The health unit that covers Northumberland County has appointed its next Medical Officer of Health.
Dr. Natalie Bocking will take over as the MOH for the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge Health Unit on April 5, 2020 and will replace Dr. Lynn Noseworthy, who is retiring as of December 11, 2020.
Dr. Ian Gemmill will serve as acting MOH during the December-to-April gap.
Dr. Bocking has been educated at McMaster University and earned a Masters in International Public Health from the University of Sydney, Australia, while also getting specialty training at the University of Toronto.
She has spent the past four years working as a public health doctor with the Thunder Bay District Health Unit and the Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority.
Dr. Bocking lives with her family in the City of Kawartha Lakes, where they moved in the fall of last year.
