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A visionary, values-based leader with extensive experience across the education continuum. Dr. Maria Hubinette joined SFU School of Medicine in its early days and is Associate Dean, Partnerships.

A family physician, her clinical work focuses on youth facing barriers to care, community-based mental health support, and care for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence. She received her MD from UBC, completed her rural family practice residency there, and earned a Master of Medical Education from the University of Dundee, Scotland.

She contributed to the medical school development across Senate approval processes, accreditation, curriculum development, policy frameworks, and admissions. As Associate Dean, Partnerships, Dr. Hubinette established partnerships and local leadership for clinical education across UGME and PGME programs and is responsible for cultivating relationships, clinical faculty networks, distributed education infrastructure and educational capacity that advance the school’s education, research, scholarship and social accountability missions. She has a program of research and education scholarship focused on equity and social accountability in health professions education.

Karl Le Roux was born in Sweden but grew up in South Africa. He qualified from the University of Cape Town in1999, and has postgraduate diplomas in Anaesthetics and Obstetrics and a Masters in International Health from Uppsala University in Sweden. From November 2006, he worked at Zithulele Hospital, a rural facility in the former homeland of the Transkei, now in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Karl le Roux was a visiting research fellow at the Center for Health and Wellbeing, Princeton University. He stood as a parliamentary candidate for the Democratic Alliance and was elected to the National Assembly of South Africa in 2024.

Paul is a doctor, writer, film maker and lifelong patient, although not necessarily in that order.  He has spent his entire medical career working in rural hospitals.  He has developed, written, produced or directed over 40 hours of commercial television, numerous short films and two feature documentaries - Donated to science about human dissection and Behind the Mask about frontline workers during the COVID pandemic. 

You can link to Paul’s work on Facebook

: https://www.facebook.com/PRNfilms 

or Youtube: www.https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCji4A0u6IVPXA873ZTzAOBA

A dynamic forward-thinking GP, entrepreneur, podcaster, and digital health advocate with extensive experience in medical leadership and healthcare innovation.Dr Sean Stevens is a general practitioner and co-owner of Grove Medical, a two-site practice in Perth, Western Australia. He was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for service to general practice medicine, recognising his mentoring and supervision of GPs in training – including being named Australian Supervisor of the Year in 2004 and his leadership as Chair of the RACGP WA Faculty from 2019 to 2022, through the COVID-19 pandemic. Sean chairs the RACGP’s Digital Health and Innovation Specific Interest Group (SIG), was Inaugural Chair of the Business of General Practice SIG, founded and co-hosts The Good GP Podcast, and champions GP-led, innovative primary care.

Dr. Sarah Newbery is a family physician who has worked in Marathon for the past 30 years. She has been involved with Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) in various capacities since its inception in 2002She is currently Associate Dean of Physician Workforce Capacity. In this role she works to create connections across the health care system in Northern Ontario to support efforts to recruit and retain Northern Ontario’s future workforce. Part of her role includes supporting the development of the Rural Generalist Pathway at NOSM U.She is a past president of the Ontario College of Family Physicians, was VP Clinical of the Northwest LHIN for several years before starting her associate dean role with NOSM U, has been involved in numerous Ontario and national committees and has been active with both the CFPC and Society of Rural Physicians of Canada. She has served NOSH as chief of staff for 16 of the past 30 years, handing over the reins to her very skilled colleagues a in 2020. Passionate about community-engaged health care, she works to advance equitable access to care for the people Northern Ontario, with a focus on rural and remote communities. Sarah is the mother of two adult sons who are her heart’s delight and partner to Dr. Eliseo Orrantia, who is also a rural generalist family physician.

