Sonal Gandhi
Pioneering ONUC, A PA-Led Model for Acute Medical Oncology: Scaling high quality urgent care outside the ED in a complex landscape
Date and time
Tuesday, January 21, 2025 (12-1 p.m. ET)
Session Description:
This presentation will review the implementation, scaling, and impact of a novel physician-assistant led model for urgent medical oncology care. Principles of QI and leadership will be covered, including innovating new models of care using physician extenders, growing QI work from micro to meso levels, aligning with institutional priorities, and performance measurement to demonstrate impact.
Speaker Biography:
Dr. Sonal Gandhi is a medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer and acute oncology at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. She has been the Quality Lead of the Sunnybrook DMOH since 2012, representing the division at OH-CCO, and leading the annual OH-CCO QI projects. She is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto, as a Clinician in Quality and Innovation. Dr. Gandhi has an MSc in Health Technology Assessment. Her academic interests include targeted cancer therapy toxicity management, decreasing emergency department use, and neoadjuvant breast cancer response monitoring technologies and treatment standardization. She has led a nationally recognized program in oral anti-cancer drug management, and has helped to lead and write provincial and national guidelines in breast cancer. She designed and currently oversees a novel PA-led model for oncology urgent care at her centre, is leading a new targeted cancer drug safety team, and is collaborating on work in using AI to model high risk emergency room utilization by cancer patients. She also has an interest in health information systems, and health care leadership with a quality improvement lens.
