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As an IMG,I had Master Degree in Internal Medicine 1988.Accepted as Internal Medicine Resident McMaster University, moved to Family Medicine Resident which is completed 2008.I completed the CCFP exam then worked as a Family Physician in Burlington 2009.I joined Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital as a full time HOSPITALIST since 2010 until current date. I have been appointed as Associate Clinical Professor(Adjunct)2015.

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Dr. Gina Agarwal is a Professor in the Departments of Family Medicine and Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact and an Associate Professor in the Department of Health and Aging. She is a practicing Family Physician, Primary Care Epidemiologist, and the McMaster Family Medicine Levitt Scholar. She is a member of the McMaster Institute for Research on Aging and the McMaster Institute for Health Equity. Her research achievements have been recognized with the CIHR-IHSPR Article of the Year Award (2019), the prestigious Mid-Career Researcher Award from the North American Primary Care Research Group (2018), and an Award of Excellence from the College of Family Physicians of Canada (2016). As the Director of the Vulnerable Individuals in Primary Care (VIP) Research Lab, she focuses on improving primary health care access for vulnerable populations, ensuring people in need receive appropriate care at the right time and in the right place. As the Principal Investigator of the McMaster Community Paramedicine Research Team, she has driven health system change including the uptake of the innovative Community Paramedicine at Clinic (CP@clinic) program by 51% of Ontario Paramedic Services and its national (e.g. BCEHS) and international (e.g. UK, Australia) scale-up. She has worked extensively in social housing to improve the health of this vulnerable population and identify healthcare usage patterns. Her quantitative and qualitative research, including complex pragmatic studies, uses rigorous methods to produce novel insight into the unmet health needs of traditionally difficult-to-reach populations and determines cost-effective and targeted healthcare solutions nationally and globally. She regularly supervises undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students.

Special Interests: Unmet health needs of vulnerable populations (e.g. social housing residents), Quantitative and qualitative research methods (e.g. community-based RCTs including complex pragmatic studies and cost-effectiveness of community programming), Community Paramedicine, Social Housing, Diabetes, Cost-effective and targeted healthcare solutions, Community programming for the management of chronic health conditions, Low-cost primary care innovations in low and middle-income countries.

VIP Research Lab Website (https://vipresearchlab.ca/)

CP@clinic Website (https://cpatclinic.ca/)

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Cheryl Allaby has worked as a hospitalist (Clinical Assistant) in the Department of Geriatric Medicine since completing her Family Medicine Residency at McMaster University in 1995.

Prior to medicine she was a physiotherapist employed at St. Peter’s Hospital in the Geriatric Day Hospital primarily. Cheryl’s passion for working with older adults began in her teen years. She is inspired by the life journeys of seniors and the richness of stories from the past and present.

She became involved in undergraduate medical education in the early 2000’s, supervising clinical clerks in Geriatric Medicine rotations and tutoring in the MD program. In 2010 she accepted a full-time academic position with the Department of Family Medicine and became an Associate Professor in 2015. She now does clinical supervision of clinical clerks, residents, fellows and continues to enjoy tutoring in the MD program.

She is the Site Coordinator for the Juravinski Geriatric Teaching Unit and a member of the Geriatric Residency Program Committee.

Cheryl is committed to making learning fun and has developed interactive case-based tutorials for teaching geriatric topics, including falls, delirium and Polypharmacy.

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Ellen Amster is the Jason A. Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine at McMaster University and Associate Professor in the Departments of Family Medicine and Religious Studies. She received her B.A. from the University of Chicago and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research engages medicine in France, North America, and the Islamic world, focusing especially on global health, religion and nonwestern healing, women’s histories, and empire. From her award-winning book, Medicine and the Saints: Science, Islam, and the Colonial Encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956 (University of Texas) she developed an interdisciplinary global health field course for undergraduate students and is the Principal Investigator of the Morocco-Canadian Network in Maternal and Infant Health. Ongoing projects include the transnational legacies of race and colonialism in medicine, the history of public health, women and gender in medicine, midwifery, and medical education. Her research has been funded by IIE Fulbright-Hayes, the Chateaubriand Program of the French government, the Social Science Research Council, AIMS, SSHRC, and CIHR. Dr. Amster provides a regular speaker series open to the campus in the history of medicine. Her teaching includes the history of public health, research electives and professional competencies for MD students in the Michael DeGroote School of Medicine, and Islamic and gender studies in the Department of Religious Studies. For everyone to enjoy, she developed the AMS-funded Hannah History of Medicine and Medical Humanities Research Portal, with hundreds of libraries, archives, museums, digital collections, and grants, to browse for research and fun: http://medhumanities.mcmaster.ca.

