Over his 35 years as a comprehensive care Family Physician, Darren has been involved in many provincial and national Health IT, System Transformation and Physician Leadership initiatives in Canada.  He has contributed to multiple digital health, primary care and quality commissions for the Ontario Ministry of Health, Ontario Health (Quality, Digital Services and Cancer Care) as well as the Ontario and Canadian Medical Associations.  He is Chair of the Cancer Quality Council of Ontario, Board Chair-elect of the federal agency Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, and is a senior fellow at WIHV (Women’s College Hospital Institute for Health System Solutions and Virtual Care). Most recently Darren was Senior Medical Advisor for Canadian Healthcare at Accenture, Chief Medical Director of TELUS Health Care Centres nationally, and practiced at Women’s College Hospital.  He teaches at the University of Toronto in the Department of Family and Community Medicine as well as the Institute for Health Policy Management and Evaluation. 

Promoting transformation in the health system is his passion.  This brought him to KPMG’s Healthcare Consulting Practice. He is passionate about the future of health with more precision and the science, policy and business that supports it.

Darren obtained his Bachelor of Science at the University of Alberta, Medical Doctorate at the University of Calgary, did residency at the University of Ottawa and holds a Masters Certificate in Physician Leadership from York University’s Schulich School of Executive Management.