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Message from the CEO & Board Chair

We accomplished a lot together over the past year.

And we have much to be proud of. University Health Network (UHN) was ranked Canada’s top research
hospital for the seventh year in a row, our adult organ transplant program became North America’s largest,

and the Michener Institute was recognized as an accredited provider of Continuing Professional Development
by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. This is all in addition to UHN’s position as the
country’s continuing leader in cancer, cardiac, neuroscience, rehabilitation and transplant research. We invite
you to learn more about our accomplishments through the stories contained in this report.

While celebrating successes such as these, we also underwent significant organizational change and managed

increased demands for our services, something experienced by all hospitals in Ontario’s healthcare system with
most sites operating beyond 100 per cent capacity.
It takes resilience to work in healthcare. Our staff treat and support patients during some of the most

vulnerable moments of their lives; return with renewed intellectual curiosity to their labs each day in the
hopes of improving care; and attempt to bridge the gaps between theory and practice as we shape tomorrow’s
healthcare professionals. To do all this while managing the challenges of this past year draws on everyone’s

commitment to care, research and learning. This – combined with the resilience, strength and excellence from
the people who work here – is what makes us UHN.

While we are one of Canada’s largest healthcare research organizations, our primary value is the needs of
patients come first. It is this shared value that guides everything we do.

On behalf of the Board of Trustees, we thank the entire UHN community for their work over the past year.
We look forward to the one ahead with Incoming President & CEO, Dr. Kevin Smith. As an experienced
health system leader, Kevin will build on our work to transform lives and communities through care, discovery
and learning.

(L to R) Brian Porter, Chair of the University Health Network Board of Trustees, Dr. Kevin Smith, Incoming
President & CEO of UHN, and Dr. Charlie Chan, former Interim President & CEO of UHN and Executive Vice
President, Chief Medical Officer. (Photo: Visual Services, UHN)

Charlie Chan Brian Porter
Interim President & CEO Chair, UHN Board of Trustees
Executive Vice President,
Chief Medical Officer
University Health Network
is a teaching hospital affiliated with
the University of Toronto

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