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A former London Health Sciences Centre executive is returning to the hospital’s top ranks, a new vice-president role LHSC is sharing with St. Joseph’s Health Care London.
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Adam Dukelow is the new integrated vice-president of medical and academic affairs at both London hospitals, the return of a shared executive role after a change in LHSC-St. Joseph’s relations in recent years ended such positions.
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“This is a permanent integrated role and is an indication of the continued strong partnership between both organizations,” LHSC and St. Joseph’s said in a joint statement Wednesday.
Dukelow, a practising emergency room doctor at LHSC and at St. Joseph’s urgent care centre, will report to both LHSC’s supervisor and St. Joseph’s chief executive as the integrated vice-president.
“An innovative, system-focused health care leader who is well known for his unwavering commitment to excellence, Adam has held several leadership roles at both LHSC and St. Joseph’s during his more than 20-year career in medicine,” the two hospitals said Wednesday.
As LHSC’s interim executive vice-president and chief medical officer until June 2022, Dukelow became a familiar spokesperson for LHSC during the pandemic, providing frequent community updates on the hospital’s response.
Dukelow became the vice-president of medical and academic affairs at St. Joseph’s in March 2023.
Though they are their own distinct hospital networks with their own governance and leadership structures, LHSC and St. Joseph’s have shared joint or integrated executives in the past, particularly for their medicine, laboratory and health information departments.
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Such integrated vice-president roles were phased out as LHSC, under new leadership, moved to dissolve formal ties with St. Joseph’s, including the wind-down of several of the hospitals’ joint ventures.
LHSC’s provincially appointed supervisor David Musyj, who was installed in September to address the hospital’s “concerning financial performance,” has signalled LHSC will renew and strengthen its partnerships with St. Joseph’s.
During his 18-month term as supervisor, Musyj will work to address various governance and financial issues at LHSC as it tries to fix a $150-million deficit in its 2024-25 budget year. This fall, LHSC terminated 59 managers and demoted 71 others with pay cuts to address the deficit.
Dukelow’s addition to LHSC’s executive ranks comes days after the departure of its former vice-president of medicine, research and academics, Kevin Chan.
Chan, whose final day was Monday, left the organization to be closer to his family, the hospital said at the time.
Chan was a former acting president and chief executive of LHSC for approximately six months following Jackie Schleifer Taylor’s medical leave in November 2023.
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