Dr. Parnian Pardis is a Family Physician practicing in Toronto, Ontario providing comprehensive family medicine and urgent care to patients from diverse socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds. Her practice interests include preventative care, women’s health and mental health. She is committed to providing empathic care, empowering patients to become active participants in their health. Dr. Pardis’ direct patient care and research background has given her a realistic perspective on the opportunities and challenges facing physicians today. As such, she is interested in applying her clinical experience beyond the individual patient encounter to improve healthcare delivery.
Dr. Pardis is particularly passionate about clinical innovation and physician efficiency. She was an early adopter of AI-powered scribe tools to reduce her administrative burden, improve workflows and reflect deeply on patient care. Her experience with AI has led her to think critically about how emerging technologies can be appropriately evaluated and integrated into existing professional workflows.
Education and mentorship are equally important parts of her career. Dr. Pardis has supervised medical residents as a Staff Physician to support their education and training. She also holds a thesis-based MSc focused on the psychopharmacology of patients with treatment-resistant schizophrenia and has a strong interest in Free Open Access Medicine resources, as evidenced by her research involvement throughout her medical education. Dr. Pardis’ educational background provides her with substantial experience in clinical research, scientific inquiry, and evidence-based medicine.
In addition, she has practiced across Family Health Organization, Family Health Groups, and fee-for-service models, and worked extensively with patients enrolled in the Interim Federal Health Program. Through these experiences, she has formed an understanding of the operational and billing considerations associated with different models of care.
Dr. Pardis values the opportunity to bring together her clinical, academic, and technology-focused experience. She provides a frontline physician perspective with a practical objective to improve efficiency, support clinicians in the workplace, and enhance the patient experience.
- Quality Improvement
- Healthcare Consulting
- Medical Content Creation
- Leadership
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)
- Cleghorn Fellowship in Schizophrenia Research
- Dr. Keyna Bracken Bursary for Interest in Primary Care
- Pardis, P., Pitkis, A., Horsley, T., Dhanireddy, B., Gottlieb, M., Thoma, B., Chan, T. M., & Zuckerman, M. D. (2026). A Qualitative Study on the Benefits and Costs to Creators and Producers of Medical Open Educational Resources: Freely Given, but at What Cost?. Cureus , 18 (6), e111307.
- Zuckerman, M., Pardis, P., Horsley, T., Dhanireddy, B., YIlmaz, Y., Gottlieb, M., Thoma, B., & Chan, T. M. (2023). The rebel, the professor, and the entrepreneur: Qualitative study to explore creator stories of FOAM. AEM education and training , 7 (4), e10892.
- Chen, X., Momin, A., Wanggou, S., Wang, X., Min, H. K., Dou, W., Gong, Z., Chan, J., Dong, W., Fan, J. J., Xiong, Y., Talipova, K., Zhao, H., Chen, Y. X., Veerasammy, K., Fekete, A., Kumar, S. A., Liu, H., Yang, Q., Son, J. E., Dou, Z., Hu, M., Pardis, P., … Huang, X. (2023). Mechanosensitive brain tumor cells construct blood-tumor barrier to mask chemosensitivity. Neuron, 111 (1), 30–48.e14.
- Yilmaz, Y., Wu, K., Pardis, P., Kamhawy, R., Mondoux, S., & Chan, T. M. (2022). What Faculty Want: Academic and Community Emergency Physicians’ Perceptions of Learner Feedback. Cureus , 14 (3), e23546.
- Pardis, P., Remington, G., Panda, R., Lemez, M., & Agid, O. (2019). Clozapine and tardive dyskinesia in patients with schizophrenia: A systematic review. Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) , 33 (10), 1187–1198.