Calvin L. Gutkin Family Medicine Ambassador Award The award recognizes a dynamic leader in Canadian family medicine distinguished for their vision, innovation, strong communication skills, and effective relationship building with national and international organizations and working groups that support and positively influence the everchanging role of the family physician and family medicine in […]
With over 33 years in family medicine, Dr. Francine Lemire has made remarkable contributions to family medicine across Canada and in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador. A particular highlight of her career in Corner Brook was in leading the organization of medical services for their 1999 Canada Winter Games. Her tenure at the CFPC stands […]
After completing her family medicine residency in 2005, Dr. Maxine Dumas Pilon completed an enhanced skills program in maternal and child health at McGill University. She practised and taught at St. Mary’s Hospital for 15 years before co-founding Clinique Indigo, where she currently practises. She has also been an associate professor in the Department of Family […]
As a family physician and Indigenous leader, Dr. Darlene Kitty is passionate about mentoring Indigenous people who work in health care. Dr. Kitty received her medical degree from the University of Ottawa in 2002 and completed her family medicine residency and emergency medicine training in northeastern Ontario. As a Cree woman, Dr. Kitty realized her […]
Having healthy families with healthy children in healthy communities is an optimal goal for every country in the world, and by practising family medicine Dr. Catherine Cook felt she could truly work toward achieving it, especially within Indigenous communities in Manitoba. Dr. Cook obtained her medical degree and master of science from the University of […]
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 […]
Dr. Scott McLeod earned his undergraduate degree in biochemistry from the University of Regina, and then completed medical school and family medicine residency at the University of Saskatchewan. From 2003 to 2004, he attended the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine and the University of Texas School of Public Health in San Antonio Texas, […]
After attending a one-room rural public school, Dr. James Rourke went on to obtain his medical degree from Western University in London, Ontario, in 1976, where he also completed his family medicine residency and a master of clinical science in family medicine in 1993. He chose family medicine because it provided the opportunity to practise […]
Passionate about primary health care, Dr. Louise Nasmith is a professor in the Department of Family Practice at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She is a Fellow with the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) and an honorary Fellow with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Dr. Nasmith obtained her medical […]
Dr. Lynn Wilson is a professor and chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto, one of the largest academic family medicine departments in the world; it was at the University of Toronto that Dr. Wilson received her undergraduate medical degree and family medicine training. Dr. Wilson has been […]
