Dr. Alam has practiced FP-Anesthesia, comprehensive care family medicine and palliative care for over 15 years. She is a graduate of Dalhousie School of Medicine and Queen’s University’s Post-Graduate residency programs in Family Medicine and Anesthesia. She also achieved an executive Masters in Health Economics, Policy and Management. Dr. Alam is also an experienced physician leader who has led meaningful changes in health policy on a local, regional and provincial level. Following her OMA presidency, Dr. Alam focused on local and regional policies focused on supporting primary care delivery through COVID and now. She has helped create and implement highly successful local programs including the Halton SCOPE program, now the highest performing site among its peers in the province. Dr. Alam was recently appointed to two roles, the first of each kind: Program Medical Director, Community Integration and Primary Health Care at Halton Healthcare as well as the Faculty Lead, Ontario Anesthesia Human Resources Planning Program, jointly sponsored by the University of Toronto and the Northern School of Medicine. It seems that she enjoys flying a plane as she builds it… She co-created and co-teaches a Masters level course entitled The Fundamentals of Health Economics and Policy. She has lectured on soft skills in post-graduate medical education – navigating power differentials and bias, managing stress and burnout, health systems thinking, and advocacy and policy. She also volunteers as a presenter and facilitator with the Toronto Initiative for Diversity and Equity. She is passionate about building literacy in individual health as well as health systems at large. She has held media appearances to discuss measles, obesity, diabetes and menopause, as well as broad health system topics such as physician shortages, policies to manage burnout, primary care structures, physician payment and incentives etc. She is a mom of four and she loves to travel with her kids who have now mastered the art of traveling carry-on only. She also loves to draw, paint and write, and one day, once she has retired from medicine, she will finally write a book or many books in fiction and literature.