Since March 2022, 44 members of Island Health’s medical staff have been hired as IHealth Specialty Leads, supporting efforts to advance integrated, region-wide use of the Cerner electronic health record across programs and services. Medical staff who represent different surgical and medical specialties work with their colleagues to harmonize electronic clinical documentation practices and digitized order sets within their specialties.
IHealth Specialty Department Leads
| Department | Specialty Lead |
|---|---|
| Anesthesia, Pain, & Perioperative Medicine | Dr. Pooya Kazemi |
| Critical Care | Dr. Tom Kuca |
| Emergency | Dr. Drew Digney |
| Imaging Medicine | Dr. Jeffrey Hu |
| Laboratory Medicine | Dr. Michael Chen |
| Specialist Obstetrics | Dr. Regina Renner |
| Primary Care Perinatal | Brandi Wasyluk (RM) |
| Medicine | TBD |
| Pediatrics | Dr. Peter MacDougall and Dr. Gaby Yang |
| Primary Care | Dr. Kevin Garneau-Begin |
| Psychiatry | Dr. Lonn Myronuk |
| Surgery | Dr. Kellie Whitehill |
| Medical Genetics | Dr. Katherine Blood |
IHealth Specialty Leads - Divisions of Medicine
| Department | Specialty Lead |
|---|---|
| General Internal Medicine | Dr. Benjamin Sugars |
| Hospitalist South Island | Dr. Karen McIntyre |
| Hospitalist South Island | Dr. Chloe Lemire-Elmore |
| Hospitalist NRGH | Dr. Andre De Wit |
| Cardiology | Dr. Lauren Dewart and Dr. Peter Gladstone |
| Specialist Obstetrics | Dr. Lauren Dewart |
| Endocrine & Metabolism | Dr. Galina Smushkin |
| Gastroenterology | Dr. Dustin Loomes |
| Nephrology | In Progress |
| Neurology | Dr. Keiran Tuck |
| Palliative Medicine | Dr. Katelyn Mueller |
| Respirology | Dr. Kewan Aboulhosn |
| Geriatric Medicine | Dr. Alyson Osborne |
| Hematology/Oncology/Oncologic Radiology | Dr. Lisa Earle and Dr. Uma Belgaumkar |
| Infectious Disease | Dr. Ryan LeBlanc |
| Rehabilitation Medicine | Dr. Jesse Ennis |
| Addictions Medicine | Dr. Ramm Hering |
| Dermatology | TBD |
| Rheumatology | TBD |
IHealth Specialty Leads - Divisions of Surgery
| Department | Specialty Lead |
|---|---|
| General Surgery | Dr. Sohrab Khorasani |
| Gynecology | Dr. Emily Sandwith |
| Ophthalmology | Dr. Rusty Ritenour |
| Orthopedics | Dr. Stephen Burnett |
| Urology | Dr. Linda C. Lee |
| Cardiac Surgery | Dr. Michael Perchinsky |
| Neurosurgery | Dr. Evan Frangou |
| Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery | Dr. Anthony Rea |
| Otolaryngology | Dr. Roy Cheung |
| Pediatric Surgery | Dr. Brent Weatherhead |
| Plastic Surgery | Dr. Jorga Zabojova |
| Thoracic Surgery | Dr. Shaun Coughlin |
| Vascular Surgery | Dr. Matthew J. Robinson |
| Dentistry | Dr. Antony J. Nadolski |
| Podiatry | TBD |
