Conference
Tectonic shifts: rebuilding primary care in a new world
The AFHTO 2020 Conference program is built around 5 core themes.
Concurrent Theme Descriptions
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Mental health and addiction support
AFHTO has named the winners of our annual Bright Lights Awards.
These innovators have improved primary care through their leadership, outstanding work and significant progress made toward improving the value delivered by interprofessional primary care teams throughout Ontario. Bright Lights
Health System Integration Built on the Foundation of Team-Based Primary Health Care
The AFHTO 2019 Conference program is built around 6 core themes.
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Access to care: improving access to
Our concurrent session presentations are organized into six 45-minute timeslots (two on Day 1, four on Day 2) and six themes. To help you plan your conference schedule, we have arranged the sessions by date, concurrent session, time, theme, and title.
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Concurrent
Relationship Design with Starfield in Mind
Dr. Barbara Starfield was a pioneer in identifying why primary care was so foundational to the health system – we know this as the 4Cs of primary care:
CONTINUITY through better relationships,
COORDINATION of better
Relationship Design with Starfield in Mind
The AFHTO 2018 Conference program is built around 6 core themes.
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Concurrent Theme Descriptions
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Improving Primary Care Together
Ontario’s health system continues to undergo transition with far-reaching implications. For the benefit of all Ontarians, primary care needs to be at the centre of this transformation. AFHTO’s 2017 Conference will show how we can all improve primary care together.
"Tackling Really, Really, Really Hard Problems": Leadership and Decision-Making in Today's Reality Calling all EDs and Administrative Leads…this session’s for you!
Date: Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Time: 4:30 PM to 5:15 PM
Location: Pier 2 & 3 - Convention Centre South, 2nd floor
Improving Primary Care Together
The AFHTO 2017 Conference program will be built around 7 core themes.
Effective leadership and governance for system transformation
Planning programs for equitable access to care
Employing and empowering the patient and
Leading primary care to strengthen a population-focused health system
“What leaders really do is prepare organizations for change. Leaders, by definition, work in the realm of unknowability and wrestle with complexity.” – Colleen Grady and Marion Howell, Iris Group, at Physicians in the Lead
Our concurrent session presentations are organized into six 45-minute timeslots (3 per day) and seven themes. To help you plan your conference schedule, we have arranged the sessions by date, concurrent session, time, theme, and title.
Concurrent Session Selection
Concurrent session presentations
Leading primary care to strengthen a population-focused health system
The AFHTO 2016 Conference program will be built around 7 core themes.
Concurrent Theme Descriptions
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Planning programs and fostering partnerships for healthier