Earn $800 a DAY as an Elected Toronto/Scarb Dist.11 Executive

URGENT: Closing date for nominations JANUARY 18.

Nominations to OMA Manager, Constituency Services, Ms Sharmann GRAD  sharmann.grad@oma.org Fax: 416 340-2244,Telephone: 416 340-2912 at OMA office,150 Bloor West.by 5 pm Wed. JANUARY 18, 2012.  (Documents were printed Dec.8 and postmarked Dec.20.) THREE NOMINATORS needed. Nomination forms available from Ms GRAD.

Posts available:

DISTRICT CHAIR ( Presently a GP)
DISTRICT SECRETARY (Presently a Radiologist)
DISTRICT TREASURER (Presently a Gynaecologist)

THREE DISTRICT DIRECTORS (Presently all GPs)

FOUR GPs as Reps from the SECTION on GP & Family practice.

DIRECTORS spend an average of 46 days a year for an Honorarium of about $37,000 + travel TIME & EXPENSES.

At present, representing the 13,000 District 11 OMA members are:
EIGHT GPs
TWO SPECIALISTS

(COMMENT: More specialists needed especially an INTERNIST, SURGEON and Doctors with a MBA)

CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY & STENTS

Dr.Charles DOTTER (1920-85) Hodgkins & Coronary Art Disease.
Portland,Oregon Health Sciences Univ.
Father of Interventional Radiology & Coronary angioplasty

Dr.Andreas GRUENTZIG (1939-1985) Born Germany; worked in Zurich. Died:Private plane crash
Stainless steel sirolimus-eluting stent.(1977)

.Dr. Julio PALMAZ (1945-)
MD( Nat.U.La Plata, Argentina)
Univ.Texas,San Antonio.
Balloon Expanding :PALMAS-SCHATZ stent (1985)

Drs. Jaques PUEL & Ulrich SIGWART
TOULOUSE
Coronary stent 1986

TORONTO St.Michael's Hosp

Michael Kutryk, MD, PhD, FRCPC
Appointments: St. Michael's Hospital Staff Cardiologist
University of Toronto Clinician Scientist
1981 Bachelors of Science, First Class Honors (Chemistry and Microbiology): University of Manitoba
1990 Masters of Science (Cardiovascular Physiology): University of Manitoba
1991 PhD (Cardiovascular Physiology): University of Manitoba
1990-1993 Internal Medicine Training: McGill University
1995-1999 Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Department of Cell Biology: Erasmus University, Netherlands
1993-1995 Cardiology Training: McGill University
1995-1999 Interventional Training: University Hospital, Dijkzigt, Netherlands

Languages spoken: English, French, Ukranian and Dutch
Special Interests: Myocardial angiogenesis, prevention of restenosis, intracoronary stent design, clinical gene therapy.
Bradley H. Strauss, MD, PhD, FRCP(C)
Appointments: St. Michael's Hospital Director of Interventional Cardiology, Clinician Scientist, Vascular Biology Laboratories
University of Toronto Associated Professor of Medicine and
Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology,
1982 Medical Degree: University of Toronto
Internal Medicine training: University of Toronto
Cardiology training: University of Ottawa
1991 PhD: Erasmus University

Languages Spoken: English, some French and Dutch
Special Interests: Restenosis, Smooth muscle cell function, experimental arterial response to injury, chronic total occlusions, assessment of new coronary interventional devices.

GP Behnaz YAZDANFAR facing CPSO "Court" costs of $219,000.

22 December 2011

GP Behnaz YAZDANFAR MD (Ottawa 1994) found GUILTY. Will CPSO REGISTRAR GERACE RESIGN?

from TORONTO STAR

(Real estate agent) Krista Tabacoff Stryland, (1974-2007) was pronounced dead in North York Hosp shortly after paramedics took her there from GP Behnaz Yazdanfar’s cosmetic clinic (in a North Toronto office building).

The GP  who was found incompetent in her care of cosmetic surgery patients – including Ms STRYLAND who died following a SIX LITER liposuction in 2007 .

Dr. Behnaz Yazdanfar was found to have displayed “disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional” conduct in her care of five patients following a TWO YEAR disciplinary hearing before the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons that ended in May 2011. PENALTY delayed for SEVEN MONTHS..

