CEO, JD & Associates

Janice Dusek is a registered nurse, a senior leader, an executive, an innovator and trailblazer at the forefront of change in health care. She has held many senior leadership positions within the healthcare sector including Chief Operating Officer at Lakeridge Health, Executive Vice President and Chief Nurse Executive at St Michaels Hospital and Vice President Strategy and Chief Nursing Executive at Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences. She has also been a staunch supporter and board member of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario. In 2011, she founded JD & Associates, a professional consulting practice that specializes in strategic planning, operations improvement, health system renewal, board governance, as well as planning and facilitating organizational and system change. Also in 2011, Dusek started a part-time faculty position at McMaster University in the Faculty of Health Sciences for the School of Nursing, teaching students in a combined program with Mohawk College. She is passionate about improving the health status of those who are marginalized in our communities and supporting women in leadership positions. Since 2012, Janice has served as a board member for the Scarborough Centre for Healthy Communities, a social services organization/community health agency, with the last 2 years serving as President.