Special Interests: maternal and infant health, Islamic bioethics, race and colonialism in medicine, history of medicine, medical education, gender, public health.

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Dr. Anne Aubé is a bilingual Family Physician at The Beamsville Medical Centre. She obtained a Bachelor of Science in Physiology and Psychology at The University of Western Ontario and then went on to complete her Medical Doctorate and Family Medicine Residency through the Francophone stream at The University of Ottawa. Since 2009 she has been practicing Family Medicine in the community and has had hospital privileges at The West Lincoln Memorial Hospital in Grimsby where she participates in Inpatient Care, Obstetrics and Surgical Assisting. As well as her clinical role at this hospital, she has been the site lead of Family Medicine since March of 2020. She was recognized for her dedicated service and outstanding contributions to patient care when she received the West Lincoln Memorial Hospital Colleague Award in 2021. In her free time, Dr. Aubé loves to spend time with her husband and two children going camping and enjoying the outdoors. She enjoys yoga, reading, gardening and cooking and wishes every day had 48 hours in it to do more of those things she loves!

Special Interests: Inpatient Medicine, Women’s Health and Obstetrics, Palliative Care

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Alison Baker is a family physician in Brantford, Ontario and teaches medical students and residents through the Grand Erie Six Nations Clinical Education Campus. She is the Assessment Director for the Department of Family of Medicine Residency Program and an Assistant Clinical Professor at McMaster. She previously held the position of Faculty Development Site Director for Grand Erie Six Nations. She is the recipient of the 2017 Excellence in Pre-Clerkship teaching award. Her research activities include using simulation to teach essential conversations in palliative care and examining motivations for pursuing enhanced skill credentials in family medicine. She is the lead physician for the Brant Family Health Organization and a member of the Brantford Brant Primary Care Council, helping to build the Brantford Brant Ontario Health Team.

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Dr. Bal is an Assistant Clinical Professor with the Department of Family Medicine, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine and Preclerkship Coordinator for the Waterloo Regional Campus. Dr. Bal is currently completing her Master of Clinical Science (FM) at Western University, and is a recent graduate of the ALiEM Faculty Incubator Program for digital scholarship. Dr. Bal is very involved with health system transformation and leadership, holding roles with Ontario Health as the Primary Care Clinical Lead for Cambridge, a member of the Steering and Joint Board Committees of the Cambridge-North Dumfries Ontario Health Team and sits on the Ontario Primary Care Council. She is engaged with medical politics and is co-chair of OMA Women and was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the Ontario Medical Association. Equity-based work is of particular interest to Dr. Bal, and in addition to gender equity she is involved in regional initiatives including membership on the Refugee Taskforce for the Region of Waterloo’s Immigration Partnership Council and the Steering Committee for the Waterloo-Wellington Older Adult Strategy. She enjoys hiking and spending time with her tweens!

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Nirosha Balakumar joined our department in September 2021 as our new EDI and Anti-Racism Partner. This is a new role to DFM and in partnership with the Equity and Inclusion Office. Nirosha is a recent graduate of Cambridge University, having pursued an MPhil in Education, Globalization, and International Development as a McKenzie King Scholar and Marty Memorial Fellow. Her research sought to understand a sense of belonging for racialized immigrant youth in white, Eurocentric educational spaces, with a specific case study based on an African and Caribbean high school mentorship program she co-founded in Kingston, Ontario. Prior to her graduate studies, Nirosha completed her BAH in Global Development Studies and Gender Studies at Queen’s University. Nirosha has held roles at Queen’s University’s Human Rights and Equity Office as an International Education Content Specialist, as well as with the City of Toronto, the Urban Alliance on Race Relations and the University Health Network in the areas of anti-oppression and anti-racism. Having worked in the non-profit sector for organizations such as Plan International Canada, CAMFED Canada, as well as with the United Nations Kosovo Team, Nirosha is committed to integrating intersectional global perspectives that challenge Eurocentric norms. Nirosha is also a spoken word artist and TEDx speaker who highly values the integration of art and advocacy as an approach to decolonizing education. She also takes great pride in her mixed cultural identity as a Tamil and Indo-Trinidadian woman and values the opportunity to bring her whole self into her work.

Special Interests: Anti-racism & anti-oppression, art and advocacy, community resilience, culturally relative and responsive pedagogy, decolonizing education & research methods, storytelling/narrative research, mentorship.

