Ewurabena Simpson

Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa

Dr. Simpson is a pediatric hematologist/oncologist at CHEO and has been an assistant professor at the Department of Pediatrics of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa,  since August 2012. She received her medical degree from McGill University and completed her general pediatrics training and pediatric hematology/oncology fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto. Dr. Simpson has also completed a master’s degree in public health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and was a trainee within the American Society of Hematology Clinical Research Training Institute (ASH CRTI). 

As physician lead for the CHEO Sickle Cell Disease Program, she is a passionate mentor and educator and she co-authored the 2014 Consensus Statement on the Care of Patients with Sickle Cell Disease in Canada for the Canadian Haemoglobinopathy Association. Dr. Simpson’s primary research interests relate to health system improvement for children and adults with hemoglobinopathies and other chronic hematological conditions. She is treasurer for the Canadian Haemoglobinopathy Association and a board member of the Black Physicians’ Association of Ontario. In 2017, she received an award for medical excellence from the Sickle Cell Awareness Group of Ontario and since 2018, she has been a research mentor for the American of Hematology Minority Medical Student Mentorship Program.