Shawn Whatley

Dr. Shawn Whatley served as the past President of the Ontario Medical Association (OMA) and has wide-ranging knowledge and experience in the field of healthcare policy. He is also the author of the highly-praised book on how to fix emergency wait times in Canada, No More Lethal Waits.

Much of his early career was spent in leadership in emergency medicine (Chief then Medical Program Director), where he gained valuable insights into what was and was not working in the Canadian healthcare system. Shawn’s work has also covered a broad swath of medicine and health, including serving as a coroner and work in a vein clinic, nuclear cardiac stress testing, clinical trials, and cardiac surgical assisting.

At present, he runs a small rural family practice and is a frequent commentator on health issues in Canada.

Blogger at ShawnWhatley.com, and a Munk Senior Fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.

Experience

• Munk Senior Fellow
  Macdonald-Laurier Institute

• Author
  Writer

• Family Physician
  Rural Medicine

• Lecturer
  University of Toronto, Department of Family and Community Medicine

• Ontario Medical Association
  Chair (Interim) Insurance Committee
  Past President
  President

• Board Director
  Canadian Medical Association

• Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct), Department of Family Medicine
  McMaster University

• Ontario Medical Association
  Board Director
  Health Policy Committee: Chair 2012 - Nov 2016, Member since 2010

• Southlake Regional Health Centre
  Physician Leader, Emergency Services Program Emergency Physician

• Clinical Trials Sub-Investigator
  SKDS Research Associates

Education

• Schulich School of Business
  Master's Certificate, Physician Leadership Development Program

• University of Toronto
  CCFP(EM), Family/Emergency Medicine

• University of Ottawa
  MD, Medicine

• Lakehead University
  BSc., Biology and Chemistry

• Rotman School of Management