Dominik Nowak
Dr. Dominik Nowak is a former president of the Ontario Medical Association, where he raised alarms about the ongoing doctor shortage in rural and northern Ontario. He has criticized the reliance on financial incentives for physician recruitment, stating that it exacerbates inequalities between communities that can afford such measures and those that cannot. Nowak advocates for systemic changes to make family medicine a more attractive career path for new graduates.
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Dominik Nowak, a past president of the Ontario Medical Association, visited some communities during his time leading the doctors’ group where half of residents didn’t have a primary care provider.
Ontario family doctor waitlist reduced by half, health minister says
Canada· 2025-10-16
Dr. Dominik Nowak, the former president of the Ontario Medical Association, calls the doctor shortage 'unacceptable.'
Several Ontario mayors against communities’ financial incentives to attract doctorsCanada· 2025-05-08
