Dr. Amy K. Nakajima, MD

Biography

Amy completed her undergraduate medical education at the University of Alberta and residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Saskatchewan. She completed a MSc in Human Factors and System Safety (Lund University) in 2019, and was accepted in the inaugural cohort of the DrPH Program at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (University of Toronto). Amy currently lives and works in Ottawa, the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishnaabeg People. She provides community-based care at the Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health and in-hospital consultation at Saint-Vincent Hospital (Bruyère Health), Ottawa's only complex care hospital. She is an Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Ottawa (uOttawa) and the Pre-Clerkship Director, Anglophone stream, Faculty of Medicine, uOttawa, and continues to be an active clinician-teacher. A focus of her clinical and academic activities is working with patients for whom social determinants of health constitute barriers to receiving safe and effective care. She participates on committees for the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC) and the Medical Council of Canada (MCC).

Disclosure

1. I have a relationship with a for-profit and/or a not-for-profit organization to disclose: - All other investments or relationships that could be seen by a reasonable, well-informed participant as having the potential to influence the content of the educational activity: Director, SIM Advancement & Innovation, Simulation Canada; Pre-Clerkship Director, Anglophone stream, UGME, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa 2. I do not intend to make therapeutic recommendations for medications that have not received regulatory approval (i.e. “off-label” use of medication). 3. I used generative AI to assist with any or all of the following: summarizing literature / drafting learning objectives / creating diagrams. All outputs were reviewed, fact-checked, and modified by me, and responsibility for the content remains my own.