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Amanda Bell is a graduate of McMaster’s medical school and has been practising as a small-town family physician in Niagara since 2000 with special interest in adolescent medicine and women’s health. She is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine. She has served as Regional Assistant Dean of the Niagara Regional Campus at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine since 2017. She has completed a Master’s in Health Science Education Program at McMaster where her area of research was student mistreatment. Amanda is also interested in research and collaboration in areas of professionalism, mentorship, leadership development and student experience. Amanda has received the John C. Sibley Award for excellence in education from the Faculty of Health Sciences as well as a Certificate of Merit from the Canadian Association for Medical Education. She is fueled by tea, chocolate, reading, Netflix and laughter.

Special Interests: student mistreatment professionalism women’s health adolescent medicine sexual health

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Dr. Boyd’s passion for caring for older adults led him to provide primary care in a family practice for 6 years before pivoting to full time post-acute and long-term care. He supports the education of medical students, family physician residents, care of the elderly and geriatrics fellows. His research interests focus on long-term care. His academic service includes serving on the care of the elderly working group, the long-term care clinician’s interest group, the Greater Hamilton Health Network’s Long-term Care Advisory table, and the Provincial Geriatric Leadership Ontario’s Clinical Leadership council. When not providing bedside care, he serves as the medical director of St. Joseph’s Villa and Alexander Place as well as the chief of staff at St. Joseph’s Health Centre Guelph. He is a past president of the Ontario Long-term Care Physicians and the past chair of the Ontario Medical Association’s section on long-term care / care of the elderly.

Special Interests: Long-term care.

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Special Interests: Emergency Medicine. Hospital Medicine. Memory Clinic.

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Dr. Martin Chasen, completed his undergraduate training at the University of Pretoria in 1983, later obtaining a specialist degree in Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology and Master of Philosophy (Palliative Medicine) at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is currently the Medical Director of Palliative Care, at William Osler Health System in Brampton. He holds professorships at the Universities of Toronto, McMaster, Ottawa and McGill . Also Universities of Cape Town and Bond in Australia He is the recipient of the 2020 Eduardo Bruera and Elisabeth Latimer Awards in Palliative Medicine. His team has recently received $1.4M in funding from the Health Canada – for the RELIEF (Remote Self-Reporting of Symptoms by Patients with Palliative Care Needs) study. He was the Canadian PI for the international MENAC (Multimodal Intervention for Cachexia in Advanced Cancer Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy (MENAC) study He has in excess of 110 peer reviewed publications, abstracts and book chapters. He is the principle investigator of CIHR. MENAC, trial He has lectured internationally and nationally – and appeared on media including as invited Speaker “Palliative Care”, House of Commons, Parliament of Canada. Dr Chasen is Medical co-lead for the Palliative Care Network Under his leadership there is now a comprehensive palliative program in Central West with an inpatient acute unit, a consult service, an outpatient clinic and robust home care service as well as a virtual palliative care service Dr. Chasen is a LEAP Facilitator. He was recently as executive member of the Canadian Clinical Trials group.

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OHN CHONG MD, BASc, MSc, DOHS, FRCPC, FACPM, MDPAC(C), ARCT The harmonization of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) and Performing Arts Medicine (PAM) has created a powerful transformation for the healing of musculoskeletal pain, mental health and addictions, and stress-related disorders in a vulnerable population where current evidence-based medicine has fallen short. Although it has been a long journey to learn and practice the essential skills to provide effective healthcare to the performing arts community, the impact of CAM interventions has touched, moved, and inspired an energetic and creative generation of performing artists and healthcare professionals. The Musicians’ Clinics of Canada since 1986 has been the focus of clinical practice, education, and research in Complementary and Integrative Health igniting exciting possibilities in the orchestration of new clinical paradigms. By collaborating with many colleagues in the Performing Arts Medicine Association (PAMA) since its inception in 1983, methodical stepwise progress has been made in the design, implementation, and evaluation of CAM assessment and treatment approaches. This has required visionary leadership and personal integrity to move PAMA from traditional medical values to an inclusive multidisciplinary organization from diverse healing perspectives. Integration of experience in the performing arts, electrical engineering and public health and preventive medicine with the new frontiers of integrative medicine has been a catalyst for further progress. Building a foundation of practice-based evidence of applied psychophysiology drawing from eastern philosophies of acupuncture to the spectrum of psychotherapy will contribute to the scientific basis of evidence-based performing arts medicine.

