Experiences in Quality Improvement with Eric Demaere

The UBC Chapter for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Open School (IHI UBC) presents Eric Demaere, Director of Strategic Transformation for Fraser Health Authority! Eric will share real life case studies as well as practical frameworks and methods to present Quality Improvement as a performance and change management process.

When: May 30th 5:30-7:30pm (presentation 6-7pm)

Where: UBC Robson Square Campus

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Speaker Biography:

Mr. Eric Demaere is the Director, Strategic Transformation, Fraser Health Authority. Fraser Health Authority serves 1.6 million people through 12 acute care hospitals, 7,760 residential care beds, and a variety of mental health, public health, home and community care services. The Strategic Transformation Team is an internal consulting group made up of strategy and change consultants focused on improving organizational performance in Fraser Health.

Mr. Demaere started his career in health care over 20 years ago as a laboratory technologist at Vancouver General Hospital. Subsequently he taught undergraduate molecular biology courses at UBC before moving into the Health Informatics field with Fraser Health Authority. Over the last 10 years he has been focused on managing a team of 25 internal consultants who support senior leadership on a variety of complex, multi-stakeholder organizational change initiatives.

Mr. Demaere’s education includes a Bachelor of Science (Biochemistry) degree from the University of British Columbia, a Bachelor of Health Information Science degree from the University of Victoria, and an executive MBA degree (Healthcare) from the University of British Columbia. Eric is a Project Management Professional (Project Management Institute) and holds a Change Management certification (PROSCI).