User:Laith Bustani
Appearance
Current Focus
[edit]- launching Health Now!
Clinical Duties as Most Responsible Physician
[edit]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
[edit]- 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
[edit]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
[edit]Still learning.
Courses and Conferences
[edit]- 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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 35, married, children ages 4 and 6
- linked-in
- twitter: @laithbustani
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