Dr. Barry Clarke and his team have engineered a major change in the way that family physicians provide primary care to seniors in nursing homes in the Halifax area. After identifying that the scattershot approach to patient care in nursing […]
Each May, the graduating class of Dalhousie Medical School awards one of their professors the Silver Shovel Award. It’s an honour that recognizes teaching excellence, rewarding a professor’s dedication, compassion and commitment to helping their students succeed. Dr. Brock Vair […]
When it comes to physician recruitment and retention, the municipality of Clare, on Nova Scotia’s Acadian shore, has a recipe for success. The five family physicians working in the community were born and raised in the area and returned home […]
Dr. Kenny Yee’s career has not gone how he originally intended, but he says in the end he wouldn’t change a thing. Born in Malaysia, he completed medical school in Australia and intended to specialize in orthopaedic surgery. Difficulties […]
“I have always been a team builder,” says Dr. Manohar Bance. “Brainstorming, developing ideas and bringing people together to discuss them, is an enjoyable and natural impulse for me.” The surgeon and researcher, who also teaches at Dalhousie Medical […]
Dr. Rhea MacDonald, a family physician in Inverness, Cape Breton was uncomfortable with her own opioid prescribing practices and felt she had to make some changes to deliver better care and to prescribe more responsibly. She learned that six of her […]
Dr. Cindy Forbes has always been drawn to work that results in positive change. Her early experiences sitting on boards and committees became the foundation of a career characterized by leadership. “It was obvious to me from my […]
The responsibility to help the underprivileged isn’t something Dr. Elwood MacMullin, a general surgeon in Sydney, N.S., takes lightly. “The world is full of people in need of medical and surgical attention but without the means to access […]
Music bounces off the blue-and-white gymnasium walls at Springvale Elementary School in Halifax. It’s Kids’ Run Club (KRC) day, and more than 80 people – from toddlers to tweens, plus a handful of parents – are warming up for […]
When she realized her local elementary school didn’t have a Kids’ Run Club, Dr. Jocelyn Foran took the lead. “There is no greater stress reliever than a good run,” says Dr. Jocelyn Foran, an anaesthesiologist at Valley Regional Hospital in […]
