Chris

CHRIS L. HARRIS

Executive Profile

Ambitious, results-oriented Senior Healthcare Administrator with a strong track record of high performance in turnaround and a fast-paced organization. Utilizes keen analysis and insights and a team approach to drive organizational improvements and implement best practices. Builds and retains strategic alliances with Board members, physicians, and organization leaders to effectively align with and support key business initiatives. Superior interpersonal skills, capable of resolving multiple and complex (operational, human resources, legal, financial) issues and motivating staff to peak performance. 

Core Competencies

  • Strategic Planning & Growth            
  • Change Management
  • Finance, Budgeting & Cost Management
  • Building Physician Leadership
  • Team Building & Performance Improvement
  • Process Optimization
  • Policy & Procedure Development
  • Creativity & Innovation

Notable Career Highlights

  • Change Management Agent
  • Reorganized catheterization labs to achieve scheduling and financial efficiencies
  • Introduction of surgical safety checklist in multiple areas (OR and Cath lab

Additional leadership experience

  • Rotary Club – Grand Bend
  • Co-chair – Joint Health & Safety Committee
  • Lions Club – Parkhill
  • Forward House of London – Board of Directors
  • Cardiac Care Network Chair – Administrators Group
  • Implantable Cardiac Device Committee ICD Discontinuation Group
  • Information Technology Advisory Group
  • Provincial Volume Allocation Committee
  • Accreditation Lead for Cardiac Care and Respiratory Therapy
  • Allied Health Group for the LHIN
  • Health Professions Advisory Council – Local Health Integration Network
  • Quality Assurance Committee – Respiratory Therapy
  • Critical Care Delivery Model: Clinical Practice Education and Research Recruitment and Retention
  • Respiratory Therapy Advisory Committee (Fanshawe College)
  • Tracheostomy Team Task Force
  • Critical Care Operational Group
  • Weaning Protocol Ventilation Protocol Task Group
  • Critical Care Leadership Committee
  • Toastmaster

Education, affiliations & Continuing development coursework

  • Information Privacy Certificate – York University, Toronto, Canada
  • Mental Health Certificate, Canada
  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Certificate, Canada
  • Everyday French:  A Quebecois Adventure – continuing studies @ Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
  • Occupational Health and Safety Training (Level 1 & 2), Canada
  • The Osgoode Certificate in Health Law, Canada
  • FMEA Course, Canada
  • Ivey School of Business – Leadership Shared Learning and Development Event, 2018
  • Indigenous Cultural Training, Canada
  • Emotional Intelligence 2 Caertificate, Canada
  • Emotional Intelligence 1 Certificate, Canada
  • Influencer Certificate. Canada
  • Master of Health Sciences – Charles Sturt University, Canada
  • Crucial Accountability – LHSC Learning Services, London, Ontario, Canada
  • Organizational Change, Canada
  • Lean 6 Sigma Yellow Belt – LHSC Learning Services, London Ontario, Canada
  • Project Management Certification – LHSC Learning Services, London, Ontario, Canada
  • MIS Level 1 Certification – Ontario Hospital Association, Canada
  • Lean Healthcare Certification– University of Michigan, USA
  • Advanced Health Care Leadership – Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Canada
  • Building Resiliency, Canada
  •   Impasses in Ethical Decision-Making:  A multi-disciplinary team approach to problem solving, Canada
  • Neonatal Resuscitation Program, Canada
  • Intensive Tobacco Cessation Certification – University of Toronto, Canada
  • Crucial Conversations, Canada
  • OSACH Effective leadership Caertificate, Canada
  • End of Life Workshop, Canada 2007
  • Spiritual Care and Assessment, Canada
  • Clinical Trials Management – University of Western Ontario, Canada
  • Essentials of Leadership Excellence, Canada
  • Management Orientation Program, Canada
  • Ethics in Healthcare, Canada
  • Arterial Line Insertion Certification Program, London Health  Sciences Centre, University Campus, London, Ontario, Canada
  • Ventilation Bedside Clinician, Michener Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Trauma Nursing Core Course Certificate – London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario, Canada
  • Oral Tracheal Intubation Certification Program, London Health Sciences Centre, University Campus, London, Ontario, Ontario, Canada
  • Effective teaching techniques – Fanshawe College, London, Ontario, Canada
  • The Canadian Red Cross CPR/FIRST AID instructor Certificate, Canada
  • Seneca College – Toronto, Ontario, Aeromedical Certification, High Honours
  • Northern Alberta Institute of Technology – Edmonton Alberta, Canada
  • Respiratory Therapy in association with the University of Alberta Hospitals
  • Grant McKewan Community College – Edmonton, Alberta,  Canada
  • Rehabilitation Practitioner, (Formerly MRC program)

