Leamington native among new doctors at Chatham-Kent Health Alliance

CHATHAM-KENT — Chatham-Kent Health Alliance (CKHA) has recently announced the addition of four new physicians to the organization. Dr. Adam Fehr joins CKHA in the role of General Surgeon. Dr. Brent Rowden joins as a Hospitalist and Dr. Deepti Vissa joins CKHA in the role of Anaesthetist.

Leamington native, Dr. Sarah Finlay, joins CKHA as an Internal Medicine Physician and Hospitalist.

DR. SARAH FINLAY

“We are pleased to welcome Doctors Fehr, Finlay, Rowden and Vissa to our clinical team and the community of Chatham-Kent,” said Dr. Pervez Faruqi, Chief of Staff, CKHA. “Their contributions to our programs and services will be a great addition to CKHA and help us further our commitment to delivering patient and family centred care.”

After growing up in Leamington, Dr. Finlay received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing Honours from the University of Windsor in 2005 and spent the next several years practicing as a Registered Nurse at Erie Shores HealthCare and in Northern Ontario First Nations communities. Dr. Finlay then went on to earn her Doctor of Medicine from the Caribbean Medical University in Curacao, Caribbean Island in 2016. In 2019 she completed her Residency training in Internal Medicine at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Michigan.

“I love rural medicine and look forward to getting to know my colleagues as well as the patients and families at CKHA,” said Dr. Finlay. “Serving the community and being closer to my family are important to me and CKHA seemed like the perfect fit to accomplish this.”