Centre for Innovation in Complex Care (CICC)

As a CMIO and staff gastroenterologist, Dr. Rossos’ priorities include alignment of clinical systems with clinicians' workflow and productivity, as well as the impact of systems on patient safety, quality improvement, education, and clinical research.  In addition to working closely with local academic leadership and researchers, he contributes to provincial and national efforts to advance the use of information and communication technologies.

Peter received his M.D. from the University of Toronto in 1986, where he subsequently completed his Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology training, and therapeutic endoscopy fellowship.  He studied Leadership Development for Physicians in Academic Health Centers at the Harvard School of Public Health in 2004, and graduated from the Executive MBA Program at the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management as a Bregman Scholar in June, 2008. He has achieved international recognition for his innovation and leadership in informatics and telehealth, chairs and serves on a number of local and national committees while holding executive positions within the Centers for Global eHealth and Innovation in Complex Care (CICC) at UHN.  His educational contributions have been formally recognized with the W.H. Anderson Teaching Award from The Toronto Hospital in 1995-6, the University of Toronto Louis J. Cole Faculty Teaching Award for excellence in the field of gastroenterology in June, 2007, and the University Health Network/Mount Sinai Teacher of the Year Award for 2007-2008.

Team awards include the Cancer Quality Council of Ontario Annual Quality and Innovation Award for “Quality Initiatives Enabled by Whole-Slide Imaging Telepathology”, the Canadian Society for Telehealth Technology Innovation Award for “Achieving Sustainable Growth by Combining Smartphone and Web Technologies” in 2009, and the Ontario Hospital Association, Best of International Best Practices Award for "Creating High Quality Discharge Summaries That are Integrated with the Electronic Patient Record” in 2006.

Present projects include clinical documentation and clinical decision support initiatives, point of care clinical device strategies, projects contributing to the development of a secure web-based electronic health record for both patients and healthcare providers, implementation and evaluation of telehealth including the use of digital video for endoscopic and surgical applications, and the development of tools for the evaluation and training of endoscopists.

Peter is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto, and serves on a number of committees including the Clinical Advisory Committee for The Colorectal Cancer Screening Program of the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care (MOHLTC), and the Professional Advisory Committee of the Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN).  He co-chairs the University Health Network Electronic Health Record Clinical Advisory Committee reporting to the Medical Advisory Committee.

During his recent term as Program Director of the University of Toronto Division of Gastroenterology he successfully introduced a curriculum including an interactive website and videoconferenced teaching rounds to support the internationally recognized multi-site academic program.  He successfully completed his term as Chair of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Gastroenterology Examination Board in September, 2006 overseeing the merger of the Royal College and Collège des médecins du Québec (CMQ) while completely revising the examination process to include an examination blue print, a standardized patient program, and a multi-media OSCE (Objective Structured Clinical Examination) format to improve the objectivity and fairness of the examination.  His educational contributions have been formally recognized with the W.H. Anderson Teaching Award from The Toronto Hospital in 1995-6 and the University of Toronto Louis J. Cole Faculty Teaching Award for excellence in the field of gastroenterology in June, 2007.

In addition to the above activities, Peter completed the MBA Program at the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management in November, 2007 and enjoys every moment spent with his wife Wendy and four wonderful children.