Waterloo Regional Health Network’s Senior Leadership Team

Waterloo Regional Health Network has a senior leadership team focused on carrying out our mission of advancing exceptional care. Each member of the senior leadership team is responsible for a variety of corporate services or supervising activities within the hospital’s 14 clinical programs and services.

  • Ron Gagnon, President & CEO
  • Doug Murray, Executive Vice President, Enabling Services
  • Elizabeth Ferguson, Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Nursing Executive
  • Dr. Anirudh Goel, Chief of Staff
  • Barbara Steed, Interim VP, Patient Care and Midtown Site Lead
  • Cliff Harvey, Vice President, Redevelopment
  • Danina Kapetanovic, Vice President, Innovation & Chief Health Innovation Officer
  • Demetrios Kalantzis, Vice President, People(s), Culture & Experience
  • Desa Hobbs, Vice President, Patient Care & Regional Vice President, Waterloo Wellington Regional Cancer Program, Queen’s Blvd. Site Lead
  • Doug Earle, President & CEO, WRHN Foundation
  • Gary Higgs, Vice President, Digital & Chief Information Officer
  • Dr. Heather Warren, Vice President Medical Affairs
  • Linda Adams, Interim VP, Patient Care and Deputy Chief Nursing Executive
  • Mike Gourlay, Vice President, Finance & Support Services, & Chief Financial Officer
  • Nicole Thomson, Vice President, Quality, Research, Patient Experience, Social Accountability and Interim Chicopee Site Lead
  • Sarah Farwell, Vice President, Strategy, Communications & Public Affairs