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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 Coordinator for Grand Erie Six Nations. She completed the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Area of Focused Competence Clinician Educator Program in 2022. She is the recipient of the DFM 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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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. Monica Bertolo Graduated with Distinction from the University of Toronto with an Honours Specialist Degree in Human Biology and later from the University of Western Ontario Medical School in 2002. In 2012 she was awarded the Diploma in Practical Dermatology with Distinction from the Australian Institute of Dermatology. Concurrently she completed a clinical traineeship in dermatology and then further completed a psoriasis traineeship in 2015.
Her passion involves Dermoscopy and its utility in the diagnosis and management of skin cancers. She has completed numerous dermoscopy courses including the Intermediate course in Dermoscopy at the Sloan Kettering Memorial University Cancer Hospital in New York City (2015 and 2016) and is an active member of the International Dermoscopy Society.
Dr. Monica Bertolo has a Focused Practice Designation in Dermatology recognized by the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care and the Ontario Medical Association. She is a member of the College of Family Physicians of Canada, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, the Canadian and Ontario Medical Associations, the International Dermoscopy Society and is a past adjunct Clinical Professor at Queen’s University. She is currently am adjunct clinical professor at McMaster University and is actively involved in the education of medical students and local physicians. Recently, Dr. Bertolo has received the fellowship designation with the College of Family Physicians of Canada for her outstanding contribution to her community, colleagues, and the discipline of family medicine.

Special Interests: Dermatology, dermoscopy, skin cancer, education.

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Morgan Black is a Family Physician and has been an Assistant Professor with the Department of Family Medicine since 2017. In addition to her work as a Family Physician at McMaster Family Practice, Dr. Black has a significant interest in the domains of Women’s Health and Low Risk Obstetrics. She currently works as a staff physician with the Maternity Centre of Hamilton, providing full prenatal care to vulnerable populations and performing full intrapartum care at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton. She also has a strong interest in medical education at both a postgraduate and undergraduate level.

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Alyssa Boyd has been a palliative care consultant in the South Georgian Bay area since 2008. She is currently the medical director of Hospice Georgian triangle and the lead physician for the North Simcoe Muskoka palliative care physicians group. She is an associate clinical professor from McMaster University and teaches regularly in her role as the Palliative Care mentor for the Rural Ontario Medical Program. Most recently she founded a charity called The Living Wish Foundation that grants end of life wishes to adults who are living with a life threatening illness.

Special Interests: Narrative Medicine

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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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Dr. Bracken has been with the Department of Family Medicine since 2006 after working as a community based comprehensive care family physician for many years. Her desire to promote the career and calling of Family Medicine drives her focus on undergraduate medical education as an opportunity to impact learning and professional identity formation. Dr. Bracken has held several leadership roles in the department notably Maternity Center Director, Enhanced Skills Director, and Undergraduate Director including Clerkship. In this latter role, she revised the FM clerkship tutorials into an eLearning pathway using adult learning theory and incorporating technology enhanced learning. She is now moving into new leadership roles both in the department and in the undergraduate medical program.
Apart from these scholarly interests and leadership roles, Dr. Bracken enjoys the promotion of Women’s Health care along with the concept of wellness and resilience both nationally and internationally and continues to work toward true reconciliation and the dismantling of the many systems of oppression and racism in both the learning and provision of health care both in Canada and internationally.

Special Interests: Optimal clinical learning environments, promotion of knowledge translation using learning psychology and technology assisted innovation, resilience and wellbeing over the course of medical education.

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

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Dr. Chasen has been a faculty member of the Department of Family Medicine since 2016. He was born in Pretoria, South Africa, where completed his undergraduate training at the University of Pretoria in 1983, later obtaining a specialist degree in Internal Medicine, Medical Oncology, and Master of Philosophy (Palliative Medicine) at the University of Cape Town.

