Algoma Public Health's hired a new top executive - promoting a key official.
The health unit's Board of Health has announced the appointment of Dr. Jennifer Loo as Medical Officer of Health and Chief Executive Officer for the Algoma District as of January 1st, 2021.
Algoma's Associate Medical Officer of Health since August 2017, Loo is a specialist physician in public health and preventive medicine who is also an assistant professor with the Northern Ontario School of Medicine's public health and preventive medicine residency program, and an adjunct lecturer at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.
Loo replaces Dr. Marlene Spruyt, who's retiring at the end of the year after four years heading the health unit.