Skennen’kó:wa ken? Are you in great peace or are you in great balance? Santee Smith, McMaster’s Chancellor, will bring that question to us all during the 2022 Carl Moore Lecture. Her multimedia presentation is an invitation to explore and learn from Indigenous Ancestral traditions which seek to promote peace of mind and body in relation to self, community and environment for overall well-being

Santee Smith is a multidisciplinary artist from the Kanyen’kehà:ka Nation, Turtle Clan, Six Nations of the Grand River. She trained at Canada’s National Ballet School and premiered her debut work Kaha:wi — a family creation story — in 2004. A year later she founded Kaha:wi Dance Theatre which has grown into an internationally renowned company. Santee’s artistic work speaks about identity, Indigenous narratives and way of life. Her body of work includes numerous productions and short performance works which tour nationally and internationally. She is the recipient of numerous awards and is a sought-after teacher and speaker on the performing arts and Indigenous performance and culture. Santee is the 19th Chancellor of McMaster University.

About Carl Moore

Dr. Carl Moore is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University. Originally a community-based family physician in the Hamilton area, Dr. Moore was Chair of the Department of Family Medicine from 1975 to 1986.

During his tenure as Chair, he worked with the fledgling department and a group of committed community physicians to further develop family medicine as a recognized discipline in Canada. Throughout his career, Dr. Moore was at the forefront of innovation in primary care service, education, research and policy development and would take on leadership roles at the international, national and provincial levels.

The Department of Family Medicine honours Dr. Moore’s contributions to the development of primary care through this annual lectureship in his name. This event brings timely and provocative topics with local, national, and international significance to a forum that welcomes the McMaster, Hamilton, and wider community to better understand and respond to issues in primary care.

Previous lectures

1999
Developments in Primary Care in the UK. NHS: Lessons for us All
Dr. Andrew Willis, UK General Practitioner

2000
Canadian Family Medicine: Meeting the Challenge
Dr. Carol Herbert, Dean, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario

2001
Training for Rural Practice: Lessons from Australia
Dr. Roger Strasser, Professor of Rural Health, Monash University, Australia

2002
Ethics and Human Rights in Medical Practice: A South African Experience
Dr. Wendy Orr, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

2003
Facing Death; Embracing Life
Dr. David Kuhl, Palliative Care Physician

2004
Humanity in Long Term Care: Ethical, Clinical and Social Challenges
Dr. Michael Gordon, VP Medical Services & Head of Geriatrics, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care

2005
The Promotion of Disease and the Corrosion of Medicine
Dr. Iona Heath, UK General Practitioner

2006
Finding Balance
Dr. Marla Shapiro, Family Physician, Toronto

2007
Generous Medicine: How Physicians-as-Providers Can Remain Healers
Dr. Arthur Frank, Professor of Sociology, University of Calgary, Alberta

2008
Making a Global Difference: One Physician’s Story
Dr. John Sellors, Senior Medical Advisor Reproductive Health Global Program at PATH

2010
The Media: Part of the Circle of Care for our Patients? Tips from a media savvy physician
Dr. Brian Goldman, Host of CBC Radio White Coat, Black Art

2011
The joys and challenges of rural practice and the perspective of being From Away
Dr. Mo Ravalia, Memorial University

2012
Rigorous Subjectivity: Attending to the Paradox in Healthcare
Dr. Cathy Risdon, Professor, Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University

2013
Complexity and Chronicity: The Challenges of caring for older adults with chronic disease in primary care
Dr. Ross Upshur, University of Toronto

2014
Doing Nothing, Well: How good medicine can be bad for your health (and how to avoid it)
Dr. Dee Mangin, Professor and David Braley & Nancy Gordon Chair in Family Medicine, McMaster University

2015
On crisis, hubris and the future of medicalization. Or: you ain’t seen nothing yet!
Linn Getz, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

2016
One Eye Forward & One Eye Back
Dr. Evan Adams, Tla”amin First Nation

2017
Time to Retire Evidence Based Medicine? Primary Care Leading the Practice Based Evidence Revolution
Dr. Joanne Reeve, Univ. of Liverpool, UK

2018
Why We Revolt—Patient Revolution for Careful and Kind Care
Dr. Victor Montori, Mayo Clinic