Yesterday the college suspended Yazdanfar’s licence for two years. After that, Dr. Yazdanfar will be restricted from SOLO surgery but will be permitted to ASSIST in surgery, including cosmetic procedures.

She was ordered Wednesday to appear before the college for a public reprimand within the next three months.

Yazdanfar was ordered to pay $219,000 in costs to the college within a year.

She must also co-operate with unannounced inspections of her practice and patient charts, conducted at her expense, and publish the terms of her restrictions at her clinic and on her website.

Like many doctors performing cosmetic procedures (in Ontario), Dr. Yazdanfar was never accredited as a plastic surgeon and holds no surgical designation.

Ms. Krista Stryland was pronounced dead in hospital shortly after paramedics took her from Dr.Yazdanfar’s cosmetic clinic. Court records obtained by the Star alleged Ms. Stryland lay in the clinic’s recovery room in serious condition for 30 minutes before anyone called 911.

Dr. Bruce Liberman, the anesthesiologist in the Stryland case, was also found to be incompetent. He is awaiting the result of a separate disciplinary hearing.

COMMENTS:
The CPSO was aware that GPs were perfoming surgery under GENERAL ANAESTHESIA in office buildings. The CPSO Registrar, past ER physician & CPSO Past President, , R.V. GERACE MD (UWO 72) FRCSC (ER 83) was aware of the danger for years and took no preventive action. As a direct result of this negligence a patient died; will Dr.Gerace resign?

Dr.Yazdanfar was represented by Lawyers Clayton Ruby CM  BA(York 63) LLB (Tor.69) LLM(U.Cal.Berkeley) 11 Prince Arthur Av.,Yorkville,Tor. & Gardiner Roberts LLP partner  Tracey Tremayne-Lloyd LLB( 83) Certificate in Health Law, They did a superb job: Dr. Yazdanfar did NOT lose her licence. Only a nominal "Suspension" for 2 years: no problem as the clinic can function withoout her medical services employing other doctors. Also Dr.Yazdanfar can do admin. duties. As for the CPSO legal costs of $219,000 (NOT A FINE) , this a moderate amount considering the gravity of the case. Also is TAX DEDUCTABLE.

"BINDING SITE FREELIGHT" serum free light chain analysis

Now available PRIVATELY by Gamma Dynacare laboratories.

Provided free by OHIP  at selected Oncology clinics.

Freelite™ Serum Free Light Chain Assays

(UK) Freelite™ is a major breakthrough for the detection and monitoring of Multiple Myeloma (MM) and other B-cell dyscrasia. Freelite™ assays were developed by Binding Site to measure free lambda and free kappa immunoglobulin light chains. Our expertise in the manufacture of antibodies has enabled us to provide a quantifiable, highly specific, automatable free light chain assay for serum.
Significant clinical evidence indicates the benefit of Freelite™ serum free light chain assays in initial screening for monoclonal gammopathies.  Other benefits include the identification of AL amyloidosis and Nonsecretory MM patients missed by conventional electrophoretic methods, use as a prognostic indicator for progression in myeloma, for risk stratification of MGUS patients, and rapid evaluation of treatment efficacy.
Freelite™ is a sensitive, specific marker of kappa and lambda free light chains (FLC) in serum and provides quantitative measurement of:

• Free kappa in serum
• Free lambda in serum
• The serum free kappa/free lambda ratio (κ/λ)

The serum free light chain ratio is a strong indicator of monoclonality and is valuable for distinguishing monoclonal from polyclonal diseases. 

KOREAN-CANADIAN VENTURE for AIDS VACCINE

Sumagen Canada Inc. is a solely owned subsidiary of Sumagen Co., Ltd.
Sumagen Co., Ltd is a Korean pharmaceutical venture company focusing on developing an HIV/AIDS vaccine and is a solely owned subsidiary of Curocom Co., Ltd.  Sumagen is also supporting the ongoing research work at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, The University of Western Ontario (UWO) for and HCV (Hepatitis C Viru) vaccine.
Dr. Chil Yong Kang, Sumagen's Chief Scientific Officer and also a professor at UWO, developed a vaccine for HIV/AIDS for both therapeutic and prophylactic use with his team.  In 2006, the company opened an office in London at the Stiller Centre, in order to closely support the vaccine development.  The office in London with a staff of six, are managing the project to manufacture the materials for clinical trials, conduct non-clinical studies, and coordinate through a consultant to meet the requirements of the FDA in the United States to obtain approval to conduct human clinical trials.

