(WATERLOO REGION, ONTARIO)

Mission: To provide leadership in effective primary health care delivery by an inter-professional team, which is enhanced and strengthened by education, research, and practice innovation, for the public, patients, learners, and practitioners, within a sustainable, supportive environment.

Excellence in Health Care Delivery to Patients

• Evidence-informed best practice, patient-centred care for 20,000 patients
• Outreach programs to vulnerable populations such as refugees, homeless people, people with mobility-access issues, rural Mennonites, and patients with demenia

Building a learning community

• Site for the Kitchener-Waterloo McMaster Family Medicine Residency program
• Primary care teaching for inter-professional learners in medicine, pharmacy, optometry, social work, nursing (RN, RPN and NP), clinical nutrition and other professions

Excellence in Research, Education, and Innovation

• Development of inter-professional programs in point-of-care anti-coagulation monitoring, dementia assessment and care, mobility-access issues
• Innovation in links of family medicine with pharmacy, social work, optometry, and other professions

Responsible Community Citizenship

• Leadership in building the new University of Waterloo Health Sciences Campus
• Leadership in local eco-system health and global health initiatives

Leadership in System-Wide Primary Health Care Policy Change

• Mentorship for Family Health Teams and other teams from across Canada
• Leadership in provincial inter-professional care groups

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Honours

Dietitian

Chiropodist

Pharmacist

Social Work

Nurse Practitioner

Nurse

Chiropractor

Resident