He is currently the Medical Director of Palliative Care at William Osler Health System in Brampton. He was previously the Medical Director of Palliative Care at The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre and the Palliative Rehabilitation Program at Élisabeth Bruyère Ottawa.

Dr. Chasen has over 110 peer-reviewed publications, abstracts, and book chapters. Presently, he is the principal investigator for the RELIEF App study, using digital technology to make palliative care accessible to people in their homes. Dr. Chasen is also involved in the development of European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) clinical practice guidelines for patients with anorexia-cachexia and the development of a Pan-Canadian guideline in survivorship. He has led 2 teams to achieve the international ESMO accreditation for Integrated Oncology/Palliative Centres.

Dr. Chasen has received multiple awards, including the Elizabeth J Latimer Prize in Palliative Care from McMaster University, Kay Blair Community Service Award from William Osler Health System, and Eduardo Bruera Award in Palliative Medicine from the CSPCP.

Outside of academia, Dr. Chasen enjoys spending time with his beautiful wife Pamela, two daughters, and two grandchildren. His enjoyment of arts and theatre is one of many of his passions.

Special Interests: Palliative care, survivorship, cancer cachexia, digital health technology.

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Dr. Chin has been a faculty member of the Department of Family Medicine since 2015. He serves as Chief of Hospital Medicine at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital, Halton Healthcare. Dr. Chin is Chair, Section on Hospital Medicine, Ontario Medical Association. Dr. Chin has a keen interest in Schwartz Rounds, an interprofessional forum exploring the social and emotional impact of providing care.

Special Interests: Hospital Medicine

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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. Amie Davis is a family physician in the Department of Family Medicine. For the first half of her career, she practiced community-based comprehensive family medicine which included adult inpatient, obstetrical, palliative and outpatient care. She was also the inaugural site director for the Halton Postgraduate Family Medicine residency site. Her work in medical education has allowed her to contribute in the roles of Site Director at many of the McMaster sites including Halton, Niagara and Hamilton. She is currently the Curriculum Director in the postgraduate Family Medicine program with a special interest in entrustment, competency-based learning and curriculum design. She became a full-time faculty member in 2019, and her family practice is located at Stonechurch Family Health centre where her special interests include delivering and teaching gender-affirming primary care, obstetrical care and women’s health. She is the current medical director of the Maternity Centre of Hamilton, where she participates in the collaborative model of expert family medicine obstetrical providers who provide antepartum, intrapartum and postpartum care to pregnant patients with a special expertise in providing care for pregnant people who may be socially at risk.

Special Interests: Family Medicine Obstetrical Care, Gender Affirming Primary Care, Medical Education.

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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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Dr. Kevin J. Dong is an Emergency Medicine Physician working at the Hamilton Health Sciences. He is the current Continuing Professional Development Lead for the Tri-Divisions of Emergency Medicine. He also is the co-founder of the MacEmerg Podcast and his interests are in medical education, transition to practice, and teaching.

Special Interests: Medical Education, Podcasting, Teaching.

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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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Dr. Nancy Fowler is the Executive Director, Academic Family Medicine at the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC). This CFPC division oversees the development and implementation of the standards of training and certification for family physicians in Canada, as well as working to advance family medicine education and research with universities and other partner organizations. She is a family physician and Associate Professor with 30 years of clinical and academic experience based in Hamilton Ontario affiliated with the McMaster University Department of Family Medicine. She served as the family medicine postgraduate program director for ten years, with a practice based at McMaster Family Practice and before that at the North Hamilton Community Health Centre where she made her start as a full time faculty member. She has a long history of leadership in the medical education and refugee health and believes strongly in family medicine as a force for good in the world.

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Dr. Froese is a full-time family physician splitting her time between comprehensive family medicine office practice, long-term care, newborn hospitalist work, and various teaching and leadership positions (including as a Board Member for the Ontario College of Family Physicians). She strives to optimize the use of technology to improve the quality of patient care and practice efficiencies, and she loves sharing her passion for family medicine with learners.

