2024 HEALTH CARE PROVIDER OF THE YEAR NOMINEE
Milan Unarket
Nominated For:
HEALTH CARE PROVIDER OF THE YEAR
Dr Unarket is a specialist in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (physiatrist) and licensed to practice medicine by the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Ontario. He performed his undergraduate studies and obtained his medical degree from the University of Saskatchewan and subsequently completed his residency in Physical Medicine and rehab from Queens University. He obtained fellowship from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 2005. He successfully obtained certification and proficiency in electromyography from the Canadian Congress of Neurological Sciences.
He is currently incommunity/private practice after almost 15 years combined exprience of being a consultant physiatrist at Bridgepoint Hospital and Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, as a subspecialist in neurological rehabilitation, musculoskeletal rehabilitation and electromyography. He had an administrative role as the medical director of rehabilitation and ambulatory care while he was at Bridgepoint and was a lecturer at the University of Toronto, Division of Physical Medicine and Rehab, Department of Medicine where he taught medical students and residents, He receuived a Distinguished Academic Service Award from the University of Toronto for the recognition of valued academic contribution for over 10 years.
His clinical work does and has involved the assessment and treatment of patients with various neurological and musculoskeletal injuries from the initial inpatient rehabilitation stay to the latter stages of rehabilitation. His current focus is on neurological and muskuloskeletal rehab post physical trauma as well as spasticity management in the neurological rehab population.
He is very active in the Acquired Brain injury community as he is on the Board of Directors of the Brain Injury Society of Toronto (BIST) and the Advisory Board of the Neurorehab Institute of Ontario (NRIO).
In his personal time he enjoys traveling, racquet sports and spending time with his wife and two children aged 6 and 4.