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Michener Integration:
CMICoHEmNERinINTgEGRtAoTIOgNether makes us both
stronger

The teams and individuals working on the Michener Integration initiative
report into Dr. Brian Hodges, EVP Education, and Emma Pavlov, EVP
Human Resources, Organizational Development & Michener Operations.
(Photos: UHN)

The landscape of health This integration is the first of its professional workforce.

care is changing at a kind in Canada and we believe it Bringing together a
rapid pace. With the will advance health care education school of applied health
development of new science and a hospital

technologies, therapies in a way that has not previously network will allow us

and groundbreaking been possible. to design programs that
research it has become don’t exist today, while

increasingly important closing the gap between

to ensure our workforce is equipped with the skills for classroom education and clinical practice. Developing

the future. UHN’s merger with the Michener Institute graduates who are practice ready and able to meet

for Education will help to do just that. the demands of new technology in a rapidly changing

Michener has an esteemed history of training students environment is a priority not just for UHN but for all
in professions such as radiation therapy, radiology hospitals and clinics in Ontario and around the world.
technology, medical laboratory technology and UHN’s reputation for excellence in the academic
respiratory therapy – to name just a few – which world will help students, while the opportunity to
are key to the quality of care UHN. We realized that build curricula with Michener is a game changer for
together UHN and Michener might be able to do health care.

an even better job of preparing the future health

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