Dr. Erin Bearss

Family Physician-in-Chief
Sinai Health

Dr. Erin Bearss is Chief of the Ray D. Wolfe Department of Family Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital and has an active clinical practice with Mount Sinai’s Academic Family Health Team in the Granovsky Gluskin Family Medicine Centre. She is also Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto.

Education

Dr. Bearss earned her medical degree at McMaster University and completed her Family Medicine residency training at Mount Sinai Hospital. She also completed an Emergency Medicine Fellowship at the University of Toronto.

Initiatives

She is interested in the foundational role of Family Medicine at Sinai Health in connecting patients, specialists, community groups, home care and interprofessional health care providers in collaboration with local Family Health Teams. She aims to lead the program in supporting greater health equity and access through digital health and virtual care initiatives and in her most recent role as Associate Chief of Family Medicine, she introduced two Faculty Lead roles: Social Accountability, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, and Digital Health and Innovation, to the Mount Sinai Academic Family Health Team. This better integrates these important perspectives into the team’s clinical and academic work.

Related to the COVID-19 pandemic, she has championed vaccination initiatives across Sinai Health and the University of Toronto, and led the COVID-19 Assessment Centre at Mount Sinai Hospital. She also coordinated vaccination efforts in long-term care facilities and retirement homes, and led the Mass Vaccination Clinic at the University of Toronto.

Key committees

Dr. Bearss is President of the Professional Staff Association at Sinai Health , and a member of the University Health Network-Sinai Health Antimicrobial Subcommittee and Postgrad Medical Education Wellness Subcommittee.

Awards and recognition

She is the recipient of multiple awards for teaching excellence, educational achievement, leadership, resident wellness and, most recently, outstanding contributions to health care during the COVID-19 pandemic.