In the News

After 49 years working at Queen’s University in the Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Dr. Paul Manley is retiring in 2022.

In April 2022, CTAQ held an election for a new Member-At-Large to follow Dr. Chris Smith once his term comes to an end. Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology’s Dr. Lawrence Hookey won the election and will start his term on CTAQ Executive in July.

Did you know an estimated 4.6 million Canadians have hypertension?

If you are a fully-funded SEAMO physician and interested in joining either the Resources Committee or the Nominations & Governance Development Committee, please email seamo@queensu.ca by Friday, May 27, 2022 @ 4 p.m. 

The Nominations and Governance Development Committee (NGDC) is one of SEAMO’s standing committees that reports back to the Governing Committee. Mr. John Sheridan has been Chair of this Committee and Vice-Chair of the Governing Committee for the past three years after being recruited by current Board Chair Mr. George Thomson.

SEAMO is pleased to welcome two new physicians to the Department of Medicine in May 2022.

Dr. Jacob Rullo is a SEAMO-funded clinician scientist in the Department of Ophthalmology, cross-appointed to the Departments of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences and Medicine, and, in addition to completing his residency at Queen’s, has been here since July 2020.

Learn more from two of our Innovation Fund 2021 winners: Dr. Yanping Gong and Dr. Sulaiman Nanji

Dr. Stuart Reid is an attending staff in the Division of Neurology at Kingston Health Sciences Centre and Director of the Movement Disorders Program.

The SEAMO Governing Committee is made up of a Chair, Vice-Chair, the CEO of SEAMO, appointees from SEAMO’s signatories Kingston Health Sciences Centre, Providence Care and the Clinical Teachers’ Association of Queen’s University, and clinical Department members.