Adjunct Professor
Director of Education
Robert (Bob) Smith, BCom, MBA, FCCHSE, is Adjunct Professor, Sauder School of Business and Director of Education for the Centre for Health Care Management and President of Perform Management Consulting Inc.
He is the former President and CEO of the Fraser Health Authority. He has also served as President and CEO of the Capital District Health Authority in Halifax, Nova Scotia, President and CEO of Lions Gate Hospital in North Vancouver, BC, Deputy Director of the BC Cancer Agency, and Executive Director of the Arthritis Society in BC. In addition he served as Vice President of the Stentor Innovation Centre developing telecommunications applications for health services.
Bob has served in numerous health leadership roles provincially and nationally, including Chair of the Canadian Hospital Association, Chair of the BC Health Association, Director of the Association of Canadian Academic Health Organizations, and Director of the Health Administrators Association of BC. He is a founding Director of the Canadian Telehealth Society and currently a Director of the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation. He most recently served as Director of the Canadian Stroke Network, Ottawa; Director of the Canadian Healthcare Association, Ottawa; Director of Continental Home Health Care Inc., Los Angeles; Saint Elizabeth Health Care, Toronto; and as Co-Chair of the Health Division of the United Way Campaign Cabinet of the Lower Mainland. He is a Surveyor for Accreditation Canada.
He has conducted extensive health systems reviews for government, and served in official capacities on their behalf to examine and resolve issues in health systems and school system management and governance.
Bob received his B. Comm. and MBA from the University of British Columbia. He holds diplomas from the Executive Development Program at Queen’s University and the Banff Executive Development Program.
He is a Fellow in the Canadian College of Health Service Executives and a member of the Health Care Leaders Association of BC.
