Baycrest Hospital & Apotex (LTC) Senior Executive Team

Deb Galet is the Interim President and CEO of Baycrest Hospital. Deb joined Baycrest in 2015 as Executive Director, Interprofessional Practice Ambulatory Specialty Clinics, and she has progressively added elements to the role, which included the supervision of Hospital Quality and Transformation, Culture Arts & Heritage and Behaviour Support Services.  

Deb has more than 25 years of experience in healthcare with extensive experience leading healthcare teams to achieve excellence. Deb started her career as an occupational therapist across various clinical environments, including acute care, geriatric rehabilitation, complex continuing care, research and community care, all of which have contributed to her deep understanding of the complexity of the healthcare system, particularly for seniors. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Occupational Therapy and a Masters of Adult Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto.

Deb has taken on leadership roles at the regional and provincial levels, and she currently sits on the Cancer Quality Advisory Council of Ontario. She is particularly interested in continuous quality improvement and building new models of care to improve access and resource utilization for the geriatric demographic.
 

 

Dr. Gary Naglie completed his medical school training at McGill University, specialty training in Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine at the University of Toronto, and graduate training in Clinical Epidemiology at McMaster University. He is a full Professor in the Department of Medicine and the Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation at the University of Toronto, and he holds the George, Margaret and Gary Hunt Family Chair in Geriatric Medicine.

Dr. Naglie is the Vice President of Medical Services, Chief of Staff, and Chief of Medicine at Baycrest Health Sciences and is a scientist at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute and at the University Health Network-Toronto Rehabilitation Institute. His research has focused on outcomes evaluation and quality of life in cognitively impaired and medically complex older adults. His current major research interests are driving issues in older adults, especially those with cognitive impairment, and innovative models of care for frail, complex older adults.

Margot DaCosta is the Vice President, Inpatient Services and Clinical Support, and Chief Nursing Executive. She started at Baycrest in 2014 as the Director of Complex Care, Rehabilitation and Specialized Geriatrics.

Ms. DaCosta is a healthcare leader with over 30 years of hospital management experience in progressively responsible roles spanning various clinical areas, primarily in the acute care sector. Prior to coming to Baycrest her most recent positions were at Peterborough Regional Health Centre where she was the Program Director, Regional Renal, Metabolic & Cancer Care Programs, and Rouge Valley Health System where she was the Program Director, Medicine & Patient Flow.

Ms. DaCosta holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Western University, and a Master’s degree in Nursing from the University of Toronto.

Maria Muia is a Certified Health Care Executive with the Canadian College of Health Care Leaders.  She holds a Masters of Health Science degree from University of Toronto. Maria has over 25 years of experience in the health care field having held positions at a number of acute care organizations including North York General Hospital, Lakeridge Health and The Scarborough Hospital before coming to Baycrest. At Baycrest she is responsible for overseeing all aspects of information management, informatics, privacy, analytics and the procurement, implementation and benefit realization of a new hospital information system.  Maria has a passion for using data and information to improve health system performance and is excited about the opportunities Big Data and Artificial Intelligence will bring to improve and personalize health care in the future.