Ten doctors from Northern Ontario plus a few internationally trained physicians with expertise in tropical medicine and woman’s health are among the new crop of physicians setting up practices in Greater Sudbury in 2016.
A total of 16 doctors have been added to the roster in Sudbury, divided evenly between general practitioners and specialists. Together they bring expertise in the fields of family medicine, palliative care, emergency medicine, sports medicine, orthopaedic trauma surgery, women’s imaging, forensic pathology, and tropical medicine.
Ten of the new doctors hail from either Greater Sudbury or Northern Ontario, including Dr. Dominique Ansell, a Francophone family physician who also works in Emergency medicine.
“I chose Sudbury because it’s home! My parents and brother are both in Sudbury and my husband’s family is in Elliot Lake, which makes it a short drive to visit,” Ansell said in a press release. “One of my favourite things about practising medicine in Sudbury is that I get to continue working in both official languages. Being a Francophone it has been important to choose to practice in a bilingual community.”
Dr. Nachwa Ghobara is another of Greater Sudbury’s newest physicians. Originally from Egypt, Dr. Ghobara is a family doctor with a Masters in tropical medicine. Her medical journey has taken her from Egypt to Saudi Arabia, and now to Northern Ontario.
“I graduated from the University of Alexandria in my home country of Egypt, and worked as an internist in Saudi Arabia for 9 years, before arriving in Canada in 2012,” Ghobara said in a press release. “I started my Family Medicine Residency at NOSM in Sudbury in 2014 and finished this year.
My kids love it here and so do I. I am looking forward to providing better access to the health care system for the people of the North.”
One of Greater Sudbury’s newest radiologists is originally from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Dr. Beatriz Junqueira-Duarte came to Canada in 2007 for a six-month research project in women’s medical imaging in Toronto. That eventually led her to Health Sciences North.
“I was looking for a hospital setting where I could begin my practice and allow me to pursue women’s imaging,” she said. “We came to Sudbury and felt it would be a great place to practice medicine and raise my family.”
Since 2000, around 245 new physicians have established practices in Greater Sudbury.
Every year, Health Sciences North (HSN), the City of Greater Sudbury, and the Greater Sudbury Chamber of Commerce work together to attract new physicians.
