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Thursday October 24, 2024 | 7:45 – 9:00 am

Rural Rounds provides rural healthcare providers with up-to-date and relevant medical education through interactive Zoom presentations. If you practice or support rural communities in British Columbia, you are encouraged to join these engaging sessions!

*NEW* Join the Zoom session early! Grab your coffee and log in at 7:45 a.m. (PT) to connect with your fellow rural healthcare colleagues. This is a great opportunity to introduce yourself, chat, and build community before we begin. The session will officially start at 8:00 a.m. and joining early for social time with colleagues is completely optional!

Key Speakers

Dr. Lauren Galbraith is a family physician who has been practicing in the Kootenays (unceded, traditional territory of the Sinixt, Ktunaxa and Sylix nations) in what is known as Nelson since 2018. She completed medical school at UBC’s Northern Medical Program and did a rural family medicine residency through the University of Alberta’s Grande Prairie program. She completed UBC’s Enhanced Skills in Gender and sexual health in 2019 and now has a full-service family practice with an interest in gender-affirming care, contraception, and sexual health.

Dr. Ingrid Cosio has been a family physician in Prince George for 20 years. She is the Physician Lead for the Northern Gender Clinic (NGC), which provides gender-affirming care to BC’s Northerners, and co-lead of a local advocacy group called Physicians for Diversity & Inclusion. Dr. Cosio is actively involved in UBC’s Family Medicine residency training program and provides training opportunities in gender-affirming care to UNBC Medical Students and UBC Family Medicine, Psychiatry & Pediatrics residents at the NGC.

Dr. Sharmeen Mazaheri has been a rural family physician for 18 years, with a focus on gender-affirming care for youth and adults over the past decade. She has worked with Foundry and serves as the Medical Lead for North Island Gender Care. Additionally, she is a RACE Line consultant, a Transcare BC Clinical Mentor, and a surgical assessor as well as a consultant for the Yukon. Dr. Mazaheri is also a Doctors of BC & UBC CPD Rural Peer Mentor and a UBC Family Medicine Clinical Instructor. She is deeply grateful to live and work on the unceded traditional territory of the K’omoks First Nation.

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Friday October 25, 2024 | 12:00 – 1:00 pm

Join Dr. Kevin Fairbairn on Friday, Oct 25, 2024, for a talk on POCUS for Lung.

Learning Objectives to come!