Special Interests: Performing Arts Medicine, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Cannabis Health Integrative Medicine Practice-Based Evidence Research, Performance Exposure Therapy, Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

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Rhonda Collins has been a faculty member of the Department of Family Medicine since 2012. She has a passion for improving the lives of older adults. She has achieved a certificate of added competence in care of the elderly. She has worked as a consultant for a geriatric mental health outreach team and a rehabilitation hospital with a focus on early diagnosis of dementia. She has served on the board of directors for the Alzheimer’s Society Niagara Region and is the current Vice President of Ontario Long Term Care Clinicians, a voluntary non-profit organization whose vision is that all Ontarians in Long Term Care will receive excellent care. Rhonda enjoys time with friends and family, traveling, scuba diving, gourmet food and excellent Ontario wines.

Special Interests: care of the elderly, dementia, behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia, osteoporosis, fracture prevention, quality of life.

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David has been a faculty member since 2005. He has an interest in hospital medicine, emergency medicine, pediatrics and geriatrics. He also has a keen interest in how climate change is affecting health. He is a board member of the Guelph FHT and won the Preceptor of the Year award for the KW and area family medicine program in 2018. David enjoys time with his family, cycling, skiing, camping, live music and road trips.

Special Interests: Hospital Medicine, Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine, Geriatrics, Climate Change

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Dr. Anthony Davies describes himself as a “generalist Family Physician” with practice areas in Academic Family Medicine, Family Practice Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine, Integrative Medicine, Rural and Remote Medicine, Global Health, Pain management, Psychiatry and Addictions, and Care of the Elderly. As an academic general practitioner, Anthony has pursued interests in eLearning, simulation education and faculty development. Anthony trained and worked in Nigeria, Trinidad and Tobago as well as Rome, Georgia, USA, in the mid 1990s to early 2000s. Anthony joined the McMaster Department of Family Medicine, Waterloo Regional Campus in 2018 as an Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct) and have taught and supervised undergraduate and postgraduate learners in the clinical setting and in the classroom.  Presently, Anthony works in a busy solo family practice and share call with other physicians in the Grand River Family Health Organization. His research experience started in Africa as a medical student contributing to public health, potable water and sanitation in Lagos metropolis. Since 2017, Anthony has done unpublished work in Pain medicine, rehabilitation science and addictions. He is affiliated with CAMH/University of Toronto as a faculty fellow since 2019 to further his work in the field of mental health, chronic pain and addictions.

Anthony Davies Medicine Professional Corporation:

Dr. Anthony Davies Family practice serves uninsured, under-served families in Central and Southern Ontario, Canada. We are open to the public. All insurance and private pay accepted. Support, comfort, teaching and motivational interviewing are offered to all clients.

Hours: M-F, 9:00 am-5:00 pm.

Please call the appointment phone number (519) 742-2046 during office hours to schedule an appointment.

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Dr Dillon is a graduate of the Family Medicine program at McMaster University – Niagara Regional Campus(NRC). As chief resident she began her teaching career with McMaster-NRC. After a number of years working in small towns and larger cities in Niagara as a locum Family Physician she returned to school achieving her Postgraduate Diploma in Practical Dermatology. She practices in Port Colborne and while continuing to contribute to Covid-19 efforts through Covid Assessment Clinics and vaccination efforts in Niagara and Hamilton Regions. When she isn’t working, you can find her hiking the Bruce Trail or preparing gourmet meals for family and friends. Her hobbies include adopting senior dogs with special needs, watercolour painting and skiing.

Special Interests: Dermatology, Palliative Care, Aesthetic Medicine

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Dr. Heather Dixon is a full time Family Physician and founding member of The Centre for Family Medicine Family (CFFM) Health Team in Kitchener, Ontario. She is the Director of the CFFM International Travel and Immunization Clinic and an Assistant Clinical Professor at McMaster University. She has been teaching and practicing Travel Medicine since 2006. She completed her Certificate in Travel Health® in 2007.

Special Interests: Travel Medicine & Immunizations.

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Penny English is a graduate from McMaster Medical School where she completed her Undergraduate medical education and Family Medicine Residency. She is currently the Regional Educator Leader for Family Medicine at the Waterloo Regional Campus. She also has a Family Practice in Waterloo.

Special Interests: Student Health, Women’s Health.

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Special Interests: hospital medicine, medical education, quality improvement.

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Special Interests: Penicillin drug allergy and testing, Hepatitis C screening and treatment, hospitalist medicine, long term care.

