Dr. Merrilee Brown
Dr. Merrilee Brown is a comprehensive family physician who has lived and worked in Port Perry with her husband Steve and 2 teenaged children for the past 20 years. She delivers babies, works in the ER, and does hospital inpatient and consultative palliative care.
She is an award-winning teacher of family medicine for UofT, Queens and NOSM.
She loves a good book, a good hike with her dog, skiing with her family and cooking for large numbers of people. She plays French horn in two local bands and sings in a chamber choir.
Pat Campbell
Pat Campbell is an innovative health care executive with experience in community, academic, and rural hospital environments. She has been active in provincial policy forums and has a proven record of identifying business opportunities, creating strategic plans and executing to completion. She has been a collaborative leader recognized for a commitment to system redesign based on patient needs and expectations and then supporting implementation moving from concept to actualization.
Past Chair Health Technology Assessment Committee Ontario, Past CEO Echo Improving Women’s Health in Ontario, retired CEO Orillia Soldier’s Memorial Hospital, Grey Bruce Health Services (now Brightshores) and Women’s College Hospital.
Dr. Robin Kennie
Dr. Robin Kennie is a family physician based in Perth, providing care in office, hospital, emergency department, and coroner settings. In addition to clinical practice, he serves as Medical Director of the Eastern Regional Education Program and Director of Community and Rural Medicine for the University of Ottawa Family Medicine Program. Dr. Kennie is a strong advocate for community-engaged medical education and believes that the communities that host medical learners should be at the forefront of our ideals, helping shape training experiences that are responsive, meaningful, and grounded in local needs. His work is dedicated to strengthening rural and community-based healthcare while supporting the development of future physicians.
Dr. Neil Lamont
Dr. Neil Lamont is a regional director with the Rural Ontario Medical Program (ROMP). From 1998 until 2009, he held the position of Chief of the Division of General Surgery. Dr. Lamont is also the Co-President of the Medical Staff representing Grey Bruce Health Services physicians practicing in Owen Sound. Dr. Lamont currently practices general surgery, vascular surgery, and therapeutic endoscopy.
Mark Ostland
Mark Ostland brings 14 years of experience in healthcare board governance. He served for nine years with the Grey Bruce Health Services Foundation and an additional five years on the Grey Bruce Health Services Board, holding the position of Board Chair for both organizations. Mark resides in Owen Sound and works in the banking sector as a District Vice President.
Dr. Peter Wells
A true passion for rural family medicine education was the impetus that inspired Dr. Peter Wells to form the Rural Ontario Medical Program (ROMP) in 1988. He has had a vision for many years of making a difference in people’s lives by enhancing and enriching the available healthcare systems in rural communities.
Dr. Wells has been blessed to have a long, fruitful career, working at his own medical practice in Collingwood and in emergency medicine at the Collingwood General & Marine Hospital. He continues to practice family medicine and obstetrics to this day and is the collaborative physician at Wahta and Horseshoe Nursing Station. He also currently serves as an assistant clinical professor at the University of Toronto and a continuing medical education facilitator and assistant clinical professor at McMaster University. Moreover, his career and practice includes coroner work, OR, ER, surgery, and dermatology, to name a few areas in his scope of practice.
When not serving his patients or mentoring ROMP learners, Dr. Wells loves to create wood habitats for animals and tries to spend as much time as he can at the family cottage in Georgian Bay.