Appointment of new Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Executive
I am pleased to announce that following an international search for our new Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Executive, our Board of Directors has approved the appointment of Dr. Dan Cass to this role.
Dr. Cass is a dynamic and effective leader and has more than 20 years of hospital executive experience. He is currently the Vice President, Clinical Programs and Chief Medical Officer at St. Joseph’s Health Centre, in the west end of Toronto.
Dr. Cass has also been Deputy Chief Coroner for Ontario and was the former Chief of Emergency Medicine at St. Michael’s Hospital. He was a staff emergency physician at St. Michael's for 16 years, and has practiced Addiction Medicine while at St. Joseph's.
Dr. Dan Cass, appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Executive of Sunnybrook.
He has led large-scale change initiatives, including the merger of two emergency departments and the design and construction of a new department, and helped lead the planning and implementation of one of the most successful computerized provider order entry systems in Canada.
Throughout his career, Dr. Cass has maintained a strong focus on quality and patient safety, with a specific emphasis on enhancing access to timely emergency care. As chair of the Patient Safety Review Committee of the Office of the Chief Coroner for nearly five years, he led the development of recommendations aimed at learning from health care-related deaths in order to prevent similar deaths in future.
I look forward to welcoming Dr. Cass to this new role when he begins his work with Sunnybrook on January 11, 2018.
Sincerely,
Andy Smith
President and CEO
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
