Purva Vaidya is a dedicated SCOPE Navigator at Halton Healthcare and a Registered Nurse with a rich background in both community and hospital settings.

She completed her Master's Degree in Leadership in Professional Nursing Practice from Western University, where she focused on analyzing length of stay within specific population groups, highlighting how reducing emergency department visits can prevent extended hospital admissions. With a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Purva also brings specialized bedside nursing experience in maternal child and neonatal health programs.

In her current role, she actively collaborates with community primary care providers to connect them with essential resources within the Halton Healthcare system, ensuring that patients receive timely and effective healthcare services. These efforts are instrumental in improving patient outcomes and reducing emergency department visits.

Sharmila joined the SCOPE team at Halton Healthcare in Fall 2025, and compliments the SCOPE program with more than 15 years of nursing experience.  She’s committed to ongoing learning and growth, and went on to earn her Master’s degree in Nursing with a focus in Leadership and Management.  Sharmila has held a variety of roles in both hospital and outpatient settings, including acute care, outpatient cancer clinics, diagnostic assessment program, and community infusion clinics. 

Sharmila is excited to continue supporting and growing the SCOPE program. Working collaboratively with primary care providers in the community, she helps to navigate patients to timely and appropriate care. This positively serves to improve patient outcomes, enhance patient and physician experiences, and prevent unnecessary visits to the emergency department.

Hyelni is a Registered Nurse with over a decade of experience across acute care settings, including the Operating Room, Same Day Surgery, and Labour and Delivery. A graduate of McMaster University (BScN) and the University of Ottawa (Master of Nursing), she brings both strong clinical expertise and a deep commitment to patient safety and quality improvement.

Her master’s clinical project explored the use of cognitive rehearsal workshops to address horizontal violence among nurses—an initiative rooted in her belief that healthy teams create safer patient care. She is deeply committed to fostering respectful work environments, strengthening collaboration, and promoting a culture of safety and trust within healthcare teams.

She is dedicated to building meaningful partnerships with primary care providers and connecting them to essential resources within the Halton Healthcare system. Through collaboration and thoughtful resource navigation, she works to ensure patients receive safe, timely, and high-quality care while supporting the efficient and appropriate use of healthcare services.

Dr. Nadia Alam is a recognized physician leader and policy analyst. She has worked as a family doctor and anesthetist for over a decade. She graduated from Dalhousie University's undergraduate medicine program, after which she completed Family Medicine and a 3rd year in GP-Anesthesia at Queen's University. She has also completed a Masters at the London School of Economics in Health Economics, Policy and Management.

She is active in policy and strategy with a special focus on primary care at the provincial, regional and local level. She has co-chaired bilateral tables with the Ministry of Health, as well as representing family medicine in Ontario Health's Central Region Mental Health and Addictions table as well as other tables for the Central Region. Locally, she has worked on the COVID@Home program and the business case for the Halton SCOPE program for Connected Care Halton OHT. She is cross-appointed as faculty at UofT's Department of Family and Community Medicine and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation. She is a sought-after speaker and writer for traditional and social media. She is Past - President and Past - Board Director of the Ontario Medical Association and has won a number of awards over the past five years for her leadership.

Dr. Skogstad-Stubbs is a specialist in General Internal Medicine. He attended medical school at Queen's University and then a completed internal medicine residency as well as a two year fellowship in General Internal Medicine at the University of Toronto.

His areas of interests include diagnostic reasoning, perioperative medicine and point of care ultrasound.

Dr. Deb Marshall is a Hospitalist at Milton District Hospital and Physician Co-Lead of the Milton Community Palliative Care Physician Group, which she helped develop from its infancy.

Dr. Marshall is passionate about improving palliative care access and quality in the Halton Region. She will apply this enthusiasm to her role as the Palliative Care Lead for SCOPE.

Dr. Di Primio has worked at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital since 2015 and a Professor adjunct at McMaster University. She completed her undergraduate education, medical school and diagnostic radiology residency at the University of Ottawa. She completed sub-specialty, a musculoskeletal fellowship at the Mayo Clinic (Jacksonville and Rochester) in 1999 and went on to complete a mini-fellowship in Body MRI in Montreal, Quebec in 2000. In 2014, after 16 years of Academic practice in Ottawa, new family commitments led to move to the Toronto area and is currently in community practice at the Oakville Hospital. In November 2020, she took on the role of Medical Director for radiology at the Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital and focused on improving radiology services to the community using evidence based best practice guidelines.

She is committed to providing radiology insight into the SCOPE program in order to improve services to community physicians and help avoid Emergency room referrals.
 

Dr. Jonathan Sam is a consultant paediatrician and physician leader. He completed his medical degree at University of Toronto and paediatric residency at BC Children’s Hospital as a chief resident. He brings over 10 years of inpatient experience at Halton Healthcare, but has also led neonatal resuscitation instructor teams, simulation programs, and an innovative peer support program called CovidCARE. He also leads a thriving multidisciplinary community practice as the medical director of West Oak Medical.

Dr. Sam is very excited to collaborate with hospital and community stakeholders in the SCOPE project to provide the best care possible for our region’s smallest patients.

 

Dr. Jan Orfi is a Cardiologist working at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital since 1997. He attended medical school at the University of London in the U.K. He completed his Internal Medicine residency at Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland, and his Cardiology fellowship at Western University in London, Ontario. 

Dr. Orfi has been the Chief of Cardiology at OTMH for over a decade. This has allowed him ample opportunity to pursue his passion for scheduling and workflow. He is looking forward to improving Cardiology patient care through the SCOPE program. 

Dr. Chris Lu is an Orthopaedic Surgeon at Halton Healthcare.  He has worked at Georgetown Hospital for over a decade.  He attended medical school at the University of Glasgow and completed his Orthopaedic Surgery residency at the University of Manitoba.  This was followed by two fellowships at the University of Toronto: one fellowship in Lower Extremity Reconstruction at Mount Sinai Hospital, and one fellowship in Foot and Ankle Surgery at Toronto Western Hospital.

Subspecialty Interests:

Ankle instability/sprains, Ankle ligament reconstruction, Ankle osteochondral lesions, Os trigonum, Ankle arthritis, Ankle arthroscopy, Arthroscopic Subtalar fusion, Arthroscopic ankle fusion, Lisfranc injuries, Midfoot arthritis, 1st MTP arthritis and MIS Bunion and Hammer toe surgery/forefoot reconstruction.

Dr. Lu is looking forward to improving Orthopaedic Care in Halton through the SCOPE program.

Aaron Lo is a vascular surgeon based at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital and covers the greater Halton area and beyond. He is the longest tenured vascular surgeon on service and has been practicing in Oakville for the last 10 years. He earned his medical degree in Ireland and complete vascular surgery residency at the University of Toronto in 2015. In addition to managing arterial and venous disease surgically, he has a special interest in wound care and limb salvage. He is currently the physician wound care lead for Halton Healthcare.

Dr. Ajay Manjoo is an Orthopaedic Trauma and Foot & Ankle surgeon at Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital in Burlington, Ontario, where he has been on staff since 2011. He completed his Orthopaedic Surgery residency and MSc in Medical Biophysics at Western University, followed by fellowships in Orthopaedic Trauma and Arthroplasty. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor at McMaster University and serves as an Examiner for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Dr. Manjoo is also the Clinical Director of the Burlington Bone Health Clinic, a tertiary referral osteoporosis clinic focused on fracture prevention and bone health optimization. His research has contributed to major international hip fracture trials including the HEALTH and FAITH studies, with publications in leading journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma.