Dr. Danielle Martin

Speaking topics

Presentations listed below include in-person and virtual keynotes, as well as workshops, fireside chats, and other presentation formats.

• Delivering on the Promise of Medicare

  What exactly is the promise of medicare? For starters, it has to do with living our values, specifically the value of equity of access to health care services.

  Canada’s health care system was built on a promise we can all be proud of: the promise of access to services based on need, rather than the ability to pay. We can continue to be proud of that promise, but to deliver on it, medicare needs to be improved. From the vantage point of a family doctor working in the system, this book shows how we can do better. Now.

• Failure on the Hot Seat: Scaling Up Failure to Achieve Success in Health Care

  It has been said that the Canadian health care system is a system of pilot projects: islands of excellence in a sea of challenges. In recent years, much work has been done to try to highlight and disseminate successful projects to improve quality, access and equity — and much remains to be done to ensure that we are not all continually trying to reinvent the wheel.

  But in the area of learning from each other’s failures, we are even further behind. In the policy world, the clinical world and the research world, sharing failures is discouraged — let alone celebrating them. Dr. Danielle Martin will discuss why the health care system needs to learn to scale up both our successes and our failures, and how we might begin to do so.

• The Pivot Point: From Pilot Project to System Solution

  In 2014, Dr. Danielle Martin’s keen insights, wit and deep knowledge of Canada’s health care system brought her international acclaim when a video of her presentation to a United States Senate Subcommittee on health care went viral. Over 1.3 million people from across the globe watched as she challenged assumptions and changed minds about the state of health care in our country.

  Now, hear insights into why change can be so challenging, what our usual stumbling blocks are and how we can work past them to transform small successes into bigger solutions that enhance the way we deliver care.