Please join the Newfoundland & Labrador Chapter for the 2025 Annual General Meeting with guest speaker Ian Hodder.
AGENDA
2:30 Guest Speaker Ian Hodder
3:15 Sue Owen, CEO Canadian College of Health Leaders
4:00 AGM Chapter business
Building “Mechanisms” to support Health System Transformation – NL Family Practice Renewal Program
Through the mandate of integrating Family Physicians into Primary Care, the Family Practice Renewal Program (FPRP) and its components serve as key mechanisms well positioned to support, enable, and engage stakeholders to support health system transformation. The program is also entrusted with empowering community-based family physicians at the sub-regional or regional levels, to identify and enable shared healthcare objectives within local communities, ultimately enhancing population health outcomes. Leveraging the physician voice with program structures and learnings demonstrates how this approach can bridge knowledge translation needs between acute and primary care, informing innovative approaches & solutions to support patient/system access. This presentation will describe some of the structures within Newfoundland and Labrador, explain the FPRP structures & governance, Family Care Team governance and vision for reinforcing roles of team-based care within the NL Family Care Team Policy framework.
Ian completed his B.Sc. (Health Education), B.Ed., and Masters of Adult Education degrees in 1996 from Dalhousie University. Ian has worked in International Development with the Canadian Red Cross Society, and in Medical Education design to Regulatory Affairs, and Marketing within the Pharmaceutical Industry until 2009. In 2009 Ian shifted careers, moving back to NL, and joining the NL Centre for Health Information to create a Change Management Division in support of ehealth provincial projects to enable use in clinical practice. In 2016, Ian joined the newly created Family Practice Renewal Program (FPRP), a joint initiative of the Newfoundland and Labrador Medical Association and Department of Health and Community Services, whose mandate is to improve the delivery and effectiveness of family practice in the province, as part of a more integrated primary health care system. Since joining the program, Ian’s focus has been on organizational design to support development of Family Practice Networks (FPNs), a key program arm, and Collaborative Services Committees, also a key program mechanism to address common population health priorities between FPNs, and NLHS. Ian continues to serve as a strong voice for the advancement of primary care both within Newfoundland and Labrador, and across the country.
