Before the Emerging Leaders Program, I was getting prepared for a summer of studying for my MCAT. After finishing up a long and tedious online school year, I was feeling worn out and needed some down time before I started studying again. I was hyper focused on my academics and had been struggling to maintain any sort of consistency in my schedule. When I was first introduced to the ELP, I watched the testimonials from previous graduates and knew immediately that this program could offer some new tools for restructuring, and that I could genuinely change the course of my academic career. As I g ..read more

Develop your leadership skills with the Emerging Leaders Program Leadership is an essential life skill that can be taught and refined. Emerging Leaders is a one-week virtual intensive leadership program for students and young professionals that provides you with the necessary skills to lead across the health system. This program is tailored to senior undergraduates, recent graduates, graduate students, post-doctoral students, medical residents, and young professionals. In today’s dynamic and changing environment, it is clear that all industries, and in particular the health industry, nee ..read more

Alumni share their thoughts on starting their medical career and how it has been impacted during the pandemic The future of Canadian healthcare depends on a new generation of health leaders who can think creatively and disrupt the status quo. At the Health Leadership Academy, our programs equip participants with the critical leadership and creative problem-solving skills vital to effect change and achieve success in a complex health system. What does it mean to be a young professional in the real world of healthcare during a crisis? At a recent McMaster Collaboratorium webinar, we spoke with t ..read more

Advance your leadership potential and the health system as a whole The Michael G. DeGroote Health Leadership Academy (HLA) offers a portfolio of 2021 leadership programming for aspiring and current health leaders that focuses on learning, and unlearning, the necessary skills to navigate and adapt to our ever-changing health environment. HLA’s leadership programming includes Emerging Leaders, Pathfinder, and the new Shift programs. Participants who complete Emerging Leaders and Pathfinder can apply it towards their Certified Health Executive (CHE) credential. Applications are now open. Emerging ..read more

CCHL awards LEADS certification to McMaster University Health Leadership Academy The Canadian College of Health Leaders (CCHL) has awarded LEADS certification to the McMaster University Health Leadership Academy (HLA) for its Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) and Pathfinder Program. This three-year strategic alliance focuses on health leadership and emphasizes the commitment of both organizations in the pursuit of ongoing professional development and lifelong learning. The partnership agreement provides Emerging Leaders and Pathfinder participants with an opportunity to obtain their Certified Hea ..read more

Innovation by Design (IBD) is a 3-unit undergraduate course that gives students from all disciplines the opportunity to solve broad challenges through a human-centred lens. IBD builds a culture of collaboration and creativity and develops budding design thinkers who can identify needs around a real challenge, define opportunities to address the need, and build solutions. Following the Stanford d.school process of empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test, the most recent cohort tackled the challenge of reimagining the future of health leadership education. After a kick-off session with gu ..read more

Greg McQueen will start his term as Acting HLA Co-Director on April 1, 2019. Dr. Greg McQueen, an accomplished leadership and organizational development executive, will join the Health Leadership Academy (HLA) as Acting Co-Director. His part-time, interim position will run from April 1 to November 1, 2019. Dr. McQueen, with John Rankin, has co-led the HLA’s Emerging Health Leaders Program (EHL) for the past three years, playing an instrumental role in developing the flagship program. Dr. McQueen has provided senior leadership at several medical schools and health science centres across North ..read more

From left to right: Alumni panel members Jennifer Kennedy (EHL 2018), Sarosha Imtiaz (EHL 2017), Adam Eqbal (EHL 2016), and moderator Joe Au-Yeung (EHL 2018). To kick off the spring 2019 Emerging Health Leaders Program (EHL), alumni from the past three years gathered at the Ron Joyce Centre to share what they gained from the EHL experience. Offered by the Health Leadership Academy, EHL is a two-week intensive for interdisciplinary students and young professionals who want to develop their leadership capabilities and deliver change in the health landscape. Moderated by EHL 2018 alumnus Joe Au ..read more

Last night, leaders from across Canada’s health system gathered at the Ron Joyce Centre (in person and virtually) to discuss the future of health care. In particular, this lively panel explored how we can best prepare tomorrow’s leaders to navigate disruptive forces. From technological change to shifts in patient populations, Dr. Teresa Chan (McMaster University), Jimmy Yang (Accenture Canada), Greg McQueen (Acting Co-Director, HLA), and Andre Picard (The Globe & Mail) parsed findings from the Health Leadership Academy’s new white paper on the topic.  New and Emerging Technologies P ..read more

Transport yourself to the year 2030. How will you communicate with your doctor? What tools will you need to make informed medical decisions? How will you commute to work or school? These are the types of future-oriented questions that the Health Leadership Academy’s Innovation by Design II (IBD) students explored this term. Following the introductory Innovation by Design course, students in IBD II worked with industry sponsors to design for future needs in four key areas of health – palliative care, autism care, health sciences education, and active transportation. Last week, the four student ..read more