Phil Matthews, Board Chair, is pleased to announce on behalf of the Board of Directors the appointment of Dr. Khaled Abdel-Razek as Chief of Staff for Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare (MAHC), effective June 3, 2019.
“Dr. Abdel-Razek is a respected clinician and surgeon, physician leader and health care administrator, and a mentor and educator,” says Matthews. “We are delighted to welcome him to the Senior Leadership Team at MAHC and look forward to his energy, optimism, effective communication and passion for teamwork.”
Dr. Abdel-Razek has been practicing as an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at Orillia Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital (OSMH) since December 2004. He is a medical graduate of the Ain Shams University in Cairo, where he also completed his internship, residency and fellowship in obstetrics/gynaecology. Dr. Abdel-Razek is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and holds a diploma in health care administration. Dr. Abdel-Razek will be part of Harvard Medical School’s class of 2020 with his recent acceptance into Harvard’s Safety, Quality, Informatics and Leadership program.
Throughout his career, Dr. Abdel-Razek has held leadership roles at OSMH including Chief of Obstetrics, and more recently Surgical Program Medical Director, which he will continue amidst his Chief of Staff responsibilities to MAHC. Dr. Abdel-Razek also worked as an international specialist physician at the University of Toronto and is a recognized clinician, earning the Physician Leadership Award in 2014 and the Clinical Excellence Award in July 2009 from OSMH.
Dr. Abdel-Razek has been a colleague to local physicians for over a decade and was credentialed at MAHC in 2013 to provide gynaecological surgery locally in Muskoka.
“It is with great happiness and sincere humility that I will assume my duties as Chief of Staff at MAHC,” says Dr. Abdel-Razek. “My admiration of MAHC is no secret to all those who know me and work with me. The experience I have had as a care provider at MAHC and the experience of my Muskoka and area patients has always been extremely positive. So it is only natural that I am excited and proud to join MAHC’s leadership and work more closely with everyone at MAHC. I look forward to supporting clinically responsive, fiscally efficient care that is adaptive to the changing dynamics of our health care system and our population.”
The Chief of Staff is a member of the Administration team and is accountable to the Board of Directors. Through the Medical Advisory Committee, the Chief of Staff provides leadership to the medical staff to ensure quality care to all patients in accordance with policies established by the Board.
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Ignoring our communities long held choice; just for spite?
Choosing a Dr. who doesn’t live here,
who will be pulling in 2 full salaries!
Such an unpopular, risk-prone, unprofessional & WRONG decision by this CEO & Board. – AGAIN.
If Dr. Abdel-Razek is continuing as Surgical Program Medical Director at Soldiers Memorial in Orillia and taking courses at Harvard and continuing to live in Orillia does this mean that his new position inHuntsville is not a full time position?
What a poor decision. Again our lovely board ignores a candidate with whom all of our region would embrace. Overpaid and underachieved!
Exactly, Mr. Millman…… EXACTLY!!!!
In addition to the concerns expressed above, I wonder how much time Dr. Abdel-Razek will have for our hospitals here in Huntsville and Bracebridge if he’s continuing to study at Harvard for another two years, and also continuing on as Chief of Obstetrics and Surgical Program Medical director at Orillia Soldier’s Memorial Hospital. It seems like he’s spreading himself awfully thin.
I agree with you, Rob. As usual, a less-than-adequate job done by the CEO and the MAHC board. I have nothing at all against Dr. Abdel-Razek but had hoped that Dr. Kirkpatrick would have been appointed. Dr. Kirkpatrick well knows the needs of the community he has served for decades.
My understanding is that this candidate will be staying in his original Orillia position and live in Orillia? Surely we could have found someone to relocate to our beautiful community? Furthermore, as aforementioned we had a candidate in Roy Kirkpatrick who is local and has as many credentials and understands our unique situation and environment. This makes no sense to me – and further illustrates the communities’ suspicions and non-confidence in the Board of Directors.
As a community organization, MAHC should be transparent and illustrate their reasoning for selecting this candidate over others and the reasoning behind selecting an individual who I believe is maintaining administrative duties at two separate hospital networks, while not even living in the community he is servicing.
Why did we have to helicopter-drop a candidate in from outside MAHC? We all know who the Town’s preferred candidate was; and I see nothing in Dr. Abdel-Razek’s CV which is superior to Dr. Kirkpatrick’s.
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I have zero prejudices, and I have not even met the new doctor; but to me, an OBS-GYN doesn’t stand up to a family physician/surgeon. Completing leadership/hospital metrics courses is admirable: but having innate leadership ability, and intuitive knowledge of how to run a hospital trumps that. Dr. Kirkpatrick has an amazing manner of dealing with adults (at bedside, or in his office). He has earned this position, and mine will be the first in a plethora of negative comments.
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I wish Dr. Abdel-Razek all the best in his new position: at least as an administrator, he will only be dealing with a few disappointed staff, not the general public.