Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

TICKET PURCHASE IS REQUIRED
6:00 pm No Host Reception
7:00 pm Dinner (Business Attire)
Additional ticket purchase required.
This event is open to conference registrants and guests.
Please note seating is limited and will be pre-assigned.

Join Angus Reid, CEO of Angus Reid Strategies and Vision Critical, Sociologist and Pollster at the HCLABC Awards Dinner. HealthCareleaders will honour three outstanding leaders in our industry with awards this evening. Join us as we acknowledge their accomplishments! Award winners to be announced in October.

Dinner Keynote Topic
If Pollsters Ran Healthcare?

Some would argue that pollsters already run healthcare. Their work and the work of journalists seem critically important to our political leaders. In the research business for 40 years, Angus Reid has unique insights into the world of polling, research, attitudes and perceptions that might affect healthcare. He has commissioned a fresh poll and intends to release the results during this session. He is also a gifted raconteur and his words are almost guaranteed to be entertaining and insightful. Angus Reid is Canada’s leading analyst of social research and public opinion—what does Angus see as the key priorities for health leaders?

Angus Reid
Angus Reid is CEO of Angus Reid Strategies, a Vancouver-based Canada-wide full service public opinion and market research company. He also serves as CEO of Vision Critical, a Canadian software company specializing in new Internet solutions for market research and polling.

From 1979 to 2001, Angus was founder and CEO of Angus Reid Group, a market research supplier. Under his direction, the company grew into the largest research enterprise in Canada, with North America revenues of $60 million. It was sold to Paris based Ipsos SA in 2000.

Angus earned a B.A. and an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Manitoba, and in 1974 he received a Ph.D. in Sociology from Carleton University in Ottawa. He has been the recipient of a Canada Council Doctoral Fellowship, the National Health Research Scholar Award, the Davidson Dunton Award for Carleton University’s graduate of the year, the Entrepreneur of the Year award (Services Category), the Marketer of the Year award from the BC AMA and the annual award of distinction from the Canadian Public Affairs Association. Angus holds honorary doctorates from the University of Manitoba (1996) and Simon Fraser University (2002).

Angus has written numerous columns on economic, social and political issues that have regularly appeared in various newspapers and trade journals. In 1996, Doubleday published his Canadian best-seller, Shakedown: How the New Economy is Changing our Lives.