Jean M Clinton BMus MD FRCP(C)
Clinical Professor
McMaster University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences
Dr. Jean Clinton is a Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster, division of Child Psychiatry. She is on staff at McMaster Children’s Hospital with cross appointments in Pediatrics and Family Medicine, and an Associate in the Department of Child Psychiatry, University of Toronto and Sick Children’s Hospital. She is a Fellow of the Child Trauma Academy, as well as a Zero to Three Academy Fellow since 2013. She has been a consultant to children and youth mental health programs, child welfare, and primary care for over 30 years. Dr. Clinton was appointed as an education advisor to the Premier of Ontario and the Minister of Education 2014 - 2018.
Jean is renowned nationally and internationally as an advocate for children’s issues. Her special interest lies in brain development, and the crucial role relationships and connectedness play therein. Jean champions the development of a national, comprehensive child well-being strategy including a system of early learning and care for all young children and their families. She is equally committed to ensuring that child and youth needs and voices are heard and respected.
Clinical Professor
McMaster University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences
Dr. Jean Clinton is a Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster, division of Child Psychiatry. She is on staff at McMaster Children’s Hospital with cross appointments in Pediatrics and Family Medicine, and an Associate in the Department of Child Psychiatry, University of Toronto and Sick Children’s Hospital. She is a Fellow of the Child Trauma Academy, as well as a Zero to Three Academy Fellow since 2013. She has been a consultant to children and youth mental health programs, child welfare, and primary care for over 30 years. Dr. Clinton was appointed as an education advisor to the Premier of Ontario and the Minister of Education 2014 - 2018.
Jean is renowned nationally and internationally as an advocate for children’s issues. Her special interest lies in brain development, and the crucial role relationships and connectedness play therein. Jean champions the development of a national, comprehensive child well-being strategy including a system of early learning and care for all young children and their families. She is equally committed to ensuring that child and youth needs and voices are heard and respected.
Tracy DeLuca
Founder
How Might We Design
Tracy DeLuca is the Founder of How Might We Design, a creative consultancy focused on the global transformation of clinical and everyday mental health. Recently, as the Principal Design Lead for Sutter Health’s Design & Innovation Team, Tracy helped launch a series of successful innovation initiatives, including a new virtual-first primary care model that integrates behavior change (and soon, mental health) into everyday care, supported by a more accessible value-based insurance experience. Additionally, she was Design Lead for Sutter’s Mental Health Reimagined initiative, where her work focused on a human-centered deep dive into the Acute Care experience, and strategic development of an engagement platform to support youth 15-22 as they transition out of formal care back into their everyday lives.
Prior to her healthcare industry experience, Tracy spent 7 years at global design firm IDEO as a Communications Design & Project Lead, and 10 years working in Advertising. Her efforts mentoring Social Impact Fellows at Stanford University's d.school, and her podcast, Results May Vary, were born out of her desire to teach design thinking superpowers to as many people as possible.
Founder
How Might We Design
Tracy DeLuca is the Founder of How Might We Design, a creative consultancy focused on the global transformation of clinical and everyday mental health. Recently, as the Principal Design Lead for Sutter Health’s Design & Innovation Team, Tracy helped launch a series of successful innovation initiatives, including a new virtual-first primary care model that integrates behavior change (and soon, mental health) into everyday care, supported by a more accessible value-based insurance experience. Additionally, she was Design Lead for Sutter’s Mental Health Reimagined initiative, where her work focused on a human-centered deep dive into the Acute Care experience, and strategic development of an engagement platform to support youth 15-22 as they transition out of formal care back into their everyday lives.
Prior to her healthcare industry experience, Tracy spent 7 years at global design firm IDEO as a Communications Design & Project Lead, and 10 years working in Advertising. Her efforts mentoring Social Impact Fellows at Stanford University's d.school, and her podcast, Results May Vary, were born out of her desire to teach design thinking superpowers to as many people as possible.
Michelle E. DiEmanuele
President and CEO
Trillium Health Partners
Michelle E. DiEmanuele is President and CEO of Trillium Health Partners. Michelle is a dynamic leader known for her ability to lead large, complex organizations through periods of significant change and cultural transformation. Under her leadership, Trillium Health Partners recently received “Exemplary Standing” with Accreditation Canada.
Michelle’s breadth of public sector experience has provided a foundation for understanding regulatory environments and how the private sector can work effectively with government to achieve service better outcomes for taxpayers and value creation for the private sector.
Michelle has dedicated her time to various boards and councils over the past 20 years, including the Premier’s Council on Improving Healthcare and Ending Hallway Medicine. Michelle is in the Hall of Fame of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women, Top 40 under 40 and in 2012 was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee Medal. Michelle is a regular speaker on change management and public sector transformation.
President and CEO
Trillium Health Partners
Michelle E. DiEmanuele is President and CEO of Trillium Health Partners. Michelle is a dynamic leader known for her ability to lead large, complex organizations through periods of significant change and cultural transformation. Under her leadership, Trillium Health Partners recently received “Exemplary Standing” with Accreditation Canada.
Michelle’s breadth of public sector experience has provided a foundation for understanding regulatory environments and how the private sector can work effectively with government to achieve service better outcomes for taxpayers and value creation for the private sector.
Michelle has dedicated her time to various boards and councils over the past 20 years, including the Premier’s Council on Improving Healthcare and Ending Hallway Medicine. Michelle is in the Hall of Fame of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women, Top 40 under 40 and in 2012 was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee Medal. Michelle is a regular speaker on change management and public sector transformation.
