Dr. Doug Cochrane was named as the new board chair for Interior Health. (Contributed photo)
The B.C. Government has appointed three new board members to Interior Health (IH), including Dr. Doug Cochrane as the new chair.
Cochrane is currently the chair and provincial patient safety and quality officer of the B.C. Patient Safety and Quality Council.
He is professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in neurosurgery and has previously chaired the B.C. Patient Safety Taskforce and served as a board member of the Canadian Patient Safety Institute.
Also appointed as board members were Dr. Selena Lawrie and Cindy Stewart.
The new appointments replace IH board chair John O’Fee and member Renee Wasylyk.
Lawrie is a family physician and site director for UBC’s Family Practice Residency Program in Kamloops and is president of Supporting Team Excellence with Patients Society and a steering committee member representative for the Ministry of Health in the Physicians Health Program.
Stewart is the retired president of the Health Sciences Association of B.C. She was vice president of the B.C. Federation of Labour and a member of the executive board of the National Union of Public and General Employees.
Health authority boards of directors are responsible for the governance and management of health services in the province. They work with health authority leadership to establish the organization’s overall vision and ensure there is community consultation.
Boards also regularly review the organization’s long-term plans, look at significant issues affecting the organizations and evaluate results.
Interior Heath’s region includes the South Okanagan.
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