About Us

Seema Marwaha is a general internal medicine physician, educator, researcher and journalist. She has her master’s in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and has completed a fellowship in global journalism. She is a regular contributor to CBC, Chatelaine and various other media outlets. Her mission is to make medical and educational content more accessible and entertaining.

Jack is an experienced editor with three decades in journalism and newsroom leadership. He has led several Canadian news organizations including the Montreal Gazette and the Halifax Daily News, and most recently held a series of roles with Postmedia News and the National Post. He is a dedicated mentor who thrives on collaborating with writers to help achieve their best work.

Maddi Dellplain is a B.C.-based journalist specializing in health reporting. Maddi works across multiple mediums with an emphasis on long-form features and audio-based storytelling. Her work has appeared in The Tyee, Megaphone Magazine, and more.

Nicole is McMaster Health Sciences Undergraduate student.

Sahil Gupta is an emergency room physician at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. He has a focus in his practice on health equity and works on projects that improve care for disadvantaged groups in the ED. Sahil also works as a freelance journalist with a focus on social issues affecting health care. His written work has been featured in TVO and the New York Times, and he has been a contributor to CBC Radio on health-related topics.

Blair Bigham is an award-winning journalist, scientist and emergency physician. He is currently completing a critical care fellowship at Stanford University. He was a Global Journalism Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and associate scientist at St. Michael’s Hospital. His work has appeared in the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, the New England Journal of Medicine and the Canadian Medical Association Journal, amongst others, and he frequently appears on radio and television.

Brandon Tang is an internal medicine resident physician at the University of British Columbia. He completed medical school at the University of Toronto, graduating concurrently with a Master of Science in System Leadership and Innovation. Throughout his training, he has been engaged in education leadership from local to international levels, serving on the board of directors of Resident Doctors of BC, as former co-chair of the Resident Doctors of Canada Practice Committee, and as chief resident of the International Conference on Residency Education. Ultimately, Brandon aspires to make a lasting impact on Canadian health care as a general internist, educator, writer, and health systems leader.

Meera is a general internist, palliative care physician at St. Michael’s Hospital, and journalist with a penchant for the unusual and a love of untold stories. She completed a fellowship in Global Journalism at the Munk school of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto in 2014 and has contributed to local, national and international outlets including CBC, ABC, Al Jazeera English and the Toronto Star. She aspires to write relevant, reliable and relatable health stories.

Catharine Chambers is a Vanier scholar and PhD candidate at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. She has over 15 years of experience conducting applied public health research in the areas of communicable disease epidemiology, vaccine program evaluation, and sexually transmitted infections. Through her research, she hopes to find more effective ways for transforming scientific evidence into public health practice. Ms. Chambers completed the Certificate in Health Impact journalism program at the University of Toronto in 2021. She is a regular contributor to Healthy Debate.

Michael Fralick is a general internist at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. He completed a Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology at Harvard University, including a Research Fellowship in Health Policy at the Program On Regulation Therapeutics and Law (PORTAL). His PhD focused on the intersection between machine learning and pharmacoepidemiology.

John Fralick is a general internist at Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary. He completed a Master of Science in Epidemiology at Queen’s University. He completed medical school at the University of Calgary and did his internal medicine training at the University of Toronto.

Emilio is an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto pursuing a Bachelor of Science, specializing in Neuroscience. He would eventually like to pursue a career in medicine. Outside of the academic life, his most notable achievements in the arts include his various first-place competitive performances on the classical guitar and his grade 10 RCM skill level on this instrument.

Andreas Laupacis is the former editor-in-chief of the Canadian Medical Association Journal and founder and former editor-in-chief of Healthy Debate. He is a retired palliative care physician and a health services researcher. He splits his time between Toronto and his farm where he competes against groundhogs for the produce from his vegetable garden.

Steve is a WordPress expert and architect who takes particular pride in creating simple interfaces for clients to update their websites. He is also a partner, developer, UX designer for Station WP.

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