Ian McDermott

Ian McDermott is the Vice President, Facilities and Capital Development for Sinai Health (www.sinaihealth.ca) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.   Ian started working with Sinai Health in Jan 2025 and is excited to help drive forward Sinai Health’s new Master Plan.

Previously, Ian spent 27 years with the University Health Network (www.UHN.ca) in Toronto, finishing his tenure there as the Chief Planning Officer and Executive Director, Redevelopment.

In his roles, Ian has worked with clinicians, service providers, design teams, constructors and all levels of government in managing and creating innovative environments for clinical and academic healthcare, research and education. Ian led the development of UHN’s first Integrated Facilities Master Planning project, completed in 2020.  Ian and his team are project, space and clinical/scientific interpreters, translating needs and concepts between the all the users and the design/operational teams.  Effective management of space allocation and utilization underlines user needs, design principals and finally realistic builds.

He led several major projects at UHN including: creation of two major Research Towers (Princess Margaret Cancer Research Tower in MaRS, and the Krembil Discovery Tower at the Toronto Western Hospital); the planning for a first in Canada Proton/Particle Therapy Facility; creation of a new Patient/Surgical Tower for the Toronto Western Hospital (Project Aspire); planning for the redevelopment of UHN’s Elizabeth St. property to achieve UHN Master Plan objectives; creation of Canada’s first dedicated Seniors Emergency Medicine Centre at the Toronto Western Hospital; planning for a new Transplant Critical Care Unit for Canada’s largest complex transplant program at the Toronto General Hospital; and, development of the Stem Cell/Car T expansion at Princess Margaret.

Ian was the President of Sustainable Labs Canada (www.slcan.ca) for 4 years and has since continued as an active member of this national organization and honoured as an SLCan Fellow in 2021.  Additionally, he is the Vice-President of the Toronto SLCan Chapter.  Ian holds a Specialist Degree in Molecular Genetics and Molecular Biology from the University of Toronto.   

  • Company:Sinai Health
  • Short Bio:Vice President, Facilities & Capital Development
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