Chris Anderson

President, Medaca Health Group at International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans

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International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans

Chris Anderson is co-founder and president of Medaca Health Group, Canada’s leading psychiatry-based early intervention service for mental health. Medaca’s treatment-focused approach helps employees in the early stages of absence to return to health and work in a timely and productive fashion. Medaca has been cited as a top innovator in addressing Canada’s workplace mental health challenge, which costs employers more than $20 billion annually.

Chris is an opinion and thought leader on workplace mental health and, over the past decade, has spoken at health care and public policy events in Canada and the United States. In addition to his role at Medaca, Chris was senior advisor to the Global Business and Economic Roundtable on Addiction and Mental Health from 2004 to 2009 and chairman of the Canada/U.K. Task Force on the Mental Health of Children from 2006 to 2009. The task force comprised mental health care professionals from England and Canada who discussed improvements to the mental health care system in Canada as it relates to children. It was used to inform Senator Michael Kirby’s 2006 Senate Committee report on mental health in Canada.

Prior to forming Medaca, he was with two major Canadian banks where he held a wide range of senior management and executive positions. He is a recognized expert on how to drive and communicate large-scale change in large organizations.

Chris has a BA in journalism from Ryerson University and a master’s in international management from McGill University. He has studied leadership and management at business schools in England, Canada, Japan, India and France.

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