Special Interests: Full scope family practice, leadership, newborn hospitalist, LTC, practice management/efficiency.

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Dr. Erin Gallagher is a graduate of McMaster University’s Family Medicine residency program (2015), PGY3 Enhanced Skills Training in Palliative Care program (2016) and Master of Public Health program (2018). In 2017 she completed her Clinical Scholar training through McMaster Family Practice, followed by starting her own general practice in 2017 at Stonechurch Family Health Centre where she trained as a resident.

Through her undergraduate training, Dr. Gallagher discovered her love for medical education and leadership development of medical trainees, the latter being an area of research interest and publication. She became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine in 2017 and is a clinical supervisor and lecturer at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the areas of general Family Medicine and Palliative Care.

Dr. Gallagher’s most recent pursuit was the completion of her Master of Public Health, recognizing the importance of community engagement and development in promoting effective palliative approaches to care.

Clinically, Dr. Gallagher divides her time between providing comprehensive family medicine care to her patients and working as a palliative care consultant for McMaster’s Hamilton teaching sites and Hamilton Health Sciences hospitals. She is the Ontario Representative on the College of Family Physicians of Canada’s Palliative Care Committee.

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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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Special Interest: Medical education, hospitalist medicine, emergency medicine in developing countries, global health, narrative medicine and philosophy.

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Dr. Lawrence Grierson leads research concerned with understanding the relationship between health professions education policies and practices and the quality of healthcare delivered to patients and communities. This work pays specific attention to education antecedents for effective comprehensive family medicine practice, training approaches that promote the acquisition of clinical technical skills, and the ethical inter-institutional collation of training metrics for medical education research.

Dr. Grierson is a member of the Canadian Association of Medical Educators and the CFPC Section of Researchers. He is Associate Professor with the Department of Family Medicine (DFM); Assistant Dean of the Health Sciences Education Graduate Program (HSED); and Scientist with the McMaster FHS Program for Education Research, Innovation, & Theory (MERIT).

Special Interests: Medical and health professions education, admissions and assessment, education research data management, precision technical skills.

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Dale Guenter completed medical school at University of Calgary, internship at Dalhousie, and Master of Public Health at Harvard. He joined the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster in 1999, at North Hamilton Community Health Centre, following several years as a family physician in the Canadian Arctic and in Calgary’s inner city. He developed a lasting collaboration with Ateneo de Zamboanga University in Philippines starting 1997, assisting with problem-based learning curriculum and a new Master of Public Health program. Dr. Guenter co-founded the Shelter Health Network in Hamilton as one part of a health care solution for people whose lives do not fit the mould of traditional medical models, and was the founding primary care lead for the Hamilton Health Links initiative. He joined McMaster Family Practice in 2006, and served as medical co-director from 2008-2016. He is a founding faculty member for the Master of Public Health program at McMaster, which started in 2014.

Dr. Guenter’s primary interest is in exploring and delivering novel approaches to health care that that will result in a more effective experience of healing. His research, teaching and clinical work are focused on people affected by HIV, mental health and addiction, chronic pain, frailty and end of life concerns. His work takes place through community partnerships, collaborations between public health and primary care, improved communication skills, and reflection-in-practice.

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Erich Hanel divided his training between Ireland, the United States and Canada. His training included full time internal medicine, family medicine and emergency medicine. His current role with the Division of Emergency Medicine involves the education of medical students, residents, paramedics and fellows in emergency medicine, ultrasound and simulation. When not working, he would always prefer to be outside with or without his family. Throughout his time with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and McMaster he is proud to have won numerous teaching and educational awards.

