Panel Member : Health System Transformation to Meet the Challenge of Chronic Diseases (2008.01)
Brenda Zimmerman, Schulich School of Business, York University
Brenda Zimmerman is an associate professor at the Schulich School of Business, York University and a partner in Change-Ability Inc. Her work for the past few years has focused on applying lessons from chaos theory and complexity science to human systems.
She has worked with a diverse group of clients and research sites including financial services, social service agencies, government and the health care sector, wholesalers, a chemical company, a steel mill, and manufacturing firms. Her research with the VHA (Voluntary Hospitals of America), a group of about 1700 non-profit hospitals and community health care organizations in the USA, resulted in several papers and a book co-authored with Curt Lindberg and Paul Plsek called Edgeware: Insights from Complexity Science for Health Care Leaders.
In addition to her complexity work, she is a Chartered Accountant and has been an advisor to the Auditor General of Canada and to the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants on control systems.