Get Talking! Healthcare Entrepreneurship in Action: Innovation at the Intersection of Medicine and Business
Get Talking! is an in-person discussion series focused on the most challenging issues facing healthcare today including equitable access to care, legislation, funding, delivery, and innovation. It is intended to showcase multiple perspectives and create a forum for a constructive, respectful discussion.
Join us for Healthcare Entrepreneurship in Action: Innovation at the Intersection of Medicine and Business, featuring two physician-entrepreneurs who turned clinical expertise into thriving ventures to improve patient care and expand access to healthcare.
Host
Speakers
Dr. Keith Jarvi, MD, FRCS(C)
Director, Murray Koffler Urologic Wellness Centre, Mount Sinai Hospital
Head of Division of Urology, Mount Sinai Hospital
University of Toronto
Dr. Baseer Khan, MD, FRCSC
Cataract, Complex Anterior Segment, Glaucoma and Refractive Surgeon
Lumea
When and where
In person on Tuesday, September 30, 2025, 4 - 6 pm ET
TRP Auditorium
263 McCaul St. Toronto, ON
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The full series
- 30 September, 2025: Healthcare Entrepreneurship in Action: Innovation at the Intersection of Medicine and Business
- 4 November, 2025: Pathways to Leadership: Careers in Healthcare and Innovation
- 2 December, 2025: Justice, Policy, and Mental Health: Making the Connection
- 27 January, 2026: Consent and Conflict of Interest: Navigating Ethics in Healthcare
- 24 February, 2026: Dispelling Myths Around Hospice and Palliative Care: A Focus on Advance Care Planning
- 7 April, 2026: Restructuring Healthcare Systems: Lessons, Challenges, and Opportunities
Speaker Bios
Dr. Keith Jarvi, MD, FRCS(C)
Director, Murray Koffler Urologic Wellness Centre, Mount Sinai Hospital
Head of Division of Urology, Mount Sinai Hospital
University of Toronto
Dr. Jarvi is Professor of Surgery, Division of Urology, Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto, Chief of Urology and Director of the Murray Koffler Urologic Wellness Centre, and Clinician Scientist of the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at the Mount Sinai Hospital. He received his urology training at the University of Toronto and his subspecialty training in male infertility at McGill University and the University of California, San Francisco. He helped to establish the fertility program in Urology at the University of Toronto, which has become a well-recognized Canadian centre of excellence for the treatment of male infertility.
Dr. Jarvi’s main areas of clinical interest are microsurgical reconstruction techniques, sperm retrieval techniques and genetic abnormalities associated with male infertility. His research interests include genetic alterations associated with male infertility, use of multi-eomics to identify biomarkers in semen and the role of infection in male infertility, prostate cancer and prostatitis, the etiology and management of chronic scrotal pain. His research projects are funded with grants from the Canadian Cancer Society, MaRS Innovation, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Genome Canada, Ontario Research Fund and the NIH.
Dr. Baseer Khan, MD, FRCSC
Cataract, Complex Anterior Segment, Glaucoma and Refractive Surgeon
Lumea
After graduating with the honour of being the top surgical resident in the ophthalmology program at the University of Toronto, I went on to sub-specialize in complex anterior segment reconstruction and glaucoma surgery. I worked as an associate in a number of practices for 3 years before deciding that I wanted to start my own practice. I am currenly the regional Chief of ophthalmology in York Region, and the site chief at Southlake regional hospital in Newmarket. I also an assistant professor at the university of Toronto, and teach at Mount Sinai Hospital.
In 2009, I founded Clarity Eye Institute in a small office in Scarborough, with myself as the only ophthalmologist. Since that time, I have brought on a single junior partner, and we have grown to 10 locations across the GTA with over 40 eye care professionals. Currently, Clarity is the largest ophthalmic group in Ontario. After pioneering the private surgery market, Clarity Eye also entered in laser eye surgery market, under the brand Lumea, with strategic partnerships with a number of industry partners. Over this time, Clarity has participated in over a dozen industry-sponsored trials, medical and surgical, Phase I through IV. Aspiring to optimize administrative function and vastly improve patient interactions and experience, we spun off a full service ERP system that managed our medical records and other administrative functions.
Specifically, highlighting my individual professional activities, I have and continue to serve as a global and national consultant and key opinion leader for many industry partners including Alcon, Johnson’s and Johnson’s, Allergan, Glaukos, Zeiss, PhysioIOL, Refocus and most actively Valeant (Bausch and Lomb). The extent of my consulting has included both clinical and corporate strategies. I have served as a Principle Investigator on ten trials in both medical and surgical arenas in the cataract and glaucoma space. In addition to Ontario, I hold an active medical license in Jamaica, where I work alongside 3 other ophthalmologists in Montego Bay.
Aside from ophthalmology, I have had some varied interests during my career. For a platitude of reasons, I became very politically active at the provincial level about six years ago. There have been a number of opportunities that arose from this engagement, most notably two. The first of which has most recently culminated in being appointed to the Political Advisory Committee on Medical Affairs for the Provincial Progressive Conservative and Patrick Brown, with whom I’ve formed a friendship with. I subsequently sat on the Premier’s Health Council for Digital and Health Care Innovation. Most recently, I have been in the lead for GR for the OMA section of Ophthalmology and have informally supported the OMA in messaging to various Ministries in the government. Secondly, in 2014, I was invited to join the board of medical marijuana company (MDRM:OTC). Subsequent to which, I became the CMO and went on to be the CEO for a short duration of time. Although, by all metrics, this was a failure of both time and money, it was the springboard for me to seek formal education in business domain.
In 2016, I completed the Physician CEO program at the Kellogg School of Management; this certificate course specifically engineered for physicians, was a 1-month, intensive concentration of both MBA level and leadership material divided quarterly over the course of a year. This experience was truly transformative, representing a seminal pivot in my approach to business, career and life. In 2019, I founded and Co-Chaired the SMART (Successful Management After Residency Training) Program at the Schulich School of Businessand am co-chairing the novel Physician MBA program also at Schulich
Wanting to acquire a strong financial background, I became the first doctor in Ontario to earn a Master of Finance degree, from Queens Univeristy in 2023. Bolstering not only the financial strength of the current operation, I was invited to be a partner in a Canadian-based hegde fund (Theta IQ), and have since registered with the OSC and am pursuing further designations within the financial industry.
Most recently, I was awared the King Charles III Coronation medal by the Premiers office for outstanding contributions to the province in various areas.