Tamara Dus

Tamara Dus is a progressive and innovative health care leader with expertise in collaboratively steering system transformations, while ensuring positive stakeholder outcomes for sustainable health care practices to meet community needs.

She was a frontline Registered Nurse for 14 years, and later transitioned into leadership positions at Lakeridge Health, including clinical manager, Systemic Therapy and Cancer Research; clinical director, Durham Regional Cancer Centre and the Central East Regional Cancer Program; clinical director for the Women and Children Program; and finally, clinical director, Emergency, Critical Care and Central East Prehospital Care Program.

In her positions with Lakeridge Health, Dus was responsible for the development and management of administrative and operational activities within the large multi-site community hospital, including four emergency departments, three critical care units, inpatient respiratory therapy, a domestic violence and sexual assault department and the Central East Prehospital Care Program.

Today, Dus is director of Health Service, Occupational Health and Wellness for the University Health Network (UHN). In 2020, she became lead for UHN’s COVID-19 employee response, addressing frontline worker burn-out and stress from the pandemic, and co-lead of the provincial pilot vaccination roll-out to support Ontario’s immunization strategy for vaccine clinics. In this role, she had direct involvement in establishing the first COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Ontario, and in December 2020, Dus administered the first Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in the province.