NEW CPSO PRESIDENT Toronto Univ. Anaesthesiology Prof R.BYRICK MD (UWO 71)

Robert J. Byrick

St. Michael’s Hospital, (Catholic Hospital funded by the State + many private donors. Separate from the University Health Network.)
30 Bond Street, ( @ QUEEN /YONGE)
Toronto, ON  M5B 1W8
P: (416) 864-5071
F: (416) 864-6014
robert.byrick@utoronto.ca

Professor, Department of Anesthesia, University of Toronto

University of Toronto Representative, Council of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario

Academic and Clinical Interests

• Peri-operative lipid microemboli after orthopedic and cardiac surgery

Current Research Projects

• Models of post-operative neurocognitive dysfunction from lipid microemboli
• Medication – related adverse events in clinical anesthesia

Selected Publications

1. Byrick RJ, Kay CJ, Mazer CD, Wang Z, Mullen JB. Dynamic Characteristics of Cerebral Lipid Microemboli : videomicroscopy studies in rats. Anesth Analg 2003;97:1789-94.
2. Orser BA, Byrick RJ. Anesthesia-related Medication Error: time to take action. Can J Anesth 2004:51;756-60
3. Pub.Med (77 publications)

(Comment At last a CPSO Pres with Academic qualifications. CPSO "Dialogue" calls him "Bob")


http://www.cpso.on.ca/uploadedFiles/policies/publications/dialoguearchives/dialogueissues/Issue4_2011_web.pdf

U.Toronto Graduation class 2011 Population statistics

Total number: 213

female 51%

Stats based on Family names:
European origin :40%
Asian origin :25%
Mid-East & Indo-Pakistan origin:25%
Ashkenazi origin:10%

(COMMENT: Why not make Obstetrics an optional subject for male students? Many male students in North America have limited interest in the high medico-legal risk of obstetrics as well as the unsocial hours associated with parturition.)

UK Daily Mail: MD gets $6-million award for hospital bullying when pregnant

Huge payout: Dr Eva Michalak, 53, was awarded a whopping £4.5million after being forced out of her £90,000-per-year job

A top woman doctor has been awarded a staggering £4.5million compensation after being hounded out of her job when she had a baby.
The whopping payout is enough to pay the salaries of 210 nurses earning an entry-level salary of £21,176.
Dr Eva Michalak, 53, was the first consultant physician at Pontefract General Infirmary to take maternity leave.
But senior doctors turned on her because of the pregnancy and invented spurious allegations to force her out.
The £90,000-per-year consultant was sacked after enduring a five-year campaign of harassment.
The doctor's husband Dr Julian DeHavilland, 44, had told the hearing his wife was unable to carry out everyday tasks and was reluctant to leave the house.
Experts said it was unlikely she would completely recover.
A tribunal ruled yesterday that Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust - who are having to make £31million in efficiency savings - must payout a whopping £4,452,206.60 in compensation.

In a damning judgement, the tribunal in Leeds, West Yorkshire, said it had been 'outraged' at the way senior staff had behaved towards Polish born Dr Michalak.
While she was away she was subjected to a horrendous campaign of harassment and colleagues falsely claimed she had bullied junior doctors.
They appointed a locum to cover a workload and nine staff were awarded a pay rise to cover her extra responsibilities while she was away.
After returning to work Dr Michalak was repeatedly suspended before being dismissed in July 2008 for no reason.
A tribunal last year found she had faced unlawful sex and race discrimination.
Yesterday she was awarded £1.1million for loss of past and future earnings plus £660,000 for loss of pension.
She was also awarded a cash payout for injury to her feelings and psychiatric injuries. Exemplary damages were also awarded against the Trust.
Dr Michalak had claimed damages of more than £9m.