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Dr. Janice Harvey is primary care physician with a Certificate of Added Competence (CAC) in sport and exercise medicine from the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) where she a Physician Advisor in Continuing Professional Development. Dr. Harvey is also the Director of the Standardized Patient Program (SPP) at the Centre for Simulation Based Learning (CSBL) at McMaster University. Dr. Harvey was the Chair of the Ontario College of Family Physicians’ CME/CPD Committee for 6 years and was the President of the Canadian Academy of Sport and Exercise Medicine in 2011. Dr. Harvey has abundant national and international sport experience where she is currently the Medical Lead of the World Curling Federation and is the Canadian Delegate to the World University Sport Federation (FISU) 1997 to present.

Special Interests: Medical Education, Sport and Exercise Medicine.

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Certina Ho is a graduate of the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto. She obtained her graduate degrees in Library and Information Science and in Education from the University of Toronto.

Certina is currently appointed as Clinical Assistant Professor at the Department of Family Medicine, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, providing teaching support to the InQuiry curriculum and quality improvement projects of family medicine residents at the Kitchener-Waterloo Teaching Site.

At the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, Certina is the course coordinator of a Year 3 elective course for Doctor of Pharmacy students on Patient/Medication Safety. She is also one of the Faculty Advisors for the Industrial Pharmacy Residency Program. She joined the Department of Psychiatry as the Director, Educational Program Evaluation and Scholarship, in January 2020. Certina has been an adjunct faculty member at the School of Pharmacy, University of Waterloo, since 2008. Certina has been actively engaged in academic research and continuous professional development in teaching and learning, experiential education, medication safety, and pharmacy practice. Her research and scholarly interests are related to educational program evaluation, development of patient/medication safety and quality improvement initiatives, respectively.

At the Institute for Safe Medication Practices Canada (ISMP Canada), Certina was the inaugural Director, Community Pharmacy Reporting and Learning, with a primary responsibility on medication safety initiatives related to community pharmacy practice, medication incident reporting and analysis. Currently, Certina remains affiliated with ISMP Canada as a Medication Safety Advisor.

Special Interests: Educational program evaluation, education scholarship, patient/medication safety, quality improvement

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Michelle Howard is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine. She has an MSc in Epidemiology from the University of Toronto and a PhD in Health Research Methodology from McMaster University. Her research program focuses on primary care capacity to provide a palliative approach to care for people with serious and life-limiting illness, examining influences of practice models, patterns and policies using health administrative data, investigating barriers and enablers of person-centred communication (e.g. goals of care), evaluation of tools and educational interventions for primary level palliative care and measurement of palliative approaches to care in family practice. She has broad quantitative research expertise including observational studies with population-based data, survey research and development of measures.

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Gabrielle Inglis joined the Department of Family Medicine as an Assistant Professor in 2019. In addition to her clinical practice at McMaster Family Practice, she works as a Consultant Physician with the Inpatient Addiction Medicine Service at Hamilton Health Sciences and St. Joseph’s Hospital. Prior to joining the department, she completed a Masters in Medical Education at Harvard University, and is actively involved in post-graduate and undergraduate medical education.

Special Interests: Care for People who use Drugs, Primary care generalism, Medical Education, Narrative Medicine

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Dr. Ahmed Jakda is a palliative and vulnerably housed physician, practicing in Kitchener-Waterloo and Guelph, Ontario, Canada. He completed his training in Family Medicine and Fellowship in Palliative Care at The Ohio State University, and is dual board-certified. He also completed his MBA at the Ivey School of Business. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor with McMaster University and his research interests include system policy, data analytics, and change management. He co-chaired the Health Quality Ontario’s Palliative Quality Standards, and acted as Clinical Lead for the palliative IDEAS cohort at the University of Toronto. He also held roles as Medical Director of Palliative Care, Group Physician Head, and as Provincial Palliative Physician Lead for the province of Ontario.

Special Interests: Palliative Care, Vulnerable Populations, Homelessness, Opioid Addiction, System and Policy Change.

