Leslee Thompson

Leslee Thompson is President and CEO of Kingston General Hospital (KGH). She joined KGH in 2009, and has led the organization through a major turnaround. She has over 25 years of health care experience that extends at some of Canada’s largest public and private sector healthcare organizations. She has previously held the positions of: Vice President Health System Strategies for Medtronic, Vice President, Cancer Care Ontario, Executive Vice President & Chief Oper¬ating Officer of Sunnybrook & Women’s Health Science Center; Chief Operating Officer of Toronto Western Hospital at University Health Network, and Senior Operating Officer of Royal Alexander Hospital in Capital Health, Alberta.

She is a Certified Health Care Execu¬tive, an assistant professor in Faculty of Health Sciences at Queen’s University. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Ontario Hospital Association and the Vice Chair of the Council of Aca¬demic Hospitals of Ontario. She is also an assistant professor in Faculty of Health Sciences at Queens University.