A new family physician will be setting up a practice in Meaford.
Dr. Thor Ellingsen will join the team at Grey Bruce Health Services Meaford this month to provide emergency room and in-patient care at the hospital.
Dr. Ellingsen will open a family practice at the Don Bumstead and Family Medical Centre. Office information for Dr. Ellingsen will be available later this summer once his transition into family practice is complete.
After graduating from medical school in his home province of Alberta, Dr. Ellingsen moved to Collingwood for his two years of family medicine residency. During that time, he completed a number of training rotations within GBHS including internal medicine, pediatrics, and most recently a two-month long elective in Meaford.
When asked what attracted him to working in a rural community, Dr. Ellingsen noted, "I enjoy the comprehensive range of work that comes with rural practice where I do a little bit of everything and get to follow my patients from the office, to the ER, to the inpatient hospital ward. Being able to practice as a full scope generalist and use my training to its fullest appeals to me."
