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Dr. John Stewart arrived in Port Perry and started practice with the Medical Associates in January 1975 after two years practicing Emergency Medicine in Kitchener-Waterloo. He and his wife had 2 sons, born in 1975 and 1977. He became involved in the community by joining the Borelians Community Theater and the Scugog Choral Society in 1975. In 1976, he took on the role of Chair of a steering committee to explore the possibility of developing a Big Brothers organization in Scugog. Following this, he became Founding President of the Scugog Big Brothers Association and served in that capacity until 1980, continuing to be a member of the Association until about 1996. That association continues today after amalgamation with Big Sisters and remains active until the present time. For many years, he was a concert sponsor for Town Hall 1873. In 1983, he served as President of a newly formed Parent Teacher Association at RH Cornish School.

Medically, his practice included office practice, hospital care, emergency care, obstetrics and nursing home care. He was Medical Director of the Community Nursing Home from 1985 until 2007. He has been a lecturer for the Rural Residency Program, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto using the Nursing Home setting to teach the importance of appropriate care for the elderly. He served as Chief of Staff for Community Memorial Hospital from 1978 to 1980 and again as Deputy Chief of Staff for Lakeridge Health Port Perry from 2004 to 2006. He served as Director of the Rural Health Services Program, Lakeridge Health Port Perry from 2004 to 2006.

In 1994, he served on a provincial committee to develop guidelines for the appropriate use of antibiotics. From that, he headed an implementation research project for the best use of these guidelines in the community setting. This project (Partners for Appropriate Anti-Infective Community Therapy, PAACT) was able to demonstrate significant improved behavior change within the broad community and the findings were published in the Canadian Family Physician (April 2000). This study garnered worldwide attention, and he was invited to present at a workshop for the “European Conference on Antibiotic Use” in Brussels in November 2001. Surprisingly, the PAACT project was the only project invited to the conference from outside Europe.

He has served on numerous provincial, national and international advisory boards, particularly in the areas of antibiotic use, cholesterol treatment and diabetes. He continues to be a member of the Ontario Anti-infective Review Panel and has acted as reviewer for many other guidelines in other clinical areas.

He has been a Peer Assessor for the College of Physicians and Surgeons since 2009 and was a Lead for a group of about 12 Peer Assessors for family practice. From 2022 until present, he is a peer assessor for GP psychotherapy. In addition, he was on a small committee developing updated standards for the quality assessment of Ontario Family Physicians in office practice.

He has been a Director for the Community Memorial Hospital Foundation since 1999 and served as President (2012 – 2015), leaving the foundation a short time later. He was co-chairman of the “Your Hospital, Your Future” $3.5M fundraising campaign. Port Perry Hospital has found itself vulnerable to program closures over the years – especially in the area of obstetrics. Dr. Stewart has been at the forefront on many occasions leading the fight to keep full services available for our community.

In addition to a few other awards, he was awarded the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal in 2002.

Although he no longer has his family practice, he continues a semiretired practice of analytical hypnotherapy and regression therapy. At one point, he taught an introductory program in Meditation with Bette Hodgins. (Find Peace of Mind).

Brief Bio

• Graduated (MD) from UWO 1972
• Emergency Associates of Kitchener Waterloo 1973 - 1975
• Medical Associates of Port Perry 1975 to present.
  • Family practice, ER, Nursing Home, Hospital, Obstetrics, Hypnotherapy, and regression therapy.
• Medical Director Community Nursing Home 1985 - 2007
• Lecturer Rural Residency Program U of T 1999 - 2017
• Director Port Perry Hospital Foundation 1999 - 2019 President 2012 - 2015
  • Co-Chair Fundraising "Your Hospital Your Future" 2012 - 2016
• Ontario Anti-Infective Review Panel 1993 - present
• Guideline member or reviewer for numerous guidelines (COPD/Asthma, hypertension, Mens' Health, Anemia, Rheumatoid Arthritis ...)
• Member of numerous Provincial, National and International Advisory Boards
• Active in the development of numerous CME programs particularly in the area of Lipids and Diabetes.
• "The Development and Evaluation of a Community Wide Optimal Therapy Program" PAACT- Pilot for Appropriate Anti-infective Community Therapy, Canadian Family Physician, April 2000.
• Lead Peer Assessor for CPSO
• Founding President Scugog Big Brothers Association
• Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal 2002
• Paul Harris Fellow 2015
• Scugog Choral Society: Multiple Productions.
• Borelian’s: Multiple Productions.
• Oshawa Little Theatre. My Fair Lady.
• Married with 2 married sons and 4 grandchildren.

Curriculum Vitae 

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• University of Western Ontario 1966 to 1972. Two years Honours Biology, Faculty of Medicine, MD
• House Physician, Department of Neurosurgery, Walton Hospital, Liverpool, England. June - August 1971.
• Rotating Internship, St. Joseph' s Hospital, London, Ontario. 1972 - 1973.

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

• Medical Associates of Port Perry. General Practice. 1975 - 2019. Hypnosis, Research 2019 - present
• Community Memorial Hospital (Lakeridge Health Port Perry since 1998). Physician Staff. 1975 - 2015.
• Community Nursing Home, Port Perry. Attending Physician. 1975 - 2011.
• Emergency Associates of Kitchener-Waterloo. 1973 - 1975.
• Medical Director, North Durham Family Health Team. April 2017 - March 2019.

