I graduated medicine in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, trained in paediatrics in Schneider Children's Medical Centre of Israel, and completed a neonatal-perinatal medicine fellowship in the University of Toronto. I completed the VAQS fellowship training in Toronto and then Queen's MScHQ. I work in Sunnybrook's NICU on QI projects and measurements of interventions in neonatal medicine, focusing on the micropremature infants, and Co-chair the QI group of the Toronto Centre for Neonatal Medicine.
Affiliations
- Assistant professor, University of Toronto,
- Chief, Newborn & Developmental Paediatrics, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario
Asaph Rolnitsky is the Chief of Newborn & Developmental Paediatrics, and the clinical director of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto.
After completing Paediatrics residency in Schneider Children’s Medical Centre of Israel, and subspecialty fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine in the University of Toronto, he focused his studies on gaps in healthcare quality. He completed the VA Quality Scholars (VAQS) fellowship program, a MSc in healthcare quality from Queen’s University, and later studied for PhD in Healthcare Services.
Asaph focuses his clinical and research work on improving outcomes of extremely premature infants through implementation of Quality Improvement methods and measurement with statistical process control. For the excellent clinical achievements, and his excellent clinical education he and his team received multiple awards, including the Ontario Health Patient Outcome awards.