Jeremy Friedman MB ChB, FRCPC

Dr. Jeremy Friedman graduated from the University of Cape Town in 1985. After completing his internship in South Africa he worked as a family doctor in rural Saskatchewan for 3 years. He began his residency at Sickkids in Toronto in 1990 and finished as chief paediatric resident in 1994. Since then he has worked as fulltime faculty at Sickkids as a general paediatric hospitalist, including as Division Head of Paediatric Medicine from 2004-2014. In 2012 he was appointed Associate Paediatrician-in-Chief at Sickkids and Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto. He has previously served as MSA President and is currently co-chair of the hospital MAC as well as interim Paediatrician-in-Chief at Sickkids and Chair of the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto.

Dr Friedman’s academic interests relate to the care provided to the hospitalized child. He is an academic leader in the rapidly growing field of Hospitalist Paediatrics and introduced the highly regarded Sickkids ‘complex care’ program which has developed into a world leader in care for the medically complex child. A current area of focus relates to resource stewardship and overuse of tests and therapies, where he leads the Sickkids Choosing Wisely initiative. He has consulted broadly to childrens hospitals in Canada and around the world related to models of clinical care.

Dr. Friedman was appointed to the examination board of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons for Paediatrics in 2006. He chaired the Canadian Paediatric Society’s Annual Conference 2009-15, and represented hospitalists on the Canadian Paediatric Society’s Acute Care Committee authoring many national clinical guidelines. He has published over 100 manuscripts and book chapters, and has edited two Paediatric handbooks and seven best-selling books for parents sold around the world. Dr Friedman has been recognized with many awards for his outstanding contributions to clinical care and teaching. He currently acts as the national medical advisor for the Children's Wish Foundation and as a director for the Jacobs Ladder Foundation.