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Dr. Stephanie Kafie, BHSc(H), MD, CCFP (COE) is a family physician with a particular passion for the bookends of life – the alpha and the omega (the beginning and the end). Dr. Kafie completed medical school, residency in Family Medicine, and fellowship in Care of the Elderly at McMaster University. She also holds an Honours Bachelor of Health Sciences in Health Promotion from Western University. Dr. Kafie furthered her education by completing additional training through Marquette University’s Institute in Natural Family Planning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, qualifying her to teach the Marquette Method of Natural Family Planning. She is passionate about providing quality and evidence-based care to patients at all stages of life and provides everything from pre-conception care to palliative care. Dr. Kafie works in a variety of settings; she is an attending physician at retirement homes, a long-term care home, and a rehabilitation hospital. While on maternity leave in 2020, Dr. Kafie became the Founder and CEO of a virtual medical clinic called, “Totally Yours Family Medicine.” This clinic is focused on women’s health concerns, children’s health, and on teaching couples Natural Family Planning. Dr. Kafie spends most of her time with her husband and trilingual children. She is often running, biking, or dancing her way through the beautiful chaos of life with small children. She brings the perspective of a “Doctor Mom” to her work – with the medical training to guide families and the life experience to provide compassionate care.

Special Interests: Care of the Elderly, Geriatrics, Palliative Care, Natural Family Planning/Fertility Awareness Methods.

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Rob Koziarski has been a family physician at McMaster Family Practice since 2017. His clinical interests include caring for patients with HIV, as well as trans and gender diverse patients. He is involved in both postgraduate and undergraduate medical education, and enjoys running in his spare time.

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Joe was the founding site director of the KW McMaster family medicine residency program for 13 years and a former department assessment director and MacCARE regional education director. He is the chair of Centre for Family Medicine FHT, chair of the KW4 Ontario Health Team, chair of the e-Health Centre of Excellence and primary care lead for the KW region. Honours and awards include regional family physician of the year twice, lead physician of the Ontario family practice of the year, multiple AFHTO Bright Light awards, CFPC Award of Excellence, Canadian Family Physician Best Original Research award, Outstanding Research Grant award, Rotary Club Centennial Award for Professional Excellence and named of Waterloo Region’s iconic change makers. He plays tennis and golf avidly and loves to travel. He’s married to Linda, has 3 wonderful children and 2 amazing grandchildren.

Special Interests: Research interests include primary care for individuals with physical disabilities, family physician stress & burnout and education in family medicine. Special interests include development of Ontario Health Teams.

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Dr. Linda Lee is a Care of the Elderly family physician, Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University, Director of the Centre for Family Medicine and KW Regional Memory Clinics, and Schlegel Chair in Primary Care for Elders. She has developed the MINT Memory Clinic model and Training Program which has assisted 120 other primary care settings in Ontario, BC, Alberta, and Saskatchewan to establish new MINT Memory Clinics. Dr. Lee’s research interests focus on improving health care for older adults living with dementia and other complex chronic conditions. She enjoys time with family, growing tomatoes, and raising parrots.

Special Interests: community-based dementia care, frailty in primary care.

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Michael Lee-Poy is a family physician at the KW & Area Family Medicine teaching site. His passions are in medical education, curriculum and QI. He has an interested in advocacy and LGBT health, and engages in gender affirming training for learners.

Special Interests: Teaching & Education, Curriculum, QI, Indigneous Heath, LGBT Health.

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Robin Lennox has been a Family Physician and Assistant Professor with the Department of Family Medicine since 2017. She has a clinical focus in the care of people who use drugs, which includes working with the Rapid Access Addiction Medicine Clinic and the Program for Substance Use in Pregnancy at the Maternity Centre of Hamilton. She is co-Head of Service for the Inpatient Addiction Medicine Service at Hamilton Health Sciences and St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton. In addition, Dr. Lennox works with the Shelter Health Network providing primary care for people deprived of housing. She has a diverse research portfolio aimed at improving models of care delivery and the health outcomes of people who use drugs with infectious complications, and improving the experiences of people who use drugs when interacting with the health system.

Special Interests: Care of People Who Use Drugs, Addiction Medicine, HIV primary care, gender diverse care, care of people deprived of housing.

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Family physician with the Centre for Family Medicine (CFFM) Kitchener-Waterloo. Director of the CFFM Mobility Clinic, an interprofessional primary care clinic with a focus to improve primary care for individuals with spinal cord injury and other physical disabilities. The clinic is dedicated to clinical research in primary care, working closely with the Praxis Spinal Cord Injury Institute. Associate Clinical Professor with the McMaster University Department of Family Medicine and Clinical Specialist for Mobility and Falls with the University of Waterloo-Schlegel Research Institute for Aging (UW-RIA).

Special Interests: Director Mobility Clinic. Interest in primary care research involving spinal cord injury and physical disabilities.

