Prior to joining Southlake in 2018, Tyler was Director, Strategy and Optimization at SickKids.
He has also served as Senior Manager, Quality and Performance at Mount Sinai Hospital and in a number of roles at the Ontario Ministry of Health.
He has an undergraduate degree in economics from McMaster University and did his masters at the London School of Economics in the UK. He has completed the Advanced Health Leadership Program at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto and the IDEAS Advanced Learning Program in quality improvement.
He has contributed to published research on the impact of hospital funding reform in Ontario and has spoken at national and international conferences on data-driven outcomes improvement, healthcare strategy, and the shift to value-based care.
Outside of Southlake, Tyler serves as a Peer Reviewer for the Healthcare Management Forum journal and on the Board of Directors of CHATS, a leading community and support services organization in York Region.
Day 1: Dec 5, 2023
2:30 pm
CASE STUDY: THE CULTURE OF DATA
Why Strategy Alone Isn’t Enough
Ontario’s health system is at an inflection point. For decades, hospitals have absorbed capacity gaps across the continuum-an unsustainable “catch-all” that produces poor integrated care experiences and outcomes. Changing this hospital-first culture demands more than a plan: it requires systems thinking, strategic foresight, and a data-driven culture that moves decisions closer to the point of care. It also requires establishing a common collective vision and successful data initiatives through trust, empowerment and leadership at every level.
This case study explores how a single, composite metric termed Population Avoidable Days (PAD) is helping to unify leaders, clinicians, and partners around a shared “True North” focused on reducing inpatient bed days that don’t need to be in hospital.
You’ll leave with practical solutions on how to:
- Translate data into daily behaviours, align incentives across the ecosystem, and demonstrate how Learning-Health System practices turn insight into sustained action.
- Leverage absolute (not relative) measures like PAD to motivate improvements by frontline teams.
- Uphold patient-centered care when perceptions conflict with core values.
- Navigate structural barriers and system limitations to desired outcomes
Grow a culture that reliably turns evidence into practice, and practice into freed capacity and improved outcomes.
Day 2: Dec 6, 2023
