{"id":22280,"date":"2017-02-03T13:58:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T18:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52.229.127.56\/?page_id=22280\/"},"modified":"2023-05-12T13:15:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T17:15:15","slug":"dr-alan-forster","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/about-us\/our-leadership-team\/senior-management-team\/dr-alan-forster\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Alan Forster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 145px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img responsive\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Profile-pictures-Alan.jpg\" alt=\"Alan Forster\" width=\"135\" height=\"169\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Dr. Alan Forster, MD, FRCPC, MSc<\/strong><br \/>\nExecutive Vice-President and Chief Innovation and Quality Officer<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Contact Details<\/strong><br \/>\n613-798-5555 ext. 12777<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:aforster@toh.ca\">aforster@toh.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Alan J. Forster MD, FRCPC, MSc<\/strong> is the Executive Vice President, Chief Innovation and Quality Officer at the Ottawa Hospital, Canada\u2019s largest Academic Health Sciences Center. His focus is enabling teams to create higher value health care \u2013 in which patient centered health outcomes are realized and health system costs are lowered.<\/p>\n<p>Over his career, he has led research on patient safety and quality improvement. He performed the seminal work evaluating the incidence of adverse events following discharge from hospital. He has also led the Ottawa Hospital\u2019s data strategy which has been used to support research, operations, and planning.\u00a0 Overall, his work has led to over 240 publications in peer review journals and innumerable advances in quality of care.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his role at the Ottawa Hospital, Alan is a leader in the field of healthcare quality. He is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Ottawa and Senior Scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. He provides ongoing advice to agencies at the local, national, and international levels, and he has served as associated editor for several prestigious peer-review journals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Alan Forster, MD, FRCPC, MSc Executive Vice-President and Chief Innovation and Quality Officer Contact Details 613-798-5555 ext. 12777 aforster@toh.ca Alan J. Forster MD, FRCPC, MSc is the Executive Vice President, Chief Innovation and Quality Officer at the Ottawa Hospital, Canada\u2019s largest Academic Health Sciences Center. His focus is enabling teams to create higher value [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"parent":4547,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22280","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22280\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}