Dr. William Cherniak
Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Rocket Doctor
William Cherniak BSc MD MPH CCFP(EM)/DABFM is an Emergency physician with training in family medicine and global public health. He is a co-founder and board chair of Bridge to Health Medical and Dental Canada & USA and the founder and CEO of Rocket Doctor Inc.
He is also a founding director of the African Film Festival. Bill has had research published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet, Academic Medicine, PLOS ONE and given numerous speeches in Europe and North America on global health and development.
Bill completed his medical school at the University of Calgary and residency at the University of Toronto. He completed a cancer fellowship at the US Federal Government's Center for Global Health in the National Cancer Institute/National Institutes of Health as well as a Master in Public Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with a concentration in health in crisis and humanitarian assistance, while a Sommer Scholar with a full-scholarship. He is an Adjunct Professor with Northwestern University, Associate Faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.