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Get to know a little more about 21 new docs recruited this year (hint, almost half are northerners)

Among the crew is Canada’s first Indigenous forensic pathologist
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Canada’s First Indigenous Forensic Pathologist and 10 new grads from the Northern Ontario School of Medicine are among 21 new doctors recruited to Greater Sudbury in 2018. (Supplied)

Canada’s First Indigenous Forensic Pathologist and 10 new grads from the Northern Ontario School of Medicine are among 21 new doctors recruited to Greater Sudbury in 2018.

Click here to meet every single one of the new physicians (in PDF format).

The group includes nine family and emergency medicine practitioners, and 12 specialists in anaesthesia, cardiology, internal medicine, medical oncology, obstetrics and gynecology, pathology, psychiatry, radiation oncology and radiology. 

And of the 21, nine are from Sudbury and Northern Ontario. One of those, Dr. José de Wit (anaesthesia and critical care) who grew up in Sudbury and joined Health Sciences North’s medical staff in August after studying in Ottawa, said her goal was always to come back to the North.

“One of my goals was always to return to Northern Ontario after completing my medical training,” she said in a news release. “Being a patient is hard. The unknown, the loss of control, the roller coaster of emotions. I’ve always been inspired to try to make that journey easier on my patients.” 
And then, there’s Dr. Kona Williams who has carved out a place for her in the history of this country as Canada’s first Indigenous forensic pathologist.  Born in Manitoba, she arrived in Sudbury this year. 

“A dead person has something to say, it just takes the right training to understand,” she said. “I realize there are families waiting for answers, and giving them the truth about the death of their loved ones is often very comforting and helps with the grieving process. 

“Getting to the truth about how someone died can be challenging, and fascinating at times.” 

Internationally, doctors were recruited from Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Palestine and Syria. 

Among them is Dr. Mohammed Shurrab, who completed his medical training and cardiology residency in Egypt before relocating to Canada, where he completed a Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in 2015. A researcher, Shurrab has 33 papers and 55 abstracts published in cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology journals, and is a recent recipient of a Canadian Institute of Health Research award. 
“Professionally, I love the growth potential that HSN offers with HSNRI and NOSM. I think I can do so much with the skillset they currently have established in clinical service while helping to develop an advanced research institute that will be remarkable for the whole nation.” 

Since 2000, more than 280 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 collaborate to attract new physicians. 


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