Advisory Board
Advisory Board Members
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Sonny Cejic MD, CCFP, B.Ed, M.ScChair, Nightingale Advisory Board Dr. Cejic is a family physician and associate professor in London, Ontario. He is the medical director of a hospital-associated family medical centre. His centre is one of several core training facilities for family medicine residents, medical students and occasionally nursing students in London. Since March 2009, the centre where Dr. Cejic practises, has been using Nightingale-On-Demand (ASP Model) on the Ontario eHealth servers funded by OntarioMD. For over a decade, Dr. Cejic has had an interest in using computers in medicine (Medical/Health Informatics). He continues to teach his colleagues and trainees skills for improvement in areas such as finding credible medical resources on the Internet for patient care and using Electronic Medical Records. Dr. Cejic is the chair of a multi-centre Nightingale-On-Demand user committee that was formed after the implementation of this program in several teaching centres in London. He was highly involved in the adoption of Nightingale into the working processes of these centres. |
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Raed Azer, MD, CCFPMember, Nightingale Advisory Board Dr. Azer studied medicine in Alexandria, Egypt, and graduated in 1984. |
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Catherine Faulds, MD, CCFP, FCFPMember, Nightingale Advisory Board Dr. Catherine Faulds practices Family Medicine in London, Ontario. She is recognized by her patients, students and colleagues for her unrivalled commitment to educating future doctors. She completed her medical education at the University of Western Ontario and became a Certificant of the college in 1989 and a Fellow in 2004. Dr. Faulds is one of 50 Canadian doctors who are U.S. Board Certified in palliative care and hospice medicine. She is an adjunct professor for UWO’s Undergraduate Family Medicine Program and a winner of the Teacher of the Year Award two years running. Her visionary leadership led to the development of the London Family Health Team where she is the lead physician. She also does hospital work at the London Health Sciences Centre as well as Parkwood Hospital. Dr. Faulds is a winner of the 2010 Family Physician of the Year Award as well as The Reg. L Perkin Family Physician of the Year for Ontario. Dr. Faulds became a Nightingale user in 2007. She utilizes the Electronic Medical Record to its full capacity for chronic disease management, Quality Improvement and research purposes. Currently she is involved in palliative care research projects and Quality Improvement Initiatives provincially. |
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Arvind Nanda, MD, PhD, FRCS(C)Member, Nightingale Advisory Board Dr. Nanda completed his medical training at University of Toronto as part of the combined MD/PhD Program, graduating in 1998 with both an MD and a PhD degree. He joined the Rouge Valley Health System in 2004 after completing General Surgery training and serving as a General Surgeon in remote areas of Northern Ontario and the Northwest Territories. Dr. Nanda is currently Chief of General Surgery at the Centenary site of the hospital corporation, in Scarborough. His clinical focus includes general surgery with a special interest in cancer surgery of the breast and laparoscopic/minimally invasive surgery of the colon and rectum. Dr. Nanda is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. |
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Harpal Singh, MD, CM, CCFPMember, Nightingale Advisory Board Dr. Harpal Singh is the Owner and Medical Director of North Burlington Medical Centre in Burlington, Ontario. He also serves as Lead Physician of the North Burlington Medical Centre Family Health Group (FHG). He has acted as Attending Physician at The Brant Centre LTC and Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital since 2003, and Attending Physician and Co-Medical Director at Wellington Park Care Centre LTC since 2007. |
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