Carina A. Lentsch
Biography
Carina Lentsch is an advocate for health care professionals. She has devoted her legal career to representing health care professionals at all stages of their career in complaints, investigations, incapacity, registration, and discipline proceedings, as well as malpractice, employment, and human rights claims. She also assists clients in privacy, employment, professional liability insurance, and consent and capacity matters.
Carina appears before all levels of Court in Ontario, regulatory Colleges and Associations, the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board (HPARB), the Information and Privacy Commissioner (IPC), and the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO).
Carina was called to the Ontario Bar in 2011 after completing her articles with a large national firm. Prior to starting her own firm, she has practiced at boutique litigation firms in downtown Toronto representing health professionals and regulators.
She has served on the OBA Health Law Section Executive from 2019 to 2021.
Carina received her law degree from the University of Windsor, Faculty of Law, where she was recognized with an award in administrative and employment law. In 2020, she received a Certificate in Privacy and Information Management in Healthcare from Osgoode Hall Law School.
John McIntyre
Biography
John (he/him) founded McIntyre Szabo PC, after working as a senior associate in a leading health law group at one of the largest law firms in Canada. Before this, John served as a judicial law clerk at the Court of Appeal for Ontario, with Justices MacPherson, Pepall, Benotto and Miller.John routinely represents and advises clients in the health care sector, including hospitals, public health units and healthcare practitioners. His practice focuses on professional regulation and discipline (including College complaints and investigations), medical staff credentialing, mental health law, appellate advocacy, civil litigation (including medical malpractice suits), as well as general legal, operational and risk advice. He also provides both external counsel and secondment support to hospitals as needed. He has acted as counsel at all levels of court in Ontario, the Supreme Court of Canada and various tribunals. In 2021 and 2022, he was recognized as “One to Watch” in Health Care Law by the Best Lawyers in Canada.John provides a holistic perspective to health law with a deep understanding of the industry. In 2022, he completed his Master Degree in Public Health at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, where he is concentrated in Health Leadership and Management with a Certificate in LGBTQ Public Health. While at Johns Hopkins, John worked as a Patient Safety and Quality Consultant for Johns Hopkins Health System, co-authored a proposal for federal funding of a prophylactic (PrEP) to help end the HIV epidemic in the United States and contributed as a reviewer and author to the Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management. John then spent several months as an Administrative Fellow at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, where he both shadowed and worked with Executive Leadership on initiatives across the health system.
Natasha Novac
Biography
Natasha Novac is an Associate in the Regulatory Practice Group at WeirFoulds LLP. Her practice focuses on public, administrative and regulatory law and civil litigation. Prior to joining WeirFoulds, Natasha was an Associate at a Toronto-based litigation boutique, where she practised civil litigation, professional regulation and union-side labour law. In this role, she appeared regularly before the Superior Court of Justice and private labour arbitrators. Natasha completed her JD at Osgoode Hall Law School, where she served as co-managing editor of TheCourt.ca and on the executive of the Osgoode Hall Law Journal. Post-call, Natasha clerked for the judges of the Superior Court of Justice in Toronto and at the Federal Court of Canada. In 2023 she completed her LL.M. at Harvard Law School, where she wrote on feminist legal theory in Title IX administration and enforcement. Natasha has contributed several articles on legal ethics to peer-reviewed academic journals. Before becoming a lawyer, Natasha managed a healthcare non-profit that serves survivors of domestic violence.