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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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Karenna’onwe – Dr. Karen Hill is a Mohawk physician from Six Nations of the Grand RiverTerritory. She is the mother of two sons and step mother to five daughters. Hill completed medical school in 2003 and Family Medicine Residency in 2005 – both from McMaster University. Her vision is to see Traditional Indigenous Knowledge return to the centre of life and healthcare for Indigenous people across Canada. This vision led her to co-create a collaborative practice with Traditional Medicine Practitioners at Six Nations called Juddah’s Place. In 2015 Hill became the first recipient of the Thomas Dignan award for Indigenous Health conferred by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons. In the same year she also received The College of Family Physicians Excellence Award for leading the way in Indigenous collaborative care in primary practice. Also, in 2016 she was honored by McMaster Universitywith a Community Impact Award. Recently Hill partnered with Paulette Moore – A Mohawk filmmaker – to create “The Aunties Dandelion” media/research centre and healing space, focused on supporting Indigenous embodiment and expanding the human family. Karen continues to practice consultative holistic medicine at Six Nations and provides locum coverage and hospitalist care in Moose Factory. She has completed 4 years apprenticeship in Traditional Indigenous Medicine and continues learning Mohawk language. She continues both as life long commitments.

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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. Her research focuses on understanding the role of primary care for people with serious and life-limiting illness, by examining the influences of practice models, patterns and policies using health administrative and clinical data. She has also studied how patients and health care professionals in primary care talk about serious illness and preparing for future decision-making and has evaluated several tools for advance care planning in family practice.

Michelle has an MSc in Epidemiology from the University of Toronto and a PhD in Health Research Methodology from McMaster University. She primarily uses quantitative approaches including observational studies with population-based data (e.g. www.ices.on.ca www.cpcssn.ca), survey research and development of measures.

Michelle is an instructor for the Program Evaluation course in the McMaster Health Science Education (HSED) program and supervises graduate students with relevant research interests in McMaster’s Health Research Methodology Program.

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Special Interests: Addictions medicine, delirium, inpatient medicine

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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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Sarah Kinzie is an associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University. She is currently the Postgraduate Program Director for Family Medicine, a position she has held since 2015.

Dr. Kinzie joined the Department of Family Medicine in January 2000 after completing her undergraduate and postgraduate medical training here at McMaster University. She practices at Stonechurch Family Health Centre where she provides comprehensive care for a diverse patient population, in an interprofessional team-based model of care. Dr. Kinzie provided full-care obstetrics and neonatal care during her first 12 years in practice, and remains passionate about women’s health. Other areas of clinical interest include palliative care as well as home-based care for her frail elderly patients.

Dr. Kinzie’s primary academic focus lies in postgraduate medical education. As the former Hamilton Site Director (2009-2015), she led a number of curriculum innovations, including development of a unique, family medicine-led Maternal Child rotation for Hamilton residents, focused on interprofessional teaching of a comprehensive family medicine skill set in a family-centred model of care. Dr. Kinzie was also responsible for the creation of “Block 7”, an innovative, common, integrated Family Medicine-Academic block for all family medicine residents.

From 2005-2015, Dr. Kinzie served as National Director of the Residency Practice-Based Learning Program, (a program administered by the McMaster-affiliated, non-profit Foundation for Medical Practice Education). That involvement supported numerous research and faculty development initiatives that explore how physicians learn and change, with a focus on supporting the transition from residency to practice.

In her current role as Postgraduate Program Director, Dr. Kinzie oversees the training of over 200 family medicine residents distributed across 12 sites. In addition to curriculum development, her primary academic interests include relationship-centred care and teaching, effective learning and remediation strategies, and professional identity development.

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Fiona Kouyoumdjian is a Family Physician, Public Health and Preventive Medicine Physician, and Epidemiologist. She received her BA with Honors from Brown University, her MD from Dalhousie University, her MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and her PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health. She completed residency training at the University of Toronto and a CIHR Fellowship at St. Michael’s Hospital.

Fiona leads a program of research focused on the health status and health care of people who experience imprisonment. Her specific research foci are decreasing imprisonment, improving health care and health promotion for people in prison, and supporting successful re-integration to the community for people on release from prison.

Fiona is also an Adjunct Scientist at ICES and an Associate Member in the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact at McMaster.