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS HELD

• College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Peer Assessor. 2009 - 2021. Peer Assessor Physician Lead. Peer Assessor for GP Psychotherapy 2022 - 2023.
• Medical Director, Community Nursing Home. 1985 - 2007.
• Lecturer, Rural Residency Program, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto.
  1999- 2017.
• Director, Board of Directors, Community Memorial Hospital Foundation. 1999 - 2019. Foundation President
  2012 - 2015. Co-Chair Fundraising "Your Hospital, Your Future" 2012 - 2016.
• Clinical Preceptor, Rural Residency Program, Department of Family Medicine, University of Toronto and Queen's University 2006 - 2017
• Member, Professional Development Committee, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto. 2004 - 2006.
• Deputy Chief of Staff, Lakeridge Health, Port Perry. 2004 - 2006
• Director Rural Health Services Program, Lakeridge Health Port Perry. 2004 - 2006.
• Clinical Preceptor, Nurse Practitioner Program. Queen's University. 1998 - 1999.
• Chief of Staff, Community Memorial Hospital. 1978 - 1980.
• President, Health Science Council, University of Western Ontario. 1971 - 1972.
• Treasurer, Hippocratic Society, University of Western Ontario. 1969 - 1972.

AWARDS

• Scugog Craig Taylor Citizen of the Year Award. 2008
• Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal. 2002
• Nomination for Practice Excellence Award. 1998
• University of Western Meds Honour Society Award. 1972.
• University of Western Ontario Hippocratic Society Award. 1972.
• Rotary Paul Harris Fellow. 2015

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• Ontario and Canadian Medical Associations. 1972 - present.
• Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons. 1972 - present.
• Ontario Society of Clinical Hypnosis. 1988 - 1995. (Society no longer active after 1995)

COMMUNITY RESEARCH

• Clinical Investigator: Fucidic Acid Vs. Tobramycin in the treatment of acute conjunctivitis. 1996.
• Pilot for Appropriate Anti-infective Community Therapy. Principal Physician. 1996 - 1997.
• Partners for Appropriate Anti-infective Community Therapy. Principal Physician. 1997 - 2004.
• Clinical Investigator, "Discovery". Rosuvastatin. AstraZeneca
• Principal Investigator clinical "SELECT'' trial. Novo Nordisk. 2018 - 2023
• Principal Investigator clinical "DELIVER" trial. AstraZeneca. 2019 - 2022

GUIDELINE DEVELOPMENT

• Ontario Anti-infective Review Panel. Primary Care Panel Member. 1993 - present.
• Canadian Respiratory Review Panel. Member 1997.
• PAACT Steering Committee. Guideline Development for Primary Care Physicians. 1993 - present. (Guidelines for Anti-infectives, Hypertension, Respiratory (Asthma/COPD), Anemia, Men's Health).
• Reviewer, multiple guideline panels: Urinary Incontinence 1998, CANMAT Depression working group 1997, Ontario Anxiety Review Panel 1999, Treatment of Osteoporosis in Ontario 1999, Treatment of Stable Coronary Disease in Ontario 1999, Medical Treatment Guideline s for Treatment of Osteoarthritis 1999, Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis and Acute MSK Injury 1999.
• Canadian Association of Gastroenterologists. Guideline Advisory on Anti-inflammatories, and Biologics in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. 2007, 2008.

ADVISORY COMMITTEES

• Invitee, Workshop Presenter: " European Conference on Antibiotic Use" Belgium. November 2001.
• Canadian National Conference on Antibiotic Resistance. Member, Planning Committee. 2002.
• Future Forum Primary Care Group. Canadian Rep, International Advisory Committee. 2002 - 2008.
• Strategic Planning for Antibiotic Resistant Organisms in Ontario. Conference Invitee. 1997.
• Consensus Conference on Antibiotic Resistance in Canada. Invitee. 1997.
• Committee for Chief Medical Officer of Health Report on Antibiotic Resistance 1998. Member.
• Ontario MOH, Public Health Department, Subcommittee on Antibiotic Resistance. 1998
• CPSO Core Committee for Redesign Peer Assessment Handbook (Primary Care Assessments) 2016 - 2018

PUBLICATIONS

• "The Development and Evaluation of a Community-Wide Optimal Therapy Program" - PAACT (Pilot for Appropriate Anti-infective Community Therapy), Canadian Family Physician, April 2000.
• "Lipids in Primary Care". Editorial Board. 2000 - 2002
• Cardiovascular Risk Management. Richard Hobbs and Bruce Arroll, Editors. Contributing Author. Wiley­ Blackwell Publishing. 2008

CONTINUING EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT

• National Co-Chair. Metasyn CME Program on Metabolic Syndrome. 2003.
• Curriculum Elaboration Committee Chair. Education Development for Long Term Care. 2005.
• Numerous CME Development Committees on Diabetes, Lipids, Antibiotic Prescribing, RA. 1997 - 2019.
• National Chair. Committee to develop Physician Teaching Programs in Diabetes. 2011. ("TEAM I, II'')

ADVISORY BOARDS

• Health Policy Advisory Board. Merck Frosst. 2000.
• National Rosuvastatin Advisory Panel. 2001 - 2004.
• North American Advisory Panel on Skin Sterol Testing and Cardiovascular Risk Assessment. 2003 - 2006.
• Scientific Advisory Committee for Cardiac Age Reduction Trial. Montreal General Hospital. 1998.
• National Advisory Board (AZ-diabetes) 2015 - 2017.
• National Advisory Board (Bl, Lilly - Trulicity) 2017.
• GTA GP Advisory Board Novo Nordisk (Victoza) 2016 - 2018.
• Touchstone Institute, Clinical Expert Group. Development of Practice Ready Assessment for MOHLTC 2016 - 2018.

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