The 2010 annual conference of the MUHC-ISAI assembles Canadian, US and European leaders to look at how health information and communication technologies are transforming health care.

In Spring 2010, The MUHC RI’s Vassilios Papadopoulos chaired the MUHC-ISAI roundtable discussion between physicians, ethicists, researchers, industry and patients on a policy framework for personalized medicine.

Dr. David Butler-Jones, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, was the MUHC-ISAI’s guest speaker at the 2010 Director General’s lecture. He looked at lessons learned from the A/H1N1 pandemic.

The 2009 annual conference of the MUHC-ISAI focused on the role of governments at federal at provincial levels in assuring viable healthcare systems. Examples from the US VA and Europe are included.

In Spring 2009, the MUHC’s Ann Lynch chaired an MUHC-ISAI roundtable discussion among nursing leaders (and a physician) about how nursing roles are evolving to meet new healthcare needs.

The first annual conference of the MUHC-ISAI, held in 2008, examined current trends in health care, challenges on the horizon, experience from the US and Europe and promising initiatives across Canada.