Tim Murphy

Dr. Mohamed Alarakhia

Dr. Mohamed Alarakhia is a practicing Family Physician at the Centre for Family Medicine Family Health Team and the CEO of the eHealth Centre of Excellence. He is the Faculty Digital Health and Innovation Lead at McMaster University, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine (Waterloo Campus) and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo.

Dr. Alarakhia was awarded the Digital Health Executive of the Year Award in 2019 and the College of Family Physicians of Canada Award of Excellence in 2018 and 2022. Dr. Alarakhia and the eHealth Centre of Excellence won the Innovation Award in 2022 from the Greater Kitchener Waterloo Chamber of Commerce. The eHealth Centre of Excellence received a Canadian Medical Association Joule Innovation Grant and an AFHTO Team Award in 2020, as well as a Patient Care Innovation Team Award at the 2019 Canadian Health Informatics Awards and a 2019 Ingenious Award from Information Technology Association of Canada. The eHealth Centre of Excellence is recognized as one of the Best Workplaces in Canada.