Events
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May 2025 Rounds | Dr. Jude Kornelsen and Asmaa Anwar
Date: Wednesday 14 May 2025Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM Pacific TimeHousing Is Healthcare: Equity In Access For All Residents
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April 2025 Rounds | Dr. Robert Petrella
Please join us for our upcoming research rounds with our department head, Dr. Robert Petrella! Sport Fandom as an Engagement Innovation in Hard-to-Reach Populations: A Cluster RCT to Evaluate a Community-Based Health Behaviour Change Intervention Date: Wednesday 16 April 2025Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM Pacific TimeLocation: Zoom Talk Abstract Obesity is a relapsing, progressive chronic…
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February 2025 Rounds | Dr. Nisha Malhotra and Dr. Ruvini Amarasekera
Please join us for our upcoming research rounds with Nisha Malhotra (The Birthplace Lab) and Ruvini Amarasekera (R2, St. Paul’s Hospital) Date: Wednesday 26 February 2025Time: 12:00 – 1:30 PM Pacific TimeTitle 1: Healthcare Disparities in Canada: Examining the Role of Socio-Economic Status and Identity Factors (12:00 – 12:55)Title 2: Embedding Indigenous Ways of Knowing…
News and Announcements
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Department Profile: Dr. Christie Newton
November 15, 2022 Dr. Christie Newton is a family doctor, a mother and wife, an animal lover, and now, the president of the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC). As the Associate Head Education and Engagement for the Department of Family Practice, she is also working on a province-wide team-based primary care learning project.…
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Statement from the RRC and JEDI Committee Co-Chairs on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
September 26, 2022 September 30th is a solemn day to honour residential school survivors, those who died in this genocide, and the lasting impacts that the residential school system has had on Indigenous Peoples. It is a day to learn more about the true history of our country and the atrocities committed in the residential school system. It…
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Thank You and Congratulations to the Recent Graduates of the Midwifery, Postgraduate and Undergraduate Programs
July 14, 2022 The Department of Family Practice, would like to send a heartfelt thank you and congratulations to the recent graduates of the Midwifery, Postgraduate and Undergraduate programs. In recent years, these cohorts have faced particular challenges as they navigated learning through the Covid-19 pandemic. Their dedication to their programs and new ways of…
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Dr. Granger Richard Avery Appointed to the Order of Canada
July 12, 2022 Dr. Granger Richard Avery is a clinical professor in the department of family practice who has been recently appointed to the Order of Canada. He is recognized for his incisive leadership in the practice of rural medicine and for his tireless commitment to improving Canada’s health care system. Considered one of the…