Alberta Health ServicesExecutive Associate
Jan. 2013 - Jun. 2017Office of the Senior Operating Officer, Community, Rural & Mental Health, Calgary Zone - Working collaboratively with office admin support to ensure smooth day to day operations of the office of the SOO including calendar management, planning meetings with supporting departments and administrative tasks. - Writing a wide variety of documents including briefing notes, memos, reports, letters and business cases. - Extensive project management and committee facilitation experience including leading a province wide review of urgent care services, the development of a clinical dashboard metric, workplace health and safety reporting and long-range, system wide planning activities. - Strategic planning, budgetary planning, and operational management across a diverse range of health services including inpatient and outpatient addiction and mental health services, public health, primary care, seniors and continuing care, rural health and urgent care. - Risk based analysis of operational issues including capital equipment purchasing, development and implementation of policy (internal subject matter expert on medical marijuana), patient concerns and resolution and evaluation of external environmental factors that impact operational decision making. - Community and stakeholder engagement including building successful collaborative relationships with the City of Calgary, and United Way of Calgary and Area. - Chair of site based United Way campaign and lead Calgary Zone wide United Way campaign; member of the Addiction & Mental Health Clinical Ethics Committee. - Direct operational management of Calgary PARTY Program.