The Ontario Health Infectious Diseases Advisory Committee (IDAC) was created in 2023 to provide Ontario Health with timely evidence-based clinical and health system guidance on infectious diseases matters. It is a multidisciplinary committee comprised of health care professionals practising throughout Ontario who specialize or have a focus in treating infectious diseases in the hospital or community setting.
Conflict of interest disclosures are available upon request at OH-CCO_InfoPDRP@ontariohealth.ca.
Committee Members
Gerald Evans (Chair), MD, FRCPC, FAMMI, FIDSA
Gerald Evans is the Chair of the Division of Infectious Diseases and a Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, and Pathology and Molecular Medicine at Queen’s University. He is also the Medical Director, Infection Prevention and Control at Kingston Health Sciences Centre.
Carol-Ann Agnihotri, RN(EC), BScN
Carol-Ann Agnihotri is a primary care nurse practitioner with the North Shore Health Network, practising at Blind River District Hospital.
Lucas Castellani, MBBS, FRCPC
Lucas Castellani is an internal medicine and infectious diseases physician and Medical Director, Infection Prevention and Control at Sault Area Hospital, Sault Ste. Marie.
Kelly Grindrod, PharmD, MSc
Kelly Grindrod is a pharmacist and is an Associate Professor and Ontario College of Pharmacists Professor in Pharmacy Innovation at the University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy.
Charles Hui, MD, FRCPC
Charles Hui is the Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, Immunology and Allergy at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario and is Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Ottawa.
Elizabeth Leung, PharmD, MSCI, BCPS, RPh
Elizabeth Leung is an infectious diseases clinical pharmacist at St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, and is a faculty member with Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto.
Michaeline McGuinty, MD, FRCPC
Michaeline McGuinty is an infectious disease specialist and Clinical Scientist at the University of Ottawa.
Santiago Perez, MD, PhD
Santiago Perez is an infectious disease physician at the Kingston Health Sciences Centre, with a clinical fellowship in HIV/AIDS and a PhD in HIV-Immunology from Institut Pasteur in Paris, France.
Sumit Raybardhan, BScPhm, ACPR, MPH, BCIDP, RPh
Sumit Raybardhan is an infectious diseases pharmacist at North York General Hospital and co-leads the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program.
Kevin Schwartz, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Kevin Schwartz is an infectious disease physician at St. Joseph’s Health Centre – Unity Health Toronto; Co-medical Director, Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, Unity Health Toronto; and Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto.
Brent Wolfrom, MD, CCFP, FCFP
Brent Wolfrom is a family physician and the Program Director at Queen's University, Department of Family Medicine.
Ex-Officio Members
Christopher Simpson, MD, FRCPC, FACC, FHRS, FCCS, FCAHS
Christopher Simpson is the Executive Vice President (Medical) and Chief Medical Officer at Ontario Health.
Daniel Warshafsky, MD, MPH, CCFP (SEM), FCFP
Daniel Warshafsky is the Associate Chief Medical Officer of Health at the Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health at the Ministry of Health.
Scott Gavura, BScPhm, MBA, RPh
Scott Gavura is the Director, Provincial Drug Reimbursement Programs at Ontario Health.
Anna Lee, BScPhm, PharmD, RPh
Anna Lee is the Senior Advisor, Infectious Diseases with the Provincial Drug Reimbursement Programs at Ontario Health.
Sheena Pang, BScPhm, ACPR, RPh
Sheena Pang is the Pharmacist, Infectious Diseases with the Provincial Drug Reimbursement Programs at Ontario Health.
Niroo Sivapalan, MSc, PMP
Niroo Sivapalan is the Lead, Infectious Diseases with the Provincial Drug Reimbursement Programs at Ontario Health.