Dr. Ken Farion is the Vice President, Medicine, Quality & Safety for IWK Health. Ken brings more than 25 years of experience as a physician leader, strategist, and health system executive. He has held senior roles at CHEO, including Vice President of Quality, Strategy & Family Partnership, where he led a large and diverse portfolio encompassing quality improvement, strategy, family partnership, digital health, clinical engineering, and major provincial programs such as BORN Ontario and Newborn Screening Ontario.
For the past two years, Ken has served as Medical Director of Hospital Services and Patient Flow at Health PEI, overseeing six acute care hospitals and leading work on critical care stabilization and perinatal health transformation. He is a Canadian Certified Physician Executive and a Lean Green Belt with deep experience implementing integrated electronic health records, systemwide quality management systems, and high-reliability practices. He believes that everything can be made better, one incremental improvement at a time.
Ken is also an experienced clinician, having practiced Pediatric Emergency Medicine for over two decades and contributing extensively to medical education, research, and system innovation. His commitment to improving care for women, children, youth, and families aligns strongly with the heart of our mission at IWK Health.
Ken and his wife enjoy finding great places to hike, beaches to wander, and lakes to kayak.
