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TIP-FM Faculty
Dr. Katherine Rouleau
Dr. Rouleau is a family physician at St-Michael’s Hospital in Toronto and holds the rank of associate professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto (DFCM). She is the Global Health Program Director with the DFCM as well as the director of the Besrour Centre College of Family Physicians of Canada. Her clinical practice is
focused on the care of underserved and marginalized populations. Internationally, her activities have focused on collaboration to support the development of family medicine in low and middle-income countries. Her academic activities focus on global health and global health education, capacity-building in primary care and family medicine, and leadership.
Dr. Michael Kidd [email protected] Dr. Michael Kidd is incoming Chair of the Department of Family & Community Medicine at the University of Toronto and the immediate past president of WONCA. Prior to joining the DFCM he was professor of Global Primary Care and Executive Dean at the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Flinders
University, Adelaide, Australia. Prior to joining Flinders, he was Professor and Head of the Department of General Practice at The University of Sydney. Professor Kidd graduated in medicine from the University of Melbourne and holds a Doctorate of Medicine in medical education from Monash University.
Dr. Kidd has just completed a three-year term as President of the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA), a global professional organization in formal collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO). He has served as a consultant to the WHO, United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), World Bank, and the Bill and Melinda Gates
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Foundation. An acknowledged national leader in general practice, he served two terms as President of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. For over 20 years, he has chaired and served on committees and boards advising the Australian Government Department of Health.
Professor Kidd’s research focusses on global health, primary health care and family medicine, digital health, health policy, the education of health professionals, safety and quality in primary care, the primary care management of HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmissible infections, and the role of case reports in contemporary health care. Dr. Kidd’s research has received continuous funding over the past 25 years. He is a member of the Council of Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council and has been a member of the International Research Advisory Board of the United Kingdom Biobank, based at Oxford University, for the past 10 years.
Professor Kidd is the recipient of numerous distinguished awards and honours, including Member of the Order of Australia, Australian Medical Association Award for Excellence in Health Care, Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor (Flinders University), and honorary fellowships from professional organizations in several countries.
Dr. Viola Antao
Dr. Viola Antao is an Assistant Professor and Professional Development Education Scholarship Coordinator at the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto.
Dr. Ruby Alvi
Dr. Ruby Alvi is the Pre-Clerkship Director of the Undergraduate Program, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto.
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Ms. Robyn Butcher
Robyn Butcher has been the librarian for the Department of Family & Community Medicine at the University of Toronto since September 2012. She holds an MLIS degree from the University of Western Ontario. Prior to University of Toronto she was a hospital librarian in Saint John New Brunswick. Her areas of interest include emerging technologies and information literacy.
Dr. Risa Freeman
Risa Freeman is Vice-Chair Education, Associate Professor and Director of the Office of Education in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. Her other appointments include, Clinician Educator Researcher, The Wilson Centre, University of Toronto/ University Health Network, University of Toronto and Staff physician, North York General Hospital Her clinical practice is based in the community and she has
been a member of the active staff at North York General Hospital since 1990. She teaches at the undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate and continuing professional development levels in her clinical office and at the University of Toronto. Dr. Freeman's academic and scholarly work has focused on four main areas: medical education curricula and planning; student and faculty learning strategies; evaluation and assessment; and faculty development.
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Dr. Abbas Ghavam Rassoul
Abbas Ghavam-Rassoul is a family physician at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto. His diverse clinical practice includes the care of patients with mental illness and HIV. He is actively involved in several projects aimed at increasing collaboration between family medicine and psychiatry in service delivery and trainee education. He has held multiple educational leadership roles from organizing clerkship electives to being postgraduate education program site director at St. Michael's from 2007-2013. He is currently Program Director for the
Academic Fellowship and Graduate Studies Program in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto and Co-lead for the Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration in Family Medicine.
Dr. Curtis Handford
Dr. Curtis Handford is the Mid-East Sub-Region Primary Care Lead for the Toronto Central Local Health Integration Network (LHIN). In his role as Primary Care Clinical Lead, he provides leadership and local system empowerment through collaborative planning and engagement of primary care clinical providers.
Dr. Curtis Handford has worked in academic family practice in downtown Toronto since 2003 and since 2015 has been Deputy Chief of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at St.
Michael’s Hospital. Since 2010 he has been Program Director of the Family and Community Medicine (FCM) field of the Master of Public Health (MPH) degree at the University of Toronto. He is the principal author of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health’s 2011 clinical practice guidelines for the use of Buprenorphine/Naloxone for Opioid Dependence.
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Dr. Karl Iglar
Dr. Karl Iglar is Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine (DFCM) at the University of Toronto. He is the Director, Postgraduate Education in the DFCM and staff physician at St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto. He has been involved in resident education for over 23 years.
Dr. Iglar is responsible for one of the largest family medicine training program in Canada, with 350 family medicine residents and fourteen hospital-based family medicine teaching units. He has led the development of a number of innovative educational tools being used in postgraduate family medicine education. These include: 1) competency-based curriculum; 2) progress testing; and 3) resident practice profile tracking tool.