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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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Dr. Rahid Mahdi is a part-time Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct) at the department of Family Medicine at McMaster and he has worked Emergency field for 13 years.

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Dee Mangin is the Associate Chair, Research, in the Department of Family Medicine, and works clinically at McMaster Family Practice. She came to Canada from New Zealand to Canada in 2013, where she had been the Director of the Primary Care Research Group at the University of Otago, Christchurch.

She is the Director of MUSIC, the McMaster University Sentinel and Information Collaboration practice-based research network, and the Medical Director and cofounder of RxISK.org a website for consumer information and reporting of drug adverse reactions.

Her broad interests are: the value of generalist primary care; rational prescribing; innovative models of primary care delivery; effective incorporation of evidence into patient-centered practice; and the influences of science, policy and commerce on the nature of care.

She has wide clinical research experience in primary care, including observational and interventional quantitative research methods and community RCTs of innovative models of care.

She was awarded the is a Fellow of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners, and in 2011 she received their Distinguished Service Medal. In 2018 the CFPC awarded her the Donald I Rice award for contributions to leadership, vision and teaching in the discipline of family medicine.

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Dr. Denise Marshall (she/her) is a McMaster Family Medicine-based Palliative Care Physician. After completing both undergraduate, graduate and palliative care training at McMaster, Dr. Marshall joined the faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster in 1990, becoming full Professor in 2016. She has held a number of academic leadership roles including Undergraduate Director for Family Medicine, and Assistant Dean, Faculty Development for the Faculty of Health Sciences. In 2003, Dr. Marshall helped launch the Division of Palliative Care, and was its founding Director. She examined Palliative Care as a public health issue during her sabbatical in 2013 and since then has focused much of her academic work on Public Health Palliative Care. She has provided leadership regionally, provincially and nationally on health systems issues and planning related to palliative and end of life care. She is medical director/founder of the Niagara West Palliative Care Team and McNally House Hospice located in Grimsby where she has lived with her family since 1983. Dr. Marshalls interests include hiking, “German Shepherding”, singing, Lake Huron, and spending precious Grammie time with her grandbabies.

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Dr. Jonel Miklea is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University. He received his training on three different continents. Jonel graduated from the Faculty of Medicine Carol Davila in Bucharest, Romania and completed his Family Medicine residency at McMaster University. He joined McMaster Family Practice as a practicing family physician, and the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University in 2001. He completed his Masters in Medical Education at Flinders University in Australia. During his time with the department, Jonel has been a committed mentor to medical students, family medicine residents, and International Medical Graduates. From 2004 until 2011, he was the Program Director of the Family Medicine Undergraduate Program and he has been a leader in the development of an integrated clerkship program at McMaster University. In 2003, Dr. Miklea was awarded the Gerry Cohen Teaching Award for his excellence as a clinical teacher and his commitment to residency education. In 2008, he was co-recipient of the College of Family Physicians of Canada Outstanding Family Medicine Research Article. Over the years he held different roles in the department from Education Site coordinator to Faculty development local lead. Dr. Miklea pioneered the Adolescent health clinic at the Youth and Wellness center for family medicine residents to sample social accountability during their training. He also has facilitated national workshops on coaching peers and learners. Jonel sits on the executive at the Clinical Faculty Association at Hamilton Health Sciences and also actively practices inpatient hospitalist medicine.

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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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Dr. Mountjoy is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University Medical School and Regional Assistant Dean of the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University. She is also a clinician scientist – working for several International Sports organizations in the field of sports medicine including the International Olympic Committee (Games Group), the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations, FIFA, International Golf Federation, World Rugby, and for the World Anti-Doping Agency. She is a retired elite synchronized swimmer. One of her areas of expertise is in the field of harassment + abuse in sport, athlete mental health and female athlete health She is an active advocate of athlete health and well-being at the national and international levels.

Special Interests: Sport and exercise medicine, medical education.