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Dr. Brian Postl, Dean, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba and Dr. Perry Gray, Provincial Lead, Medical Specialist Services & CMO, Shared Health are very pleased to announce the reappointment of Dr. Jos\u00e9 Fran\u00e7ois as Head, Department of Family Medicine (pending board approval) and Provincial Specialty Lead, Family Medicine effective December 1, 2018 for a five-year term.<\/p>\n
Dr. Fran\u00e7ois was first appointed as Head of the Family Medicine Department in 2013; he was appointed Medical Director \u2013 Family Medicine, Winnipeg Regional Health Authority the same year.<\/p>\n
Dr. Fran\u00e7ois received his medical degree from the Universit\u00e9 de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke (Qu\u00e9bec), and completed a residency in family medicine at the University of Manitoba. He went on to complete a Masters in Medical Education at the University of Dundee, Dundee (Scotland).<\/p>\n
Since first joining the faculty in 2005, Dr. Fran\u00e7ois has held a number of academic appointments in the medical college, including Associate Dean, Continuing Professional Development; Acting Head, Department of Medical Education; and Program Lead, Bilingual Family Medicine Residency Program.<\/p>\n
He also serves as Co-Chair, Provincial Clinical Team \u2013 Primary Health & Community Services; Chair, Association of Canadian Chairs of Family Medicine (ACCFM); Manuscript reviewer, Canadian Family Physician; and Member, Board of Directors, St-Boniface Hospital.<\/p>\n
Dr. Fran\u00e7ois has been active in many initiatives aiming to improve access and quality of primary care including advanced access scheduling, shared-care models and interprofessional teams and has been recognized through several awards, including the Margaret-Teresa McDonnell Award; the Canadian Associate for Medical Education (CAME) Certificate of Excellence; and the Janus Research Grant \u2013 College of Family Physicians of Canada.<\/p>\n
We are very pleased that Dr. Fran\u00e7ois has accepted his reappointment as Head, Department of Family Medicine, University of Manitoba and the appointment as Provincial Specialty Lead, Family Medicine, Shared Health and we look forward to continuing to work with him in this capacity.<\/p>\n
Please join us in offering our continued support to Dr. Fran\u00e7ois and congratulating him on his reappointment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dr. Brian Postl, Dean, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba and Dr. Perry Gray, Provincial Lead, Medical Specialist Services & CMO, Shared Health are very pleased to announce the reappointment of Dr. Jos\u00e9 Fran\u00e7ois as Head, Department of Family Medicine (pending board approval) and Provincial Specialty Lead, Family…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}