Dr. Iglar has also been involved in the development of a pharmacotherapeutics curriculum. He developed the I Can PresCribE a Drug mnemonic which allows systematic inclusion or exclusion of a drug therapy based on individual patient factors. This has led to an interprofessional collaborative project using web technology and in-class tools to teach therapeutics. The mnemonic has been adapted by the Ontario consortium of nurse practitioners to teach rational prescribing to nurse practitioner students.
Dr. Iglar has been honoured for his contributions to postgraduate education through numerous teaching awards at both the hospital and departmental levels.
Dr. Praseedha Janakiram
Dr. Praseedha Janakiram is a practicing family physician in Toronto, with interests in HIV primary care, refugee health, women’s health, and global health. She has prior clinical experience from Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, India, Pakistan, and Malawi. Praseedha completed a women's health fellowship at Women's College Hospital, and currently co-coordinates the PGY3 Enhanced Skills Fellowship in Global Health and Vulnerable Populations for the Global Health Program at the DFCM. She also co-leads the Toronto Addis Ababa
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Academic Collaboration in Family Medicine. Praseedha commits her clinical time to Women'’s College Hospital Crossroads Clinic as well as a community-based HIV primary care and general practice.
Dr. Debora Kopansky-Giles
Dr. Deborah Kopansky-Giles, BPHE, DC, FCCS, FICC, MSc, is a chiropractor/clinician scientist on staff in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, St. Michael’s Hospital, an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto and a Professor at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College, Department of Graduate Education and Research. Dr. Kopansky-Giles
oversees the chiropractic program at St. Michael’s Hospital and is actively engaged in collaborative, primary care health service delivery research with a focused area related to integrative models of health care, interprofessional education of health professional trainees and competency-based education.
Dr. Kopansky-Giles represents the chiropractic profession on the Global Alliance for Musculoskeletal Health (of the Bone and Joint Decade) International Coordinating Council as a member of the Executive Committee, and oversees the global National Alliance Networks; co-Chairs the Education Task Force; sits on the World Network Meeting Conference Organizing Committee; and is a member of Bone and Joint Canada Steering Committee. She also represents Canada on the World Federation of Chiropractic. Deborah is a past member of the WHO Disability and Rehabilitation Expert Advisory Committee, and sat on the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care Neck and Low Back Pain Quality Based Pathway Expert Working Group as well as the MOHLTC LBP strategy working group, co-Chairs the Collaborator Role Working Group for the College of Family Physicians of Canada and chairs the IPC Competency Working Group at the Hospital. Deborah has been actively working with the WHO over the past three years on the Framework for Integrated, People-Centred Care and Global Health Workforce programs. Deborah has received numerous research grants and awards, has published several papers and presents nationally and internationally.
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Dr. Joanne Laine-Gossin [email protected]
Dr. Joanne Laine-Gossin is a community family physician associated with North York General Hospital and the North York Family Health Team. She is the Quality Improvement co-Lead for North York General Hospital at the University of Toronto. As well she is the QI lead for her group practice.
Dr. Laine-Gossin has been a family physician for many years and works in a group setting, along with other physicians and Allied Health Personnel. She looks after patients ranging from newborn to geriatric ages, providing a wide range of comprehensive care and preventative services. She teaches both Undergraduate and Post-Graduate students as well as second year medical students through the Family Medicine Longitudinal Experience.
Dr. Fok-Han Leung [email protected] Dr. Fok-Han Leung is a family physician practicing general family medicine and inner city health out of St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto. He is also the Associate Course Director of CPPD (Community, Population and Public Health - undergraduate medical course), and the Associate Program Director (Evaluation and Assessment) for the University of Toronto family medicine residency.
He has been teaching medical students, residents and international graduates for the past 10 years. He was the previous physician lead of the St. Michael's Health Centre at 80 Bond and has been involved with the implementation of multiple technologies at his clinic and department.
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Dr. Paul Krueger
Dr. Krueger is an Associate Professor with the Department of Family and Community Medicine and is the Associate Director of the DFCM Research Program
Dr. Krueger's interests include primary health care research, health services research, public health research and survey methods. Example research projects include, maternal and child health, relocation into long-term care, pneumonia in older adults, care of the seriously ill in the community, caregiver respite, health care needs of older adults, risk
factors for falls, elder abuse, caregiver/resident satisfaction, and quality of work life.
Dr. Paolo Mazzotta
Dr. Paolo Mazzotta is a Family Physician who practices palliative care at the Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care in Toronto. He is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Family and Community Medicine and an active member of the Division of Palliative Medicine. His areas of interest include teaching, mentorship and capacity building in education in palliative care from a global health perspective, as well as health literacy and communication skills related to palliative and end of life care.
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Dr. David Tannenbaum
Dr. David Tannenbaum, Interim Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine, is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto, and the Family Physician-in-Chief in the Ray D. Wolfe Department of Family Medicine at Sinai Health System. He has an active clinical practice and teaches residents and medical students in the Granovsky Gluskin Family Medicine Centre where he is also the lead physician of the Mount Sinai Academic Family Health Team.
