Anne Matlow is a Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine where she is currently Faculty Lead, PG Leadership.  Her passion for system wide improvement in patient safety and in the quality of patient care, has been realized throughout her career, and includes leadership positions locally (hospital and university), nationally (on the Board of the Canadian Patient Safety Institute; surveyor with Accreditation Canada; Patient Safety Systems Educator with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada) and internationally (founding member of the Pediatric International Patient Safety and Quality Collaborative (PIPSQC). She was co-principle investigator, along with Dr Ross Baker on the Canadian Pediatric Adverse Events Study which was one of the first national studies to define the epidemiology of harmful patient safety incidents hospitalized children.

Over the past decade Dr. Matlow has focused her attention on leadership education as a key lever for systems transformation. At the University of Toronto she established the Leading by Example Education Series for postgraduate trainees and is co-Director of the Postgraduate Medical Education Leadership Certificate Program. She led the scientific development committee at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada that developed

SimuLEADerShip, a leadership simulation game co-developed with the Canadian Society for Physician Leaders and LEADS Global. On an international level she was Co- Chair of the Planning Committee of The International Summit on Leadership Education for Physicians (TISLEP) for seven years, and is a founding member and past co-Chair of sanokondu, the international community of practice dedicated to fostering leadership education for healthcare professionals.  Her ongoing passion lies in equipping physicians of today and tomorrow with the knowledge and skills needed to create and nurture a culture of quality and safety for providers and patients alike.