User:Laith Bustani

Current Focus

launching Health Now!

Clinical Duties as Most Responsible Physician

Listed in order of personal significance/time investment.

Physician, Queensway Carleton Hospital. July 2008 - present.
Hospitalist, Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre. July 2006 - June 2008 (full time) July 2008 - present (locum)
Hospitalist Locum at Timmins and District Hospital September 2011.

Research in Progress

2011 Ontario Inpatient Care Physicians Survey. Preparing manuscript for peer review.
2012 Physician Services Agreement Proposal. Collaboratively authoring recommendations to 2012 OMA Negotiating Committee for 2012 PSA.

Leadership

Listed in order of personal significance/time investment.

Chair, Section on Hospitalist Medicine, Ontario Medical Association. June 27th 2011 - June 25th 2012.
Physician Representative, MRP Expert Panel, Tripartite committee consisting of representatives from the MOHLTC, OHA, OMA charged with developing a new funding model for inpatient care in Ontario. June 28th 2011 - June 25th 2012.
Clinical IT Council, Queensway Carleton Hospital.
Health Records Committee, Queensway Carleton Hospital.
Chronic Disease Prevention and Management Strategic Plan, Queensway Carleton Hospital, November 2011.
EMR Integration Project. Making office patient records easily integrated into Queensway Carleton Hospital Document Scanning Project, February 2011.
Goals of Care Committee, Queensway Carleton Hospital, 2010.
Cell Phone Repeater Project at Queensway Carleton Hospital, Mach 2011.
Board Member, Canadian Society of Hospital Medicine. September 2011 - Present.

Teaching

Still learning.

Courses and Conferences

eHealth 2012. Innovating Health e-Care, Hosted by CIHI, COACH, and Canada Health Infoway. Vancouver Convention Center. May 29 - June 30th 2012.
Canadian Conference on Physician Leadership, Canadian Medical Association, Ottawa, April 12th - 14th 2012.
HackingHealth.ca, McGill University, Montreal, February 24-25th 2012.
FutureMed 2012, Singularity University, NASA - Ames Research Park, Mountain View, California, USA. February 6 - 11th 2012.
MRP Advanced QI Workshop. By Edward Etchells, Associated Director, University of Toronto Centre for Patient Safety. October 14th 2011.
9th Annual Canadian Hospital Medicine Conference. Banff, Alberta. September 24th - 25th 2011.
eHealth 2011, Enabling Healthy Outcomes. Hosted by CIHI, COACH, and Canada Health Infoway. Toronto Convention Center. May 29 - June 1, 2011
Quality Improvement: What Every MRP Needs to Know. By Edward Etchells, Associate Director, University of Toronto Centre for Patient Safety. May 28th 2011.
3rd McMaster University Review Course in Internal Medicine, Hamilton, Ontario. March 30th - April 2nd, 2011.
8th Annual Canadian Hospital Medicine Conference. Toronto, Ontario. September 24th - 26th 2010.
8th Annual Canadian Hospital Medicine Pre-Conference. Procedural Skills Labs, Mount Sinai Hospital, September 23rd 2010.
7th Annual Canadian Hospital Medicine Conference. Toronto, Ontario. September 26th - 27th 2009.
7th Annual Canadian Hospital Medicine Pre-Conference. Procedural Skills Lab, Mount Sinai Hospital, September 25th, 2009.
ACLS Recertification, Queensway Carleton Hospital, April 1st 2009.
Emergency Medicine Primer for Family Physicians, Mount Sinai Hospital, Ontario College of Family Physicians, March 28th & 29th, 2008.
5th Annual Canadian Hospitalist Conference. Vancouver, British Columbia. September 28 & 29th, 2007.

Post Secondary Education

Listed in reverse chronological order.

International Fellowship, Clinical Research/Academic Medicine. Ottawa, Dubai, London, Oxford, Cambridge, Liverpool. 2006
CCFP, University of Ottawa. 2003 - 2005
MD, University of Western Ontario. 1999 - 2003
B.PHE, B.Sc, Queen's University. 1995 - 1999

Research Projects Formally Submitted

Following fellowship, returned to field research as a full time independent researcher, funding work strictly through my own wages.

Bustani L "The Phoenix Project: eHealth", eHealth 2012 ePoster Presentation. May 29th 2012.
Bustani L "The Phoenix Project", November 6th 2011. Submitted to OMA Negotiating Committee November 11th 2011.
Bustani L, Maloney R, Coke W, Hacker P. The 2011 Inpatient Care Physicians Survey. Presented at the Canadian Society of Hospital Medicine Conference, Banff, Alberta. September 2011.
Bustani L, mrpcollaborative.net: a social network and program management tool for MRP groups. Poster presented at the Canadian Society of Hospital Medicine Conference, Banff, Alberta. September 2011.
Bustani L “Guerilla Informatics: An account of how existing tools and technologies were leveraged by a first line provider to advance health informatics on an acute medical inpatient ward”. poster, eHealth 2011 Conference, Toronto, May 2011.
Bustani L “Rhabdomyolysis: A Case Study for Discussion”, QCH Medicine Rounds Presentation, March 23rd 2011.
Bustani L ”Fostering Engagement and Collaboration in Hospital Medicine”, Presentation at Insight 2010 Conference. Toronto. Ontario. Canada. The Hospitalist Model: Evolution and Emerging Issues, Challenges and Best Practices, Toronto, February 25th 2010.
Bustani L “ottawa.familyresidents.net a new online resource for residents”. Grand Rounds, The University of Ottawa, November 10th 2006.

Summary of Published Works

Baumgartner M "Recognizing the Importance of Clinical Leadership in the Development of Medical Information Technology" UWO Medical Journal, 1999.
Madill J, Baumgartner M "Technology Convergence" What's Next, Queen's University, 1999.

Proudest Accomplishments

Convincing my wife that I was worth the risk. Realizing that my children had more to teach me than the internet.
Developing a personal terms of service to ensure I understand the contracts I engage with and recognize when it is time to move on and do something else.
Fulfilling childhood dream of becoming a doctor.
D.A. Moodie People Excellence Award - Physician, 2012 at the Queensway Carleton Hospital
Learning to be a contributor to Wikipedia.
First place poster, (Guerilla Informatics), eHealth 2011, Toronto, Ontario.
Elected to Honour Society, University of Western Ontario Medical School, 2003, London, Ontario.
Not completing my summer student project and thesis at Queen's University, but carrying on the research through successive iterations that continue on to the present day.
Rotary citizenship award (high school).
Lucile Bateman volunteer award (high school).
Silver netbadge for tweeting about #hcsmca.

Social Profiles

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