Public Board Meetings
Meetings of PRHC's Board of Directors are held the 4th Wednesday of every month. Members of the public and media are always welcome. Generally, Board meetings start at 6:30pm and are held in the Board Room (W5901). Please call ext. 705-743-2121 ext. 3903, to confirm start time, and place, if you plan on attending.

The 2009 - 2010 meeting dates

• Wednesday, September 23, 2009
• Wednesday, October 28, 2009
• Wednesday, November 25, 2009
• Wednesday, December 16, 2009
• Wednesday, January 27, 2010
• Wednesday, February 24, 2010
• Wednesday, March 24, 2010
• Wednesday, April 28, 2010
• Wednesday, May 26, 2010
• Wednesday, June 23, 2010, (AGM at 5:00 p.m.)

Public Board Meeting Minutes
Minutes of all public Board meetings are available at the next subsequent Board meeting in hard copy, or are available upon request. Please contact Administration at Ext. 3903.

Peterborough Regional Health Centre
Board of Directors – Biographical Sketches

Barb Cameron
Ms. Cameron has been a member of the Peterborough Regional Health Centre Board of Directors since 2001 and currently holds the position of Chair. She has also served as Chair of the Stewardship Committee and the Chair of the Governance & Planning Committee. Ms. Cameron is Vice President of Finance and Administration at Fleming College. Previous positions include Director of Finance and other financial management positions with Suncor Inc. Ms. Cameron has been previously involved as a Board member of Peterborough Social Planning Council, United Way of Peterborough and District, Peterborough Green-Up, and KawarthaNet. Ms. Cameron holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Mount Allison University and a CMA from the Society of Management Accountants of Alberta.

Greg Connolley
Elected to the Peterborough Regional Health Centre Board of Directors in June of 2004, Mr. Connolley is a retired 30-year veteran of the Ontario Provincial Police and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He remains active in police work as an Adjudicator and Hearing Officer and is currently the coordinator and a professor in the Police Foundations Program, Centre for Law, Justice and Community Services, at FlemingCollege. Mr. Connolley also teaches in the Forensic Science Department at Trent University. Mr. Connolley has served on the Board of Directors of the Art Gallery of Peterborough and is a member of the Ontario Association of Police Educators, the Council of Canadian Administrative Tribunals, the Society of Ontario Adjudicators and Regulators, the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police, the OPP Commissioned Officers’ Association and the Royal Canadian Military Institute. He is a former member of the Fleming College Council, the Kiwanis Club of Peterborough, and the Camp Kawartha & the Kawartha Outdoor Education Centre Board of Directors.

John Connolly
Elected to the Board of Directors of the Peterborough Regional Health Centre in June of 2009, John Connolly also serves as a member of the Stewardship Committee. Mr. Connolly is a senior manager of strategic and long-range planning with the Federal Government and has more than 22 years of progressive experience working at the regional, provincial and federal levels of government. His work experience has centred on policy, strategic planning as well as environmental & transportation planning. Mr. Connolly has been an active member of the Peterborough community since moving here in 1997, through his involvement as: Director (Board of Directors) of the Kawartha-Haliburton Children's Aid Society - former Chair of its Agency Governance & Public Relations Committee; Director (Board of Directors) of the Peterborough Utilities Group of Companies including Director of Peterborough Utilities Inc. and former member of the Audit Committee. John and his wife, Joan, live in the City of Peterborough with their three children.

Ross Garland
Mr. Garland was elected to the Board of Directors of Peterborough Regional Health Centre in June 2004. Ross currently serves as the Chair of the Quality Committee, and is the 2nd Vice Chair. He is an executive with GE and has global business leadership responsibility for GE's Large Custom Motors located in Peterborough. He is the former CEO of a risk management software business and has held Vice President roles for European Operations as well as Asian Sales Operations with Siemens-Milltronics Limited. His experience includes leading change management, growth, and process improvement initiatives. He is a Director of GE Canada and a former member of the Board of Directors of ShowPlace Theatre in Peterborough. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours) and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Manitoba. Mr. Garland, his wife Kim, and their two children make their home in Peterborough, Ontario.

Adair Ireland-Smith
Ms. Ireland-Smith was elected to the Board of Directors of the Peterborough Regional Health Centre in 2008. She is the Director of Ontario Parks, a position she has held for the past 10 years. Based in Peterborough, she has almost 30 years of progressive experience in the Ontario Government with the Ministry of Natural Resources.

