Dr. Bob Bell

Dr. Bob Bell is a well recognized and respected healthcare thought leader internationally.

Dr. Bell served in the Ontario government as Deputy Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, from 2014 to 2018. Prior to this, he held roles as the President and CEO of the University Health Network, COO at Princess Margaret Hospital, Chair of Cancer Care Ontario’s Clinical Council and the Cancer Quality Council of Ontario.

Dr. Bell received his Doctor of Medicine from McGill University, a Master of Science from the University of Toronto, and achieved his Fellowship in Orthopaedic Surgery in 1983. He completed sub-specialty training in Orthopaedic Cancer Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University in 1985, and the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 2005.

Dr. Bell is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, the American College of Surgeons and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. As an internationally recognized orthopedic surgeon, health system executive, clinician-scientist, and educator, Dr. Bell has more than 40 years of health care experience.

Today he provides expert advice to a number of private and public organizations and has published his first novel “Hip.” All proceeds from that novel benefit the Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation.

Department: Fellows