qualifications: RSW
contribution: original concept, literature review, collected data, wrote the first draft
position: Long Term Care Consultant
Canada
qualifications: PhD
contribution: designed the project, supervised data collection, contributed to drafts
position: Professor
Canada
Mary Lou is professor at Lakehead University in the School of Social Work, with specialization in gerontology and palliative care. Her research focuses on health services delivery and community capacity development, including education of providers in rural and remote communties.
qualifications: PhD
contribution: contributed to drafts
position: Associate Professor
Trained as a health geographer, my research broadly addresses health services issues in rural and remote Canada. Service issues include community care (home care) and palliative and end-of-life services.
Primary care reform in Greece: a focus on patients
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Creating positive early rural placements in medical education
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Discharge against medical advice in rural and remote emergency departments
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Retention of early-career GPs as independent specialists in former training practices
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Rural GP Association of Scotland (RGPAS) Annual Conference #RGPAS24, 15–17 November 2024, Inverness, Scotland
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11th Biennial Pacific Region Indigenous Doctors Congress (PRIDoC) 2024, 2–6 December 2024, Kaurna Country, Adelaide, Australia
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4th International Indigenous Health & Wellbeing Conference 2025, 16–19 June 2025, Adelaide Convention Centre, Kaurna Country, Australia
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