Biography
Vipan Nikore, MD, MBA, FACP is an internal medicine physician at Cleveland Clinic, having spent extensive time clinically at both Ohio and Canada campuses. He is also the global Chief Medical Director of TD Bank through Cleveland Clinic Canada’s Corporate Medical Director program, and is an acute inpatient hospitalist at Trillium Health Partners (THP), where he previously was the Site Medical Director for the Department of Medicine at Credit Valley Hospital. He is the CEO and Co-Founder of the innovative healthcare company Homecare Hub that helps patients find small residential assisted living homes, and he is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine where he has taught leadership and emotional intelligence for over a decade.
Dr. Nikore previously was a visiting research scientist in health informatics at MIT in Boston, where he was co-course director for the Sana Global Health Informatics course and co-authored “Global Health Informatics,” one of the first comprehensive global health technology books. Dr. Nikore has led and founded various organizations and groups. In addition to Homecare Hub, he founded the non-profit uFLOW, which empowers underserved youth to start their own health service projects. He recruited hundreds of volunteers and youth and expanded the program to Chicago, Cleveland, New York City, and San Francisco.
He is a former software developer at IBM, and also led projects at Sun Microsystems, Citibank, UCLA, WHO in Geneva, UNICEF in India, the Ontario Ministry of Health. He is an advisor at the Health Education Project in Haiti and has worked clinically in Haiti, Peru, Ghana, Nepal, and India. He has authored chapters on e-Health, medical devices, and genomics. He is frequently invited to speak on healthcare technology, innovation, global health, home health and aging, organizational health and wellness, and leadership.
Dr. Nikore completed his internal medicine residency training from Cleveland Clinic's main campus, MD degree at the University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC), MBA at the Yale School of Management, and his BSc in computer science and software engineering at the University of Western Ontario. At Yale he led the student body as the President of the Yale Graduate and Professional Student Senate. He was selected among all Cleveland Clinic residents for the Michener Leadership Award for leadership and dedication to community service and humanity, and as a medical student was awarded the Eugertha Bates Award among all UIC graduate and professional students for a caring and selfless commitment to the humanitarian needs of others. He was awarded the American College of Physicians prestigious Laureate Award, and is a former winner of Canada’s “Top 40 under 40” award, the country’s most coveted award for young leaders.
In his free time he enjoys sports, travelling, writing, technology, entrepreneurship, philosophy, mentoring youth, discovering new restaurants, and spending time with friends and family. He remains very active by working out and participating in hockey, baseball, hot yoga, and martial arts
Education/Training
- Residency
- Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH - Doctor of Medicine
- University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL - Masters in Business Administration
- Yale University
New Haven, CT - Bachelors of Science, Computer Science
- University of Western Ontario
London, ON
Certifications
- American Board of Internal Medicine
- Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support Training
Specialty Interests
- General medicine
- Adolescent medicine
- Global health
- Healthcare leadership and emotional intelligence
- Corporate health strategy
- Geriatric medicine
- Healthcare quality & patient safety
- Health information technology and innovation
Awards & Honours
- Cleveland Clinic William and Roxanna Michener Leadership Award
- Cleveland Clinic Internal Medicine Senior Resident of the month
- Multiple Cleveland Clinic Caregiver Awards
- American Heart Association (AHA) Heartsaver Hero Award
- University of Illinois Eugertha Bates Award
- Gold Humanism Honor Society Award
- Paul Ambrose Scholarship in Preventative Medicine
- Society for Adolescent Medicine (SAM) National Travel Scholarship
- University of Illinois College of Medicine Student Leadership Award
- Awarded an Albert Schweitzer Healthcare Fellowship Award
- Yale School of Management Bernstein Fellowship Award
- University of Western Ontario Honor W Award
- Dean’s list recipient, University of Western Ontario
- Special Initiative Award in Computer Science
- Western Scholarship of Distinction
- Canada’s Top 40 under 40
Professional Memberships
- Ontario Medical Association
- College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario
- American College of Physicians
- Society of Adolescent Health & Medicine
