PEER North Medical Conference
About Us
Mission
To create a culturally relevant educational forum tailored to the Northern healthcare community while fostering meaningful connections and enhancing relationships. This takes place whilst addressing current primary care topics of interest with an evidence-based approach applicable to practice.
How we started?
After years of communications with Northern health care leaders, the Northwest Territories Medical Association (NWTMA) sensed a need for greater collaboration to share experiences and knowledge unique to Northern practice. With support from Practice NWT, and in partnership with PEER (Patients, Experience, Evidence, Research), an organization free from industry bias, we have created a Northern family medicine educational forum with unique local and Indigenous cultural offerings.
We are committed to recruiting benevolent healthcare providers to support our diverse and knowledgable land-loving population. We hope you will join us and come to love our people and land as much as we do.
PEER NORTH PLANNING COMMITTEE
Dr. Sarah Cook, MD, CCFP , FCFP, CCPE
Co-Chair
President-Elect, College of Family Physicians of Canada
Hannah Shoichet, MD, CCFP (EM)
co-chair
Co-director for the University of
Alberta Rural Family Medicine
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Jessica Kirkwood, MD, CCFP (AM)
Emergency Physician
Stanton Territorial Hospital
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Michael R. Kolber, MD, CCFP, MSc
Professor, Dept. of Family Medicine, U of A
Associate Director, PEER Team
Peace River, Alberta
Tina Korownyk, MD, CCFP
Professor & Chair Dept of Family Medicine, U of A
Family Physician and Director of PEER
Edmonton, Alberta
Chloë Hoechsmann
Conference Coordinator – Ledger North
Peer North Conference in Yellowknife, NT
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Hotel Information
Explorer Hotel, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
You will be sent a code after you register to access conference rates at the Explorer Hotel.