Carol Hopkins
Executive Director
Thunderbird Partnership Foundation
Carol Hopkins is the Executive Director of the Thunderbird Partnership Foundation (a division of the National Native Addictions Partnership Foundation) and is of the Lenape Nation at Moraviantown, ON.
Carol has spent over 20 years in the field of First Nations addictions and mental health. She holds both a Masters of Social Work Degree from the University of Toronto and a degree in sacred Indigenous Knowledge, equivalent to a PhD in western based education systems
Carol has co-chaired national initiatives known for best practice in national policy review and development, resulting in the: First Nations Mental Wellness Continuum Framework (FNMWC), the Honouring Our Strengths: A Renewed Framework to Address Substance Use Issues Among First Nations in Canada, the Indigenous Wellness Framework, and best practice guidelines for culturally based inhalant abuse treatment. In recognition of this work, Carol was a member of the leadership advisory council to the Ontario Minister of Health and Long-Term Care and was part of the Canadian delegation to the 2016 United Nations General Assembly, Special Session on the World Drug Problem.
Executive Director
Thunderbird Partnership Foundation
Carol Hopkins is the Executive Director of the Thunderbird Partnership Foundation (a division of the National Native Addictions Partnership Foundation) and is of the Lenape Nation at Moraviantown, ON.
Carol has spent over 20 years in the field of First Nations addictions and mental health. She holds both a Masters of Social Work Degree from the University of Toronto and a degree in sacred Indigenous Knowledge, equivalent to a PhD in western based education systems
Carol has co-chaired national initiatives known for best practice in national policy review and development, resulting in the: First Nations Mental Wellness Continuum Framework (FNMWC), the Honouring Our Strengths: A Renewed Framework to Address Substance Use Issues Among First Nations in Canada, the Indigenous Wellness Framework, and best practice guidelines for culturally based inhalant abuse treatment. In recognition of this work, Carol was a member of the leadership advisory council to the Ontario Minister of Health and Long-Term Care and was part of the Canadian delegation to the 2016 United Nations General Assembly, Special Session on the World Drug Problem.
Zayna Khayat
Future Strategist
SE Health
Zayna Khayat is Future Strategist with SE Health (formerly, Saint Elizabeth Health Care) a health and social impact enterprise with a major focus on creating a better future for aging adults in their homes and communities. Zayna has been on the Faculty of Singularity University’s Exponential Medicine stream since 2006 and is adjunct faculty in the Health Sector Strategy stream at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. Dr. Khayat was previously the lead of health system innovation at MaRS Discovery District, a health innovation hub in Toronto. In 2017 she was seconded to the REshape Innovation Centre at Radboud university medical centre in the Netherlands. Zayna completed her Ph.D. in diabetes research from the University of Toronto in 2001, followed by a career in strategy consulting, including as a Principal in the healthcare practice of The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). She currently resides in Toronto with her husband and three children and is proficient in French and Arabic.
Future Strategist
SE Health
Zayna Khayat is Future Strategist with SE Health (formerly, Saint Elizabeth Health Care) a health and social impact enterprise with a major focus on creating a better future for aging adults in their homes and communities. Zayna has been on the Faculty of Singularity University’s Exponential Medicine stream since 2006 and is adjunct faculty in the Health Sector Strategy stream at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. Dr. Khayat was previously the lead of health system innovation at MaRS Discovery District, a health innovation hub in Toronto. In 2017 she was seconded to the REshape Innovation Centre at Radboud university medical centre in the Netherlands. Zayna completed her Ph.D. in diabetes research from the University of Toronto in 2001, followed by a career in strategy consulting, including as a Principal in the healthcare practice of The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). She currently resides in Toronto with her husband and three children and is proficient in French and Arabic.
Dr. Kwame McKenzie
CEO
Wellesley Institute
Dr. Kwame McKenzie is CEO of the Wellesley Institute. He is an international expert on the social causes of illness, suicide and the development of effective, equitable health systems. He serves as a commissioner on the Ontario Human Rights Commission, a Professor of Psychiatry at University of Toronto and Director of Health Equity at the Centre of Addiction and Mental Health. He sits on the Board of United Way, Ontario Hospitals Association and Community Food Centres Canada.
A Southampton University Medical School graduate, Kwame trained as a specialist at the Maudsley Hospital, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London and Harvard University. His early clinical and academic work focussed on developing community informed innovative strategies to increase access and quality of services. This led to advisory roles to the UK Government and election to the Executive of the Royal College of Psychiatrists UK. Kwame’s more recent work has investigated the social determinants of health and how they can be used to decrease illness and improve wellbeing.
In addition to his academic, policy and clinical work, he is a past BBC Radio presenter and columnist for the Guardian, Times-online and most recently The Star.
CEO
Wellesley Institute
Dr. Kwame McKenzie is CEO of the Wellesley Institute. He is an international expert on the social causes of illness, suicide and the development of effective, equitable health systems. He serves as a commissioner on the Ontario Human Rights Commission, a Professor of Psychiatry at University of Toronto and Director of Health Equity at the Centre of Addiction and Mental Health. He sits on the Board of United Way, Ontario Hospitals Association and Community Food Centres Canada.
A Southampton University Medical School graduate, Kwame trained as a specialist at the Maudsley Hospital, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London and Harvard University. His early clinical and academic work focussed on developing community informed innovative strategies to increase access and quality of services. This led to advisory roles to the UK Government and election to the Executive of the Royal College of Psychiatrists UK. Kwame’s more recent work has investigated the social determinants of health and how they can be used to decrease illness and improve wellbeing.
In addition to his academic, policy and clinical work, he is a past BBC Radio presenter and columnist for the Guardian, Times-online and most recently The Star.