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Doris Grinspun Doris Grinspun RN, MSN, PhD, O.ONT.

Executive Director

Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO)

Ontario, Canada

Doris Grinspun is the Executive Director of the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO), the professional association representing registered nurses in the province of Ontario. RNAO’s mandate is to advocate for healthy public policy and for the role of registered nurses. Grinspun assumed this position in April 1996. From 1990 to 1996, Grinspun served as Director of Nursing at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. She has also worked in practice and administrative capacities in Israel and the United States.
A native of Chile, Grinspun has an RN from Hadassah School of Nursing in Jerusalem, Israel; a baccalaureate degree in Nursing from Tel Aviv University, Israel; an MSN in Nursing from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, USA, and a PhD in Sociology from York University, Ontario, Canada.
Grinspun is an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto; an adjunct professor at the School of Nursing, York University; an associate member of the Centre for Health Promotion at the University of Toronto; an affiliate member of the Centre for Health Studies at York University; and an Associate Fellow of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CERLAC) at York University.
From 1996 to 1999, Grinspun was the Chair of the Acquired Brain Injury Network of Metropolitan Toronto, a network representing all publicly funded agencies. For the past two decades Grinspun has worked extensively on many international projects in Latin and Central America, China and most recently India. Grinspun has published and spoken extensively both in Canada and abroad. She is a forceful advocate of the Canadian health-care system and of the contribution of registered nurses to its success. Her expertise is in areas of health, nursing and workplace policies and practices. Grinspun has received numerous professional and scholarly awards. In 2003, Grinspun was invested with the Order of Ontario. The award was created in 1986 by the Government of Ontario to recognize the highest level of individual excellence and achievement in any field.

Keynote Speaker:

Nancy Fram, RN, MSN

Vice President Professional Affairs & Chief Nurse Executive

McMaster University Medical Center

Hamilton, Ontario Canada

Nancy has extensive nursing administration experience serving as a unit manager, director, and clinical service director in critical care and pediatrics. Named a Paul Harris Fellow from the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International and the RNAO Leadership Award in Nursing Administration, Nancy has a specific interest in Health Human Resources planning, establishing and maintaining quality work environments and patient and family centered care. Her education includes a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from McMaster University and a Master of Education (Administration) from Brock University. She holds a clinical faculty appointment with the Faculty of Nursing, McMaster University.

Featured Speaker:

Barbara R. Medvec, RN, MSA, MSN 


Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer 


Oakwood Healthcare, Inc.

Dearborn, Michigan

In 2007, Oakwood began implementing Relationship & Results Oriented Healthcare™. When healthcare team members understand the results patients want, they operate from a common purpose to create a shared picture of success and an effective interdisciplinary care plan which clearly outlines the critical part of each member of the team. Ms. Medvec will share the journey her organization has been on based on a philosophy for care and a method of delivering care that combines:

•                Patient and Family-Centered Communication

•                High Impact Team Practices

•                Outcomes Focused Care

•                Critical Thinking & Problem Solving

•                Supervision and Team Collaboration

The outcomes Oakwood has achieved will astound you.

Located in southeast Michigan, Oakwood Healthcare System is comprised of 4 acute care hospitals. Oakwood Hospital & Medical Center (OHMC) has 632 beds, and is a full-service teaching hospital that has served southeast Michigan for more than 50 years. OHMC is the tertiary hub of the Oakwood Healthcare System.

Featured Speaker:

Kim Williams, RN, MS

Chief Nursing Officer

Providence Everett Medical Center

Everett, Washington

While the majority of American hospitals are losing money on Medicare patients, Providence Regional Medical Center (PRMC) manages to break even, even though Medicare payments in the Seattle area are far lower than elsewhere in the nation. Providence Regional Medical Center's Balanced Health Care Model was featured in a six-page Business Week article in January "Hospitals: Radical Cost Surgery". The article described a key component of the mode to be one of the nation's few "single stay” units, where cardiac surgery patients recover in their room and monitoring and therapy equipment are brought to the room rather than moving the patient. The result: shorter hospital stays and fewer infections.

Providence Regional Medical Center Everett consists of five campuses in the Seattle area. 

Featured Speaker:

Jill Case-Wirth, RN, BSN, MHA

VP Clinical Operations & Chief Nursing Officer

ThedaCare, Inc.

Appleton, Wisconsin

Session Title: ThedaCare Collaborative Care Model

Collaborative Care is ThedaCare's complete redesign of impatient care in order to create measurably better value for our patients, their families, and our communities.

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This continuing nursing education activity was submitted for approval to the Illinois Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Absence of conflict of interest: As required by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Accreditation Program, we would like to make you aware of all the potential conflicts of interests. This educational activity's planners and presenters have indicated they have no bias or conflict of interest.

Successful completion: Criteria for judging successful completion of the conference are attendance at the entire activity and submission of a completed evaluation tool.