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Isra Levy, the city’s Medical Officer of Health, is stepping down from his post after almost a decade to join the Canadian Blood Services.
According to a post on Ottawa Public Health’s Facebook page Monday, Levy will be leaving on Dec. 15 and plans to take vacation time to wind down before starting a new position as vice-president of medical affairs and innovation with Canadian Blood Services.
Levy said he will continue on as medical officer until next month.
“I have been the Medical Officer of Health in Ottawa for almost 10 years,” he said in the statement. “I will always be grateful for the sense of fulfilment that you have enabled me to have as we, together, have contributed in striving and helping to make Ottawa a vibrant city where people are healthy, safe and engaged, and where we seek to eliminate disparities in health status and opportunity.”
Levy joined Ottawa Public Health in 2006 as the Associate Medical Officer of Health and was appointed Medical Officer of Health in June 2008. During his tenure, Levy has been involved in numerous important public health initiatives, including the response to the 2009 influenza H1N1 pandemic, the management of the largest patient-notification process in Canadian history, and most recently, the expansion of the City of Ottawa’s smoke-free spaces legislation.
In a statement, Ottawa Public Health spokesman Eric Leclair congratulated Levy on his appointment, and said the board of health will fill the medical officer position “in the coming days and weeks,” with an interim plan in place until then.
“During his tenure, Dr. Levy has built a tremendous organization at Ottawa Public Health, an organization that has made a difference in the lives of so many Ottawa residents,” said Leclair.
In 2010, Dr. Levy was awarded Physician of the Year by the Academy of Medicine Ottawa. He was also elected as vice-chair of The Royal Ottawa Hospital’s board of trustees in June 2016.
Levy is a physician who graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. After working in South Africa and England, Isra immigrated to Canada, where he obtained a degree from the University of Ottawa, and became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He also attended the Senior Executive Fellows Program at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
Levy has published papers in several Canadian and international scientific journals and is an associate editor at the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. He played a key roll in the creation of an Office for Public Health at the Canadian Medical Association, where he was that office’s first director and Chief Medical Officer.
He is also an adjunct professor of epidemiology and community medicine at the University of Ottawa, and continues to practice family medicine.
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According to a post on Ottawa Public Health’s Facebook page Monday, Levy will be leaving on Dec. 15 and plans to take vacation time to wind down before starting a new position as vice-president of medical affairs and innovation with Canadian Blood Services.
Levy said he will continue on as medical officer until next month.
“I have been the Medical Officer of Health in Ottawa for almost 10 years,” he said in the statement. “I will always be grateful for the sense of fulfilment that you have enabled me to have as we, together, have contributed in striving and helping to make Ottawa a vibrant city where people are healthy, safe and engaged, and where we seek to eliminate disparities in health status and opportunity.”
Levy joined Ottawa Public Health in 2006 as the Associate Medical Officer of Health and was appointed Medical Officer of Health in June 2008. During his tenure, Levy has been involved in numerous important public health initiatives, including the response to the 2009 influenza H1N1 pandemic, the management of the largest patient-notification process in Canadian history, and most recently, the expansion of the City of Ottawa’s smoke-free spaces legislation.
In a statement, Ottawa Public Health spokesman Eric Leclair congratulated Levy on his appointment, and said the board of health will fill the medical officer position “in the coming days and weeks,” with an interim plan in place until then.
“During his tenure, Dr. Levy has built a tremendous organization at Ottawa Public Health, an organization that has made a difference in the lives of so many Ottawa residents,” said Leclair.
In 2010, Dr. Levy was awarded Physician of the Year by the Academy of Medicine Ottawa. He was also elected as vice-chair of The Royal Ottawa Hospital’s board of trustees in June 2016.
Levy is a physician who graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. After working in South Africa and England, Isra immigrated to Canada, where he obtained a degree from the University of Ottawa, and became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He also attended the Senior Executive Fellows Program at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
Levy has published papers in several Canadian and international scientific journals and is an associate editor at the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. He played a key roll in the creation of an Office for Public Health at the Canadian Medical Association, where he was that office’s first director and Chief Medical Officer.
He is also an adjunct professor of epidemiology and community medicine at the University of Ottawa, and continues to practice family medicine.
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