Bio
SPEAKER BIO
Dr. Healey is a specialist in Emergency and Critical Care Medicine. He practices Critical Care at William Osler Health System. Andrew is a Staff Emergency Physician at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton and 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) and a Regional Critical Care Clinical Lead with 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. He is supported by four wonderful children and an extremely forgiving and understanding wife.
ABBREVIATED SPEAKER BIO (PREFERRED)
Dr. Healey is an emergency and critical care physician. He is a Critical Care Physician at William Osler Health System and a staff emergency physician at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton. He is currently the Provincial Medical Director for Donation with Trillium Gift of Life (Ontario Health) and a Regional Critical Care Clinical Lead with Ontario Health. As an Associate Clinical Professor at McMaster University, his current academic interests are around optimizing death determination, donation processes, and health system leadership.