Dr. Bhavan Panghali

Bhavan was fortunate to join the PKH team in 2021 after she moved to Toronto to start her residency in Pediatrics at Sick Kids Hospital. She moved from British Columbia where she was born and raised. She is proud to live up to the BC stereotype as she enjoys spending her time skiing in the winter and hiking or cycling trails in the summer. She grew up in the rural town of Merritt then completed her BSc in Microbiology at UBC Okanagan in Kelowna. She later completed medical school at UBC in the Southern Medical Program in Kelowna, graduating in 2021. Her experiences with child and youth advocacy in her small home town and later, in Vancouver, BC had inspired Bhavan to focus her advocacy work in the Punjabi and other racialized communities, especially now in the GTA.