FMER-PRAM Crossroad Panel Discussions
Date: Friday, June 13, 2025
Panel #2 – Shared Decision-Making in Family Medicine Education and Practice
Overview:
On June 13, 2025, the second Family Medicine Education Research Group (FMER)-PRAM Crossroad Panel Discussion will be held at.the McGill Faculty Club and Conference Center.
Bringing together scholars, practitioners, and students to discuss innovative approaches to improve adolescent health outcomes, invited panelists presented their work related to family medicine education scholarship and participatory science in adolescent medicine.
Panel Facilitators:
Anne Cockcroft, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Member PRAM
Charo Rodriguez, MD, MSc, PhD, Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Director FMER
Date: Friday, June 13, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: McGill Faculty Club and Conference Center, Billiard Room, 3450 McTavish, Montréal, QC H3A 0E5
Registration:
Registration is now open for the second FMER-PRAM Crossroad Panel Discussion: Shared Decision-Making in Family Medicine Education and Practice. This in-person event has places for a maximum of 100 attendees. Doors will open at 8:00 AM, with a complimentary breakfast and an opportunity to mingle before the formal panel begins at 9:00 AM prompt. Attendance is free, but registration is required due to limited seating. Don’t miss this chance to participate in a pivotal dialogue about the role of participation science and family medicine education in supporting adolescent health.
To secure your spot, please register here as soon as possible.
Panelists
Neil Andersson, MD, PhD
Professor
Dept of Family Medicine
McGill University
Roland Grad, MDCM MSc FCFP
Associate Professor
Dept of Family Medicine
McGill University
Professor of Family Medicine, and Executive Director of Community Information and Epidemiological Technologies (CIET) Institute and Participatory Research at McGill (PRAM). With his extensive medical expertise as a medical doctor, Neil’s evidence-based health-related research focuses on community engagement, mobilization, and surveillance in Mexico, Colombia, Nicaragua, and Bostwana.
Dr. Roland Grad is a practising family doctor. In addition to his guidelines work with the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care, he recently completed a cluster randomized trial of an educational intervention in the residency as well as a prospective study of physician willingness to implement Shared Decision Making.
France Légaré, MD, PhD
Canada Research Chair in Shared Decision Making and Knowledge Mobilization
Dept. of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine
Laval University
Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay, MDCM
Assistant Professor
Dept of Family Medicine
McGill University
First trained as an architect, France Légaré has been practising family medicine in Quebec since 1990 and is a full professor in the Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine Department at Université Laval, Quebec. She is an internationally recognized leader in shared decision making (SDM) and knowledge translation research. In 2005, she obtained her PhD in Population Health from the University of Ottawa under the supervision of Dr. Annette O’Connor. The same year, she was awarded a clinical investigator grant by the Fonds de la recherche en santé du Québec (FRSQ) for her research program entitled “Health professionals in primary care: From knowledge brokers to decision brokers.” From June 2006 to May 2016, Dr. Légaré held the title of Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Implementation of Shared Decision Making in Primary Care. Since June 1st 2016, she has held the title of Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Shared Decision Making and Knowledge Translation. Her Canada Research Chair in Shared Decision Making and Knowledge Mobilization has been renewed for another 7-year term, until 2030.
Dr. Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay, is a family physician working primarily in Eeyou Istchee (Cree territories of James Bay). He also works with migrants with precarious status, queer/trans youth, and unhoused people in Montreal. Baijayanta currently serves as Director at the Office of Social Accountability and Community Engagement at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at McGill University. A faculty lecturer at the Department of Family Medicine, he has also been involved in faculty development initiatives for distributed medical education at the department. Baijayanta is also currently completing a term on the Family Medicine Specialty Committee at the College of Family Physicians of Canada.
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