2.10.10

AMERICAN SOCIETY of PLASTIC SURGEONS Conference Toronto Oct 1-5


Special Events
Opening Ceremonies - Keynote Speaker: Steve Forbes
Time: 4:30PM - 6:00PM
Location: Metro Toronto Convention Centre
Fee: Complimentary with Registration
Supported by:

ASPS/PSEF/ASMS are proud to announce Steve Forbes as the Keynote Speaker of Plastic surgery 2010. Based on his experience as a widely respected economic prognosticator, Mr. Forbes will address the current economic situation and provide insights and strategic advice for business growth and success during these difficult times. Be sure not to miss this motivating introduction to Plastic Surgery 2010!

Facts about Forbes:
  • Forbes is the nation’s leading business magazine, with a circulation of 900,000+
  • Together with Forbes Global, reaches a worldwide audience of nearly 5 million readers
  • Forbes.com attracts over 7 million unique visitors each month and has become the leading destination site for business decision-makers and investors

Steve Forbes

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Steve Forbes
Born July 18, 1947 (1947-07-18) (age 63)
Morristown, New Jersey
Occupation Publisher
Political party Republican
Malcolm Stevenson "Steve" Forbes, Jr. (born July 18, 1947) is an American editor, publisher, and businessman. He is the editor-in-chief of business magazine Forbes as well as president and chief executive officer of its publisher, Forbes Inc. He was a Republican candidate in the U.S. Presidential primaries in 1996[1] and 2000. He is the son of longtime Forbes magazine publisher Malcolm Forbes and the grandson of that publication's founder, B.C. Forbes.

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Forbes was born in Morristown, New Jersey, the son of Roberta Remsen (née Laidlaw) and Malcolm Forbes.[2] He is of English, Scottish, French, and Dutch ancestry.[3] He is married to Sabina Beekman, and they have five daughters. Daughter Moira was named Publisher of ForbesLife Executive Women in 2007. Just as his children would do, Forbes attended Far Hills Country Day School. He graduated cum laude in 1966 from Brooks School in North Andover, Massachusetts, and was in the Princeton class of 1970.[4] While at Princeton, Forbes founded his first magazine, Business Today, with two other students. Business Today is currently the largest student-run magazine in the world.[5]
In 1996, years after the death of his father, he changed the name credited to him on the Forbes magazine masthead from Malcolm S. Forbes Jr. to the name he had been known as throughout childhood, Steve Forbes.[citation needed] Forbes served as an occasional guest host on the show History's Business on the television channel History.[citation needed]
He was awarded an honorary doctorate in economics from Stevenson University on April 30, 2009.[citation needed]
Forbes is a member of the Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, initiated August 6, 2009, as the 250,000th member of Tau Kappa Epsilon.[6]

    1.10.10

    Canadian Medical Protection Association (CMPA)

    CMPA does not pay for APPEALS unlike the UK Medical Defence Union & Medical Protection Society.

    CMPA dies NOT give 24-hr advice as does MDU & MPS

    CMPA publishes little on cases.unlike MDU & MPS

    CMPA offers few courses on reducing risk.unlike MDU & MPS

    CMPA does not retain lawyers with Ontario Health Law certificate.

    Membership in CMPA is not compulsory. for physicians.


    Casebook

    The journal of MPS. Published quarterly, each issue is full of news, features and case reports.

    Case reports

    An aid to MPS members, over 150 case reports published in recent editions of Casebook.

    GP Registrar

    Covers the medicolegal subjects that are particularly important during the first years of general practice.

    New Doctor

    New Doctor is a magazine produced by MPS for doctors in their first two years qualified.

    Your Practice

    A publication created to answer the medicolegal queries that commonly arise through general practice.

    Sessional GP

    An annual publication for locums and salaried GPs, launched in October 2009. 

    ONTARIO MEDICAL ASSOCIATION hires ex-ONTARIO DEPUTY MINISTER of HEALTH Mr.Ron SAPSFORD

    OMA hired Mr.R.SAPSFORD to help with STRATEGY.

    27.9.10

    Ontario Deputy Minister of Health R.SAPSFORD BSc(Tor.) MHSc.(Ottawa)

