About the IAPP

Dr. Sheryl Spithoff is a clinician investigator at Women’s College Hospital (WCH) and an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. She has an appointment as a Scientist at WCH Research Institute and is a Fellow at the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre (WHO CC) for Governance, Accountability, and Transparency in the Pharmaceutical Sector. She has a New Investigator Research Award from the Department of Family and Community Medicine (DFCM) at the University of Toronto. She also received a grant from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada to assess the privacy implications of commercial virtual care platforms. Dr. Spithoff currently leads research projects funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to examine the commercialization of primary care health data and to understand the nature and extent of enterprise commercial virtual care in Canada.