Dr. Leis is the Medical Director of Infection Prevention & Control at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. His research is focused on the development of new models of care to reduce the risk of hospital-acquired infection and to...
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Robert Ohle
Dr. Ohle is a practicing FRCPC trained emergency medicine physician and research director for emergency medicine at Health Science North in Sudbury Ontario. His research program focuses on improving recognition and reducing time to treatment of acute aortic syndrome.
Payal Agarwhal
Payal is a practicing family physician and Innovation Fellow at Women's College Hospital. Her work focuses on building, evaluating and scaling new models to deliver care by leveraging digital health technologies and design thinking principles. Previous projects include virtual primary care visits, a diabetes self management app and screening...
Timothy Jackson
Dr. Timothy Jackson is the Associate Professor of Surgery within the Faculty of Medicine at University of Toronto and is a member of the Division of General Surgery at University Health Network (UHN) based at Toronto Western Hospital. After receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in Life Science from...
Eliseo Orrantia
Eliseo Orrantia has served the rural and remote Northwestern Ontario community of Marathon and its neighbouring Indigenous communities of Pic Mobert and Biigtigong for over 20 years as a rural generalist. His scope of practice includes primary care, hospitalist, emergency medicine and obstetrics. He teaches all levels of medical...
Frances Chung
Dr. Frances Chung is a Professor of the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management at University Health Network, University of Toronto. She is the ResMed Research Chair of Anesthesia, and Sleep Medicine. She is a co-founder and past president of the Society of Anesthesia and Sleep Medicine. In total,...
Geetha Mukerji
Dr. Mukerji’s primary appointment is in the Division of Endocrinology at Women's College Hospital with cross appointment to Division of Endocrinology at UHN/MSH. She has a Master’s degree in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety from the Institute of Health Policy and Management Evaluation at the University of Toronto and...
Pete Wegier
Dr. Pete Wegier is a medical decision scientist at the Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care, Sinai Health System and Assistant Professor in the Department of Family & Community Medicine, University of Toronto. Dr. Wegier’s research interests concern medical decision making—focusing on the effective communication of information to both...
Duminda N. Wijeysundera
Dr. Wijeysundera is a Professor in the Department of Anesthesia and the Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto, a Staff Anesthesiologist at St. Michael’s Hospital, and Associate Staff Anesthesiologist at the University Health Network. In addition, he is a Scientist at the Li...
Tim O’Shea
Dr. Tim O'Shea received his BSc in biomedical sciences from the University of Guelph before completing his medical degree at McMaster University and a Masters of Public Health at Harvard University. He trained in internal medicine, infectious diseases and medical microbiology at McMaster, and is Royal College certified in...