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Our Leadership Team

Chantale LeClerc

Chantale LeClerc, RN, MSc, GNC(C)

Chief Executive Officer
 
Ms. LeClerc has been Interim CEO since October, 2011. She joined the LHIN in 2008 as Senior Director of Health System Integration. In that position, she was responsible for a number of key initiatives. She has enjoyed a 20-year health-care career across various health sectors and in roles related to clinical care, research, education, professional practice and senior administration. 
 
Prior to joining the Champlain LHIN, Ms. LeClerc held the position of Chief Nursing Officer at SCO Health Service, now known as Bruyère Continuing Care. She holds a Master of Science from the University of Toronto and graduated from the Wharton Fellows Program in Management for Nurse Executives. She has published articles in peer-reviewed journals and received several leadership awards, including an Award of Excellence from the Ontario Hospital Association.
 

Suzanne Dionne

Suzanne Dionne, BSc, CGA

Senior Director, Health System Accountability

Suzanne Dionne is a Certified General Accountant (CGA) with more than 15 years of experience in finance, utilization and performance measurement at The Ottawa Hospital, most recently as Director of Decision Support.  In that role Suzanne was involved in designing the hospital’s performance measurement framework, implementing new financial systems, developing the case costing application, accreditation, clinical services planning, and various operational reviews.  She also acted as a mentor for other Ontario hospitals in their implementations of case costing applications.

In addition to her CGA designation, Suzanne has a Bachelor’s degree in Health Sciences (Kinanthropology – Biomechanics) from the University of Ottawa and is currently completing her MSc in Health Informatics at the University of Victoria.

Suzanne has, and continues to serve on numerous provincial and national advisory committees related to case costing, funding, quality monitoring, and performance measurement. 
Nicole Lafreniere-Davis MSS
 

Nicole Lafrenière-Davis, MSW

Senior Director, Health System Integration

Nicole Lafrenière-Davis joined the LHIN in November 2010 as the French Language Health Services Advisor.  In November 2011, she became interim Senior Director, Health System Integration.  In a career that spans 35 years, as a clinician and as an executive in the community and in the federal and provincial public service, she acquired expertise in health and social services policy and program development, in the negotiation of complex files with federal, provincial and territorial partners and in the restructuring of human services at the provincial, regional and local levels.

 Mrs Lafreniere-Davis was a child and family health policy consultant to the federal and provincial governments and to the Commission nationale des parents francophones from 2002-2010. 

Through the years, Nicole served on variety of boards at the national, provincial, regional and local levels in the area of health and social services and, in the more recent past, with a focus on French Language Health Services.  

Nicole did her undergraduate degree at the University of Ottawa and her Masters of Social Work at Sir Wilfrid Laurier University. She has worked in Ontario and in the West Indies. 

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Elaine Medline

Director of Communications

Elaine Medline joined the Champlain LHIN in 2006, and has contributed greatly to a number of key LHIN initiatives in the areas of communications, mental health and addictions, and lung health. Elaine became a member of the Champlain LHIN’s Senior Management Team in February, 2011 and now focuses solely on public affairs and communications. From 1999 to 2006, she worked at Ottawa Public Health, developing policies and programs related to tobacco control, environmental health, youth programs, harm reduction and health-care emergencies.  Elaine has degrees in biology (BSc) and medicine (MD) from McGill University, and earned a journalism degree at Carleton University (BJ). She began a journalism career in 1991 as a general reporter at the Charlottetown Guardian newspaper in Prince Edward Island, followed by a five-year stint covering health policy and medical innovations for the Ottawa Citizen newspaper from 1992 to 1997. In addition, Elaine participated in Ontario’s Methadone Maintenance Treatment Task Force in 2007 and is currently a member of the Ottawa Local Immigration Partnership Council. 

Glenn Alexander
 
 
Glenn Alexander, MSc, MBA
 
Chief Information Officer
 

Glenn Alexander joined the Champlain LHIN office in November 2007 as the Chief Information Officer (CIO).  He is an accomplished Information Technology and business professional who has been in industry for over 20 years.  His professional roles have included CIO, Associate Vice President, President and CEO.  He has developed and implemented business plans for companies that he has run or advised. Glenn has extensive knowledge in health, government, and telecommunications sectors.

Some of Glenn’s accomplishments include leading the implementation of a number of high profile projects including the Drug Programs Information Network (the first of its kind in Canada), the Health Information Network (the largest IT project in Manitoba’s history), and the Public Health Information System (a million dollar implementation).  In addition, Mr. Alexander has been CIO for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority and the Ministry of Health.  He had been CEO of Rx Canada (a managed care company), and Associate Vice President of a consulting firm.  He has managed large IT departments and directed multimillion-dollar projects.