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Darren Larsen on the TechTO stage

Darren Larsen

Board Chair, Canadian Partnership Against Cancer

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Darren Larsen is board chair of the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, elected in 2025, and advises on health policy and technology with KPMG. A family physician for over 35 years, he was chief medical officer of OntarioMD, which he joined in 2007 as a peer leader in its EMR adoption programme.

On the TechTO stage ×1

TECHTO19:46

Dr. Darren Larsen of Ontario MD presents Our Future is Now

TechTO · February 2019
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First seen on the TechTO stage in 2019. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Darren ↗

In their words

I'm like the old guy in the room so I'm not gonna pretend to be from the startup space

TechTO, Feb 2019 · watch at 0:10 ↗

we are a company wholly owned subsidiary of the Ontario Medical Association we're a for-profit company

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Around the web ×1

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Clinicians 'all alone' when integrating digital health advances: LarsenDays of Past Futures
2023

Quick answers

What does Darren Larsen do now?

He chairs the board of the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, having joined it in 2019 and been elected chair in 2025, and works as a health policy and technology consultant with KPMG. He also teaches at the University of Toronto.

What was his role at OntarioMD?

Chief medical officer. He joined in 2007 as a physician peer leader in the EMR adoption programme, became physician advisor, and moved into the CMIO and then CMO role in 2014. OntarioMD's chief medical officer today is Dr. Chandi Chandrasena.

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