Sheela Basrur
- January 4, 2024
- Doctor
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Sheela Basrur Biography
| Name | Sheela Basrur |
| Birthday | Oct 17 |
| Birth Year | 1956 |
| Birth Country | Canada |
| Birth Sign | Libra |
Sheela Basrur is one of the most popular and richest Doctor who was born on October 17, 1956 in Canada. A physician for epidemiology and community health that was named Ontario the Chief Medical Officer for Health and the Assistant Deputy Minister for Public Health in 2004.
She was honored with an award called the Order of Ontario for her contributions and accomplishments in 2008 the same year that the renowned She was awarded the Order of Ontario for her service and achievements in 2008, the same year as the iconic Barbara Ann Scott..
Sheela Basrur, OOnt (October 17, 1956 – June 2, 2008) was a Canadian physician and Ontario Chief Medical Officer of Health and Assistant Deputy Minister of Public Health. She resigned from these positions late in 2006 to undergo treatment for cancer.
Basrur became the Medical Officer of Health for the East York Health Unit until East York was merged into the city of Toronto in 1998, when she became the first Medical Officer of Health for the new amalgamated city. She was widely hailed for her work during the 2003 Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in Toronto, appearing in numerous television interviews on international networks, such as CNN. Basrur wrote a journal article with Barbara Yaffe and Bonnie Henry in the 2004 Canadian Journal of Public Health entitled “SARS: A Local Public Health Perspective”. She said upon the release of the NACSARS report that
She had a daughter, Simone born in 1992.
Sheela Basrur Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Doctor |
| House | Living in own house. |
Sheela Basrur is one of the richest Doctor from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sheela Basrur 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
The professor was assistant in her Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto and became the first Medical Health Officer for Health for Toronto in 1998.
Her work was widely praised for her efforts in 2003’s SARS epidemic in 2003.
Basrur was born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1956 to Indian immigrants. Her mother, Parvathi Basrur, was a professor of veterinary genetics and her father, Vasanth Basrur, was a radiation oncologist. She grew up in Guelph, where there were very few visible minorities at the time. After obtaining a Bachelor of Science from the University of Western Ontario in 1979, she received her doctor of medicine from the University of Toronto in 1982, after which Basrur worked as a general practitioner in Guelph for one year. She then spent a year in India and Nepal, where she became interested in public health. Upon returning to Canada, she obtained a Master of Health Science degree in 1987, specializing in community health and epidemiology, again from the University of Toronto. She then completed a post-graduate residency, becoming a specialist in community medicine, as well as an assistant professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto.
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Basrur lived in Scarborough, but moved to Kitchener, where she underwent treatment for hemangiopericytoma, from which she eventually died on June 2, 2008.
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