About Dr. Adil

Dr. Adil Shamji is an emergency physician who has devoted his career to helping people.

After graduating from Western University and medical school at the University of Toronto, he worked in Indigenous communities across Canada and joined the emergency department at Michael Garron Hospital in Toronto’s east end.

Adil pursued a Master’s degree in Public Policy at the University of Oxford and returned to Canada to converge medical practice with public policy. He was appointed the Medical Director for 11 homeless shelters in Toronto as part of the City’s pandemic response efforts. Besides clinical work, he is also a lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto.

Adil was at the frontlines during the COVID-19 pandemic and opioid crisis, setting up primary care clinics that provided healthcare and addiction services to the city’s most vulnerable. Having experienced firsthand the pressures of the pandemic that revealed the inequalities within our healthcare system, Adil has taken his advocacy to the Ontario Legislature as an elected Member of Provincial Parliament for Don Valley East.

He is the Ontario Liberal Caucus critic for Housing, Health, and Northern & Indigenous Issues, and served on the Standing Committee on Social Policy from 2022-2024. As an MPP, Adil has proposed legislation that would restrict private payments for nurse practitioner services, unlock opportunities to build more housing, establish greater protections for temporary nursing professionals, and establish new standards for government accountability and transparency by releasing cabinet mandate letters from the Premier.

He has also been outspoken on emergency department closures, and has proven a staunch advocate of universal, publicly funded healthcare.

Adil is committed to making government work in the best interests of everyone across Ontario, and believes that ‘all policy is health policy’.