Our Board

Jeff Mainland

Jeff Mainland is Executive Vice-President, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids). Prior to this role, he served as Vice-President, Strategy, Performance and Communications, joining SickKids in 2004.

In his current role, Mainland is responsible for a broad and diverse range of departments and programs including: enterprise performance management, strategy management, quality management, risk management, legal services, health system integration, process improvement, innovation, project management, decision support, communications, public affairs, government relations, Foundation relations and SickKids International.

Before joining SickKids, he served as Chief of Staff to a provincial cabinet minister and deputy premier and held key leadership positions in the Ontario public service with two ministries. Prior to that, he worked in nuclear medicine in the hospital sector, and in forensic pathology with the Office of the Chief Coroner for Ontario.

Mainland holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Human Kinetics from the University of Guelph, a Diploma in Nuclear Medicine Technology from the Michener Institute for Applied Health Science and a Master of Business Administration from Queen’s University.

He has completed executive training in strategy management under the leadership of Dr. Bob Kaplan and Dr. Dave Norton of Harvard Business School and is certified in merger and acquisition integration. He is a member of the Rotman School of Management Healthcare & Life Sciences Advisory Board and acts as a preceptor for a number of Canadian graduate programs in business and health administration.

Laurie Harrison

Laurie Harrison, CPA, MBA, is Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids). She has over 30 years of experience providing strategic and operational leadership in finance, business development, treasury, strategic planning, supply chain, human resources and operations.

Harrison has a B.Sc. degree in Business Administration from the University of Tennessee as well as an MBA from Kellogg and Schulich Universities. She holds the Certified Public Accountant designation. She sits on the boards of several health-related enterprises. As a health-care executive, Harrison has a proven track record of operating within complex organizations and bringing the needs of multiple constituents to establish a clear vision for the future.

Harrison spent her early career in public accounting and the private sector in the U.S. before moving to Toronto. She held senior positions at Baycrest Centre from 1996 to 2012. She was Vice-President, Corporate Services, and Chief Financial Officer reporting to the President and CEO, with strategic and operational responsibility for Finance, Information Management, Planning, Business Development, Legal Affairs, Facilities, Redevelopment, Environmental Services, Food and Clinical Nutrition, Supply Chain, and Security. From 1989 to 1996 she held several positions at The Hospital for Sick Children.

Claire Duboc

Claire Duboc was a founder of the MindBeacon Group in 2015, a mental health leader that revolutionized the access and delivery of evidence-based care. Duboc was instrumental in developing BEACON guided digital therapy (iCBT) and worked with organizations in the private and public sectors across the country to deliver mental health programs with measurable impact. MindBeacon (MBCN) was taken public in December 2020 and subsequently acquired by CloudMD (DOC) in January 2022.

Prior to assuming her seat on the GH-CCMH Board of Trustees, Duboc was a trustee on The Hospital for Sick Children Board of Trustees and a director on the SickKids Foundation Board of Directors. As well, she served as vice-chair and trustee for the Toronto Foundation Board of Directors and served on the Board of Governors at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Duboc holds a BA (Psychology) from Wilfred Laurier University and an MBA from Ivey Business School. Duboc was recognized in 2019 by Digital Health Canada with the Women Leaders in Digital Health Award for her leadership and impact to digital health in Canada.

Dr. Suneeta Monga

Dr. Suneeta Monga is the Psychiatrist-in-Chief at SickKids and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, where she holds the TD Bank Financial Group Chair in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Monga’s clinical and research efforts focus on preschool anxiety disorders, including selective mutism, where she has made important contributions to the recognition, understanding and treatment of these highly prevalent and impacting disorders. She has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and written books and book chapters in these areas. In addition, she has authored a children’s story and workbook, Taming Sneaky Fears, which supports parents in managing anxiety in their preschoolers using evidence-based strategies.

Monga leads the IN-ROADS Initiative, a global research project that she conceptualized to develop a core set of outcomes to be measured across adolescent depression treatment studies. She most recently received funding to lead a similar international effort to develop a core outcome set for pediatric anxiety disorders.

A strong advocate for the integration of mental health into the care of physical health in children and youth, Monga co-leads one of the implementation arms for the SickKids Mental Health Strategy, where she focuses on intra-hospital strategy. As a mentor and advocate for aspiring clinicians, she has won several departmental and national awards for her teaching.

Susan Pigott

Susan Pigott is a trained nurse and social worker who has enjoyed a 37-year career in health and social services mostly in Toronto. She has held a number of senior positions in a variety of social service and health-care organizations including Family Service Toronto, United Way of Greater Toronto and West Neighbourhood House (formerly St. Christopher House) and CAMH. Since 2015, she has served as the Chair of the Ontario government’s Mental Health and Addictions Leadership Advisory Council.

Pigott has been active in a number of public policy initiatives including the Ontario Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform and the Commission on the Reform of Ontario’s Public Services.

She has been an active volunteer serving as a Board member for many organizations including Toronto Community Foundation, Tides Foundation, SickKids, and Soulpepper Theatre Company. Currently, she is the Board Chair of Artscape.