The Chatham-Kent Health Alliance (CKHA) recently announced a slate of new doctors that came on board with the hospital in recent months.
Dr. Abdelnasir Bashir joins the department of critical care, Dr. Andrew Yuen joins as a general surgeon, Dr. Dele Oyebode joins the department of psychiatry and Dr. William Hodge joins as an opthamologist.
“I am so pleased doctors Bashir, Yuen, Oyebode and Hodge have chosen to join CKHA and practice in the community of Chatham-Kent,” said Dr. Pervez Faruqi, chief of staff, in a media release.
Bashir began his medical education at the University of Gezira in Sudan. He immigrated to Canada and continued his medical education through the Internal Medicine residency and fellowship at McMaster University.
After completing his fellowship, he was accepted into the University of Western’s Critical Care fellowship and graduated in 2013.
A native of southern Ontario, Yuen completed his Honours Bachelor of Health Sciences at McMaster University and his Doctor of Medicine and General Surgery residency at the University of Toronto.
After practicing for two years as a general surgeon at Michael Garron Hospital in Toronto, he earned his fellowship in colorectal surgery at the University of Toronto.
Yuen and his young family have recently relocated to Chatham and look forward to settling into the community.
He is now accepting patient referrals and is located at 146 Queen St. in Chatham. His office can be reached by calling 519-397-1146.
As a staff psychiatrist, Oyebode will also assume the role of chief of psychiatry and program medical director of the mental health and addictions program at CKHA.
He earned his MRCPsych (Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists) from the University College Dublin in Ireland in 2006. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 2010.
Born in Quebec, Hodge completed both his Doctor of Medicine and residency in Ophthalmology at McGill University. After completing a Master of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, he returned to McGill University to obtain his Doctor in Philosophy in Epidemiology and Biostatistics.
Hodge is now accepting patient referrals and is located at the Anjema Eye Institute, 735 St. Clair Street in Chatham. His office can be reached by calling 519-380-0008.
