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Dr. Jake Onrot

Dr. Jake Onrot graduated from University of Toronto medical school in 1975 and completed his fellowship in Internal Medicine in Toronto in 1982. He trained in hypertension and clinical pharmacology at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee from 1983 to 1985. He has been on teaching faculty in the University of British Columbia Department of Medicine for 20 years

He is currently clinical professor in medicine at UBC and director of the Blood Pressure Control Clinic at St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC. He attends on the internal mecicine clinical teaching unit and the specialized inpatient unit for HIV medicine. He operates weekly blood pressure and internal medicine outpatient teaching clinics.

He is the former medical director of St. Paul’s Hospital clinical teaching units and former St. Paul’s associate head of medicine (clinical). He served on the Royal College’s examiners board in internal  medicine for 10 years. He has been a visiting teaching  professor at many medical schools in Canada and the United States and worked and taught at the University of Zambia in 1991.

His passion is clinical medicine His interests include medical education, both of fellow health care workers and the general public. Outside of medicine, he enjoys reading, travel, outdor sports, and kicking back with his young family.

Site of Practice:

St. Paul’s Hospital

Contact Information: 

St. Paul’s Hospital Switchboard:  604-682-2344