{"id":577,"date":"2024-11-15T10:47:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T10:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/utrecht\/?p=577"},"modified":"2024-11-20T15:32:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T15:32:02","slug":"laura-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/utrecht\/2024\/11\/15\/laura-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-748\" src=\"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/utrecht\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2024\/11\/Laura-Williams_150px-min.jpg\" alt=\"Laura Williams, University Health Network for Better Health \" width=\"150\" height=\"212\" \/><\/p><br><p><strong><em>Senior Director of Patient Experience and Engagement, University Health Network; Canada<\/em><\/strong><\/p><br><p>Laura is a clinician and healthcare leader with over 20 years experience in the field of patient and family engagement including the development of the Ontario provincial framework. She is the Senior Director of Patient Experience and Engagement for the University Health Network (UHN). UHN is Canada\u2019s largest health system with 2 acute care hospitals, provincial cancer centre and network of rehabilitation centres treating 35,000 inpatients and 1.2 million outpatient visits per year. The Patient Experience and Engagement team provide leadership and support for TeamUHN to engage patients in their care and through organizational decision-making.<\/p><br><p>Laura is also an advocacy partner to her 18-year old son who has a rare genetic condition called GRIN1. Their journey has been documented in the podcast \u2018Unlocking Bryson\u2019s Brain\u2019. This experience prompted Laura to pursue a Doctorate in Rehabilitation &amp;amp; Health Leadership at Queen\u2019s University with a focus on supported and inclusive living for young people and adults with intellectual disabilities.<\/p><br>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Director of Patient Experience and Engagement, University Health Network; CanadaLaura is a clinician and healthcare leader with over 20 years experience in the field of patient and family engagement including the development of the Ontario provincial framework. She is the Senior Director of Patient Experience and Engagement for the University Health Network (UHN). UHN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/utrecht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/utrecht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/utrecht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/utrecht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/utrecht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/utrecht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/utrecht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/utrecht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/utrecht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}