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Caring for patients with lived experience of homelessness

Anne Andermann, Gary Bloch, Ritika Goel, Vanessa Brcic, Ginetta Salvalaggio, Shanell Twan, Claire E. Kendall, David Ponka and Kevin Pottie
Canadian Family Physician August 2020; 66 (8) 563-570;
Anne Andermann
Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine, Director of the Community Outreach Clinic at St Mary’s Hospital Family Medicine Centre, and Chair of the Social Accountability, Population Health and Health Advocacy Theme in Undergraduate Medical Education in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University in Montreal, Que; a member of the Social Accountability Working Group of the College of Family Physicians of Canada in Mississauga, Ont; and a member of the National Advisory Council on Poverty of the Government of Canada.
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Gary Bloch
Family physician in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at St Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, Ont, and a family physician and cofounder of Inner City Health Associates.
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Ritika Goel
Chair of the Social Accountability Working Group of the College of Family Physicians of Canada, Population Health Lead of Inner City Health Associates at St Michael’s Hospital, and Faculty Lead in Social Accountability in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto.
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Vanessa Brcic
Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Practice at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
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Ginetta Salvalaggio
Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton and Associate Scientific Director of the Inner City Health and Wellness Program in Edmonton.
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Shanell Twan
Outreach worker and core team supervisor with the Streetworks harm reduction program in Edmonton, and a person with lived experience.
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Claire E. Kendall
Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Ottawa in Ontario, Clinician Scientist at the Bruyère Research Institute, Affiliate Investigator in the Clinical Epidemiology Program at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Clinicienne Chercheure at the Institut du Savoir Montfort and Affiliate Scientist in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St Michael’s Hospital.
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David Ponka
Associate Professor in the C.T. Lamont Primary Health Care Research Centre in the Bruyère Research Institute at the University of Ottawa, and Director of the Besrour Centre for Global Family Medicine at the College of Family Physicians of Canada.
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Kevin Pottie
Associate Professor in the C.T. Lamont Primary Health Care Research Centre at the Bruyère Research Institute, and a member of the Campbell and Cochrane Equity Methods Group, the World Health Organization Guideline Review Committee, and the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care.
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Caring for patients with lived experience of homelessness
Anne Andermann, Gary Bloch, Ritika Goel, Vanessa Brcic, Ginetta Salvalaggio, Shanell Twan, Claire E. Kendall, David Ponka, Kevin Pottie
Canadian Family Physician Aug 2020, 66 (8) 563-570;

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