Founding Board Members

Medical Director of META:PHI and was Co-Chair of the Methadone Treatment and Services Advisory Committee in 2016.

Served on the Board of the Canadian Society of Addiction Medicine and was chair of OMA section on Addiction Medicine for 13 years. He received the 2023 OMA section on Addiction Medicine Physician Achievement Award.

Has served as a physician assessor for College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Dr. Lester has 30 years of clinical Addiction Medicine experience.

He served as secretary of the OMA section on Addiction Medicine for 13 years. He received the 2019 OMA section on Addiction Medicine Physician Achievement Award.

Dr. Regenstreif earned a BSc from University of Alberta in 1984, then an MSc at the University of Toronto in 1989 and a medical degree in 1994. She trained in a family medicine residency at University of British Columbia. In 2017, 

She earned a master’s degree from University of Toronto School of Public Health. 

Dr. Regenstreif has been a full-spectrum primary care physician in communities across Canada from 1997 to the present, including Vancouver, Haida Gwaii, Inuvik, Sudbury, Manitoulin Island, Hamilton and Yellowknife. In 2010, 

Dr. Regenstreif began focusing on substance use disorders. 

More recently, she has focused on drug policy in youth and indigenous communities.

Assistant Professor with the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa, and Medical Director of The Ottawa Hospital Substance Use Program. She works in both the inpatient and community settings.

She provides Addiction Medicine Consultation services for inpatients at TOH, and low-barrier Opioid Agonist Treatment in the RAAM clinic at Sandy Hill CHC in Ottawa. She has been a methadone prescriber since 2001.

A Family Physician certified in Addiction Medicine. She is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia where she was honoured with a Post Graduate Teaching Award. She was the co-creator an initial Physician Director of the BCCSU Addiction Medicine Fellowship. She teaches, works and does research is the areas of pain and addiction.

Founder of ACT Clinics (Addiction Centre Toronto). He was a former lecturer in Addiction Medicine using CBT. He has over 30 years of experience in anaesthesia, ICU and addiction counselling using CBT techniques.

A physician for 40 years and an Addiction Medicine Physician since 2012. She has her Certificates of Added Competency in Addiction Medicine and Palliative Care. She has been an Associate Professor at Western University, with teaching responsibilities including Addiction Medicine and, Indigenous Cultural Safety.

As a Lawson Scientist, she has been involved in numerous scientific research projects and publications related to injection drug use. She has the lived experience of having family members and close friends with a Substance Use Disorder.