Martha Porado

Author Profile

Martha Porado is a Toronto-based award-winning reporter and editor specializing in healthcare, science, business and political journalism. She is the editor of the Canadian Healthcare Network, prior to which she was the managing editor of the Medical Post and Pharmacy Practice + Business.

Her previous roles include associate editor of Benefits Canada magazine, where she specialized in institutional investment news. Her byline can also be found in many other Canadian publications, including Advisor’s Edge, Investment Executive, the Canadian Investment Review, Canadian Insurance Top Broker, Canadian Grocer, Now Magazine and the now defunct Vice. Prior to focusing on print and digital publishing, she worked at BNN Bloomberg’s downtown Toronto newsroom as a broadcast associate and production coordinator for live news broadcasts. She fondly remembers screening call-in questions for its popular Market Call program.

When she is not editing copy on new clinical research or putting together tomorrow’s Doctor Daily newsletter, she can be found watering her ceiling-scraping houseplants, driving around with antique furniture peeking out of her hatchback, or bragging about how she’s definitely seen more movies than you have.

ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR

12/3/2023
A portrait of an addict
Now 63, Mike Sommers of Red Deer Alta. details a life complicated by the use of many substances that started with sniffing glue at 14.

Martha Porado
11/22/2023
Meet the candidates for CMA president for 2025-26
Voting is now open, and this time, it’s New Brunswick’s turn.

Martha Porado
11/21/2023
Alberta planning new compensation model to encourage nurse practitioners to set up their own independent practices
A release from the province said nurse practitioners ‘can provide about 80% of the medical services a family physician provides.’

Martha Porado
11/14/2023
Dr. Alika Lafontaine hosts new podcast
The Healthcare Divide takes a hard look at healthcare inequities relating to race.

Martha Porado
11/5/2023
Up to $40K: Fee-for-service docs in Sask. will soon be able to apply for ‘stabilization funding’
The funding is meant to help docs as the province transitions to a blended capitation model.

Martha Porado
11/1/2023
What will the CFPC do next? Family docs pass non-binding vote asking to pause addition of third-year to FM residency
Members made their voices heard at a CFPC meeting on Wednesday night. So what will the college do now that physicians have asserted their concerns in this forum?

Martha Porado
10/29/2023
Hang on a minute: OMA letter to CFPC asks college to take a pause on third-year family medicine residency issue
The letter noted Ontario's Health Minister Sylvia Jones is also calling for a pause.

Martha Porado
10/29/2023
The cutest (and tiniest) costumes: NICU babies get dolled up for Halloween
It's become a tradition to dress up the littlest patients in hospital.

Martha Porado
10/26/2023
The value of ‘struggle’ in medical training
A group of medical educators and learners debated the topic at the latest International Conference of Residency Education.

Martha Porado
10/4/2023
OMA appoints new CEO
Kimberly Moran was previously CEO of the Ontario College of Family Physicians.

Martha Porado