Collaborators

Dr. Huma Ali, MDCM, MA, FRCPC (Calgary, AB)

Dr. Ali is an Emergency Medicine Physician based primarily at South Health Campus in Calgary and a Clinical Assistant Professor, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. Dr. Ali co-leads the Calgary Department of Emergency Medicine mentorship program and is a member of their Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Working Group. She is a member of the EDI Advisory Committee to the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Board of Directors.

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Dr. Samina Ali (she/her/elle), MD (Edmonton, AB)

Dr. Ali is a pediatric emergency physician at the Stollery Children's Hospital (Edmonton), a Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine (University of Alberta), and a researcher in better pain care for children. She has worked in wellness and professionalism for many years, including various past leadership roles.

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Dr. Charlie Chen (he/him), MD, MEd, CCFP(PC), FCFP (Calgary, AB)

Dr. Chen is a Palliative Medicine Physician and the (outgoing - ending August 31) Medical Director of Palliative and End of Life Care, Calgary Zone, Alberta Health Services. He is a Physician Advisor: Wellness, Diversity, and Development with Physician Experience, AHS Medical Affairs. Dr. Chen is also a Clinical Associate Professor in the Departments of Oncology and Family Medicine at the University of Calgary, and serves as the Chair of the Wellness Committee for the Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians.

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Dr. Lara Cooke (she/her), MD, MSc, FRCPC (Calgary, AB)

Dr. Cooke is a Neurology Physician at the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary. She is also a Professor in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary

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Dr. Gail Darling, MD, FRCSC, FACS (Halifax, NS)

Dr. Darling is a Surgeon based in Halifax. She is the Dr. D Alex Gillis Professor and Head of the Department of Surgery at Dalhousie University, as well as the Head of Surgery for Nova Scotia Health Central Zone. She is the past President for the Canadian Association of Thoracic Surgery and past Editor-in-Chief for Pearson’s Textbook of Thoracic Surgery.

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Dr. Frankie Fraulin (he/him), MD FRCSC (Calgary, AB)

Dr. Fraulin is a Pediatric Plastic Surgeon based at the Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary. He is also the interim Associate Zone Medical Director overlooking the Departments of Surgery and Anesthesia in the Calgary Zone, Alberta Health Services, and a Clinical Professor in the Department of Surgery at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary.

 

Dr. Rachel Grimminck (she/her), MD, FRCPC, DABPN, CGP (Calgary, AB and Vancouver Island, BC)

Dr. Grimminck is a Psychiatrist whose current clinical practice focuses on group therapy in Alberta and British Columbia. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor at both the University of Calgary and the University of British Columbia. She holds leadership positions with a province-wide group therapy program in BC and is a BC Psychiatric Association board member.  She was previously the Clinical Medical Director for Emergency Psychiatry at Foothills Medical Center and the PGME Simulation Lead for the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Calgary. Her areas of interest include emergency psychiatry, group psychotherapy, EDI and structural stigma, medical education, and physician wellness.

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​Dr. Melanie Hnatiuk (she/her), MD, CCFP, FCFP (Calgary, AB)
Dr. Hnatiuk is a Family Medicine Physician based at the South Health Campus Family Medicine Teaching Clinic. She is also a Clinical Associate Professor and the Lead for Faculty Wellness within the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Calgary, and a Board member for the Alberta College of Family Physicians.

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Dr. Susan Kuhn (she/her), MD (Calgary, AB)

Dr. Kuhn is a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the Alberta Children’s Hospital, and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary.  Her interests include tropical medicine, migrant health, compassion, and faculty vitality.

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Dr. Anton Nel, MD, MBChB (Okotoks, AB)

Dr. Nel is a Family and Urgent Care physician in Okotoks. He is the past chair of the Calgary Rural PCN Provider Corporation and past president of the Okotoks Urgent Care Executive.

 

Tracey Receveur (she/her/hers), RN/BN, CWT (Community and Workplace Traumatologist) (Calgary, AB)

Tracey is a Registered Nurse and Community and Workplace Traumatologist working for Alberta Heath Services in Provincial Medical Affairs – Diversity, Wellness and Development. She is formally trained in the delivery of Schwartz rounds.

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​Dr. Ghazala Radwi, MD (Edmonton, AB)

Dr. Radwi is a Hematologist and Transfusion Medicine Physician. She is the Provincial Lead in EDI and Wellness for Alberta Precisions Laboratories, as well as the Medical Lead for Transfusion Medicine for the North Sector. She is also a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Alberta, and the Wellness and Safety Representative on the Hematopathology Residency Committee.

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Dr. Shannon Ruzycki, (she/her), MD (Calgary, AB)

Dr. Ruzycki is a General Internist in Calgary, based out of the Foothills Medical Centre and Rockyview General Hospital. She is the Vice Chair of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility for the Department of Medicine, and the Research Director for the Health, Equity, and Systems Transformation Portfolio in the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary.

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Dr. Amanda Roze des Ordons, MD, MMEd (Calgary, AB)
Dr. Roze des Ordons is a Medical Educator and Physician in critical care medicine, palliative medicine, and anesthesiology with affiliations at the universities of Calgary and British Columbia.

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Dr. Nadia Salvaterra, MD, CCFP, CCPE (Edmonton, AB)

Dr. Salvaterra is a Family Physician based in Edmonton and a Clinical Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta. She is also the Associate Zone Medical Director of Primary, Continuing & Community Care and Suburban Hospitals for Alberta Health Services Edmonton Zone and the Edmonton Zone Primary Care Network Executive Dyad.

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Dr. Ieleen Taylor, BSc, MD, CCFP (Sylvan Lake, AB) 

Dr. Taylor is a Family Physician based in Sylvan Lake. She is also a Clinical Professor for the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Alberta and a Meaning in Medicine Facilitator for the Red Deer Family Medicine Residents.

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