Mark Rochon

Mark Rochon

Senior Fellow

Director, Senior Fellows Program

Mark has been in leadership roles in health care for over 40 years with senior experience in a range of health care provider organizations, government, organizations at arms-length from government and advisory services.  He had also chaired and been a director of health care related boards and committees including the Ontario Hospital Association, the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and The Institute for Work & Health.  Mark has been appointed on many occasions to assist and advise governments with health care related issues including policy and statutory frameworks, health care system and provider performance and reimbursement and physician negotiations. 

His previous health care leadership experiences include:

  • Senior Executive Advisor with KPMG’s Canadian and Global Health and Life Science practices
  • Interim President & CEO of Health Quality Ontario
  • Interim President & CEO of the Ontario Hospital Association
  • Founding President and & CEO of the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
  • Founding CEO of the Health Services Restructuring Commission where he led a province-wide initiative to reconfigure Ontario hospitals and other related elements of the health service system
  • President and CEO of Humber Memorial Hospital
  • Assistant Deputy Minister Institutional Health Division Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Ontario (secondment)
  • CEO of Georgetown & District Hospital and Bennett Health Care Centre
  • Associate Administrator and CFO of the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry

Through various roles Mark has led or been involved in leading many health care integration initiatives including the development of Scarborough Health Network, Unity Health and Toronto Rehabilitation Institute.

He is an Associate Professor (part-time) & Senior Fellow in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Mark has frequently spoken on health care related topics, has authored several publications including co-author of Riding the Third Rail – The Story of the Health Services Restructuring Commission.