During his term, Dr. Gehad Gobran will continue to focus on stabilizing primary care for Nova Scotians by working with health-system partners.

Dr. Gobran has practised as a family physician at the Duffus Health Centre, a collaborative practice in Halifax, since 2008. He is also an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Dalhousie University. He takes shifts in community walk-in clinics, practises at the Newcomer Health Clinic in Halifax and serves as the medical director for the Sagewood Continuing Care Community in Sackville.

Born in Egypt, he completed a residency in family medicine before specializing in cardiology. He practised as a cardiologist in Egypt for 12 years, until he decided to leave for Canada in 2003. He was seeking a safe place to raise his family and liked what he had heard about the Canadian health-care system.

He first became a clinical associate in cardiology at the QEII Health Sciences Centre in Halifax. In 2007, he wrote the Royal College of Family Physicians of Canada Certification Examination in Family Medicine. He joined the Duffus Health Centre shortly after.

Dr. Gobran served a three-year term on the DNS Board of Directors (2019–22) and was a member of the association’s E-health and Audit committees and the Section of Family Doctors Council. He also chairs the Section of Long-term Care Physicians. He completed Dalhousie Medical School’s Emerging Leaders in Academic Medicine program in 2020.

Outside of medicine, Dr. Gobran cultivates strong family relationships with his wife, Iren, who is a pharmacist in Halifax, and their two children.