2022 OMA Section Service Award Recipient

Dr. David Neilipovitz from The Ottawa Hospital

The Ontario Medical Association’s Section Service Award is awarded in recognition of significant service to the section, medical profession, or public within a Section. Nominations may be made through a Section by universities, hospitals, and community medical leaders in the area.

We are pleased to announce that Dr. David Neilipovitz was selected to receive the 2022 OMA Section Service Award for our Section, Ontario’s Anesthesiologists.

Dr. Neilipovitz is an anesthesiologist and critical care physician in Ottawa. He graduated from medical school at Queen's University in 1994 as the Gold Medalist. He completed his residency in anesthesiology and his critical care fellowship at the University of Ottawa. 

In addition to the clinical care he has provided in anesthesia and critical care for over 20 years, Dr. Neilipovitz has taken on many leadership roles. He served as a department head and the regional lead for critical care (including leading Ontario East during COVID). He served as the Section Chair for Ontario’s Anesthesiologists and helped co-found the Beyond The Mask initiative. Through Beyond the Mask, Ontario’s Anesthesiologists has worked to improve patient care through our Choosing Wisely implementation guide and the SolvingPain.ca initiative to improve pain management while reducing opioid misuse. 

In his career, Dr. Neilipovitz has attempted to address challenges through innovation and novel solutions. He helped create the ACES Resuscitation Course, which has impacted the training of critical care specialists in Canada and abroad for over 20 years. He started the online Family Satisfaction tool, which is now a standard of care for all Ontario intensive care units. Dr. Neilipovitz played a pivotal role in leading and teaching hospitals, the LHIN, and colleagues in the COVID-19 pandemic including highly effective Solving Healthcare Webinars. He continues to help physicians and health professionals improve their knowledge and address their challenges with the monthly critical care webinar series Ontario Critical Care Clinical Practice Rounds (OC3PR).  

Thank you, Dr. Neilipovitz, for your outstanding service to the profession and our Section. We congratulate you for all your remarkable achievements and are delighted to recognize your work with the OMA Section Service Award.