Doug Sinclair

 

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Vice President, Medicine, Quality & Safety, IWK Health Centre

Dr. Sinclair graduated from UofT medicine in 1980 and completed residency training in Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine. He spent 25 years in Atlantic Canada and is an adopted Maritimer. During his time “down east”, he had a number of leadership positions including VP Medicine, Chief of Emergency Medicine at both the tertiary adult ED and pediatric ED in Halifax, and the Associate Dean of Continuing Professional Development. He was the founding Chief of the University Department of Emergency Medicine – the second in Canada, and responsible for the development of three residency programs in Emergency Medicine at Dalhousie. In 2010, he moved to St. Michaels Hospital in Toronto as the Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer. In this position he had a large operations portfolio, was the corporate lead for quality and was responsible for medical affairs, discipline and department chief recruitment. He is a full professor at UofT. He moved back to NS in December 2018 to semi-retire, but this was not successful… He is now the VP Medicine/Quality/Safety at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax, but still has time for cycling, kayaking and playing the trombone.