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Practising social accountability

From theory to action

Sandy Buchman, Robert Woollard, Ryan Meili and Ritika Goel
Canadian Family Physician January 2016; 62 (1) 15-18;
Sandy Buchman
Chair of the Social Accountability Working Group of the College of Family Physicians of Canada, Past President of the College, a family physician providing home-base palliative care in Toronto, Ont, Education Lead at the Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care at Mount Sinai Hospital, and Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto, Member of the Social Accountability Working Group of the College of Family Physicians of Canada.
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Robert Woollard
Associate Director of the Rural Coordination Centre of BC, a practising family physician, and Professor in the Department of Family Practice at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Member of the Social Accountability Working Group of the College of Family Physicians of Canada.
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Ryan Meili
Family physician in Saskatoon, Sask, Head of the Division of Social Accountability at the University of Saskatchewan, and founder of Upstream: Institute for A Healthy Society, Member of the Social Accountability Working Group of the College of Family Physicians of Canada.
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Ritika Goel
Family physician with the Inner City Health Associates in Toronto, Co-chair of the Ontario College of Family Physicians’ Poverty and Health Committee, and Lecturer at the University of Toronto, Member of the Social Accountability Working Group of the College of Family Physicians of Canada.
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