Brandon Kober Email & Phone Number

Toronto, ON, CA

Spearheading quality improvement and digital transformation initiatives for Health Force Ontario's Rural & Northern Recruitment & Retention Programs.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Leading efforts to reform high-level clinical, digital, and administrative approaches to better integrate Ontario's health system, working with diverse internal and external stakeholders across the province.
• Contributing to the organization's Enterprise Strategic Advisory Team, an internal consultancy tasked with tackling priority projects.
• Focused on maximizing patient and provider well-being, health system efficiency, equity, and overall population health.

• A side hustle - supporting the work of organizations doing great work:
• Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services: Coordinated diverse clinical placements and educational opportunities for a cohort of nursing students, as well as collaborated on the development of.
• Spectra Plasmonics: Support stakeholder engagement and harm reduction education efforts to inform a start-up drug checking technology company to improve its services and expand its customer base

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Participated in CivicAction's prestigious, year-long fellowship program, focusing on personal and professional development, civic engagement on pressing urban issues, as well as equitable, inclusive leadership.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Managed the development, publishing, and submission of a significant funding proposal for Ontario Health Integrated Virtual Care funding on behalf of the Mid-West Toronto Ontario Health Team (MWT-OHT). This has since.
• Served on the MWT-OHT Secretariat, facilitating cooperation between a wide array of diverse stakeholders, including executives and people with lived experience. This joint effort succeeded in using scarce resources.
• Directed large, interdisciplinary teams (40+ staff) as the Operations Lead at several fixed and pop-up MWT-OHT-organized COVID-19 vaccination clinics, striving to increase vaccine uptake, minimize waste of precious.
• Facilitated the hiring of an OHT Impact Fellow through the University of Toronto’s Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, crafting a Statement of Interest on behalf of the MWT-OHT, interviewing.
• Initiated the recruitment of Patient and Caregiver Advisors for the MWT-OHT’s Executive Advisory Committee, interviewing people with lived experience to inform and disseminate a role description in an effort to.
• Learned about and engaged with many models of executive governance, including the early stages of OHT development and Kensington Health’s well-established non-profit Board of Directors

• Facilitated harm reduction service delivery of the only Supervised Injection Site in Hamilton, ON, moving from managerial role (below) to relief RN role during MBA at DeGroote School of Business
• Oversaw progressive improvement of workplace policies and procedures based on scientific evidence, staff and client experience, social determinants of health, as well as regulatory confines
• Educated hundreds of clients, staff, and community stakeholders on safer drug consumption practices

• Led a diverse, interdisciplinary team of 20 staff to deliver holistic, trauma-informed, and culturally sensitive healthcare services to substance-using clients of intersecting, marginalized backgrounds
• Refined and expanded managerial role, enhancing service delivery to meet/exceed governmental standards
• Improved relationships with 15+ external service organizations to facilitate continuity of care in community
• Spearheaded scheduling, policy and protocol development, professional development activities, organization-level strategic plans, community engagement groups, staff meetings
• Motivated staff through COVID-19 pandemic, adjusting service delivery given regulatory guidance, prioritizing staff and client safety, and fostering staff’s out-of-the-box thinking

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Monitored for, responded to, and trained staff to respond to hundreds of drug overdose situations
• Coordinated psychosocial and medical support for diverse clients through continuum of addiction
• Led as Responsible Person in Charge at the busiest Supervised Injection Site in Toronto, ON, with ultimate authority over service delivery, emergency response, and staff direction during shifts

Kingston, ON

• Explored multidisciplinary wound care/management and operating room safety from a nursing perspective
• Collaborated on review of dozens of systematic reviews regarding management of peripheral arterial disease

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse

Essentials In Agile Project Management

Continuing education course

Institute For Future Legislators

• Engaged in three weekend-long political boot camp, increasing knowledge of political processes, campaigns, public life, legislating, and.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Kinesiology And Exercise Science

Education record