Kristen Pitzul

Director, Strategic Policy and Hospital-Enabled Research, Ontario Hospital Association

Kristen Pitzul is the Director, Strategic Policy & Hospital-Enabled Research at the Ontario Hospital Association, where she works closely with OHA’s member hospitals and other system partners to bring an evidence-based lens to developing and implementing health policies and programs to improve Ontario’s health care system. Kristen is also a Lecturer in the University of Toronto’s Master of Health Administration program where she teaches healthcare professionals the importance of understanding statistics in shaping health care decision-making. A results-oriented systems thinker with over 15 years’ experience in health care, Kristen holds a PhD in Health Services Research from the University of Toronto, as well as M.Sc. in Physiology and B.Sc. in Biology from Western University.