Shelley Knott Fife
Shelley Knott Fife was elected to the Peterborough Regional Health Centre Board of Directors in 2009. She is a graduate of the University of Waterloo and Trent University. Shelley worked as Campaign Manager for the new First Peoples House of Learning at Trent University before taking on the role of Education Manager of Curve Lake First Nation from 2001 to 2007. Shelley has been the Aboriginal Education Coordinator of the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board, an Aboriginal Education Officer for the Toronto Region of the Aboriginal Education Office of the Ministry of Education, and is now working as an Education Specialist with Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. In addition to being a former elected member of Council in her home of Curve Lake First Nation, and Vice-Chair of the Board of Governors of Fleming College, Shelley has made various community contributions on several education and youth committees and councils including a provincial appointment to the Ontario Early Years Committee, Shelley has been published in the "Canadian Association of Principals" and the "Canadian Centre of Alternative Policy’s Education Journal" on the subject of education and the aboriginal experience.

Gary Lounsbury
Elected to the Peterborough Regional Health Centre Board of Directors in 2006, Mr. Lounsbury currently holds the position of Vice Chair, and serves as the Chair of the Governance and Planning Committee. He operates an independent consulting business specializing in strategic planning and organizational change. Prior to this, Mr. Lounsbury was the former Executive Director of Five Counties Children’s Centre and has held management positions at Quaker Oats Company of Canada Limited, Peterborough Utilities Commission and General Time of Canada Limited. His post secondary education includes Advanced Technology, Computer Science, General Business/Management and Certified Health Executive. Mr. Lounsbury also has a sizable list of leadership and volunteer service contributions which includes, among others, Chair of City of Peterborough Holdings Inc., Director of Peterborough Utilities Inc., and Director, Greater Peterborough Area Economic Development Corporation.

Barbara J. McGregor
Ms. McGregor became a member of the Peterborough Regional Health Centre Board of Directors in 2008. Barbara is a senior partner in the law firm Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt in Toronto. Barbara specializes in real estate investment and development in Canada. Her practice focuses on acquisitions and dispositions in real estate developments and portfolios; structuring joint venture transactions; property and asset management; financings for both borrowers and lenders; and leasing (including long-term ground leases, building leases and space leases) for landlords and tenants. She acts as counsel for various investors (including large pension funds and non-Canadian entities) and for governmental bodies (such as municipalities and universities) in structuring transactions with the private/public sector. Barbara is profiled in the Lexpert/American Lawyer Media Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory (in property leasing, property development, and corporate- commercial law categories) and Chambers Global’s The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business. She is a past member of Trent University’s Board of Governors. Barbara grew up in Peterborough, and has a home in Douro, outside Lakefield.

Andy Mitchell
A member of the Peterborough Regional Health Centre Board of Directors since April 2008, Andy Mitchell is the President & CEO of Greater Peterborough Area Economic Development Corporation and the President of Greater Peterborough Area Innovation Cluster. He is also a lecturer at TrentUniversity. Mr. Mitchell is former Member of Parliament, holding numerous cabinet posts.

Ken Powell
Mr. Powell has been a member of the Peterborough Regional Health Centre Board of Directors since 1998 and currently holds the position of Past Chair. He has also served as Board Chair, Chair of the Stewardship Committee and the Governance & Planning Committees. For most of his career Mr. Powell was an executive with Imperial Oil Limited, Exxon Corporation and Esso Inter-America. After retirement from Imperial, Mr. Powell worked in the management consulting practice of Coopers & Lybrand Consulting. After carrying out an assignment in Malaysia under the auspices of CESO (Canadian Executive Services Organization) Mr. Powell then became the Associate Director of the CanadianOutward Bound Wilderness School. For over a dozen years he has taught business & public policy part time at Seneca College. Mr. Powell is an enthusiastic outdoors person. One of his passions is photography, both on land and underwater. He is married to Penny Rush and between them they have five children.

Michael Taylor
Michael Taylor joined the Peterborough Regional Health Centre Board in 2009, following several years of fund raising and health care board experience with the PRHC Foundation. He served as Chair of the PRHC Foundation from 2006 to 2008, and on the Foundation board from 2002 to 2009. Other board related experience was garnered as a director of Cross Canada Logistics Inc., the Ontario Dairy Council, and with Community Resources and Employment Services in Brantford, ON. Michael has extensive experience at the senior management level in the food and beverage industry, through progressive positions in sales, marketing, operations, logistics, and HR/union contract negotiations. Coca-Cola, Beatrice Foods, Unilever/Good Humour – Breyers, and Baskin-Robbins provided the foundation for Michael’s career development. Michael graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a Bachelors Degree, has completed his designation in the Canadian Institute of Management (CIM), the Executive Development Program at the University of Guelph, and received a Marketing Diploma from Kellogg School of Management, Evanston, Ill. Michael is the Manager, Major Giving with the Five Counties Children’s Centre Foundation, and also owns Knox Wolfe Holdings, a management consulting, brokerage, and distribution business. Michael resides in Ennismore with his wife Sandra, and two sons.

