Dr. Robert Wald
Chief Strategy Officer
Dr. Robert Wald, BSc, MD, FRCPC, is a cardiologist at Sinai Health and holds the title of Associate Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto. He completed medical school, his residency, and a fellowship in Electrophysiology in Toronto. He started and directed the Pacemaker Program at Sinai Health. He has held leadership roles in the Division of Cardiology, as Director of Clinical Services and in the Department of Medicine as Deputy-Physician-in-Chief, on the executive of the Section on Cardiology of the OMA, where he was awarded a prestigious Life Membership, and on the Executive of the Ontario Association of Cardiologists. He participated in the ECG-Based Testing Guidelines initiative and in the Echo Quality Improvement Program, serving on the EQI Advisory Panel from its inception at Cardiac Care Network of Ontario, and later at Accreditation Canada Diagnostics.
Dr. Wald founded and directed Full Care MD Clinics, a chain of walk-in medical clinics, and MS Cardiology Services, the first integrated comprehensive community based ambulatory cardiac care facility in Ontario.
Dr. Wald believes that the partnership and networking framework at the heart of SMP holds great promise in the delivery of excellent cardiac care to patients by using technological advances to provide an optimal environment within which cardiologists can deliver that care, while also enhancing their ability to achieve their professional, personal, and financial goals, at all stages of their professional carrier.