The Chatham-Kent Community Health Centre is expanding its primary care team.
Dr. Andrew Su will join the CKCHC on August 15 as a part-time physician at the Wallaceburg Community Health Centre site.
Dr. Andrew Su (Courtesy CKCHC)
According to a media release from CKCHC officials, Su completed high school in nearby Windsor before receiving his undergraduate degree at McGill University in life sciences. Su then completed medical school at the Schulich School of Medicine in Windsor and received family medicine training through Mount Sinai Hospital at the University of Toronto.
He is currently working as an internal medicine/hospitalist fellow at the University Health Network Toronto General Hospital Site with anticipated graduation mid-July 2022.
“I am excited that I will be joining Chatham-Kent mid-August in full capacity as a physician, working at both CKCHC’s Wallaceburg site as well as at CKHA as a hospitalist," said Su. “A personal role model of mine, Dr Norman Bethune, summarizes my passion as a physician: ‘Medicine, as we are practicing it, is a luxury trade. We are selling bread at the price of jewels... Let us take the profit, the private economic profit, out of medicine, and purify our profession of rapacious individualism. Let us say to the people not, how much have you got, but, how best can we serve you?”
The Chatham-Kent Community Health Centres are non-profit, community-governed, multi-service health centres that provide primary health care, health promotion and community development services all under one roof. The CKCHC is mandated to serve both vulnerable populations and the Chatham-Kent community at large.
CKCHC sites are located in Chatham, Wallaceburg and on Walpole Island First Nation including several outreach services across the Chatham-Kent community. All programs are free of charge.
"We are honoured that Su chose the CHC to begin his career in family practice," said Manager of Clinical and Client Services Mallory Nowakowski. "Su brings extraordinary talent to the CKCHC, which is a great compliment to the remarkable team we already have in place."
Su will not be accepting new clients at this time.
Anyone looking for additional information regarding Su's addition to the CKCHC team can contact Executive Director Sherri Saunders at 519-397-5455 x106.
