Onil Bhattacharyya
MD,PhD
Current academic appointment/faculty rank: Associate Professor
Affiliations:
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Frigon Blau Chair in Family Medicine Research
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Director, Women's College Hospital Institute for Health Systems Solutions and Virtual Care (WIHV)
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Associate Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor, Institute for Health Policy Management and Evaluation
Research summary:
Onil Bhattacharyya is a clinician scientist and works closely with the provincial and federal partners to assess the impact of digital tools in clinical practice to inform local implementation as well as scale and spread. He adapts research methods to enable learning health systems in close partnership with policymakers, balancing rigour and responsiveness to support evidence informed policies around tools like AI scribes and decision supports. He has established a primary care living lab to study digital tools, with a robust simulation environment and a network of clinics to implement and evaluate their value and inform regulatory decisions. As director of the Women's College Hospital Institute for Health Systems Solutions and Virtual Care (WIHV), he collaborates closely with clinicians, patients, health services researchers, industrial engineers, and designers to answer strategic questions at the pace of policy. He is the co-chair of the Canadian Primary Care Research Network, and board chair for the Canadian Primary Care Research Consortium.