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Margo received her medical education and her family medicine training at McMaster University, Canada and her sports medicine specialty degree in Ottawa, Canada. Margo received her PhD from the VU University in Amsterdam. Margo was the medical and scientific lead at the Health & Performance Centre at the University of Guelph where she focused her practice on promoting elite athlete care and physical activity promotion in the general population. In addition, Margo has acted as the national team physician for Synchro Canada for 20 years as well as for the National Endurance Training Centre Athletes (middle- and long-distance track athletes) and the National Triathlon & Wrestling team training centres. Margo is a Clinical Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Family Medicine in the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, Canada where she is now the Regional Assistant Dean of the Waterloo Regional Campus. Margo is the Chair of the ASOIF Medical Consultative Group and a member of the IOC Medical Commission Games Group. She currently consults for 3 International Federations: FIFA, International Golf, and World Rugby. Margo’s areas of research focus on elite athlete health and well-being.

Special Interests: Sport and exercise medicine.

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Dr. Alim Nagji (@alimnagji) is a Family and Emergency Medicine physician and an Assistant Clinical Professor and the Director for Emergency Medicine Clerkship at McMaster University. He is the Director of Simulation Learning, Mac-Care Sim Lead and the inaugural Director of the ED Clinical Teaching Unit at Joseph Brant Hospital. He completed the Royal College Clinician Educator Diploma with a focus in simulation and teaching and the Harvard Sim Essentials Course and is studying for an Executive Healthcare Leadership Diploma from Cornell. He has an interest in theatre and humanism, medical education and simulation.

Special Interests: Simulation, Teaching.

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Mat practices and teaches comprehensive rural/ small town family medicine. He has privileges at West Lincoln Memorial Hospital, where he sees inpatients, cares for newborns, and has shifts in the ER. His practice is with the Smithville Family Health Team. He loves guitar jam sing-alongs, and skiing and skating on the creek behind his house.

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Dr. Dominik Nowak is a family doctor and faculty member in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University, as well as the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. Outside of his clinical work, Dr. Nowak is a recognized leader in primary care and health systems strategy. As Chair of the TELUS Medical Advisory Council, he is a trusted advisor to leading Canadian organizations in supporting health policy that is based in science and compassion. Through COVID-19 vaccine rollout, he chaired the working group on COVID-19 vaccine strategy at the Primary Care Collaborative, partnering closely with government, public health, hospital, and other health sector leaders to support an effective and equitable COVID-19 vaccine plan for Ontario. Whether at his family practice, in advocacy for healthy policy, or as a health leader, Dr. Nowak’s professional mission is to promote health in the communities he serves.

Special Interests: Health systems strategy, Continuity of care, Social prescribing.

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Dr. Stella Pasion practices as part of the Guelph Family Health Team and has worked in a variety settings including community health centers, student health services, and public health clinics. She is active in undergraduate medical education as a clinical preceptor, Medical Foundations tutor and Professional competency facilitator. Her clinical interests include the social determinants of health and chronic illness management. Outside of clinic, she is an active community volunteer and patient advocate as well as an avid runner, music lover, and soccer fan.

Special Interests: Public health, Mindfulness in practice.

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Dr. Laura Pellow is a family physician in Kitchener-Waterloo, and a clinician and medical director at SHORE Centre in Kitchener. She is determined to provide compassionate, patient-centered healthcare in areas of stigmatized medicine such as contraception and abortion care. Dr. Pellow completed her Doctor of Medicine at McMaster University and her Family Medicine residency at the University of Toronto. Between her family practice, SHORE Centre, COVID-19 vaccination clinics and surgical assist, she enjoys rock climbing, gardening, and pottery.

Special Interests: Sexual health, Abortion care, Contraception.

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Dr Redwood-Campbell is a faculty member and Full Professor in the Department of Family Medicine since 1996. She has a keen interest and expertise in Global Health. She completed her MD and residency at McMaster and her Diploma in Hygiene and Public Health in London UK at the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. This was followed by a Masters in Public Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She has worked doing international disaster humanitarian work for many years, mostly with the Canadian and International Red Cross. She has worked in many countries like Indonesia, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Haiti, Mozambique, Nepal and more. Her more recent research focused on lessons learned by healthcare teams doing international humanitarian work and how this is directly applicable to the Canadian context. Dr. Redwood-Campbell has a clinical practice at McMaster University and enjoys the Canadian outdoors. Further information can be found at https://fammedmcmaster.ca/bios/lynda-redwood-campbell/

Special Interests: Global Health, humanitarian response, complex humanitarian emergencies, immigrant and refugee health.

