March 2024 Monthly Networking Luncheon

Hosted by Nanaimo and District Hospital Foundation

Join Nanaimo & District Hospital Foundation at the March Luncheon on
Thursday, March 14, 2024 at The Grand Hotel Nanaimo.

Healthcare is a top concern and priority for Canadians, especially those in the mid, central, and north Vancouver Island communities. Founded in 1977, the Nanaimo & District Hospital Foundation raises money for Island Health initiatives and facilitates important conversations that support innovative healthcare for our communities. With a dynamic Board and highly engaged team, the Foundation supports Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, Oceanside Health Centre, Dufferin Place, Trillium, and Eagle Park, while operating two businesses, Lifeline Nanaimo and Code Brew Café, whose revenues support our fundraising costs.


Barney Ellis-Perry,
Chief Executive Officer
Barney Ellis-Perry has over thirty years of fundraising and constituent engagement experience, spending 14 years with his alma matter UBC where he held several key fundraising and alumni relations positions including Director of Alumni Engagement Campaign and Director of Alumni Relations. In 2022, Barney returned to his home province of BC after working in the US for eight years to lead the Hospital Foundation in the role of CEO. Barney’s most recent position was as the Associate Vice Chancellor for Alumni Relations and Annual Giving at Vanderbilt University in Nashville Tennessee.  Prior to Vanderbilt, Barney was the Senior Vice President for Alumni Relations at the international fundraising consultancy GG+A. In 2014, Barney was recruited from UBC to be the CEO of the University of California, Irvine (UCI) Alumni Association.
Barney’s proudest accomplishment at UBC was successfully designing, launching, and co-leading UBC’s Start an Evolution Campaign, the world’s first dual-goal campaign for a major university with goals of raising $1.5 billion and of doubling active alumni engagement by 2015.
Barney is excited to be working in support of healthcare as his time in the USA reinforced his belief in the power of the Canadian Healthcare system.  The healthcare needs of the Central and north Island community present an intriguing challenge that Barney believes can benefit from a more engaged community of donors and advocates.


Damian Lange,
Director
As the Executive Director Clinical Service Delivery Nanaimo Regional General Hospital and Strategic Lead Emergency, Access & Flow & Restorative Health, Damian Lange sits on the Nanaimo & District Hospital Foundation’s Board of Directors in an ex-officio capacity, representing the NRGH’s senior leadership team.
Throughout his career, Damian has provided exceptional leadership on a host of quality improvement and change management initiatives both within Island Health and in partnership with provincial partners. This skill set will be critical as we deepen NRGH’s footprint of tertiary services to include a new Cancer Centre in the coming years and consolidate strategic leadership for access and flow across Island Health.