The Deep River and District Hospital (DRDH) is welcoming two new physicians to the community.
Doctor Peter Ceponis and Doctor Michael Sage will both be coming to Deep River in the fall of 2021.
Both new physicians may be familiar faces to many in Deep River already, as Dr. Ceponis has helped to provide coverage in the DRDH Emergency Department since 2012, and Dr. Sage is a Deep River local, returning home after living out west for a number of years.
In addition to their family medicine practices, Dr. Ceponis and Dr. Sage will also both be providing care for in-patients and supporting the Emergency Department at the Deep River and District Hospital.
Dr. Ceponis will be taking over for Dr. Terry McVey, who recently announced he will be retiring after 33-years. Dr. Ceponis will be assuming care for existing patients of Dr. McVey, and will not be taking on any additional patients at this time.
Although Dr. McVey is retiring from his family medicine practice, he will continue to provide care for residents of local Long-Term Care homes, in-patients at the Deep River and District Hospital, and will continue his work as a Coroner for Renfrew County.
Along with Dr. Ceponis, Dr. Sage will also be joining the ‘Family Health Organization’ physician group which includes Drs. Bushby, Greenfield and Noulty.
DRDH President and CEO, Janna Hotson, expressed her excitement to welcome these two new physicians to our community.
Dr. Ceponis has been working as a physician in the Canadian Armed Forces since 2010, currently with the rank of Major. After completing his BSc in Toxicology at the University of Guelph in 1998, he completed his MSc in GI Physiology at McMaster University in 2000, and then his PhD in Microbiology at the University of Toronto in 2004. He completed medical school at the University of Toronto in 2008, and completed his Family Medicine Residency at Dalhousie University in 2010. Highlights of Dr. Ceponis’ military career include a deployment as NATO Medical Advisor in Baghdad, two trips to Canada’s Arctic, and supporting Navy clearance divers in Ukraine. Dr. Ceponis and his wife Courtney currently live in Petawawa with their two young children.
Dr. Sage completed his BSc in Kinesiology and Physical Education at Wilfrid Laurier University in 2006, where he also completed his MSc in Kinesiology in 2009, and then his PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences / Neurosciences at the University of Toronto in 2015. He completed medical school at the University of Calgary in 2019, and completed his Family Medicine Residency at the Strathcona Site of the University of British Columbia earlier this year. Dr. Sage will be returning to the area with his wife Claire Sage (nee: Leitch), who also grew up in Deep River, and their three young children.
To put your name on the waitlist for doctors accepting new patients in our area, please call Health Care Connect at 800-445-1822 or click here to visit the Health Care Connect website.
Dr. Peter and Courtney Ceponis and family
Dr. Michael and Claire Sage and family
Lauren McVey and Dr. Terry McVey
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