    Key figure in eHealth debacle resigns
    Published On Sat Nov 14 2009




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    Ron Sapsford stepped down as deputy health minister Nov. 13, 2009.
    DARREN CALABRESE/THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE PHOTO
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    By Tanya Talaga Queen's Park Bureau
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    Ontario's deputy health minister, Ron Sapsford, a key figure in the eHealth fiasco and one of the most highly paid and powerful civil servants in the province, resigned suddenly on Friday.
    Sapsford is the latest to step down or be forced out in the wake of revelations about the province's largely failed $1 billion push to create electronic health records for Ontarians.
    He made headlines last month after the Star revealed his nearly $500,000 a year salary was funnelled through Hamilton Health Sciences to skirt government pay guidelines for senior bureaucrats.
    After the story broke, Sapsford became known almost as well for his salary as for his role in the eHealth affair. The salary loophole was closed two weeks after it was revealed in the Star.
    The eHealth scandal erupted in May when it was revealed eHealth Ontario handed out nearly $5 million in untendered contracts to high-priced consultants who billed nearly $3,000 a day yet dinged taxpayers for $1.65 cups of tea.
    Last month, Ontario Auditor General Jim McCarter reported the province had spent $1 billion of taxpayers' money, with little oversight, in the 10-year effort to bring health records online.
    The scandal has led to the departure of a number of key figures in Premier Dalton McGuinty's second-term government. David Caplan quit as health minister in October. EHealth Ontario CEO Sarah Kramer left in June, as did Dr. Alan Hudson, the eHealth board chair who was McGuinty's go-to man in health care.
    On Thursday, eHealth Ontario let go two vice-presidents, Robin Tonna and Deanna Allen, in a restructuring bid to save about $250,000, said interim CEO Rob Devitt.
    Yet it was Sapsford who as deputy minister was ultimately responsible, after the health minister, for the $42 billion health ministry and the electronic health record boondoggle, critics charge.
    As deputy health minister for the past five years, Sapsford oversaw eHealth Ontario's predecessor, Smart Systems for Health Agency – which was launched in 2002 and lambasted by critics in 2007 for spending $647 million with little to show for it. The agency was dissolved last year.
    Sapsford was behind the electronic health programs branch in the health ministry and the creation of the eHealth Ontario agency.
    In his resignation memo to staff, obtained by the Star, Sapsford said health is a "wonderful, complicated, hair-raising, and rewarding ministry," one he will miss greatly.
    The memo did not give a reason for his resignation, but critics were quick to link his departure to the eHealth affair.
    "How much was the deputy simply doing the bidding of the health minister or premier's office?" asked Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak. "That may be buried with this sudden resignation. This is why we need a full public inquiry in the eHealth boondoggle."
    Sapsford was "the last man standing," said NDP Leader Andrea Horwath. "The very first thing that came to my mind when I heard this was it looks like we'll never get to the bottom of the eHealth scandal."
    Sapsford declined interview requests by the Star in recent weeks.
    He recently told a legislative committee looking into the eHealth affair that he was not aware untendered contracts were given out until he read about it in the press. He also disputed that $1 billion was wasted. He argued there was value obtained for the money spent, but he did acknowledge "some mistakes were made in the management of procurements" on a couple of projects.
    Sapsford, a former chief operating officer at Hamilton Health Sciences, was appointed deputy health minister in March 2005. A grandfather who holds a bachelor of science degree from the University of Toronto and a masters in health administration from the University of Ottawa, he also is a director on the boards of Canada Health Infoway and the Canadian Institute for Health Information.
    Sapsford originally worked as deputy health minister for George Smitherman, who earned the nickname "Furious George" for his manner and the pace of change he brought to the usually slow-moving health ministry.
    "George focused on the politics and Ron ran the department," said a former senior health staffer. "He was very engaged in the day-to-day stuff."
    Smitherman credits Sapsford for helping him push through 10 pieces of legislation, including creation of 14 local health integration networks, bills to regulate traditional Chinese medicine and the omnibus health systems improvements act.
    "Nothing came to me, before going to George, before Ron had signed off on it," said the source, who added Sapsford was "very hands-on" with the electronic health record initiative.
    Being deputy minister of health has got to be one of the hardest jobs in the country, Smitherman said.
    "It is certainly a powerful job, but in the grand scheme of things it is probably one of the five or 10 most impossible jobs, probably in the country," Smitherman said.

    Health Minister Deb Matthews, who succeeded Caplan last month, said in a statement Sapsford "helped make measurable progress in the speed and quality of health care available" to Ontarians.
































































    R.SAPSFORD BSc (Tor.) MHSc.(Ottawa) hired by Ontario Medical Association

    Ron Sapsford (aged approx. 60)

    Health Care Executive


    Past
    • Deputy Minister at Ontario Ministry of Health & Long Term Care
    • Executive Vice - President Chief Operating Officer at Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation
    • Assistant Deputy Minister at Ontario Ministry of Health
    Education
    • University of Ottawa / Université d'Ottawa
    • University of Toronto - New College
    Connections
    68 connections
    Industry
    Hospital & Health Care

    Ron Sapsford’s Experience

    • Deputy Minister

      Ontario Ministry of Health & Long Term Care

      (Government Administration industry)
      March 2005January 2010 (4 years 11 months)
    • Executive Vice - President Chief Operating Officer

      Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation

      (Hospital & Health Care industry)
      March 1999March 2005 (6 years 1 month)
    • Assistant Deputy Minister

      Ontario Ministry of Health

      (Government Administration industry)
      April 1997March 1999 (2 years )
    • Chief Operating Officer

      Ontario Hospital Association

      (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)
      September 1995April 1997 (1 year 8 months)
    • Director, Community Hospitals Branch

      Ontario Ministry of Health

      (Government Administration industry)
      October 1988February 1992 (3 years 5 months)
    • Acting Assistant Deputy Minister

      Ontario Ministry of Health

      (Hospital & Health Care industry)
      February 1991June 1991 (5 months)
    • Director

      Nursing Homes Branch

      (Hospital & Health Care industry)
      June 1986October 1988 (2 years 5 months)
    • Area Planning Coordinator

      Ontario Ministry of Health

      (Government Administration industry)
      October 1983June 1986 (2 years 9 months)
    • Executive Director

      Grey*Bruce District Health Council

      (Hospital & Health Care industry)
      August 1980September 1983 (3 years 2 months)
    • Assistant Executive Director

      Owen Sound General & Marine Hospital

      (Hospital & Health Care industry)
      July 1977July 1980 (3 years 1 month)
    • Assistant Administrator

      Smiths Falls Community Hospital

      (Hospital & Health Care industry)
      April 1976July 1977 (1 year 4 months)

    Ron Sapsford’s Education

    • University of Ottawa / Université d'Ottawa

      MHA , 19741976
    • University of Toronto - New College

      BSc , Biochem & Physiol , 19681972

    26.9.10

    ONTARIO'S PRIVATELY OWNED PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL

    HOMEWOOD psychiatric hospital, GUELPH has PRIVATE ROOMS @ $300 day,