Fredericton’s Health Care Summit II: Knowledge Industry in Action – Enabling Health Care Transformation

November 13, 2025
Fredericton’s Health Care Summit II: Knowledge Industry in Action – Enabling Health Care Transformation

 

10:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Kinsella Auditorium, McCain Hall

 

The Fredericton Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with ¶¡Ïã³ÉÈËÉçÇø, the City of Fredericton and the New Brunswick Medical Education Foundation, is proud to announce Fredericton's Health Care Summit II: "Knowledge Industry in Action – Enabling Health Care Transformation."

 

Agenda

Welcome -Dr. Nauman Farooqi, President and Vice-Chancellor, ¶¡Ïã³ÉÈËÉçÇø 

10:00 AM 

 

Panel #1 – United in Health: Reframing Barriers as Strengths in Fredericton 
10:30 AM – 11:20 AM 

 

Moderator

  • Dr. Jennifer Russell, Executive Director, UNB Institute of Population Health

Panelists

  • Dr. Helena Hauman, Hospitalist and Emergency Department, DECRH President, Physician Staff Organization, Fredericton Area
  • Laurie Guthrie, Economic Developer, City of Fredericton 
  • Morgan Peters, CEO, Fredericton Chamber of Commerce 
  • Dr. Anna Robak, Executive Director of Research and Innovation at WSP Canada, and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at UNB

Panel #2 – Knowledge Industry as Health Accelerator 

11:30 AM – 12:20 PM


Moderator

  • The Honourable Cindy Miles, Minister of Social Development and Minister responsible for the Economic and Social Inclusion Corporation

Panelists

  • Dr. Simon Marmura Brown, Strategic Director of Research and Knowledge Mobilization - Pond Deshpande Centre
  • Charles Furlotte, Faculty of the School of Social Work, ¶¡Ïã³ÉÈËÉçÇø
  • Alyssa Long, Executive Director – New Brunswick Medical Education Foundation 
  • Dr. Erin Fredericks, Regional Manager of Community Development at Horizon Health Network and Associate Professor of Sociology at ¶¡Ïã³ÉÈËÉçÇø 

Keynote Interview – The Honourable Dr. John Dornan, Minister of Health 

1:00 PM

Dr. Dornan’s decades of clinical leadership, policy innovation, and commitment to collaborative care make him an essential voice in our conversation on health system transformation.