Career Paths | Family Medicine | School of Medicine

Queen’s Public Health and Preventive Medicine prepares its public health residents for success in a wide variety of career fields. Residents may pursue opportunities in public health, clinical practice, health service planning and administration, teaching, and research. Placements are found in health agencies, government departments, global organizations, and industry.

Examples of career paths of Queen's PHPM graduates

Dr. Kieran Moore, MD, CCFP(EM), FCFP, MPH, DTM&H, FRCP(C)

Dr. Moore received his medical degree from the University of Ottawa in 1985. He then completed his specialty certification in Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine with the College of Family Physicians of Canada. Additionally, he has completed a Master’s degree in Public Health, Disaster Medicine and a Master’s certificate in Physician Leadership. After, he graduated from the Queen’s Public Health and Preventive Medicine Residency Program and successfully achieved his fellowship with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He served as the Associate Medical Officer of Health (2011-2017), and as the Medical Officer of Health (2017-2021) with KFL&A Public Health. He is now the Chief Medical Officer of Health for Ontario.

Dr. Moore has extensive experience in surveillance systems for bioterrorism and outbreak detection, public health, pre-hospital care, and multidisciplinary research projects. His main areas of interest are the evaluation of various data streams for the early detection of outbreaks, as well as the assessment of deprivation distribution in populations. His work with the Queen’s University Public Health Informatics Team (QPHI) Acute Care and Health Care Worker absenteeism real-time surveillance system and provincial Telehealth data have been published in the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine, the European Journal of Emergency Medicine, Advances in Disease Surveillance, and the Canadian Journal of Public Health. For more details, please visit the following website: www.kflaphi.ca.

Dr. Moore continues to provide contributions to the academic life of the Queen’s Public Health and Preventive Medicine Residency Program as a preceptor.

Dr. Sudit Ranade, MD, MPH, MBA, PhD, CCFP, FRCPC

Dr. Ranade received his medical degree from the University of Ottawa. He completed residency training in Family Medicine and Public Health & Preventive Medicine at Queen's University. Dr. Ranade has a PhD in Family Medicine, with research focused on population-centred medicine.

Dr. Ranade served as the Medical Officer of Health for the County of Lambton in Ontario from 2012-2023. He is currently the Chief Medical Officer of Health for the Yukon Territory. His interests include child and adolescent health, reproductive health, global health, monitoring and evaluation of public health programs, management in public health, and health systems. He welcomes residents in public health and preventive medicine at all levels of training for elective and core rotations.

Dr. Emily Groot, MD, MPH, FRCPC

Dr. Emily Groot completed medical school at McMaster University, residency in Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Queen’s University, and a Master in Public Health at the University of Toronto. She is currently the program director of the NOSM University PHPM Program and the medical director of Réseau ACCESS Network’s Treatment and Prevention (TAP) Clinic. She has previously worked as an associate medical officer of health with both Thunder Bay District Health Unit and Niagara Region, as well as the Regional Supervising Coroner for Northeastern Ontario. Her medical education interests include competency-based public health training and social accountability in medicine. Her clinical interests include harm reduction and communicable disease control with a focus on syndemics, especially in northern, rural, and remote communities.

Dr. Golden Gao, MD, CCFP, MPH, MBA, FRCPC

Dr. Gao received his medical degree from the University of British Columbia. He completed his Public Health and Preventive Medicine residency at Queen's University and received his CCFP designation in 2019 and FRCPC designation in 2022. During his residency, he also completed his MBA/MPH at Yale University.

Shortly after completing residency, Dr. Gao began working as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, where he focuses on serving health technology, health insurer, and public sector clients. His public health interests include tech/digital innovations to address population health, public-private partnerships, management/leadership in public health, and health systems. He welcomes residents from the Queen's program to contact him about potential career guidance or other interesting public health topics.