Dispatches from the North: Learning from Canadian Health Care

Speaker: Danielle Martin
Vice President, Medical Affairs and Health System Solutions, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto
Danielle Martin is a practicing family physician and Vice President Medical Affairs and Health System Solutions at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto. She is a nationally recognized media commentator in healthcare issues in Canada and was recently named Canada’s 8th most powerful doctor. Her recent book, "BETTER NOW: 6 Big Ideas to Improve Health Care for All Canadians" presents a vision for improving health outcomes that builds on the single-payer structure of the existing physician and hospital system. Martin rose to KZbin fame in the US when a video clip of her presentation to the US Senate on the Canadian health care system went viral in 2014.