Uptown Health Centre - Eglinton
New Physician Announcement
Uptown Health Centre - Eglinton
New Physician Announcement
Dr. Stephen Cord MD, CCFP (EM), FCFP
Family Physician/Emergency Physician
Lecturer, the University of Toronto Department of Family and Community Medicine
Dr. Stephen Cord graduated from medical school at the University of Toronto in 1992. He did his post-graduate training at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver through the University of British Columbia. He has been practicing Family Medicine since 1993. He has a certificate of special competence in Emergency Medicine and continues to practice Emergency Medicine on a part-time basis at the South Muskoka Memorial Hospital in Bracebridge, ON. He presently is a lecturer at the University of Toronto in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. He is often teaching second- and third-year medical students in his practice. The Post Magazines of Toronto named him one of Toronto’s Top Family Doctors in 2022 and 2023. When he is not working, he is cycling, canoeing, hiking, tripping or traveling with his wife and children…or playing music with his band mates.
Dr. David Altman MD, CCFP
Dr. David Altman is a broad-based practitioner carrying a patient load of males and females, ranging in age from newborn to over 100. Through previous life incarnations, it is only a mild exaggeration to say that he attended every university in Ontario (and one in the UK) before completing his medical degree at McMaster University.
Coming to formal medical training relatively late in life, he has significant life experience as both doctor and patient. He has made personal investigations into avenues that might be considered outside the realm of standard medical practice. His three children were delivered by midwives. As he experienced frequent colds when his children were young, he has also sampled from the natural remedy pool of vitamin C, echinacea and oil of oregano, with mixed results. Standard medical treatments often yielded similar results. Finally, he came to appreciate the value of keeping an open mind, providing there was good evidence to support a particular option. Mostly, he is a big believer in homeostasis – the body’s incredible ability to fix itself when things break down. Accordingly, he identifies himself as a drug minimalist, with the goal of intervention only when the body cannot be relied upon to do its thing.
Dr. Altman completed his residency at the University of Toronto, where he was Family Medicine Chief Resident at North York General Hospital in his final year. As with most local family doctors, he is a certificant of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and a member of the Ontario and Canadian Medical Association. He is on staff at Mount Sinai Hospital (with a long relationship dating back to his birth there) and Humber River Regional Hospital. He is a lecturer with the U of T medical school and takes on undergraduate medical students.