 

She was appointed in 2002 to do rounds on the Medical Admissions Ward.
After she fell pregnant, secret meetings were held between senior doctors where it was agreed by Eva's head of department Dr Colin White and another senior worker that they would be seen to support her while actually trying to end her employment.
Shortly after being appointed medical director of the trust, Dr David Dawson then launched an investigation and, on the advice of another doctor suspended her in January 2006.

Forced out: Dr Eva Michalak, 53, was the first consultant physician at Pontefract General Infirmary to take maternity leave

A doctor appointed to independently investigate the complaints realised the fictional claims would be hard to prove after interviewing several junior doctors.
Just one claim of bullying had been made - and that was later revoked.
But the suspension dragged on for two-and-a-half years while further 'evidence' was gathered against her before her dismissal.
The tribunal panel ruled that the medical director engineered the departure.
As they awarded damages yesterday the panel said in a damning statement: 'We are positively outraged at the way this employer has behaved.
'The claimant has lost her role and status. She is never going to return to work as a doctor, a profession which she cherished together with all the status that brings with it.
'In our view, simply undergoing those experiences with all the unpleasantness, anxiety, worry and fear that it caused the claimant amply justify an award for injury to feelings.'
Dr Michalak's husband quit his role as a scientific researcher to look after his wife and represented her at the tribunal.
Dr Michalak, who lives with her husband and eight-year-old son in Leeds, said after the previous hearing: 'I suffered years of psychological abuse. They basically hounded me because I had a baby. They destroyed my life, my health and my career.
'The last seven years have been a living hell. Their dishonesty was staggering. It was frightening and sinister how these people could abuse their positions and harass and bully me.
'I was so stressed I was crying on my way to work. I have been profoundly traumatised by the conduct of fellow doctors.'
Julia Squire, chief executive at the Trust, said: 'We have only just received the judge's decision on the compensation and this is based on very complex and lengthy calculations. We will need time to carefully consider these.'


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2074963/Top-woman-doctor-awarded-staggering-4-5-MILLION-hounded-job-baby.html#ixzz1ght0GNpl

CPSO ASSESSORS

TOP CPSO Assessors of 2009 by number of assessments. Approx $1000/day + travel expenses.
GP  Renee Blumenfeld  MD (Toe.89)  (19)
GP. Jeffrey Habert MD (Tor.87)  (22) \
both practice at 2900 Steeles East, Suite 206, THORNHILL (N/E suburb of Toronto)
GP. J. Thomas Keogh (19) MD (Tor.74) BRAMPTON (N/W suburb of Toronto)
Ob/GYN  Ronald Livingstone (19) MD (Belfast 1963) 123 Edward St, Medical Building Central TORONTO
GP Toomas Sauks (16) MD(Tor.72) OWEN SOUND. 160,000 pop town 100 miles N/W of Toronto.on Georgian Bay 

METHADONE
GP Martin White (16) MD(Ottawa 72) CARLTON PLACE pop.10,000; 30 m. S/W of Ottawa.
GP Iris Greenwald (19) MD (Tor.95) RICHMOND HILL (N/E suburb of Toronto. 

Independent Health Facilities Program:

More than 10 assessments

Ms Sheila Collins (24) (NON PHYSICIAN)
Ms Lori Davis (11) (NON PHYSICIAN)
Nuclear Med/ Radaiologist David Gilday (30) MD(McGill 66) 123 Edward Street,TORONTO
Mr. Louis Gorgey (20) (NON PHYSICIAN)
Dr. David Gray (13)
Dr.William Vaughan (20)
GP.Melissa Snider-Adler (33) ((UWO 87) OSHAWA

TOP SECTION assessors
Anaesthetics: Matthias Marcus "Matt" KURREK MD(Wurzburg,Germany 1986) FRCPC 1994) Scarborough (Community) Hospital,-Eastern Toronto Suburb

Dermatology  Rodion Andrew "Rod" KUNYNETZ (Ukranian speaker) MD(Tor.77) FRCPC (1982) Office BARRIE,small community North of Toronto

Haematology Kevin Robert IMRIE (French speaker) MD(Ottawa 88) FRCPC (1994) SUNNYBROOK UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CANCER CENTRE ( North Toronto)

(COMMENT:NO AGE LIMIT of CPSO COUNCIL, COMMITTEES & ASSESSORS.Mainly small town & suburban GPs. A consideration before deciding to practice in Ontario.)

