Global Health News

Date: March 19, 2024 @ 5 - 6:30 PM
Location: Virtual

Presented by Serving and Engaging Society, the Office of Community Partnerships & Global Health and Continuing Professional Development & Medical Education

Moderated by Dr. Shawna O'Hearn, Director, Office of Community Partnerships & Global Health

Join Dr. David Petrie for his seminar:

Healthcare Systems Change – What? So What? Now What?

What? – Healthcare systems are a type of complex adaptive system, and the challenges we face are wicked. What does that even mean?

So What? – Understanding how complex adaptive systems work (and don’t work) allows us to understand where the leverage points are for positive change (and allows us to avoid the common system archetypes/pathologies that have lead to where we are now).

Now What? Theory is one thing, but the map is not the territory? What are some practical ways that we can adapt and evolve in these turbulent times?

Register here

Dr. David A. Petrie is an emergency physician from Halifax/professor of Emergency Medicine with Dalhousie University. He has been Medical Director of the Halifax Regional ground EMS system, the Provincial LifeFlight program, the Academic Head/Clinical District Chief of the Department of Emergency Medicine Dalhousie/Central Zone, and most recently, the senior medical director of the provincial Emergency Program of Care/Nova Scotia Health. His academic interests have ranged from prehospital care and trauma systems research, to studying the impact of critical thinking and complexity science on leadership decision-making and health system redesign.