From the President & CEO and the Chair of the Board.
Over the past year, TeamUHN has undergone significant transformation across clinical, research and scholarship — with the aim of delivering world-leading care for our patients.
Dr. Kevin Smith
President & CEO, University Health Network
Mr. Brian J. Porter
Chair, Board of Trustees, University Health Network
We are pleased with the progress we have made and are even more motivated to build on our strong foundation to continue to serve our patients and their families, today and over the longer term.
The accomplishments detailed in this report would not have been possible without TeamUHN's tireless efforts, including the contributions of 5,000 nurses across our sites. Our nurses are the backbone of UHN and our health system more broadly. We thank them for their leadership as clinicians, researchers, educators and innovators.
UHN has taken steps to leverage the power of technology and innovation — most notably through the launch of Epic, a modern health information system, to transform care, clinical education and research. That spirit of modernization underpinned UHN's decision to become a founding member of Mayo Clinic's Platform_Connect.
UHN also played a leading role in addressing the health human resources crisis through The Michener Institute of Education at UHN — Canada's only post-secondary institution devoted exclusively to applied health care education.
As one of the world's top-five hospitals and the leading health network in Canada, we are home to seven leading research institutes, represented by more than 5,100 principal investigators, staff and trainees, with more than $550 million in funding.
“We remain firmly confident that TeamUHN will continue to advance world-class care, research and education, and continue to inspire and amaze.”
To Mr. Brian Porter.
We express sincere gratitude to Mr. Brian Porter, who concluded his term as Chair of UHN's Board of Trustees, a position assumed in 2017. We welcome Mr. Dean Connor as the new Board Chair and thank Mr. Porter for staying on as Past Chair.
Brian's vision, boldness, wisdom and tenacity have been critical to UHN's success. His leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic — including helping to launch one of the world's largest vaccine clinics at Scotiabank Arena — was invaluable.
