MEDIA RELEASE
For Immediate Release:
June 22, 2021
LONDON, Ontario – London Health Sciences Centre today announced two executive level appointments to enhance its financial and operational effectiveness across the organization. This augmented capacity will enable LHSC to better respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, plan for post-COVID resumption of services, support the Ontario government’s health system transformation and collaborate more closely with regional partners.
Danny Tulip CFA will join LHSC in a contract role as Chief Financial Officer. Tulip’s experience spans both the public and private sectors. He has served as Chief Financial Officer for the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority and most recently as CFO of Royal Roads University. In addition to fulfilling CFO roles, Tulip was also the Vice-President of Finance and Planning at Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.
Also joining LHSC will be Bill Manson, in a contract role in the newly created position of Chief Administrative Executive. Manson has deep experience in the Ontario health sector, having served as Senior Advisor, Environmental Health at Public Health Ontario, Vice-President, Quality, Performance and Accountability and Senior Director, Performance Management, both for the Toronto Central LHIN. Manson holds an MBA from Ivey Business School (Western University) and a BSc in pharmacy. He began his career in health at LHSC as a pharmacist.
“We welcome Bill Manson and Danny Tulip to Team LHSC,” said Jackie Schleifer Taylor, Interim CEO. “Their combined expertise and experience will help guide the organization through the present public health crisis and enable us to effectively support a post-pandemic health system restoration of services,” she concluded.
About London Health Sciences Centre
London Health Sciences Centre has been at the forefront of medicine in Canada for 146 years and offers the broadest range of specialized clinical services in Ontario. Building on the traditions of its founding hospitals to provide compassionate care in an academic teaching setting, London Health Sciences Centre is home to Children’s Hospital, University Hospital, Victoria Hospital, the Kidney Care Centre, two family medical centres, and two research institutes – Children’s Health Research Institute and Lawson Health Research Institute. As a leader in medical discovery and health research, London Health Sciences Centre has a history of over 70 international and national firsts and attracts top clinicians and researchers from around the world. As a regional referral centre, London Health Sciences Centre cares for the most medically complex patients including critically injured adults and children in southwestern Ontario and beyond. The hospital’s nearly 15,000 staff, physicians, students and volunteers provide care for more than one million patient visits a year. For more information visit www.lhsc.on.ca
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Marek Kubow
Corporate Communications and Public Relations
London Health Sciences Centre
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Marek.Kubow@lhsc.on.ca
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