alPHa Treasurer / COMOH Section Representative, North Region
Dr. Lianne Catton is the Medical Officer of Health and Chief Executive Officer for the Northeastern Public Health (NEPH), the largest geographic health unit in the Province at over 288,000 square kilometers. Prior to medicine Lianne worked as a health promoter at the Hamilton-Wentworth Health Unit. Completing family medicine residency with additional training in emergency medicine she travelled across Northeastern Ontario gaining an appreciation for the unique challenges faced by communities and patients in achieving health. Dr. Catton settled in Timmins as a full-time emergency physician in 2008 and shortly after, also provided clinical care at Misiway Milopemahtesewin Community Health Centre, and the PHU Sexual Health Clinic. Years of treating individuals with poor health outcomes and seeing tragedies in the emergency department reignited a passion to focus upstream to prevent illness and injury. These clinical experiences led to a deep understanding of the inequities impacting health and well-being, especially in the North, and continue to inform and inspire her work since April 2016.
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