Board committees: An overview

Mandate

To oversee the financial affairs of the OMA and to assist the board in monitoring the organization’s financial reporting and disclosure.

Composition

• Sanjay Acharya, chair
• Carmen Rossiter, vice-chair
• Adam Kassam
• Paul Conte
• Sue Armstrong, CPA (non-OMA director)

Appointment process

• Appointments to the FAC are made at the recommendation of the GNC and approval of the OMA board
• GNC oversees the recruitment of the non-director financial expert and brings forward recommendations to the OMA board for approval. This individual must possess a CPA or other similar designation
• Appointments are for a two-year term

Mandate

To assist the board in gaining and maintaining reasonable assurance that the board’s composition, structures and practices will enable the board to discharge its oversight duty and the board’s other duties in a highly effective manner.

Composition

• Zainab Abdurrahman, chair
• David Collie, vice-chair
• Audrey Karlinsky
• Paul Conte
• Veronica Legnini, GASC chair
• Katherine McKay, OMA member-at-large
• Rose Zacharias, president-elect (observer)

Appointment process

• With the exception of the board chair, who is an ex-officio member of all standing board committees, OMA directors serving on the GNC are elected by the OMA board
• The chair of the GASC is an ex-officio member of the GNC. The GASC chair is elected by PLG delegates
• The president-elect is a non-voting observer on the GNC
• GNC oversees the recruitment of the OMA member-at-large and brings forward candidates to the OMA board. In accordance with the policy for selecting GNC members, the GNC member-at-large is elected from those candidates by the OMA board
• In the first year of appointing a member-at-large to the committee, notice of the recruitment was shared with all members across a variety of channels. Twelve applications were received for the position. The evaluation process included a quantitative assessment using a standardized skills matrix, as well as interviews of short-listed candidates. Following this process, three candidates were brought forward to the OMA board, where the member-at-large was selected via election
• Appointments are for a two-year term

Mandate

To assist the board of directors (or any other committee of the board) in its oversight role with respect to:

• Human resources strategy, policies, and programs
• Performance evaluation, compensation recommendations and succession planning of the chief executive officer
• The appropriate use of human capital within the OMA by the CEO and designated senior management, with specific focus on succession planning, development, and compensation

Composition

• Denise Carpenter, chair
• Hirotaka Yamashiro, vice-chair
• Cathy Faulds
• Cynthia Walsh
• Paul Conte

Appointment process

• Appointments to the HRCC are made at the recommendation of the GNC and approval of the OMA board
• Appointments are for a two-year term

In addition to the standing committees, there are other key committees and taskforces (including bilateral committees) that report directly to the OMA board. This includes the Negotiations Task Force, Physician Services Committee and the Medical Services Payment Committee. OMA advisory committees report to the board indirectly through the CEO. This includes the Relativity Advisory Committee and Health Policy Committee.

The Nominations and Appointments Committee is a decision-making committee within the OMA and has a dual reporting relationship to the GNC and the GASC. The committee has oversight responsibility for the recruitment and appointment of qualified members to serve on the panels and working groups of the GA. The committee also supports the promotion and recruitment of qualified candidates for election to the GASC and to the board of directors.

Appointment process

• Unless otherwise stated in the committee charter, the appointment process for all OMA committees is overseen by the GNC, with recommendations brought forward to the board for approval. To ensure a skills-based appointment process, interested candidates are asked to complete a standard application form. A standardized skills matrix is then used to evaluate all applications, with an added lens for diversity of candidate experiences, clinical background, gender, and geography. In recent years, there has been an increased use of interviews for technical and bilateral committees to ensure that recommendations are based on combined quantitative and qualitative assessments. Key committee appointments undertaken by the GNC over the course of the last year include the MSPC, RAC and NTF.