Dr. Ivar Mendez pioneered virtual care, did extensive humanitarian work and led Saskatchewan surgeons through a pandemic.
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“Now I have the opportunity to bring what we did in Saskatchewan and all this work in the past 10 years to a global setting,” Mendez said.Photo by Matt SmithMendez started his role in 2013, when Saskatchewan’s government was opening its purse to reduce a long wait list of delayed surgical procedures. The number of surgeons has doubled from around 120 to nearly 260 during his term, he said.
“The quality and size of the team in the Department of Surgery today is in large measure due to Ivar’s outstanding strengths as a researcher, teacher and surgeon,” said Preston Smith, Dean of the University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine. Mendez was passionate about virtual health care long before the pandemic made it a mainstay of how many Canadians consult their doctors.The Jetsons —
in the nursing station of a remote village in Labrador. It was a such a popular, effective way to consult doctors from afar that when Mendez’s team came to collect it,Mendez has used similar robots to let doctors offer direction and care to Indigenous communities in northern Saskatchewan, where winter conditions and limited infrastructure sometimes make a trip to the hospital impossible.
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