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Duncan Rozario on the TechTO stage

Duncan Rozario

Chief of Surgery, Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital; Chief Medical Officer, Sigma HealthTech

Health TechOakvilleOn TechTO stages since 2020

Duncan Rozario is a general surgeon and chief of surgery at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital, where he has practised since 1997. He founded the Oakville Virtual Care Program and is chief medical officer of Sigma HealthTech, which makes an encrypted clinical messaging platform. He writes and speaks on physician burnout and moral injury.

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First seen on the TechTO stage in 2020. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Duncan

In their words

I'm a general surgeon I've been in practice for 23 years in Oakville and the Chief of Surgery

TechTO, Jul 2020 · watch at 1:00

I have a startup called Sigma health tech and we do encrypted email in healthcare

TechTO, Jul 2020 · watch at 1:11

instead of returning to normal I think we should be pursuing a better after than normal because normal was really not good for a lot of our population

TechTO, Jul 2020 · watch at 2:11
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Quick answers

Who is Duncan Rozario?

A general surgeon in Oakville, Ontario, and chief of surgery at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital. He is also medical director of the Oakville Surgical and Virtual Care programs and chief medical officer of Sigma HealthTech.

What does he say about physician burnout?

He co-authored a Canadian Journal of Surgery paper on burnout, resilience and moral injury, reporting that in a 2018 survey using the Mayo Clinic Physician Well-Being Index, 86 per cent of surgeons at his institution reported feeling burned out from work.

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