Dr. Onil Bhattacharyya is the Frigon Blau Chair in Family Medicine Research at Women’s College Hospital. He is a practicing clinician and Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. He has been a Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy at the Commonwealth Fund in New York City and a Takemi Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health. His research focuses on the application of methods from the software and startup sector to health service design.
He is clinical lead for Primary and Integrated Health Care Innovation Network in Ontario as well as national co-chair of the Network Leadership Council, focused on developing and scaling new models of care for people with complex needs across jurisdictions. He is leading several evaluations of digital health technologies through the Women’s College Hospital Institute for Health Systems Solutions and Virtual Care. Dr. Bhattacharyya received his medical degree from the University of Montreal, and PhD in health services research from the University of Toronto.