Regional Medical Director - North East and North West Regions

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Regional Medical Director, North East and North West Regions

Shape the Future of Health Care in Ontario

Ontario Health is building a more connected, equitable, and patient-centred health system. Achieving this vision requires exceptional clinical leaders who can bridge strategy and frontline care, inspire collaboration, and drive meaningful improvements for patients, providers, and communities.

Ontario Health has six regional teams, including the North East and North West Regions, that coordinate and direct health care planning, funding and delivery, and drive improved performance, value and experience, ensuring equitable access to high-quality health care. 

As the Regional Medical Director, you’ll play an important role connecting health care networks to deliver quality care across a large geographic area. The North East and North West Regions collectively account for 88% of Ontario’s landmass, with populations of 638,041 and 251,202, respectively. In the North East Region, populations served include the communities of West Parry Sound, White River, Sudbury, Sault Ste. Marie, Timmins, Peawanuck, TNortheastay Coast, Mattawa and all points in between. In the North West Region, populations served include communities of Thunder Bay, Rainy River, Red Lake, The Hudson Bay Coast, Marathon, Manitouwadge and all points in between.

The Opportunity

As Regional Medical Director, you will provide clinical leadership across the North East and North West Regions, ensuring clinical perspectives are embedded in decision-making, health system planning, and transformation initiatives. The Regional Medical Director is intended to be a practicing physician who will work a minimum of 0.6FTE- 0.8FTE per week. This leader will provide oversight of all Regional Clinical Leads (physicians) (~30+ physician leaders working 0.2FTE across 2 regions).

You will influence regional and provincial priorities, lead complex cross-sector initiatives, strengthen relationships across the health system, and champion innovative approaches that improve outcomes for patients and communities.

Success in this role will be defined by your ability to connect strategy with clinical practice, build alignment across diverse stakeholders, and deliver meaningful system-level improvements.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Clinical Leadership

• Provide clinical leadership aligned with Ontario Health's strategic goals and regional priorities.

• Embed clinical expertise into health system planning, service design, resource optimization, and policy implementation.

• Establish regional clinical priorities and measurable outcomes that support integrated care delivery.

• Champion equitable, accessible, and culturally safe models of care that address the diverse needs of communities across the region.

• Lead and mentor Regional Clinical Leads while fostering collaboration, accountability, and clinical excellence.

Health System Transformation

• Partner with executive leaders to advance integrated clinical, operational, and strategic initiatives.

• Provide expert clinical advice on emerging health system challenges, service pressures, workforce issues, and opportunities for innovation.

• Lead complex cross-sector initiatives that improve access, quality, care coordination, and health system performance.

• Collaborate with Ontario Health Teams, Health Service Providers, and provincial partners to advance sustainable models of integrated care.

• Translate strategic priorities into actionable initiatives that deliver measurable system-wide impact.

Quality, Performance & Clinical Excellence

• Advance evidence-informed practices, clinical standards, and quality improvement initiatives across the continuum of care.

• Utilize clinical, operational, and performance data to identify opportunities, mitigate risks, and drive continuous improvement.

• Promote shared accountability for patient outcomes, equitable access, and responsible stewardship of health system resources.

Partnership & Stakeholder Leadership

• Build trusted relationships with physicians and physician leaders, Chiefs of Staff, health system leaders, Ontario Health Teams, and Health Service Providers.

• Chair and lead regional clinical forums to strengthen alignment, collaboration, and accountability.

• Represent regional clinical perspectives within provincial leadership discussions and advisory committees.

• Foster meaningful engagement with clinicians, patients, families, Indigenous partners, and communities to ensure diverse perspectives inform health system priorities.

• Advance a unified One Ontario Health approach through collaboration with provincial clinical and operational leaders.

The Leader We Are Seeking

You are a highly respected physician executive who combines clinical credibility with strategic vision, political acuity, and a demonstrated ability to influence across complex health systems.

You understand that meaningful transformation requires more than strategy. It requires trusted relationships, effective collaboration, disciplined execution, and the ability to bring diverse stakeholders together around common goals.

You are equally comfortable advising executives, engaging physicians and frontline clinicians, navigating complex system challenges, and translating ambitious priorities into practical action.

Most importantly, you are a collaborative leader who recognizes that lasting change is achieved through partnership, influence, and shared accountability.

Qualifications and Experience

• Physician with a minimum of 10 years of clinical practice experience, in good standing and eligible to practise medicine without restriction in Ontario, with the intention of maintaining clinical practice while serving in this role.

• Significant senior executive and/or clinical leadership experience within regional, provincial, or broader health system environments.

• Demonstrated success leading large-scale transformation, clinical integration, and organizational change initiatives.

• Proven ability to lead complex cross-sector partnerships that improve access, quality, care coordination, and health system performance.

• Experience influencing outcomes within executive governance structures and highly matrixed environments where collaboration and consensus-building are critical.

• Strong understanding of Ontario's health care system, population health priorities, health policy environment, and emerging sector challenges.

• Experience across multiple care sectors, including hospitals, primary care, community care, long-term care and/or public health, is considered an asset.

• Master's degree in Health Administration, Public Administration, Health Planning, Business Administration, or a related field is considered an asset.

Why Join Ontario Health?

Few clinical leadership opportunities offer the ability to influence health care at this scale.

As Regional Medical Director, you will help shape regional and provincial priorities, strengthen partnerships across the health system, and advance innovative solutions that improve health outcomes for millions of Ontarians.

If you are a visionary physician leader who thrives at the intersection of clinical excellence, health system planning and implementation, and transformational change, we invite you to bring your leadership and expertise to Ontario Health and help shape the future of health care in Ontario.

Employment Type:

Permanent Full time

Contract Length:

N/A

Salary Band:

Physician

External Application Deadline Date:

October 30, 2026