Dr. Ahmed Jakda is the Provincial Clinical Co-Lead at the Ontario Palliative Care Network, and a palliative physician at the Grand River Regional Cancer Centre.  He completed his training in Family Medicine and Fellowship in Palliative Care at The Ohio State University, and is dual board-certified.

He also completed an MBA at the Ivey School of Business.  He is an Associate Clinical Professor with McMaster University and the University of Western Ontario, and has research interests in system policy, data analytics, and change management.  He co-chaired the Health Quality Ontario’s Palliative Quality Standards, and acted as Clinical Lead for the palliative IDEAS cohort at the University of Toronto.