Dr. Geoff Williams, a gastroenterologist in Halifax, is the recipient of Doctors Nova Scotia‘s 2017 Patient’s Choice Award. “My clinical focus is in therapeutic endoscopy, and I am particularly interested in diagnosis and management of pancreatic cancer,” he said. As the […]
Our province has no shortage of notable physicians – both historical and modern-day. Here are a few of the doctors who are currently making significant contributions to health care in Nova Scotia. Dr. David Martell Dr. Martell is a family physician based in […]
By now, you’ve probably read that Nova Scotia’s doctors have ratified two, four-year contracts with the provincial government. The contracts, which are retroactive to April 2015, offer 0 per cent, 0 per cent, 1 per cent and 1.5 per cent […]
Doctors Nova Scotia endorsed Church Point, N.S. family physician Dr. Michelle Dow as its new President during the association’s annual conference on Saturday, June 4, in Digby, N.S. Dr. Dow’s solutions-oriented, team-focused outlook has served her well in her 28 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
