Dr. Alan Brookstone

CEO, Cientis Technologies

Dr. Alan Brookstone is a physician and health IT evangelist with extensive international, provincial and regional experience in primary care electronic medical records and acute care clinical systems. He is a family physician with 25 years of medical practice experience in rural and urban practice settings. He is a nationally respected clinical expert in the adoption and use of information technology in medical practice settings. In 2004, Dr. Brookstone established Cientis Technologies (www.cientis.com), a Vancouver-based company with a mission to facilitate the adoption and use of information technology by clinicians. A wide range of tools have been developed to support two large online clinical communities in Canada and the United States with over 18,000 members.