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 St. Thomas University, 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, St. Thomas University 

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, St. Thomas University
  • 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 St. Thomas University 

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.