Bio
ABBREVIATED SPEAKER BIO (PREFERRED)
Dr. Healey is an emergency and critical care physician. He is Chief of Critical Care and a staff emergency physician at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton. He also practices Critical Care at William Osler Health System. He is currently the Provincial Medical Director for Organ and Tissue Donation with Trillium Gift of Life (Ontario Health). As an Associate Clinical Professor at McMaster University, his current academic interests are around health system adaptive leadership, optimizing death determination, and donation-transplant processes.
SPEAKER BIO
Dr. Healey is a specialist in Emergency and Critical Care Medicine. He is the Chief of Critical Care at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton where he also practices Emergency Medicine. He continues to practice Critical Care at William Osler Health System. 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). He is currently studying the interactions that occur around death determined by neurological criteria in families, especially around those that request prolonged physiologic support. 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.