Team
Senior Partners
Mark Evans
Mark Evans brings a unique set of skills and experiences to HCS that is unrivalled in its breadth and colorfulness. Born in rural Alberta, Mark has lived and travelled extensively in many areas of Canada and the world. He has worked as a farm labourer, ranch hand, ski instructor, rough neck, truck driver, explosives expert, and garbage man (you can call it sanitation engineer but it still smelled!). After exploring the world by foot and by thumb, Mark attended the University of British Columbia where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Ethics, strengthening his propensity to think outside the box. Mark attended medical school at the University of Western Ontario and a residency program in family medicine at the University of Calgary. During these years, Mark received recognition and awards for teaching and speaking.
After finishing his training, Mark worked and gained experience in rural and urban settings, providing a full spectrum of care that included both family and emergency medicine. Since 2002, Mark has been working as a full time hospitalist at the Calgary General Hospital - Peter Lougheed Centre. In addition to his clinical duties, he has served on many local and provincial committees including the Alberta Scientific Assembly, Acute Care Flow Committee, and GRIDLOCC (Getting Rid of Inappropriate Delays that Limit Our Capacity to Care). He is currently the Quality Improvement Physician for the Division of Acute Care of the Department of Family Medicine and the Calgary Health Region. In this role, he has been responsible for overseeing the innovation of cohesive admission guidelines for the departments of Internal Medicine, Cardiac Sciences, Neurology, General Surgery and Hospitalist Medicine. Mark helped established a discharge visual queue with 93% physician compliance, which achieved a 55% improvement in discharge times. He is currently working in the emergency department to improve the ‘time from consult’ to the ‘decision to admit’. He is also, the Medical Site Leader for the innovative Chronic Complex Care Unit at the Vernon Fanning Centre where he oversees the care of 46 chronically unstable hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis and/or ventilator patients.
Vandad Yousefi
Vandad Yousefi is a full-time hospitalist at Lakeridge Health Corporation in Oshawa, Ontario. Upon receiving his medical degree from the University of British Columbia in 2004, he moved to Calgary to complete his family medicine residency where he received the Outstanding Resident Award for his efforts on improving the educational curriculum at the department of family medicine. After completing his training, he started work in various urban and rural communities covering hospitals and emergency rooms. He joined the Lakeridge Health hospitalist group in 2007, and has since been heavily involved in various aspects of the program.
Vandad is currently a member of the Medical Advisory Committee of the Lakeridge Health Oshawa hospital, where he has taken on the role of Physician Lead- Quality. In this position, he is responsible for engaging the medical staff on quality improvement issues, and developing and implementing quality improvement initiatives within and across various departments.
In addition to his work on quality issues, Vandad has a strong interest in research activities. He recently established the Research Interest Group within the division of hospitalist medicine to spearhead various research projects, with an emphasis on hospitalist impact on patient-care and quality improvement within the unique Canadian setting.
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Ritesh Mistry
Ritesh Mistry is a hospitalist who currently works at William Osler Health Centre in Brampton, Ontario. He is the first graduate of the two year Sunnybrook Hospitalist Training Program, the first Hospital Medicine fellowship program in Canada based on Society of Hospital Medicine’s Core Competencies.
Ritesh is a Clinical Associate Professor with McMaster University’s Department of Family Medicine. His particular interests include Education and Safety & Quality.
Some of the educational activities that Ritesh is involved with include:
a) the CME director at William Osler Health Centre Hospitalist Program
b) Chair and Director of the Annual Canadian Hospital Medicine Conference
c) member of the Heart and Stroke Foundation Physician Advisory and Education Committee (PEAC)
d) stroke mentor for the Saving The Brain Network in Ontario, Canada
e) member of the Education and Credentialing Committee for the Canadian Society of Hospital Medicine
f) member of the education committee of the Ontario Medical Association’s Section of Hospital Medicine.
In addition to these, Ritesh has also co-founded regional Hospital Medicine educational rounds in the West-Greater Toronto Area that brings together physicians from multiple hospitalist programs.
Ritesh’s other interest is in quality and patient safety. He works on the Quality of Care Council at William Osler, and is a member of the Canadian Society of Hospital Medicine’s Quality and Safety Committee. He has been certified by the Canadian Patient Safety Institute as a Root Cause Analysis (RCA) trainer and facilitator and has regularly given talks on this and other topics (such as the interface between Hospital Medicine and Emergency Medicine) in various settings.
Jason Scarlett
Jason is an operations analyst specializing in process modeling, with experience in both industrial and health care applications. His undergraduate degree in Manufacturing Engineering from the University of Calgary (1997) equipped him in helping design one of western Canada’s largest manufacturing plants. The 750,000 square foot facility provided experience in implementing quality control programs, integrating scheduling systems, designing process flow, and managing capacity. Jason later returned to school graduating from the Schulich School of Engineering with a PhD in Engineering (2007) with a perfect GPA, and both academic and conference awards. Prior to completing his PhD, Jason began working with the then Calgary Health Region and is now with the Alberta Health Services where he tells compelling stories with data and analysis.