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Amid third wave, U of T鈥檚 Homer Tien takes over province鈥檚 COVID-19 vaccine task force: CBC

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Homer Tien, an associate professor in 狐狸视频鈥檚 department of surgery in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, .

Tien, who鈥檚 also a surgeon at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the president and CEO of Ornge, Ontario鈥檚 air ambulance agency, replaced retired Gen. Rick Hillier, whose contract expired at the end of March. Tien has been a member of the task force since its inception and was instrumental in executing Operation Remote Immunity, a mission to immunize remote and isolated Indigenous communities.

The province鈥檚 vaccination campaign continues to roll out amid supply challenges and a mounting third wave of COVID-19 infections 鈥 and . In 1996, posted to the Canadian military鈥檚 counterterrorism team during the NATO mission in Bosnia. A decade later, he was deployed to a field hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan, where he often treated the victims of roadside bomb blasts.

Tien did his surgical training and obtained a master鈥檚 degree in clinical epidemiology at U of T.

鈥淗omer Tien is a fantastic physician and colleague with enormous experience with logistics and planning in his prior roles as director of trauma services at Sunnybrook and at Ornge,鈥 his U of T colleague Hannah Wunsch, a professor in the department of anesthesiology and pain medicine, recently  

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