Professional Activities

  • Speaker:  Tracheostomy tube presentation: Canadian Association Of Neurological Nurses
  • Speaker: Muscular Dystrophy Society – London Chapter, Respiratory Equipment for Neuromuscular Diseases
  • Speaker, ISICEM Brussels Belgium, Practical Applications of Indirect Calorimetry
  • Speaker, ESICM 2004, Berlin Germany Metabolic Monitoring
  • Speaker:  Case Study presentation.  Fall 2004 (The Canadian Association of Critical Care Nurses), London, Ontario
  • Speaker, ESICM 16 Annual Congress, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Indirect Calorimetry – Practical Applications
  • Speaker:  Thames Valley District Health Council, HPRAC, Changes to Scope of Practice
  • Speaker, ISICEM Brussels Belgium, Weaning with Indirect Calorimetry
  • Speaker/Participant:  Critical Care Workshop – Panel in Infectious Disease Control
  • Respiratory Therapy Advisory Committee – Fanshawe College – Planning Committee, (The 26th Annual Educational Forum of the Respiratory Therapy Society of Ontario), London, Ontario, Canada
  • Workshop Leader: Arterial Line Insertion: (The 26th Annual Educational Forum of the Respiratory Therapy Society of Ontario), London, Ontario, Canada
  • Planning Committee, Education Day for the Respiratory Therapy Society of Ontario, Southwestern Chapter London, Ontari

Professional Memberships/Certification and Licensure

  • College of Respiratory Therapy of Ontario (CRTO)
  • Canadian Society of Respiratory Therapists (CSRT) 
  • College of Respiratory Therapists of Ontario – Long Term Ventilation working group.
  • College of Respiratory Therapists of Ontario – Infection control working group
  • College of Respiratory Therapists of Ontario: Non-Council
  • Member of the Lung Association, Canada since 1994–present
  • Respiratory Therapy Society of Ontario Member and Secretary Treasurer of SW Ontario Chapter
  • Member (Discipline, Registration, Quality assurance), Alberta Society of Respiratory Therapy
  • Member of the Canadian Society of Respiratory Therapy (CSRT)

 Publications

  1. HARRIS C, SASKIN R, BURNS K, Non-invasive ventilation Initiation in Clinical Practice: A six-year Observational Study. Journal of Respiratory Care, June 2010 
  2. NOVICK R, FOX S, STITT L, BUTLER R, KROH M, HARRIS C, CHENG D, Impact of Opening a Specialized Cardiac Surgery Recovery Unit on Postoperative Outcomes in an Academic Health Sciences Centre, Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia, September 2007 
  3. HARRIS C, Indirect Calorimetry – Practical Applications. Datex-Ohmeda, Clinical Window Issue 15, Nov. 2003 
  4. HARRIS C, Weaning with Indirect Calorimetry. Datex-Ohmeda, Clinical Window Issue 15, April. 2003 
  5. SHARPE MD, PARNES LS, DROVER JW, HARRIS C, Translaryngeal tracheostomy: experience of 340 cases. Laryngoscope. 2003 Mar; 113(3):530-6 
  6. SHARPE MD, YOUNG GB, MIRSATTARI S, HARRIS C. Prolonged desflurane administration for refractory status epilepticus. Anaesthesiology. 2002 Jul; 97(1):261-4 
  7. ALHASHEMI JA, SHARPE MD, HARRIS CL, SHERMAN V, BOYD D, Effect of subarachnoid morphine administration on extubation time after coronary artery bypass graft surgery J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2000 Dec; 14(6):639-44 
  8. MacCALLUM P, PARNES L, SHARPE MD, HARRIS C. Comparison of open, percutaneous and translaryngeal tracheostomies. Otolatyngol Head Neck Surg. 2000 May;122(5):686-90 
  9. ALHASHEMI JA, SHARPE MD, BOYD D, HARRIS CL, SHERMAN V. Does low-dose intrathecal morphine affect extubation time after off-pump CABG. Anesth Analg 1999;88:S60