Dr. Tannenbaum is Chair of the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine Postgraduate Board of Medical Assessors and Vice-Chair of the Ontario Health Technology Advisory Committee at Health Quality Ontario. He served as Deputy Chair (Interim) in the Department of Family and Community Medicine during 2016. Dr. Tannenbaum held the position of president of the Ontario College of Family Physicians in 2012.
Dr. Tannenbaum received his medical degree from McGill University in 1977, and completed residency training in Family Medicine at McGill and at the Medical University of South Carolina. His main academic interests include innovations in curriculum design and implementation in residency training. He is the recipient of several awards for teaching and contributions to postgraduate medical education.
Dr. Joshua Tepper
Dr. Joshua Tepper is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Health Quality Ontario. Before that, Joshua was the Vice President of Education at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, in charge of educational strategy and programming for learners, physicians and staff, patients and their families, and the community. Prior to Sunnybrook, he served as the Assistant Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, where he led the HealthForceOntario health human resources strategy to ensure Ontarians had access to the right number and
mix of qualified health care providers. Joshua has also been active on a national scale as the
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Senior Medical Officer for Health Canada, an Adjunct Scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, and a Research Consultant for the Canadian Institute of Health Information. He has received several provincial and national awards for his leadership in these positions, including the Ontario College of Family Physicians, Jan Kasperski Leadership Award (2011-12) and Canada’s Outstanding Young Leadership Award from the Canadian College of Health Services Executives (2009).
Patricia (Trish) O’Brien
Trish O’Brien is the Quality Improvement Program manager at the Department of Community and Family Medicine at University of Toronto. She has been a registered nurse for over twenty-five years with experience providing strategic and operational leadership to
consistently enable the highest quality health care delivery, particularly in the realm of primary care quality improvement. Prior to working with the University of Toronto, Trish held director positions with Health Quality Ontario (HQO) and the Quality Improvement and Innovation Partnership.
Trish has worked in the community, hospital and private industry sectors before her focus on Primary Care. She has trained and been certified in the major modalities of QI including the Model for Improvement, LEAN, and Six Sigma.
Dr. Nicholas Pimlott
Dr Nicholas Pimlott is clinical researcher and physician in the Family Practice Health Centre of Women's College Hospital. Dr. Pimlott is also an assistant professor in the department of family and community medicine at the University of Toronto. He has received several teaching awards for his work with medical students.
Dr. Pimlott has been involved in a number of studies
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exploring and assessing the role of family physicians over his time at the Family Practice Health Centre. Currently, his primary research interest is in exploring and understanding the role of the family physician in providing care for patients and families with dementia.
Dr. Vanessa Redditt
Dr. Vanessa Redditt is a family physician at the Crossroads Refugee Clinic, a specialized primary care clinic for refugees at Women's College Hospital, and a lecturer at the Department of Community and Family Medicine at the University of Toronto. She is interested in enhancing the health of marginalized individuals and communities through clinical care, health system improvement, and tackling social inequities. She is particularly passionate about maternal and
child health, as well as immigrant and refugee health. Vanessa also volunteers with Partners In Health/Inshuti Mu Buzima in rural Rwanda focused on health worker training, quality improvement, and primary care initiatives.
Dr. Michael Roberts
Dr. Michael Roberts is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Community Medicine (DFCM) Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. He is a Faculty Development Lead, Wellness and Resilience and Narrative Medicine Lead in the DFCM. He was recently recognized for his contributions to mentorship, scholarship and curriculum development as a recipient of the Award of Excellence from the College of Family Physicians of Canada. Michael’s clinical practice is in urban Toronto with a special interest in counselling and psychotherapy.
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Dr. Lynn Wilson
Prof. Wilson practices family medicine at the Women’s College Hospital Family Health Team in Toronto. Her clinical interests include palliative care, addiction medicine, obstetrics and global health.
Prior to being named Vice Dean, Partnerships, Prof. Wilson served as Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine (DFCM) at the University of Toronto. With over 1200 faculty members, it is the largest family medicine department in Canada. DFCM has thrived under Prof. Wilson’s leadership, with expanded graduate programs and fellowship offerings, four new research chairs, and new programs such as the Family Medicine Longitudinal Experience, the Office of Education Scholarship and DFCM
Open, an online platform for family doctors to share resources and information.
Prof. Wilson has also played a leadership role through her work with some of the Faculty’s key partners. From 2002 to 2007, she was a member of the Physician Services Committee for the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-term Care where she helped to lead primary care renewal in the province of Ontario. Since 2011, Dr. Wilson has been the co-director of BRIDGES, a Ministry of Health funded project to support the design and implementation of innovative models of care that promote integration in the healthcare system. Her current global health work in the Department includes working with medical faculty at Addis Ababa University to implement a first-ever family medicine residency program in Ethiopia.
On January 1, 2016, Prof. Wilson began her term as the Vice Dean, Partnerships in Faculty of Medicine. In this capacity, she is responsible for the Faculty’s ongoing relationships with nine fully affiliated hospitals and 18 community-affiliated hospitals and health facilities, as well as government, community organizations and international collaborators.