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Dr. Suzanne Strasberg is the 128th President of the Ontario Medical Association.  Currently, she is a comprehensive family doctor on staff at the Humber River Regional Hospital in Toronto.   

After graduating from Medical School at the University of Toronto in 1992, Dr. Strasberg spent a year working as a rotating intern at Toronto Western Hospital.  She remained in Toronto, her hometown, and opened a practice in the Jane and Finch corridor which has grown to include three other doctors. This team of physicians works closely with allied health professionals, including a Registered Nurse, dietician, social worker and chiropodist.  Dr. Strasberg has experienced firsthand how collaborative health care can benefit patients.   

Her experience on the board at the Ontario Medical Association and on the Executive Committee at the Coalition of Family Physicians, has allowed her to champion issues that are important to practicing physicians in the province.  Dr. Strasberg is committed to ensuring patients in the province have access to quality and timely care. 

Dr. Strasberg has outlined five key objectives that she will focus on over the next year as President which are:

1. Focusing funding on the patient;
2. Promoting a healthy lifestyle for all Ontarians;
3. Working with the government to determine and minimize the impact of the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) on physicians;
4. Ensuring adequate physician input into local health care decision making; and
5. IT and eHealth

Dr. Ken Arnold was the Ontario Medical Association’s 127th president. Dr. Arnold, a General Practitioner in Thunder Bay, completed his degree in medicine in 1971 at Queen’s University in Belfast, UK.

After practicing as a Senior House Officer at Belfast City Hospital and at The Ulster Hospital in Dundonald, he moved to Thunder Bay in 1974 where he currently lives with his wife Melinda. His practice serves 2000 varied patients at the Port Arthur Health Centre. The Family Health Group (FHG) works within a large multi-specialty group which allows him to have first-hand knowledge of the issues that these various specialists encounter. The Centre provides services such as independent X-Rays, ultra-sounds, access to a dietician, massage therapist and chiropodist and has a pharmacy on site. This setting has allowed him to view the benefits of an integrated health care practice.

Throughout his years in practice, Dr. Arnold has been a strong voice for the medical community and patients. In 1996, he served as President for the Thunder Bay Medical Society and has also served as the Governor of the Ontario Medical Foundation since 2005.

His long-time involvement in these endeavours, as well as a wide variety of committee work within the OMA, contributes to his knowledge and understanding of the health care system and the needs of patients and physicians in Ontario. He is focused on improving patient care in the province, especially in rural and remote regions of Ontario.