Board of Directors

Debbie Fischer is an Executive in Residence at the Rotman School of Business and has taught at the Rotman Executive Leadership Development Program at the University of Toronto. She consults in organizational change and system and digital transformation in health care and public sectors as an Executive Associate with KPMG. Debbie has a BSc (Neurobiology and Comparative Physiology) from McGill University and MHA from the University of Ottawa. She also holds CHRE and ICD.D designations.

Debbie was an Executive Vice-President, Strategy and Organizational Development at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. In this role, she spearheaded strategic partnership initiatives and programs that led to the hospital's national recognition for organizational quality and wellness, diversity, and corporate culture.

While continuing to maintain an active role at Mount Sinai, she took a three-year secondment to Ontario's Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care as Assistant Deputy Minister, Transition to lead a major transformation initiative of the entire ministry.

Previously, Debbie held a number of senior consulting and management positions in international professional services firms. She has extensive experience in strategy, organizational development and leadership, restructuring and integration, and change management. She has led innovative transformations in both the health care and corporate sectors.

Debbie has served or serves on several boards including the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Joule, the Ontario Education Collaborative Marketplace (OECM), North York General Hospital, OMERS, NAPRA, Prodemnity and the Ontario Centres of Excellence. She has been recognized with a number of awards, including the Telfer Medal from the University of Ottawa, Arbor award from the University of Toronto and a public sector leadership award from the Institute of Public Administration.

Stephen Goldsmith brings a wealth of business development and growth experience, both in the health care sector and in other industries. His years of progressive experience leading the business development function at Sinai Health and his current role as VP, Business Development and Strategic Partnerships at EHN Canada, demonstrate his ability to assess business opportunities, engage business and clinical partners, and lead the implementation of business development plans. He understands the importance of engaging private and public sector stakeholders. He has held other board governance roles that position him to be a strong contributor to the OMD Board.

Dr. Rachel Bevan is a family physician with the London Family Health Team. Dr. Bevan has an interest in palliative care and care of the elderly. Prior to entering medicine, she completed a PhD in Computer Science at McGill University, focussing on statistical analysis and modelling of genetic data. She subsequently earned her medical degree at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario.

Dr. Bevan believes that a well connected and integrated electronic health record is key to increasing effectiveness of the health care system as a whole. She became an OntarioMD Physician Peer Leader to use her combined knowledge, skills and experience in information technology and family medicine to advise her peers to advance and optimize EMR use. She shares her extensive experience in data analytics and integrity to help her peers drive positive population health outcomes.

Dr. Bevan also has valuable experience with EMR data migration and has been an EMR Data Migration Consultant for TELUS Health. This experience has given her a keen understanding of the need for relevant digital innovation to improve certified EMRs and with this need in mind, she has contributed to the design of specifications for the OntarioMD EMR Physician Dashboard.

Dr. Rachel Bevan brings her knowledge of information technology governance (e.g., privacy and security, data management, data analysis) to the OntarioMD Board. She also brings her insights from physician and clinician engagement and change management to help OntarioMD develop strategic electronic solutions for service delivery.

Denise Carpenter is an experienced board chair, director, C-suite executive, and executive coach with broad experience in several business sectors. She has spent her career advocating for companies and governments on issues that matter most to Canadians and acting as a trusted confidant to senior executives and governments.

Denise has worked within various complicated business and governance structures and has led numerous efforts to create critical alignment with executives, board directors, management, and other stakeholders. She has a strong track record in building shareholder value, and relationships that deliver value to multiple stakeholders in complex business, government, and not-for-profit environments. She is an early thought leader and advocate of ESG, social impact and corporation's purpose.

She works to help individuals and organizations deliver measurable outcomes. Denise’s most recent work focuses on renewable energy enterprises, utilities, (regulated and non-regulated) energy security, climate change, artificial intelligence, serving the underbanked, health insurance and health care. In addition to being a director at the Ontario Medical Association, she is also the Independent Chair of Blue Cross Canada, Board director of Cashco Financial Inc, Chair of the Board at Ronald McDonald House Charities Toronto, Chair of the board at EnerFORGE, Chair of the board at Oshawa Power and Utilities Corporation, board director Synergy North.

She has served as a guest lecturer and executive in residence at the University of Alberta’s MBA program and guest lecturer at the Fellows Program, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard. She has written and lectured widely on diversity of thought, governance as a business enabler and stakeholder relationships. In 2022 she was selected as a BMO Honouree at the BMO Celebrating Women on Boards event. In 2018 Denise was appointed to the Diversity 50 Cohort, recognizing Canada’s most diverse and eligible board candidates. She is an active and accredited member of the WGOB, Institute of Corporate Directors, The International Coach Federation and the International Women’s Forum.

She has been honoured by Global TV as a Woman of Vision; by the YWCA with a Woman of Distinction Award; and has twice been named one of Alberta’s 50 Most Influential People by Alberta Venture magazine. Her passion is exploring the world, its people, and its cultures. She lives in Toronto and continues to travel widely. Denise is in her second two-year term.

Dr. David Daien is a family physician at the Summerville Family Health Team (FHT). He has also been the Division Head of Primary Care at Trillium Health Partners. Prior to completing his medical degree at McMaster University, followed by his Master's Certificate in Physician Leadership at York University's Schulich School of Business, Dr. Daien was a biomedical engineer.

Dr. Daien is an eHealth leader in Ontario. He is passionate about the potential for information technology and information management tools to transform community-based practice. His career has concentrated on the appropriate use of technology to achieve quality improvements in patient care.

