A trained clinical psychologist, Dr. Yvonne Steinert started her career in family medicine at the Herzl Family Practice Centre of the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, Quebec, where she was responsible for teaching and learning behavioural sciences from 1976 to 2000. Since then, she has been actively involved in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education and […]
Dr. James Rourke was an active rural family physician, including obstetrics and emergency work, in Goderich, Ontario, for 25 years with his wife and medical partner, Dr. Leslie Rourke. Their practice was one of the primary Rural Family Medicine teaching sites at Western University. His most exciting and long-lasting success has been translating evidence for […]
Driven by the desire to innovate and participate in knowledge transfer in family medicine, Dr. Marie-Thérèse Lussier has dedicated many years to primary care research. She has participated in projects about the prevention and management of chronic illnesses, use of information technology, and analysis of patient-physician communication. In addition to her role as full professor […]
When he was young, Dr. Stewart Cameron was asked if he would like to be a physician one day—he replied, “I’m not getting up at night for anybody!” Forty years later, he has lost sleep in delivery rooms, in-patient wards, emergency rooms, and at disaster codes. During his postgraduate training, he focused on what he […]
Dr. Carlos Brailovsky works with the College of Family Physicians of Canada as a consultant on the Board of Examiners Committee, the Committee on Examinations–Family Medicine, and the Triple C project, and as a member of the Working Group on the Certification Process, a role that he credits as being the best part of his […]
After graduating from the University of Queensland in Australia, Dr. James Dickinson completed two years of a rotating residency that included rural work and time as a locum surgical registrar. He then completed his family medicine residency at McMaster University, followed by a fellowship in clinical epidemiology under Walter Spitzer at McGill University. While working […]
Dr. Rodney Crutcher started working in family practice in Calgary in 1981, and continued in this broadly-based teaching practice until June 2013. He was appointed as a clinical lecturer at the University of Calgary in 1981, and retired as a professor emeritus in 2014. While medical work is now a small part of his life, […]
Dr. Andrew James Cave has been a faculty member in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Alberta since 1992. As a full-time professor he focuses on residency training, respiratory care, team work in primary care, and narratives in medical education. Dr. Cave also works at the Kaye Edmonton Clinic, where he engages […]
Dr. Neil Bell completed his bachelor of science degree in biochemistry with first-class honours and his medical degree at the University of Alberta. In 1995 he completed the Program in Clinical Effectiveness and in 1996 earned a master’s degree in epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. He currently works at the Misericordia Family […]
As a professor in the Department of Family Practice at the University of British Columbia (UBC), and a full-time researcher in UBC’s Centre for Health Education Scholarship, Dr. Joanna Bates brings a generalist orientation to educational practice, research, and undergraduate medical education. Although she is no longer in practice, patients and their health is always […]
