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Career Roundtable Industry Expert Bio: Healthcare

Introducing: Vincent Ng

Title: Management consultant, health IT strategist, and a clinical pharmacist

Vincent Ng is passionate about transforming the healthcare system, particularly through the better use of information to improve access to safe, high quality healthcare.

His mission is to help transform the healthcare system, and he has dedicated his career to contributing to this transformation in all possible ways, including:

Developing health system and health IT strategies;
Managing the on-budget, on-time implementations of these strategies;
Measuring and evaluating their impacts on patient safety, quality of care and effectiveness of care delivery; and;
Improving the ability of clinicians to use technology to practise good medicine and to make their lives easier.

Advice:

1. Healthcare is in desperate need for change and innovation, and requires smart people from many different backgrounds to solve its problems – for example, business, IT, engineering, design, data analysis. So, don’t close the door for yourself if you’re not in a “traditional” healthcare path.

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Career Roundtable Industry Expert Bio: Non-profit/NGO

Introducing: Alex Meers Title: Director, Me to We Leadership at Me to We Interesting Fact: Helped fundraise $750,000 to climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in June 2012 As a student of International…

Career Roundtable and Networking Event

JETAA Toronto Presents: Career Roundtable and Networking Event

When: Thursday November 7, 2013
Time: 6:30pm – 9:00pm
Where: The Japan Foundation, 131 Bloor Street West, Suite 213 (Between Bay and St. George Subway Stations)
RSVP: email Chris, conference@staging.jetaatoronto.ca (please RSVP, dropping in is welcome!)

Visit our Facebook Event Page here.

After returning from Japan, many JET Programme Alumni are faced with the question: ‘what do I do next?’ The answer isn’t always so easy to determine, especially if you’re experiencing mild disorientation from reverse culture shock. The question then may become: ‘what can I do?’ or ‘what jobs are out there?’ or even ‘what kind of networks do I have that can help me?’ Career searching may seem like a daunting challenge, but with help from JETAA Toronto it doesn’t have to be.

There are also JET Programme Alumni who have been returning from Japan since 1991, who have established careers in a variety of professional industries, and now may be looking to broaden their networks with like-minded individuals or even to provide sage advice to those looking to get into their chosen field. JETAA Toronto can help facilitate this as well.

If you’re a former JET Program participant (JETAA) and would either like to embark on a career path or network amongst established industry representatives then you should come out to the Career Round Table. With support from the Japanese Consulate of Toronto, it is with great pleasure that JETAA is able to debut this opportune career development and networking event on Thursday November 7th, 6:30-9pm at The Japan Foundation.

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