Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
President and Chief Executive Officer
“Sunnybrook invents the future of health care.”
This will be the best career move you ever make….
Your years of successful, executive leadership in health care will culminate in the role of Chief Executive Officer of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. This position will give you the rare opportunity to lead one of Canada’s most dynamic and innovative teaching and research hospitals.
If working with a highly enthusiastic team of senior leaders and providing the inspiration for more than 12,000 staff, physicians, students, and volunteers, to achieve the hospital’s vision to invent the future of health care, is personally and professionally motivating, Sunnybrook is waiting for you. Sunnybrook’s teams, across the hospital’s three campuses, are committed to creating what comes next in Canadian health care and your leadership will guide them through this work.
Sunnybrook has a rich history and was established in 1948 as Canada’s largest veterans hospital. Caring for Canada’s war-wounded has remained a strong part of the fibre of the organization and has precipitated the development of world-renowned programs. Sunnybrook is home to the largest trauma and burn program in the country, second largest cancer centre in Canada, and has international expertise in critical care, stroke, heart and vascular disease, high risk maternal and newborn care, and has made world-first discoveries in image-guided, brain therapies such as ‘scalpel-free’ surgery.
Sunnybrook has become a strong component of the Ontario health care system and is viewed as a leader in its areas of clinical, research and education expertise. The hospital has partnered with neighbouring institutions and health care delivery organizations to ensure care is seamless throughout the patient’s journey from acute or critical illness or injury through to rehabilitation and follow-up care. Your role as President and CEO will be to continue to seek out and foster relationships with organizations to ensure patients benefit from the entire system of care available and to make certain Sunnybrook’s role in the system remains well defined.
Sunnybrook is proud to be fully affiliated with the University of Toronto and each year the hospital’s award-winning faculty provides educational opportunities for more than 4,000 students from around the world. The hospital has a strong teaching mandate and is home to the Peters-Boyd Academy, which is one of three of the University of Toronto’s prestigious academies of medicine. Your role will include working with the faculty, University, partners in the Academy and other institutions to advance the hospital’s education mission.
Sunnybrook has created a global reputation for leading-edge research. Each year, Sunnybrook’s 600 scientists conduct more than $100 million in breakthrough research and their findings have changed global practice. Sunnybrook researchers have recently made world-first discoveries that are redefining how care is delivered. Patients who were once believed to be inoperable are now having life-changing procedures. The future is happening now at Sunnybrook and your role will be to foster a culture of inquiry and ensure the organization continues to push itself to achieve its lofty vision.
Sunnybrook’s President and CEO plays an important external role for maintaining and nurturing strategic partnerships with three levels of government, fellow community and teaching hospitals, health care agencies, private sector corporations and a multitude of stakeholder organizations such as the Royal Canadian Legion, Cardiac Care Network, Cancer Care Ontario, Child Health Network, Toronto Academic Health Sciences Network, Council of Academic Hospitals of Ontario and many others. Sunnybrook’s President and CEO is well respected in the community and the position carries with it the responsibility of ensuring the hospital’s stellar reputation continues to flourish.
Sunnybrook’s new President and CEO will join the organization at a pivotal point in its history. The hospital is financially healthy; however, resources and funding are fast becoming insufficient to meet demand. One price of success is that the Hospital routinely struggles with in-patient occupancy in excess of 100 per cent. The new leader will work with a prestigious Board of Directors and captain a highly respected Senior Leadership Team that is intensely loyal to Sunnybrook and has an uncommon commitment to the hospital’s success.
For more information on this outstanding opportunity, or to submit your application in confidence, please contact Jim Stonehouse at Four Corners Group.
Jim Stonehouse, Partner
416-593-0900 x2240