Dr. Jane Cooke-Lauder

Bataleur Enterprises


Dr. Jane Cooke-Lauder specializes in issues of leadership, strategy and governance in the health sector, working with physicians, senior management teams and boards of directors to catalyze change and innovation. She has a Doctorate in Management from the Weatherhead School of Business, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland and was an associate professor at York University, Faculty of Health and School of Business for a number of years. 

Her consulting career has included a strong strategic focus on leadership development and decision making, with a specific interest in how organizations and sectors work and make decisions together. Starting with her MBA dissertation, she has remained a student of interorganizational collaboration as both an academic and as a practitioner. 

As a member of the Ontario Women’s Health Council, Jane championed the inclusion of gender based analysis within the Hospital Report Card and chaired the Accountability Committee that designed and funded the first evidenced-based scorecard on the state of women’s health in Ontario (the POWER study). Jane was a member of faculty for the inaugural certification program in Social Innovation, designed and delivered by the Centre for Social Innovation at the University of Waterloo. She was also a faculty member for the highly regarded Physician Leadership Development Program run over six consecutive years by the CMA and the OMA and continues to coach a number of physician leaders across the country. 

Today, in this increasingly complex and volatile world, Jane’s practice is based on helping leaders identify new ways of working, strategizing, establishing priorities and making more effective decisions. She has provided strategic advice to the Section on the Beyond the Mask initiative for the past five years.

Dr Natalie Clavel

MD, FRCPC, MHSc,CHE


In 2015, Natalie completed a Masters in Health Systems Research and Administration with the Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation (IHPME), at the University of Toronto.  Her research interests include: health systems and policy evaluation, physician performance and accountability, and practical application of Lean Six Sigma methodology for the purposes of perioperative quality improvement.  Natalie obtained her Lean Green Belt training for healthcare through KPMG in 2015 and was awarded her Certified Heath Executive (CHE) designation in July 2015.  She is a member of the Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research (CAHSPR), the Canadian College of Health Leaders (CCHL), and is an active member of the OMA Anesthesiology Section Working Group for the “Vision 20/20: Beyond the Mask” quality initiative.  Natalie has been active in curriculum design and program evaluation for Ontario’s Anesthesiologists’ Professional Development Program, since 2016. 

Natalie has been recognized as an innovator in medical education; she has received numerous teaching awards from the Faculties of Medicine at The University of Toronto and The University of Ottawa.  She has a passion for curriculum design and evaluation in the fields of quality improvement and professional skills development.   

Dr. Natalie Clavel attended medical school at the University of Ottawa and was accepted into the University of Ottawa postgraduate training program in Anesthesiology.  Natalie became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 2012 and joined the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management at University Health Network in March 2014. Natalie is currently the Medical Director of the Postoperative Anesthesia Care Unit at Toronto Western Hospital; her clinical expertise is in Ambulatory Anesthesia. 

Anna Kurdina

University of Toronto


Anna Kurdina is a third-year medical student at the University of Toronto pursuing a concurrent MSc in System Leadership and Innovation at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. 


Anna completed a Bachelor of Health Sciences at McMaster University, where she was actively involved in affecting health systems change through the McMaster Health Forum, a WHO Collaboration Centre for Evidence-Informed Policy. It was there that she developed an interest in health policy and physician leadership. Since, she has been a researcher with the North American Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and an intern with Choosing Wisely, where her work in patient and public engagement was published as a report in The Commonwealth Fund and an opinion article in the British Medical Journal. 

Anna developed an interest in anesthesiology early in her medical education. She admires the vision of Ontario’s Anesthesiologists and its work to promote perioperative leadership and system change. She has been involved with the section for over a year, working on its leadership development and pain management efforts, and she hopes that she can continue to contribute as a future physician. 

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