Dave Murray is one of only a few CEOs in Ontario who has had the opportunity to lead organizations in all of the major sectors of the health care system across the entire province. He has served as CEO of ten diverse and varied health organizations across Ontario such as the Group Health Centre in Sault Ste. Marie. The GHC at the time was Canada's largest health centre with 60,000 rostered members and over 70 physicians and 400 allied staff. Commissioner Roy Romanow, ex-Premier of Saskatchewan, who was asked by the Governor General and the Prime Minister to lead the Federal Royal Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada called the Group Health Centre at the time the "jewel in the crown of Medicare". During his tenure as CEO, the GHC was the only organization in Canada to win four national and international best practice awards and was the inaugural recipient of the Tommy Douglas Award for Excellence in Primary Care.

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Murray was also the inaugural CEO of Unicare Comprehensive Health Organization, the North East Local Health Integration Network, and the Waterloo Wellington Community Care Access Centre. He has served as the CEO of the Northwest Health Alliance, an organization owned by the regional hospitals, which provided interconnected IT, PACS, EHR, Business Intelligence and Project Management services to the twelve hospitals in the northwest as well as managing regional projects.

 

He has also been the CEO/Interim CEO of four hospitals and LTC facilities across seven sites, including the nationally recognized Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre which provides services to 30 remote fly-in Indigenous communities.

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Dave has been an ongoing champion for the north and system reform. He is proud to have been chosen as one of thirteen Ontarians to serve on the Premier's Council to End Hallway Medicine under the leadership of the late Dr. Rueben Devlin. It is unfortunate that much of the work planned by Dr. Devlin was never acted upon.

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With governance experience on over a dozen boards in Ontario health and education systems he understands the role that good governance plays in the public system. Murray has been on the board and chaired the Ontario Telemedicine Network and currently serves on the ORNGE Air Ambulance board. He continues to provide input on key policy initiatives.