
About the Conference
The 2025 Canadian Conference on Physician Leadership is the premier event for physician leaders looking to enhance their skills, broaden their networks and address the most pressing challenges in today’s healthcare system.
This year’s program offers practical leadership strategies through expert-led plenaries, interactive workshops and peer-to-peer discussions to tackle leadership and healthcare challenges with purpose.
The conference also serves as a platform to honor the recipients of the Chris Carruthers Excellence in Medical Leadership Award and celebrate the latest cohort of Canadian Certified Physician Executives.
What could I gain from attending THIS CONFERENCE?
Through face-to-face discussions with colleagues and thought leaders, attendees will have the opportunity to:
- Assess the ongoing systemic barriers in Canada’s healthcare system and how they hinder progress toward a more equitable and efficient healthcare system.
- Employ tactics to accelerate change within complex healthcare systems.
- Develop an understanding of gaps experienced by physician leaders when trying to influence healthcare change.
- Apply specific Liberating Structures techniques to generate actionable ideas for addressing emerging challenges in healthcare leadership.
- Analyze team-building and leadership approaches to integrate new strategies that reconnect teams, reignite purpose, and enhance overall organizational well-being.
- Develop awareness of your interactions, intentions, purposes and assumptions in relation to those within your leadership ecosystem.
- Articulate the value of patient engagement in health research, education and programming.
- Identify key leadership competencies required to embrace change and remain agile in the face of evolving technologies such as AI to create a positive culture of innovation.
- Define what quality means to patients and the healthcare workforce and craft a strategy to achieve quality in a sustainable way.
- Synthesize and apply a variety of tools and techniques that lead to more productive and successful meetings, including agenda setting, time management and participant engagement strategies.
- Explain how leaders of teams can take action to foster a healthy, joyful workplace.
Why I Should Attend
- Gain strategic leadership insights providing valuable perspectives on navigating the evolving leadership and health system landscape.
- Engage in cutting-edge discussions to address our current health system realities and explore opportunities for change.
- Enhance leadership skills, that empower you to drive change in your teams, organization or the broader health system.
- Connect with peers, share experiences and build valuable relationships that can lead to collaborations, mentorship and new opportunities.
- Experience an inclusive, interactive learning environment designed to support the professional growth of physicians at every stage of their career.