Senior Advisor

Brock has over 30 years of senior leadership experience in Manitoba’s healthcare system and  privilege of contributing to major system changes during that period. He focused on enabling healthcare providers at hospital, regional and provincial levels to work collaboratively across sectors and professions to better integrate health services and improve care.

Brock began his administrative career in 1990 at the Health Sciences Centre (HSC) where he introduced continuous quality improvement and supported an interprofessional approach to strategic planning. This contributed to HSC being the first hospital in Manitoba to adopt program management.

In the mid-90’s at the request of the Deputy Minister, Brock designed and led an intensive planning effort in Winnipeg that engaged both hospital and community sectors in exploring how health services could be provided more cost-effectively. This contributed to a government decision to establish regional health authorities in Winnipeg.

Brock served for 3 years as VP and Chief Medical Officer (CMO) at HSC before joining the new Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (WRHA) in 2000 where he served as VP and CMO for 17 years. In his VP role he was responsible for overseeing many regional clinical programs and services. During the mid 2000’s, he served concurrently as the Chief Operating Officer of HSC.

In 2012, Brock brought together medical leaders from health regions throughout Manitoba, CancerCare Manitoba, Diagnostic Services Manitoba, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba, the University of Manitoba Faculty of Medicine, and Public Health to form the Provincial Medical Leadership Council (PMLC). The Council standardized Medical Staff Bylaws throughout the province, established a provincial medical credentialing/privileges process, and began the transition from regional to provincial medical standards committees.

PMLC was concerned that clinical planning and quality improvement was done independently by each region and so decided to bring clinicians together from across the province to demonstrate the value of provincial planning. PMLC strongly advocated for regions to jointly plan clinical services and improve quality and enlisted outside consultants to validate their recommendations. This ultimately led government to establish a new provincial health authority, Shared Health, that would bring health authorities together to plan clinical and preventive services, improve quality and lead province-wide clinical and support services. Brock was asked to serve as Shared Health’s first CEO.

Brock maintained a close relationship with the University of Manitoba Faculty of Medicine and later the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences and served for several years as Associate Dean Clinical Affairs. He has a strong interest in provincial clinical governance models that support the integration of patient care, education, and research.

Brock is a physician by profession with a fellowship in Community Medicine (public health) and an MBA from the University of Manitoba and is a CFHI EXTRA Fellow. He was presented the Health Administration Award by Doctors Manitoba in 2010.