Jeff Wickware
Elected to the Peterborough Regional Health Centre Board of Directors in June of 2005 and is currently the Chair of the Stewardship Committee. Mr. Wickware is a Certified Management Account and is the Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Allstate Canada. He joined the company in summer 2006 as Financial Controller. For the previous 10 years, Mr. Wickware worked for State Farm Insurance, most recently holding the position of Manager, Finance and Management Planning and Information where he was responsible for Financial Operations, Financial Reporting and Tax, Compliance, Operational and Agency Strategic Planning and Competitive Intelligence for their Canadian operations. Mr. Wickware has his FLMI (Fellow, Life Management) and his International Executive Master of Business Admin. (Joint program Kellogg/Schulich School of Business, Northwestern University in Chicago and York University in Toronto.) He also has an Honours Business Administration degree from Brock University. Mr. Wickware, his wife Tammie, and their three children make their home in Peterborough, Ontario.

Alan Wotherspoon
Elected to the Board of Directors of the Peterborough Regional Health Care Centre in June of 2009, Alan Wotherspoon is a retired High School principal. He and his wife moved from Ottawa to Peterborough in 2000. Since moving to Peterborough Alan has been a member of the Lakes Advisory Committee for the PRHC "By Your Side" campaign, a member of the Board of the Canadian Canoe Museum and is a Deacon at All Saints’ Anglican Church. In 2007 he was honoured by the Rotary Foundation by being named a Paul Harris Fellow in recognition of his community involvement. While in Ottawa he was a member and president of the United Way of Ottawa Carleton, the Regional Palliative Care Association and the Community Care Access Centre (CCAC) of Ottawa-Carleton. He also served on the board of the Ontario Association of CCACs. In 1998 Alan was appointed to the Consent and Capacity Board of Ontario and served until 2004. His interests and hobbies include photography, reading, golf and water activities. Alan is married to Joan and they have three children and five grandchildren.

Ex officio Members

David Ames
David Ames is presently the chair of the Board of the Peterborough Regional Health Centre Foundation. As Director of Emerging Technologies and Health Economics for Johnson & Johnson Medical Products in Canada, his current responsibility includes the evaluation of new medical technologies, assessing their applicability to the Canadian marketplace as well as working with the marketing divisions to provide clinical and economic evidence to support patient benefit and healthcare system value. David has worked with Johnson & Johnson for 28 years. He is a graduate of the University of Guelph and the University of Laval, holding a Masters in Science degree in applied industrial microbiology, and is a member of the Canadian College of Microbiology as well as a fellow of the American Society of Brewing Chemists. Currently, David is the volunteer President of The Canadian Continence Foundation. David lives in Peterborough with his wife Helena and their two children Emily and Ian.

Dr. Peter McLaughlin
Dr. McLaughlin assumed the position of Chief of Staff at Peterborough Regional Health Centre in August 2005, and has been Medical Coordinator of the PRHC cardiac catheterization laboratory since August 2002. He is formerly a Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto, and a staff cardiologist at the University Health Network, and remains as an Adjunct Clinical Professor of Medicine at U of T. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and the American College of Cardiology. Dr. McLaughlin graduated from the University of Toronto Medical School in 1970, and undertook postgraduate training at the Ottawa Civic Hospital, Toronto General Hospital and Stanford University Medical Centre in California. Dr. McLaughlin has had a long interest in investigation and treatment of the adult patient with congenital heart disease. He has published over 120 original articles, 175 abstracts, and one book, and has lectured and given demonstrations in his area of interest in the United States, Canada and Europe. Dr. McLaughlin has completed terms as a Governor of the American College of Cardiology, President of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society, President of the Canadian Cardiovascular Academy, and Director, Division of Cardiology at the University of Toronto.

Dr. John Rowsom
Dr. Rowsom is the Vice President of the Medical Staff at Peterborough Regional Health Centre. (full bio to come)

Dr. Alan Thompson
Dr. Thompson is the current President of the Medical Staff at Peterborough Regional Health Centre and has been a member of the Department of Surgery specializing in Vascular Surgery since June 1989.

Ken Tremblay
Ken Tremblay joined Peterborough Regional Health Centre as the President & CEO in 2010. Prior to coming to Peterborough, he was the CEO of the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance (CKHA) where he served from 2003 - 2009. Mr. Tremblay led CKHA to become one of Canada's Top 100 Employers and a best practice spotlight organization with the RNAO. Prior to that, Ken headed an executive search practice for physicians and healthcare executives and was also President and CEO of: St Joseph’s Hospital, Brantford; York Central Hospital, Richmond Hill; and, St. Boniface General Hospital, a teaching hospital in Winnipeg. More recently, Mr. Tremblay was a peer reviewer for Quinte Health Care and a member of the operational review team at Cambridge Memorial Hospital. As a volunteer, Ken has been active with organizations like the Chamber of Commerce, the United Way, and the Rotary Club. He enjoys a wide array of interests – from canoeing and photography to woodworking and wine collecting – he lives in Peterborough with his wife Siobhan.