GP, writer, performer, speaker, teacher and mentor from Aotearoa, New Zealand.Lucy has been a columnist for NZ Doctor magazine for many years and in 2024 recorded audio stories and reflections written during the pandemic. Waiting for Covid is available on podcast platforms. Inside the GP Consultation her one woman show with 32 characters is currently touring New Zealand. Her best selling book Everything But the Medicine explores the complex human stories in the consultation, the character ‘doctor’ and the idea of a story doctor. Lucy also shares personal stories including her burnout story anchoring the idea that the doctor is also human. Everything But the Medicine was Longlisted for the Ockham NZ Book Awards 2026 and is also available as an E book or audiobook.More information on her website: https://lucyohagan.com/

Trish Greenhalgh is Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford since 2015, previously at University College London and Queen Mary University of London.Trish is Programme Director for the MSc and DPhil in Translational Health Sciences. She leads a programme of research at the interface between social sciences and medicine. Her past research has covered the adoption and use of new technologies; the evaluation and improvement of clinical services at the primary-secondary care interface, narrative methods to illuminate the illness experience in ‘hard to reach’ groups; the challenges of implementing evidence-based practice; and the application of philosophy to clinical practice.  She is the author of almost 500 peer-reviewed publications and 16 textbooks, and  was awarded the OBE for Services to Medicine by Her Majesty the Queen in 2001, made a Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences in 2014, elected an International Fellow of the US Academy of Medicine in 2021, and elected to the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management in 2024. Trish’s Google Scholar page Elected Fellow of the UK Royal College of Physicians 1997, Royal College of General Practitioners, Faculty of Clinical Informatics and Faculty of Public Health. See: Nuffield Department of Primary Care Sciences

A classical chamber music concert featuring musicians from the Irish and European Doctors Orchestra in the Boathouse on Heir Island Pier. It includes interviews with Dr Dave Thomson (Oboe), Dr Conor Molony (Violin), and Dr Xanthe Cross (Cello) who discuss what music means to them in their personal and professional lives. The concert is the highlight of week long musical retreat where a group of doctors, each with a particular musical talent, come together to create music, walk, swim and enjoy likeminded company and conversation. Heir Island is a remote island off the SouthWest Coast of Ireland, accessible only by ferry.

Executive Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland, and adjunct Professor of General Practice in the School of Population Health at UNSW Sydney.

Nick has been a GP for more than 30 years and continues to work part-time in clinical practice.  His research interests are on prevention and management of chronic diseases with a focus on respiratory illness. He also has a long-term clinical, teaching, and research interest in travel medicine and is chair of the RACGP Travel Medicine Specific Interest Group . Nick is the immediate past chair of the National Asthma Council Guideline Committee and the RACGP Smoking Cessation Guidelines Expert Advisory Group. Other positions include: Member Executive Committee RACGP Preventive Guidelines, Member Lung Foundation Australia COPDX Guideline Committee, Board member Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service. When not at work Nick might be seen trying to catch a wave at Burleigh Heads.  

Professor Dr Airton Stein has dedicated more than two decades to advancing evidence-based guidelines and improving health quality on a global scale. Airton Tetelbom Stein Graduated in Medicine at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (1981), Family Physician at Rio Grande do Sul Health Secretariat, Master Medical Sciences, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (1989), Master’s degree in Community Health For Developing Countries – London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (1990) and Doctorate in Medical Sciences, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (1998). Associate editor of the Brazilian Journal of Epidemiology and the Scientific Journal of the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre - Clinical Biomedical. Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Scientific Reports, from the Nature group. He was Head of the Department of Public Health and Full Professor of Public Health at the Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre until January 2025, when he retired. He was Provost of Research and Graduation courses and Head of the Department of Public Health and Full Professor of Public Health at the Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre until January 2025, when he retired. He was a professor in the Professional Master’s Program in Health Technology Assessment at the Conceição Hospital Group and in the Postgraduate Courses in Health Sciences at UFCSPA. He is still working as a tutor in Information Technology and Management at UFCSPA. He has greatly contributed to teaching and implementing guideline concepts in South America.In recognition of his continued dedication to the guideline community, Airton was awarded an Honorary FGIN in 2024.