WICI Seminar: Applications of Complexity Science to Healthcare - Brenda Zimmerman

Complexity science is impacting healthcare across the western world. In the UK, USA and Canada, the healthcare sector is looking to complexity for insights to address the clinical, public policy, and organizational challenges of healthcare. In this session, we will look at these three domains and outline how complexity science has been applied or, at least, discussed. In each domain, we will describe how complexity science has changed behaviours, decision making, and design. And we will compare the rhetoric of complexity science as a transforming force in healthcare with the reality of practice to date.

Speaker Profile

Dr. Brenda Zimmerman is a professor of Strategic Management at the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto. She is the founder and Director of the Health Industry Management Program for MBA students. Her primary research applies complexity science to management, leadership and social innovation, especially as it relates to health care or not-for-profit organizations. She is a member of the Health and Public Policy committee at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, advisor for the Canadian Public Health Agency and is a board member and the Vice-Chair of Patient Safety Quality for Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto.