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

 * 35, married, children ages 4 and 6
 * linked-in
 * twitter: @laithbustani