Farah Ismail, a nurse turned health-care lawyer, wins Western’s Professional Achievement Award
The Western nursing graduate is chief legal, privacy and compliance officer at SE Health and co-founded Grayson’s Gratitude to support pediatric renal priorities at SickKids.
Farah Ismail, BScN’00, MScN’03, is the 2026 recipient of Western Alumni’s Professional Achievement Award. She began as a pediatric nurse, then earned a law degree at the University of Windsor and moved into health-care law.
Today she is senior vice-president and chief legal, privacy and compliance officer at SE Health, one of Canada’s largest not-for-profit social enterprises. She spent more than a decade in health-care regulation leadership and has been an adjunct lecturer at the University of Toronto’s Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing since 2021. She sits on the boards of the Ontario Community Support Association and Women in General Counsel.
In 2019 she co-founded Grayson’s Gratitude, a charity inspired by her son’s health-care journey that supports pediatric renal priorities at SickKids Hospital. She was a finalist for Canadian Lawyer’s Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers in Canada and stays involved with Western through mentorship and alumni initiatives.
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