Dr. David Daien has served OntarioMD as a Physician Peer Leader and provided his input for the Physician Technology Roadmap, eReferral Working Group, eConsult Clinical Advisory Group and the ePrescribing Pilot Working Group. He also led the first EMR-OLIS (Ontario Laboratories Information System) integration pilot which informed the specification requirements that all EMRs must now meet to enable OLIS connectivity.

Dr. Daien is a former Chair of OntarioMD’s Board. He understands the challenges for the eHealth ecosystem, but also sees strategic opportunities for OntarioMD.

Mamta Gautam, MD, MBA, FRCPC, CPDC, CCPE, CPE is an internationally renowned psychiatrist, consultant, certified coach, author and speaker. Focused on Professional Health and Well-being since 1990, she is a trailblazer in this field and is known as the “The Doctor’s Doctor”. She holds leadership roles in several national medical organizations to advise on issues related to Physician Wellbeing. In the past 2 decades, she has expanded her work to include Leadership Development, to better address system-level factors that impact the wellbeing of healthcare workers. She has created podcasts and videos on these topics, and authored articles, book chapters, and 2 international best-selling books. She brings this knowledge and expertise to PEAK MD, through which she delivers keynote presentations and workshops, consults with healthcare organizations and coaches senior medical leaders internationally.

Dr. Gautam is committed to advancing diversity in medicine and facilitates leadership development for women in medicine. She has developed and co-leads Momentum, a 6-day retreat for women in medicine; and recently founded The Raft, an accredited online platform for leadership development, peer support and community for women physicians.

Excited by the increased use of technology in healthcare, she is driven to ensure that this transformation fulfills the promise of positive change. While technology has been cited in the past as a leading cause of burnout for healthcare providers, she hopes to focus on how technology can be leveraged to better support physicians in their workday, reduce burnout, drive meaningful change and improve patient health outcomes.

Dr. Gautam is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards for her innovative work to support and mentor her healthcare colleagues. She is the inaugural recipient of both the 2011 CMA Physician Misericordia Award, as well as the 2023 AFMC Wellness Award. She has been awarded Distinguished Fellowships in both the Canadian and American Psychiatric Associations.

Dr. Kevin Glasgow is a board director, physician executive, consultant, and clinician with a background in the public, not-for-profit, and private health care sectors. Dr. Glasgow holds degrees from the University of Western Ontario (MD), Harvard (MBA), and Toronto (MHSc). He also holds a diploma in tropical medicine and hygiene from the Royal College of Physicians of London (with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine of the University of London). He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, the College of Family Physicians of Canada, and the American College of Preventive Medicine, as well as a Life Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

His board experience includes Canadian Blood Services, Habitat for Humanity Toronto, the Association of Local Public Health Agencies, and the Institute for Infection and Immunity of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. He has also served on the Governing Council of the Health Charities Coalition of Canada, in addition to numerous advisory boards.

Dr. Glasgow served as CEO for Crohn's and Colitis Canada, the Cardiac Care Network of Ontario, the Brant County Board of Health (as Medical Officer of Health), and a biotechnology start-up. He was also Associate Vice-President for a major pharmaceutical company and Senior Medical Consultant with the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.

Dr. Glasgow has experience in digital health delivery providing executive oversight of North America's largest population-based, integrated cardiac registry; promoting computing to accelerate the drug discovery process; and as a Peer Assessor with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario exposed to a spectrum of electronic medical records.

Kevin is married, and his interests include reading, tennis, gardening, and travel adventures.

Lucie Laplante is a CPA, CGA and has many years of experience at the CFO level in large telecommunications and data-driven organizations. She has significant governance experience as an Independent Board Member and Audit Chair. She currently serves as Chair of the Finance, Audit and Risk Committee of OntarioMD, is the Chair of the Audit Committee at Lumine Group, a publicly traded telecommunications company (LMN.V), and is a past Chair of the Audit and Investment Committee of CANARIE, a federally funded organization whose purpose is to design, and drive the adoption of digital infrastructure for Canada’s research and education communities.

Lucie currently serves as the CFO of Beanfield Technologies, a Canadian provider of Business and Residential telecommunications services, delivered over a best-in-class independent fibre network.

Lucie is a digitally savvy financial executive, is fluently bilingual and has led many initiatives around building audit committees and diversity programs at the governance level.

Craig MacInnis has 30 years of experience building and advising successful technology ventures in the healthcare, education, and MedTech sectors.  As an entrepreneur and CEO, Craig has led technology startups through growth and expansion, leading to successful exits.  He has also guided software companies in driving recurring revenue growth by developing and implementing effective business development strategies.  Craig chairs the Governance and HR Committee with OntarioMD.

Dr. Cynthia Walsh is a Radiologist at The Ottawa Hospital, where she is the Head of the Abdominal Imaging Section. She is also the Regional Oncology Imaging Lead, where she has worked on Central Intake and improving wait times in her Region.

Dr. Walsh has been an OMA Board Director for 5 years. Other roles at the OMA have included Chair of the Human Resouces Committee, Chair of the Diagnostic Assembly and a D8 (Ottawa and Region) Delegate.

Through her clinical and leadership roles, Dr. Walsh has developed an interest in Systems Based Solutions for our troubled health care system and believes these solutions are largely dependent on an integrated electronic system. She has also developed a strong interest in advocating for Physicians. It is for these reasons that Dr. Walsh wanted to work with OntarioMD.

Dr. Walsh is honoured to be elected as a Board Director for OMD and pledges to work tirelessly to advocate for all Ontario physicians.