Four new physicians have been added to the roster at the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance.
The new hires include Dr. Samar Tabl, who joins the anaesthesia department; Dr. Brent Herritt, who is taking on a role in critical care; general surgeon Dr. Juan Arminan Cordies; and hospitalist Dr. Asad Naeem.
CKHA chief of staff Dr. Pervez Faruqi said the hospital is pleased to welcome the new doctors.
“Their skills, knowledge and expertise will enhance our delivery of patient and family centred care,” Faruqi said in a media release.
Tabl earned a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery and PhD from Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt. She then worked in Cairo as an anaesthesiologist before moving to Canada to complete her anaesthesia residency at Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon, followed by an obstetrics anaesthesia fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto in 2015.
Tabl went on to work at an anaesthesiologist in Saskatchewan for six years, while also serving as an assistant professor at Queen’s University.
Born and raised in St. Johns Nfld., Herritt attended Memorial University where he received a Bachelor of Science and his Doctor of Medicine. He went on to complete his internal medicine residency at the University of Ottawa and also completed a fellowship in critical care medicine.
Herritt also has a strong interest in research and medical education and has been credited in critical care journals across North America, as well as spending five years as a lecturer at Memorial University.
Herritt will be heading up the CKHA Intensive Care Unit.
A Cuban native, Cordies completed his Doctor of Medicine in Havana. He went on to complete a general surgery residency and an upper GI/MIS/Bariatric Fellowship at the University of Calgary in 2017 and 2018 respectively. Most recently, Cordies completed locums throughout Alberta and in the Northwest Territories.
He will begin accepting referrals this month. His office will be located at 146B Queen St. in Chatham.
After growing up in London, Naeem attended Western University and received a Bachelors degree, Honours Specialization in Commercial Aviation Management in 2013. He then earned his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Medicine and Health Sciences, St. Kitts, graduating with the highest honours in 2017.
Naeem has spent the past three years completing his family medicine residency training at Southern Illinois University of Medicine.
Naeem joins his sister, Dr. Aimen Naeem, in the hospitalist program at CKHA. He is looking forward to moving back to Southwestern Ontario and having his wife join the CKHA team later this year.
