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Michael Sherar
Insights & Perspectives

Preventing chronic disease is key to reducing hallway medicine

Michael Sherar
Hallway medicine has become a serious concern in Ontario. Future efforts under the auspices of Ontario Health will aim to create a more person-centred, higher ...
Sep 3, 2019
Michael Sherar
Our Work

Working together to improve Ontario’s health system

Michael Sherar
I am pleased to announce the release of three new provincial health system plans for 2019 to 2023: the Ontario Cancer Plan and Ontario Renal Plan. The cancer and ...
Jun 7, 2019
Michael Sherar
Insights & Perspectives

Challenging conversations about palliative care

Michael Sherar
Ten years ago, a very dear friend of mine passed away from cancer. Her husband was one of the first people I met when I arrived in Canada in 1985 as a graduate ...
Mar 26, 2019
Michael Sherar, President and CEO of CCO
Insights & Perspectives

What's needed to create change in complex healthcare systems

Michael Sherar
I recently came across an article in the British Medical Journal by Jeffrey Braithwaite, a professor in health systems research from Macquarie University in Sydney ...
Oct 31, 2018
Insights & Perspectives

CCO's 75 years of healthcare transformation

Michael Sherar
Back in 1943, when our organization was incorporated as The Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation, the five-year cancer survival rate was around 25% and ...
Sep 4, 2018
Insights & Perspectives

Getting it right by looking at what went wrong

Michael Sherar
Any time we work to make improvements - whether in our professional or personal lives – it is natural to look at what is going right and try to build on what ...
Nov 28, 2017