ABOUT NPFHT
Compassionate Care for Families in Brampton
Who We Are
Simply put, we’re people like you. People who care about their health and the health of their families and community. People who appreciate the value of personal relationships. People who understand the value of time.
That’s why our founding family physicians, Dr. McCallion, Dr. Manning, Dr. Rogers, and Dr. Tracey, came together with the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care in 2009 to form the North Peel Family Health Team.
Our Mission
North Peel Family Health Team is committed to providing the Brampton community with comprehensive and accessible healthcare, effectively and efficiently. We believe this begins with support from dedicated interdisciplinary healthcare providers, with the right skills and expertise, delivering care at the right time.
What does this mean for you?
It means you enjoy the comfort, trust and familiarity of a relationship with a family doctor. It means you benefit from the knowledge, passion and attention of a team of experts. And it means that you have prompt and convenient access to a range of healthcare resources, including:
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Nurse practitioner
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Registered Nurses
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Registered Practical Nurses
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Mental Health Social Workers
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Registered Dietitians
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Clinical Pharmacist
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Kinesiologists
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Chiropodist
Our Interdisciplinary Team
The North Peel Family Health Team is a team of healthcare professionals and support staff who work collaboratively with family physicians, specialists and community care agencies to provide comprehensive health care services to help you live healthy lives, prevent disease and manage chronic disease. Our team includes:
North Peel Physicians
Dr. S. Gopalapillai
Dr. H. Manning
Dr. J. Ali
Dr. M. Alam
Dr. H. Raza
Dr. Safwaan Suleman
Registered Dietitians
Daniela Jeffcutt
Nayla Salameh
Dietitians apply their unique body of knowledge and expertise to support you in understanding and applying the principles of healthy eating throughout your entire life cycle.
As members of an interdisciplinary team, dietitians can contribute to health promotion and illness prevention strategies, and develop specialized nutrition therapy and rehabilitation/support strategies to address specific nutrition-related illnesses.
Family Health Team dietitians work with individuals and groups to:
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improve their nutritional well-being
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increase access to food
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enhance personal control of health
Nurse Practitioners (NP)
Marie Madonia
Sandra Yakobov
Clinton Baretto
NPs are registered nurses with additional education and training. NPs conduct advanced health assessments, diagnose and manage acute and chronic conditions, order and interpret diagnostic tests, and prescribe medications.
NPs collaborate with physicians and nurses to deliver personalized and interdisciplinary care.
Nurse Practitioners can:
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Diagnose and treat injuries
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Perform physicals (for all ages)
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Provide prenatal care
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Order and interpret many diagnostic tests
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Write prescriptions and renew many medications
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Make referrals to other health care practitioners
Pharmacist
Delia Moldovan
Pharmacists help you and your family to manage your medication. They will work to prevent, identify and resolve medication-related concerns.
Pharmacists will often meet with you in person or over the phone, to discuss your prescription and non-prescription medications and help you take them in the safest and most effective way possible. They are also an important resource for information on products available to you without a prescription, such as vitamins, herbals, etc.
Family Health Team pharmacists will often work closely with your family physician and your community pharmacist to help you get the most out of the medicines you and your family may take.
Registered Nurses
Bevleen Dhaliwal, RN
Delia Farias, RN
Lappy Murba, RPN
Nurses assess and analyze your health care needs, determine the appropriate service or treatment, the appropriate care provider or the appropriate equipment to provide you with care.
They provide nursing care and treatment, involve and encourage you to take action for your own health and provide preventative health and health promotion information.
Nurses are key members of the FHT as they develop programs and services tailored to the needs of the community. Either directly or together with the Interdisciplinary Health Care Professionals and other community service providers, they are instrumental in delivering a broad range of integrated programs targeted at the prevention and early identification of disease.
Social Workers
Karina Kolbuc
Courtney Orzech
Christine Li
Victoria Kulchytska
Social workers have unique training to assist individuals or groups with skills development and problem-solving. Whether the issues are of an individual, relationship or social nature, social workers can help in the navigation and solution focus of many of today’s problems.
Family Health Team social workers have experience working with issues of depression, anxiety, stress, bereavement as well as adaptation to illness.
Chiropodist
Dushara Kirishnakanthan
A Chiropodist is a primary care professional practicing in podiatric medicine that specializes in assessment, management and prevention of diseases and disorders of the foot. An essential member of the inter professional healthcare team, the Chiropodist is able to assess the needs of their patients and trained to manage both chronic and acute conditions affecting the foot and lower limb. The Chiropodists here at NPFHT treat patients who have diabetes and other high risk conditions in order to prevent any foot related complications.
Kinesiologists
Jamal Lynch
Lindsay Bickerstaffe
Kinesiologists will help clients to adapt different types of exercise activities that can help to improve cardiovascular endurance, increase muscular strength, power, decrease risk of falls, improve quality of life, sleeping habits, immune system function, and body composition.
Administrative Team
AnneMarie Lang-Berkowitz
Executive Director
Seema Sukhu
Executive Administrative Assistant & Human Resources
Nicole Upshaw, RN,
Clinical Program Manager
Divya Kamnath
Quality Improvement & Decision Support Specialist
Medical Office Administrators
Kerry Ann Blagrove
Melissa Murray
Almas Bibi
Rajwinder Bhangal
Emilie Fontaine-Bolanos
Amie Montique
Seema Ravi
Jessica Vega
Ravandeep Kular
Pawandeep Kaur
Ashwini Patel
Board of Directors & Officers
AnneMarie Lang-Berkowitz
Ex-officio member
Dr. S. Gopalapillai
Dr. H. Manning
Chairman
Dr. M. Alam
History
The North Peel Family Health Team (NPFHT) is a group of four family physicians, allied health professionals and administrative staff, working at three sites, who provide primary care and other health services to approximately 8,100 patients in Brampton. The NPFHT is funded by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.
The NPFHT has been incorporated since July 2008 but all of our physicians have been serving the community for more than 20 years, providing primary care for patients from birth to old-age, delivering newborns to arranging palliative care. The North Peel FHT physicians’ offices are located in central Brampton; at Queen/Lynch and at Bramalea/Kensington Rd.
As part of this Ministry of Health initiative, our purpose is to provide a broad range of health-care services that focuses on health promotion, disease prevention and chronic disease management, in addition to traditional primary medical care. Our goals are to enhance access to primary care, to decrease utilization of local hospital emergency departments and to increase the community and individual’s opportunities to improve health locally and for themselves. This increased capacity to meet a variety of community needs is to be supported by five allied professionals in mental health, nursing, nutrition and pharmacy specialties. As part of this purpose, we seek to strengthen and deepen community partnerships with a variety of providers: The Central West Local Health Network, Community Care Access Centre, Peel Public Health, William Osler Health Center and various other private and public groups.
The North Peel Family Health Team is administered by a Board of Directors composed of members of the North Peel Family Health Organization. The executive director reports to the Board, while the allied professionals report to the executive director. Our emphasis is on patients feeling empowered and encouraged to play a central role in their health care and recovery. We are dedicated to achieving excellence in patient care and we wish to foster the development of future healthcare professionals through offering student internship and educational opportunities with our organization and our physician partners.