Scarborough Health Network
Ontario Region: East
Central Intake Contact Information:
Lakeridge Health Foundation
T: 905-576-8711 ext. 33830
F: 833-222-9065
Alternatively, electronic referrals (through Ocean eReferral) can be sent directly to the CE Central Intake.
The eReferral listing can be found by clicking here .
If you would like to get set up to send Ocean eReferrals, or have questions about referring via Ocean eReferral, please email contact@ereferralontarioeast.ca
Region’s Practice Lead Team
Ihab El-Sawaf
Chiropractor
Regional Hub: Scarborough Health Network
Sub Region: Central East
Surgeon Sponsor and primary spine surgeon accepting our referrals: Dr. Kevin Grant, Dr. Fan Jiang, Dr. Colby Oitment
Ihab El-Sawaf is the Practice Leader and Manager of the RAC for Low Back Pain (LBP) in the Central East region. He is a licensed chiropractor that graduated from the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College in 2002. He launched the RAC LBP program in 2019 and has worked at Scarborough Health Network (SHN), General site since the inception of the program. SHN is the regional spine surgical hub for the Central East area of Ontario. There are 18 Advanced Practice Professionals (APP) working with the RAC LBP in the Central East region. They are all licensed allied health professionals working in the Central East communities including: Scarborough, Durham, Northumberland, Peterborough and Kawartha Lakes.
The Central East RAC LBP has collaborative and working relationships with physiatrists and rheumatologist should the patient require consultation to non-operative specialists.
RAC LBP patients that require MRI imaging can be referred to the diagnostic imaging department of SHN by the Practice Leader.954