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Dr. Cathy Risdon is Professor and Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster aiming to help reinvigorate a sustainable, inclusive learning and practice environment for current and future family medicine learners and providers. For Risdon, breaking down barriers and honouring different viewpoints is key to building a successful department capable of training top-quality family doctors and attracting skilled staff and faculty.

She was the first holder of the David Braley-Nancy Gordon Endowed Chair in Family Medicine, mandated to develop innovations in education, clinical service and research relating to the doctor-patient and interdisciplinary team relationships. She co-created the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine’s Professional Competency Curriculum, a two-year course to teach professionalism, communication skills, advocacy, ethics and reflective practice. Following the ten-year term of her Endowed Chair, she became Associate Chair, Academic within the Department of Family Medicine, as well as the co-lead for the McMaster Family Health Team.

Dr. Risdon has completed a Doctorate of Management in Organizational Change at the University of Hertfordshire where her research explored themes of excellence and improvisation within curriculum design and implementation. She has conducted training and consultations across North America for primary care and community-based agencies wishing to improve their capacity for effective team and interprofessional collaborations. Her expertise in facilitation was used to design and deliver on the successful Hamilton Health Team submission. She is an expert in health system integration and primary care and is one of three Canadians who has been inducted as a Fellow of the Academy of Communications in Healthcare in recognition of her contributions to curricular design and facilitation.

A McMaster graduate (class of ’92), Dr. Risdon’s clinical practice has included a varied inner-city population with a focus on vulnerable populations.

After more than 30 years in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster, Dr. Risdon is still amazed at her good fortune in working with such terrific people. “We have extraordinary people engaged in our mission of service, teaching, and discovery. It’s my privilege to do all that I can to help them thrive.”

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Rob is interested in understanding and untangling the dynamically changing intersection of safety, resilience and complexity in healthcare. Still in clinical practice after 48 years! Best preparation for medical studies and especially work as an ED physician was five years as a zookeeper.

Special Interests: patient safety; systemic nonlinear analysis of adverse events in healthcare (SPHERE workshop); organizational resilience in healthcare; application of complex adaptive systems principles to healthcare initiatives; application of restorative justice approaches in healthcare after harm; conflict engagement and mediation in healthcare.

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Comprehensive Family Physician, with an interest in medical education and training of future Family Physicians.

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Dr. Keya Shah is a Family and Care of the Elderly physician who joined the Department of Family Medicine in 2020 as a locum physician. She has been engaged in the postgraduate education program and became the Domain Lead for Care of the Elderly in 2021. She is now an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department and a staff physician working at Stonechurch Family Health Centre as part of the McMaster Family Health Team. Dr. Shah is a proud graduate of McMaster University’s family medicine residency program and now acts as a clinical preceptor to current residents. She utilizes her unique perspective to offer mentorship and support clinical experiences in Care of the Elderly at each of the teaching sites. Her clinical interests include polypharmacy, cognitive impairment and providing home visits to frail older adults and palliative patients. As one of the lead physicians for the Memory Clinic at Stonechurch Family Health Centre, Dr. Shah enjoys working through complex presentations alongside an interdisciplinary team. Outside of work, Dr. Shah enjoys outdoor activities such as camping and kayaking, as well as enjoying good food and board games with her family and friends.

Special Interests: cognitive impairment, home visits, polypharmacy, medical education, palliative care.

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Dr. Shah is a Family Physician and Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University since 2019. He completed his medical school at Western University and Family Medicine residency at McMaster University. He is currently working at McMaster Family Practice, McMaster Student Wellness Center and St. Joseph’s Hospital in Hamilton. His interests are in the areas of newborn care, child and adolescent care, primary care mental health, women’s health and medical education.

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General family medicine, minor procedures, teaching residents.

Special Interests: general family medicine, minor procedures.

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Dr. Truong has been a faculty member of the Department of Family Medicine since 2020. She has a keen interest in simulation training, teaching and medical education. She enjoys travelling, playing tennis, trying new foods, and solving puzzles.

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Dr. Weymes has been a preceptor to the KW and area family medicine residents since 2016 in a prenatal clinic. She works with a small group of family doctors who provide low-risk obstetrical care to patients delivering at Grand River Hospital. She also has an interest in women’s health and performs IUD insertions and endometrial biopsies in her office. She spends her spare time with her two young children who have taught her even more about pregnancy and motherhood.

Special Interests: Low-risk obstetrics, women’s health.