Dr. Rupa Patel
Clinical Interest: Trauma informed care, slow opioid tapering, chronic pain
Biography
Dr. Rupa Patel is a family physician at the Kingston Community Health Center. She is also an assistant professor at the Queen’s University Department of Family Medicine, and the program director for the Women’s Health Program and a board member at the CPSO.
She has worked in many settings over the past 30 years, including remote Northern Ontario, as a GP-Oncologist in a hospital, FM-obs, and as a family doctor in an academic teaching practice. Her current work is in a community health center setting.
Dr. Patel is now a passionate advocate for responsible opioid prescribing, after inheriting a practice with many patients on high-dose opioids. She has been with this group of patients for the past 14 years and has extensive experience with opioid tapering. She is also an advocate for generalist family medicine and feels that continuity of care is critical in Family Medicine and health care in general. She continues to enjoy her work and hopes to share her strategies for managing a practice in Family Medicine in this increasingly stressed health care environment.