Erwin Malzer – PSV2018

Healthcare Transformation Advocate

Erwin Malzer is the former Board Chair of the Interior Health Authority of BC. He is dedicated to the meaningful transformation of the healthcare delivery system in pursuit of improved patient care and overall system sustainability. In his 10 years serving IH he also Chaired the Audit & Finance and Governance Committees of the Board. He currently is Vice Chair of BCCSS (Provincial Shared Services to the health sector. He is a career management consultant and has consulted to the healthcare industry across Canada on a wide variety of mandates and technology implementations. He has mentored executive healthcare leaders, advised on organizational design and corporate structure, and contributed to organizational renewal and performance improvement.

Previously based in Vancouver, he had major executive account and regional ERP business responsibilities for Western Canada as a Consulting Partner first with PwC Consulting and then with IBM . Prior to this he was Partner in Charge of the Manitoba consulting practice of Coopers & Lybrand (Winnipeg) and the founding and managing partner of Malzer & Associates Ltd. He has chaired or been a director of numerous corporate, professional and community organizations throughout Canada. He served on the Executive Board of the BC Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD) and has served as the national and provincial Board Chair of the Institute of Certified Management Consultants (CMC) and the Canadian Association of Management Consultants (CAMC). Mr. Malzer has two business degrees and is a Certified Corporate Director (ICD.D) as well as a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) and has been awarded the FCMC designation as a Fellow of the Institute.

He has been Conference Moderator, Chair, and Advisory Board member of the annual Health Summit conference in Kelowna that brings together international technology & health care solution vendors, Government Ministers & executives, consultants and other industry professionals. He was a speaker & panelist for the U of A School of Public Health’s Fellowship program on Health Systems Improvement.