Dr. Martin Fortin received his medical degree from the University of Sherbrooke in 1983 and completed his family medicine residency there in 1985. He later received a master’s degree in epidemiology from Laval University in 1997. Originally from Matane, he settled in Chicoutimi and helped establish the region’s first university family medicine group (U-FMG). He […]
Dr. Vivian Ramsden is a registered nurse with a master of science in community health administration and wellness promotion from the California College for Health Sciences. Her PhD is in the interdisciplinary areas of medicine, curriculum studies, and education from the University of Saskatchewan. Today she lives in Saskatoon, where she is director of the […]
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 […]
I began my academic career at the University of Montreal in 2000, held a Canada Research Chair at the University of Sherbrooke from 2005 to 2009, and am currently a full professor in the McGill Department of Family Medicine, where I have worked since 2010. I hold an endowed research chair in family and community […]
Dr. Pierre Pluye is a full professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McGill University, and an Associate member of the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC), the School of Information Studies, and the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Community Studies (SMBD Jewish General Hospital). He is a Senior Research Fellow of the […]
Dr. Judith Brown, PhD, is currently a professor in the Centre for Studies in Family Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at Western University, and the School of Social Work at King’s University College, London. She started her career as a social worker at the Byron Family Medical Centre, and […]
Dr. Ross Upshur is a long-time outstanding scholar in many domains, including primary care, bioethics, and global health. Prior to receiving his medical degree from McMaster University in 1986, he received BA (Hons.) and MA degrees in philosophy. After seven years of rural primary care practice, he completed his MSc in epidemiology and fellowship training […]
After completing his family medicine residency at the University of Montreal in 1979, Dr. Michel Labrecque had a practice for three years in the Montreal suburbs, and then became Head Physician of a health district in the Comoros Islands in Africa. Back in Canada in 1984, he settled in Laval, where he is currently a […]
Dr. Janusz Kaczorowski is the 2013 recipient of the Family Medicine Researcher of the Year Award. This award recognizes a family medicine researcher who is a CFPC member and who has made original contributions to research and knowledge building for family medicine in Canada. The contribution may encompass any aspect of family medicine research, from […]
