Dr. Clare Liddy is the Interim Chair of and an associate professor in the University of Ottawa’s Department of Family Medicine, a clinical investigator at the C.T. Lamont Primary Health Care Research Centre, a senior researcher at the Bruyère Research Institute, and a family doctor with the Ottawa Hospital Academic Family Health Team. In each […]
Dr. David Snadden is a professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC), based at UBC’s distributed site in Prince George. He is also the Rural Doctors’ UBC Chair in Rural Health; in this capacity he works closely with the Rural Coordination Centre of BC developing rural research capacity […]
A founding member of the Sydney Family Practice Centre in 1974, Dr. Glenn Gracie has a comprehensive family medicine practice that includes obstetrics, hospital in-patient care, walk-in care, home care, and nursing home care. Supremely dedicated to his patients and to his colleagues, he has a reputation for always making himself available for impromptu appointments […]
Dr. Lana Beth Barkhouse knew she wanted to be a physician when she was just four years old. No one in her extended family had been a doctor; her closest connections to medicine were her indomitable great-aunt, who was a nurse, and her grandfather, who served as a medic in the Second World War with […]
Born to physician parents, Dr. Ean Parsons grew up hearing how satisfying it was to practise in rural, remote Newfoundland. Completing rotations with amazing family medicine role models in the communities of Twillingate and Brookfield reinforced his decision to choose family medicine as his specialty. As an associate professor in the Discipline of Family Medicine […]
Ms. Suja Suntharalingham Ms. Suja Suntharalingham holds a bachelor’s degree in science and a master’s degree in public health. She has worked in multiple areas of the provincial government leading various strategic and policy changes, particularly in the health sector. Presently, she is Senior Advisor to the Ontario Provincial Treasury Board Secretariat, where she leads […]
After completing medical school in 1977 at the University of Calgary, a family medicine residency, and rural and international locum work, Dr. Rodney Crutcher began a family practice in Calgary in 1981, which became a teaching practice that he continued until June 2013. He was appointed as a clinical lecturer at the University of Calgary […]
Dr. Michel Donoff completed his undergraduate medical education and family medicine residency at the University of Alberta. He practised family medicine, including hospital care, maternity care, nursing home care, and palliative care, for 30 years. Over the past decade he has dedicated his time to leadership roles, including serving as an associate chair of the […]
Dr. Cindy Blackstock has her PhD in social work and is a professor at McGill University’s School of Social Work. She is also the Executive Director for the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada, which provides reconciliation-based public education, research, and support to promote the safety and well-being of First Nations children, […]
Dr. Susan Phillips’ upbringing was guided by three principles that encapsulate why she chose family medicine as a profession: always question; treat people equally and with dignity; and if you work hard, you can do anything. After initially struggling to find her calling, she studied physical sciences at the University of Guelph and medicine at […]
