Bio
ABBREVIATED SPEAKER BIO (PREFERRED)
Dr. Healey is an emergency and critical care physician. He is Chief of Critical Care and Chief of Emergency Medicine at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton and an Associate Clinical Professor at McMaster University. He is currently the Provincial Medical Director for Organ and Tissue Donation with Trillium Gift of Life (Ontario Health). He is passionate about health system adaptive leadership, optimizing death determination and the donation-transplant experience for patients and families.
SPEAKER BIO
Dr. Healey is a specialist in Emergency and Critical Care Medicine. He is the Chief of Critical Care and Chief of Emergency Medicine at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton. He holds an appointment as an active teacher and educator as an Associate Clinical Professor at McMaster University in the Department of Medicine. Originally from Newfoundland, Dr. Healey has completed fellowship training in emergency medicine and critical care medicine, with a subspecialty focus on echocardiography at McMaster. He also completed a Master in the Donation of Organs, Tissues, and Cells for Transplantation at the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. He is currently the Provincial Medical Director for Donation with Trillium Gift of Life (Ontario Health). His main interests are optimizing the donor family experience, improving donation-transplant communication, and uncontrolled lung donation. He has demonstrated strong but evolving interest in health system leadership - as both a learner and a participant - and in particular, has a growing practice in Adaptive Leadership. He is supported by four wonderful children and an extremely forgiving and understanding wife.