Dr. Heather Waters is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University and has been with the Department since 2000.

Dr. Waters is the Postgraduate Program Director, responsible for leading McMaster’s Family Medicine Residency Training Program across its distributed network of sites. She previously provided educational leadership in Family Medicine in the roles of Hamilton Site Director and Education Coordinator (Stonechurch Family Health Centre).

Dr. Waters works closely with program and CFPC leads in curriculum renewal through the Outcomes of Training Project (OTP). As a member of the CFPC’s Postgraduate Education Committee (PGEC), she contributes to the development of resources to support Family Medicine programs and program directors.

Dr. Waters was McMaster’s former PGME Director of Academic Performance Support and Chair of the Education Advisory Board.  In these roles she provided consultation and support to residency programs, program directors, and residents in situation of learner academic difficulty and remediation. She was a founding member of the National Collaboration of Remediation Leads in 2021.

As a member of the Section of Medicine Professionalism Committee and the Professionalism in Practice Working Group at McMaster, Dr. Waters contributes to the development of tools and processes to support professionalism development for learners and faculty.  As a member of the CanMeds2025 Expert Working Group on the Professional role, she is contributing to updated postgraduate competency expectations related to professionalism and professional identity formation.

Dr. Waters has a keen interest in medical education and scholarship, particularly related to postgraduate training, generalism and family medicine, professionalism and professional identity formation, humanism and the humanities in medicine, physician and resident wellness, physician leadership, and academic performance support/remediation. She is a member of McMaster’s Education Research, Innovation and Theory (MERIT) Program.

Dr. Waters has had longstanding involvement with the Foundation for Medical Practice Education and the Practice-based Small Group Learning Program (PBSG) as a board member, co-editor, author, peer and resident group facilitator.

As an expert generalist and member of the McMaster Family Health Team, Dr. Waters is actively involved in inter-professional team-based practice and education at Stonechurch Family Health Centre. She provided low risk obstetrical care through the Maternity Centre of Hamilton for twenty years, specializing in care to systemically marginalized women and their families.

Dr. Heather Waters is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University and has been with the Department since 2000.

Dr. Waters is the Postgraduate Program Director, responsible for leading McMaster’s Family Medicine Residency Training Program across its distributed network of sites. She previously provided educational leadership in Family Medicine in the roles of Hamilton Site Director and Education Coordinator (Stonechurch Family Health Centre).

Dr. Waters works closely with program and CFPC leads in curriculum renewal through the Outcomes of Training Project (OTP). As a member of the CFPC’s Postgraduate Education Committee (PGEC), she contributes to the development of resources to support Family Medicine programs and program directors.

Dr. Waters was McMaster’s former PGME Director of Academic Performance Support and Chair of the Education Advisory Board.  In these roles she provided consultation and support to residency programs, program directors, and residents in situation of learner academic difficulty and remediation. She was a founding member of the National Collaboration of Remediation Leads in 2021.

As a member of the Section of Medicine Professionalism Committee and the Professionalism in Practice Working Group at McMaster, Dr. Waters contributes to the development of tools and processes to support professionalism development for learners and faculty.  As a member of the CanMeds2025 Expert Working Group on the Professional role, she is contributing to updated postgraduate competency expectations related to professionalism and professional identity formation.

Dr. Waters has a keen interest in medical education and scholarship, particularly related to postgraduate training, generalism and family medicine, professionalism and professional identity formation, humanism and the humanities in medicine, physician and resident wellness, physician leadership, and academic performance support/remediation. She is a member of McMaster’s Education Research, Innovation and Theory (MERIT) Program.

Dr. Waters has had longstanding involvement with the Foundation for Medical Practice Education and the Practice-based Small Group Learning Program (PBSG) as a board member, co-editor, author, peer and resident group facilitator.

As an expert generalist and member of the McMaster Family Health Team, Dr. Waters is actively involved in inter-professional team-based practice and education at Stonechurch Family Health Centre. She provided low risk obstetrical care through the Maternity Centre of Hamilton for twenty years, specializing in care to systemically marginalized women and their families.