Dr. Jonathan Fitzsimon is the Medical Lead of the Renfrew County Virtual Triage and Assessment Centres. He is a family physician researcher, practicing community-based family medicine in Renfrew County, Ontario.
Jonathan graduated from Sheffield University Medical School (U.K.) in 2007 and worked for two years as a hospital physician in the British National Health Service. From 2009 – 2010 he worked as a volunteer physician in Oruro, Bolivia, before returning to the U.K. to complete the General Practice Specialty Training Program. He moved to Ontario, Canada in 2014 and started a family practice in Renfrew County.
Jonathan’s research aims to provide policy makers with evidence of the impact of lack of access to primary care (particularly the duration of unattachment), barriers to accessing primary care, and the use of virtual care as a means of improving access to primary care in rural, remote and underserved communities. Jonathan is also the Medical Lead of a hybrid primary care program, providing comprehensive, team based primary care through a blend of in-person and virtual care options, to thousands of previously unattached residents of traditionally underserved communities. Jonathan is the Clinical Digital Lead of the Ottawa Valley Ontario Health Team and was previously Chief of Medicine at Arnprior Regional Health. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa, Department of Family Medicine and a Clinician Researcher at the Institut du Savoir Montfort.
Jonathan was the recipient of the Ontario Medical Association’s 2021 Glenn Sawyer Service Award.