Dr. Neil Naik

Dr. Neil Naik grew up in the GTA and studied medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He completed his residency in both urban Newfoundland and rural Nunavut, and further enhanced his education at OntarioMD with a rotation in Health Informatics and Leadership. He has completed his Executive MBA at the Ivey School of Business, where he is looking at how to make an innovative technology forward public healthcare system while continuing to build on our high quality of care. He practices family medicine in Waterloo, Ontario where he teaches family medicine and office management to medical students as an Assistant Clinical Professor at McMaster University and the University of Waterloo.

Dr. Naik is a Physician Advisor with the eHealth Centre for Excellence, medical advisor for multiple startup companies, and is on the Board of Governors for the Grand River Hospital Foundation.

He sits on a series of advisory boards including the regional renal and endoscopy boards, the Ontario Medical Laboratories Network,  and the Centre for Community, Clinical, and Applied Research Excellence (University of Waterloo).  As a Board Director for the Canada-Africa Community Health Alliance, Dr. Naik is working on bringing innovative medical products to clinics in remote villages in Tanzania while providing medical care. 

He has a passion for universal healthcare for all, and sees AI as the enabler to ensuring safe and accessible care for everyone, everywhere.

“Amplify Care is accelerating the efficiencies that primary care wants in order to provide better population health management, all the way to individual needs for their healthcare needs.  Together we’re changing the way patients interact with the health care world, while clinicians can focus on what they do best, being human with patients”

Dr. Kevin Samson

Dr. Samson is a family physician. He is also an Electrical Engineer specializing in computer programming and biomedical engineering and has been actively involved in the development and application of digital health solutions throughout his career. In this regard, he has had active roles with a number of provincial and national organizations including the Association of Family Health Teams of Ontario (AFHTO), OntarioMD, Diabetes Action Canada, Amplify Care (formerly the eHealth Centre of Excellence), the Centre for Effective Practice, Ontario Health, the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), and Khure Health. He is the Clinical Lead for Digital Health and Privacy and Security for the Guelph Wellington Ontario Health Team, and Chair of the OntarioMD TELUS Practice Solutions Community of Practice.

Dr. Samson was a member of the Virtual Care Together Design Collaborative Team that developed the Canada Health Infoway (CHI) and Healthcare Excellence Canada (HEC) Clinician Change Virtual Care Toolkit and was a Coach for the HEC Primary Care Access Program to improve access to appropriate, culturally safe care in northern, rural and remote communities.  Dr. Samson received the 2019 inaugural Canada Health Informatics Clinical Innovator award which recognizes a clinical innovator who has shown outstanding leadership in Canada in advancing the use of Digital Health or Virtual Health in clinical practice resulting in improved provider and patient experiences and outcomes.

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