A Halifax-based family physician is the new head of Doctors Nova Scotia.
Dr. Leisha Hawker has taken on the role of president.
She works primarily out of the North End Community Health Centre on Gottingen Street and also at Regency Park Addiction Clinic and the Halifax Newcomer Health Clinic.
“I am passionate about health equity and improving the health-care system and the physician environment in Nova Scotia,” Hawker says in a news release. “I’ve always had an interest in working with marginalized populations. My career has been focused on equity and social justice – I look at the patient from the perspective of the health of the community.”
She attended Dalhousie Medical School and completed her training in family medicine in 2013.
Hawker received an Award of Excellence in 2016 for her work by the Nova Scotia College of Family Physicians.
Meantime, Dr. Colin Audain, an anesthesiologist practising in the Halifax area, has been endorsed as President-Elect.
His term as president will begin in June 2023.
