Founder

Lawrence Rosenberg is Professor of Surgery and Medicine at McGill University, and President and CEO of the Integrated Health and Social Services University Network of West-Central Montreal.

Dr. Rosenberg received his MD, CM degree from McGill University, where he completed specialty training in General Surgery. He holds an MSc and PhD in Experimental Surgery from McGill and completed post-doctoral studies and a surgical fellowship in transplantation at the University of Michigan. He also received an MEng from University of Waterloo, with concentrations in Systems, Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Dr. Rosenberg has received many career awards, including an appointment as Chercheur National (national scientist) of the Quebec Government. Dr. Rosenberg remains the only Canadian to have been awarded the prestigious American Surgical Association Foundation Fellowship.

As part of his vision for “Care Everywhere”, the organization launched the C4 - its state-of-the-art network-wide command centre, and a unique Hospital@Home program. Most recently, Dr, Rosenberg implemented the first provincial connected health innovation & research incubator, known as OROT.

Dr. Rosenberg has extensive experience as a clinician-scientist, educator, and consultant in value-based health systems and management of change. He is the author of Patients Matter Most: How healthcare is becoming personal Again and the recently published bestseller From Vision to Vitality.

Managing Director

Angie Orzea is the Managing Director of Netiv, where she leads the institute’s mission to rethink how health systems learn, adapt, and create value through real-world research, data, and responsible artificial intelligence. With over 20 years of experience across healthcare delivery, life sciences, consulting, and innovation ecosystems, Angie brings a rare ability to bridge strategy, policy, research, and operational execution. At Netiv, she is responsible for shaping the institute’s strategic direction, building high-impact partnerships across the public, private, and academic sectors, and ensuring that research translates into actionable insights that strengthen health systems and improve outcomes for patients, providers, and communities.

Prior to Netiv, Angie held senior leadership roles at global organizations including KPMG, Deloitte, Roche Diagnostics, and Novartis Canada, advising ministries of health, health systems, research institutes, and industry leaders on value-based healthcare, digital transformation, governance, and large-scale change. She has led complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives spanning AI strategy, real-world data, performance transformation, and innovation at system scale. Through her consulting firm, Conseils HELIXIA Inc., she continues to support organizations in moving from strategic intent to measurable impact, with a strong focus on sustainability, equity, and value creation.

Scientific Director

Jennifer Gutberg, PhD is a health systems scientist and organizational scholar whose work focuses on leadership, sensemaking, and large-scale transformation in complex systems. She holds a PhD in Health Services Research from the Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation at the University of Toronto and an MSc in Management from the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University. Jennifer’s research examines how leaders and organizations navigate uncertainty and decision-making in crisis, and how health systems can be designed to be more adaptive to these complex environments. Her work is grounded in organizational and systems theory, which she has applied through embedded research roles to generate insights that are both theoretically rigorous and practically meaningful. Her research anchors scholarly inquiry in the lived realities of health systems, policymakers, leaders, and frontline teams.

As Scientific Director of Netiv, Dr. Gutberg provides intellectual leadership at the intersection of research, strategy, and system transformation, ensuring that the Institute’s work is grounded in rigorous evidence while remaining closely attuned to real-world decision-making contexts.