(COMMENT: The CPSO sets the standard of Clinical practice outside University Medical,schools and Research facilities. Being ABOVE the technical standard is particularly dangerous. Non-clinical medicine is safest medico-legally. ( A Professor of Obstetrics had to defend himself.against a woman who clained he had promised a NO PAIN vaginal delivery!).

OMA: GOVERNANCE CHANGE

Not-for-Profit Corporactions Act (ONCA) will come into force in 2012..

1) ALL-MEMBER ("shareholder")MEETINGS of 33,000 OMA members
2) DIRECT PROVINCE-WIDE mail/electronic or PROXY voting by ALL memebers
3) COUNCIL possibly replaced by selected "council" of elected members.OR
4) DIRECT MEMBER voting on ALL Motions (SWISS style of DIRECT voting)

Figures updated by OMA Staff Ms A.Kafandaris.
Present COUNCIL (293) made-up of
77 Branch Societies: 142 elected delegates
62 Sections : 110 elected delegates
11 Distrricts 41 elected delegates : 22 (Chairmn + Secretaries) + 19 District Directors.
Summary:GEOGRAPHIC Delegates= 183 (mainly GPs)
               SPECIALTY Delegates    = 100 (mainly Specialists)


Present BOARD (25) made up of
11 Districts: represented by 19 elected delegates
Clinical Teachers by ONE elected delegates.
ASSEMBLIES 2 from General Practice; 1 each from MEDICAL,SURGICAL, & DIAGNOSTIC.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:  SIX chosen by BOARD
COMMITTEES: 65 all members selected by Committee on Committees and are paid daily honoraria plus full travel & hotel expenses.

Governance planning supervised by
Past Assist. Deputy Minister Labour & Past Deputy Minister Ontario Management Board , James("Jim") R. THOMAS P.Eng.(Queen's) LLB(York) 
Centre for Creative Change Inc.
2181 Yonge St. #3302,
Toronto M4S 3H7
416 535 6994

"Dr.Gifford-Jones" Ontario Docs frightened to do Gynae. exams.

Canada's top syndicated medical journalist, Toronto Gynaecologist K.F.WALKER MD (HARVARD 1950) FRCS(C) a.k.a "Dr.W.Gifford-Jones" wrote in EPOCH TIMES that Ontario MDs are doing fewer pelvic.& breast exams because of the fear of losing their CPSO licence under the Sex Zero-tolerance Law. The result is delayed diagnosis of Cancer. Dr.Walker stresses the medico-legal  need for a CHAPERONE while examining a female.

Problem is the expense of hiring even a low-level Registered Practical nurse as a chaperone as well as a receptionist for the State-paid, piece-work Ontario GP.

An Ontario MD has to wait at least 5 years before applying to have a licence re-activated.

Many male Ontario docs are now limiting practices to Adult males. Precedence is by OMA having separate meetings for "WOMENS" HEALTH". (More than 50% of Ontario med.students are femaale.) This also avoids the problem of persuading mothers to immunise their children  CPSO now recognises Chiropraxy,Naturopathic and Traditional Chinese medicine. Ont.MDs`can actually now be censured by the CPSO if they do not take seriously patients demands for so-called "Alternative Medicine".

CPSO ELECTION RESULTS Dist 10 TORONTO

11,595 voters
2066 voted
18% response

ELECTED:
North Toronto GP Richard B. MacKenzie (Tor.73)  1138
Central Toronto GP-psychotherapist Marc C.GABEL (NY State U. 62) 1104
Sick Child.Hosp Paed Cardiologist Joel KIRSH (Tor 92) 1020

NOT ELECTED
Tor.Gen Hosp Psychiatrist Gerard CRAIGEN (Queen's 83) 977
East Toronto GP Kumar K.GUPTA (Manitoba 94) 853
Tor Psychiatrist Mark A. VOYSEY (Monash 78) 571
Tor. Nephrologist now GP-psych Derek A. DAVIDSON (Tor.63) 483
NorthyWest Tor. Radiologist Isadore J. CZOSNIAK (McGill 82) 476
North-Tor. Psychiatrist Toghra GHAEMMAGHAMI (nee HRAB) (Tehran 69) 193