are finding themselves caught up in a web of public expectations and legal and regulatory standards and rules. These concern a variety of legal/regulatory mechanisms aimed at improving safety, as well as professional and organizational accountability and responsibility, apology and disclosure.

Join healthcare professionals and administrators, along with members of the legal community, in Winnipeg, for a provocative and stimulating discussion and debate on healthcare safety and its relationship to the law. You will be challenged as you examine issues from both a healthcare and legal perspective, and you will gain a better appreciation for the complexity of "healthcare and the law."

This emerging field will be addressed by a strong cadre of speakers who are justices, lawyers, healthcare professionals and administrators, regulators, insurers, and patients.

Who Will Attend
Healthcare and legal professionals and leaders with an active interest in patient safety, quality, organizational development and health system improvement will attend the Symposium. Here is a sampling of the delegates you can expect to meet:

  • Quality leaders
  • Healthcare organization CEOs and senior staff
  • Professional association and licensing body representatives
  • Healthcare professionals from all disciplines
  • Members of the judicial community
  • Lawyers, especially those practicing in health law
  • Medical directors of healthcare organizations and government agencies
  • Senior government representatives
  • Academics from medicine, nursing, rehabilitative medicine, laboratory medicine, pharmacy, health and social policy, law, health law, business and other related disciplines
  • Healthcare educators
  • Healthcare organization board members
Space is limited. This meeting has traditionally sold-out in advance of the early-bird deadline.

What to Expect at the Halifax Symposia
The Halifax Series has evolved into Canada's flagship event in healthcare safety. Participants from previous meetings have consistently remarked about the meeting being innovative, cutting edge, and intellectually challenging.

The meeting is different by design. In developing the early programs, the founders of the Halifax Series sought inspiration within healthcare and in other industries around the world for different ideas, knowledge, skills and attitudes which would present opportunities for the improvement of healthcare safety in Canada. The Halifax Series Organizing Committee has diligently continued this approach.

Halifax Symposium attendees can expect:

  • A challenging learning opportunity, designed for senior leaders and clinicians in healthcare
  • A program that allows every registrant to participate in every session, and that contains no profession-specific sessions
  • Themes that are academic in focus, and that examine issues from a variety of perspectives
  • Speakers who are selected for their expertise, and not because they represent a discipline, a profession, or an organization
  • Sessions that explore the safety experiences of other industries
  • A conference that has limited capacity, so as to preserve the intimacy of the interactions among delegates and speakers

top

Organizing Committee

The Halifax 8 organizing committee will be announced in the spring of 2008.

Co-chair: Jan Davies MSc MD FRCPC
Professor, Department of Anesthesia, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary

Co-chair: Laurie Thompson BN MN
Executive Director, Manitoba Institute for Patient Safety

Ross Baker PhD
Professor, Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

Paula Beard ACP
Director of Operations, Canadian Patient Safety Institute

Sharon Caughey MD FRCSC FACOG
Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Ottawa

Doug Cochrane MD FRCSC FAAP
Chair, British Columbia Patient Safety Task Force, Provincial Health Services Authority

Pat Croskerry MD PhD
Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Dalhousie University

Philip Hassen MPH FCCHSE
Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Patient Safety Institute

Carolyn Hoffman RN MN
Director, Critical Care and Emergency, Capital Health

Rob Robson MDCM FRCPC
Chief Patient Safety Officer, Winnipeg Regional Health Authority

Paul Thomas PhD
Duff Roblin Professor of Government, Faculty of Law, St. John's College, University of Manitoba

Jewel Buksa MBA
President, BUKSA Conference Management and Program Development

top

Accreditation Information

Accreditation received for this program:

  • This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and approved by the University for a maximum of 20.5 credits.
  • This program meets the accreditation criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been accredited or up to 20.5 Mainpro-M1 credits.
  • Attendance at this program entitles certified Canadian College of Health Service Executives members (CHE/FCCHSE) to 6.25 Category II credits toward their maintenance of certification requirement.

If you did not pick up an accreditation certificate at the Symposium, please email halifax@buksa.com and one will be emailed to you after verifying your attendance.

top

The Canadian Healthcare Safety Symposium
BUKSA Conference Management and Program Development
Suite 307, 10328 - 81 Avenue NW, Edmonton, Alberta T6E 1X2 Canada
Phone: +1 (780) 436-0983 ext. 229  Fax: +1 (780) 437-5984  Email: halifax@buksa.com
www.buksa.com/halifax

Home | Program | Speakers | Registration | Webcast | Sponsors | Abstracts | Contact | History