Rola Shaheen MD, FRCPC

Dr. Rola Shaheen is the Regional Breast and Cancer Imaging Lead for the Central East Regional Cancer Program. Dr. Shaheen is Chief of Radiology and Medical Director at Peterborough Regional Health Centre since 2015.

Dr. Shaheen received her MBBS degree from the University of Jordan and completed her residency training in Radiology at the University of Toronto. Dr. Shaheen is a fellowship-trained women’s imaging/breast imager from Harvard University and is currently pursuing a Global MBA in Healthcare and Life Sciences from the University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management.

Dr. Shaheen is passionate about multidisciplinary cancer care and multimodality imaging strategic planning with a focus on quality improvement. Dr. Shaheen was the Provincial Lead for the Mammography Quality Management Partnership between CCO and CPSO from 2016-2019. During this time, Dr. Shaheen was part of the team that developed informative provincial, regional, and facility-level quality reports which included key performance indicators with targets and benchmarking to guide continuous quality improvements.