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David Loxterkamp’s work as a family physician was the subject of a 1998 Life Magazine photoessay, “What makes a good doctor?” , an NBC Nightline documentary in 2000, and the 2015 PBS documentary “Rx: The Quiet Revolution” by award-winning film-maker David Grubin.David Loxterkamp, M.D. is a family physician who has made his home in Belfast, Maine for the last 41 years, along with his wife, Lindsay. They have two children, Clare and John, who live nearby. His stories and essays have appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, the British Medical Journal, and the Annals of Family Medicine. He has authored A Measure of My Days: The Journal of a Country Doctor (University of New England Press, 1997) and What Matters in Medicine: Lessons from a Life in Primary Care (University of Michigan Press, 2013), and has contributed to several anthologies, including including A Life in Medicine, edited by Robert Coles and Randy Testa (The New Press, 2002) and The Country Doctor Revisited: A Twenty-First Century Reader, edited by Therese Zink (Kent State University Press, 2010).David grew up in rural Iowa, attended Creighton University and The University of Iowa College of Medicine, completed his family medicine residency in York, PA ((1982), earned an MA in the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago (1984) and a fellowship in Family Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (1994). He is is co-founder of Seaport Community Health Center and its Recovery Program. interests include running, choral music, local history, architecture, and potato farming.
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A visionary, values-based leader with extensive experience across the education continuum. Dr. Maria Hubinette joined SFU School of Medicine in its early days and is Associate Dean, Partnerships. A family physician, her clinical work focuses on youth facing barriers to care, community-based mental health support, and care for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence. She received her MD from UBC, completed her rural family practice residency there, and earned a Master of Medical Education from the University of Dundee, Scotland. She contributed to the medical school development across Senate approval processes, accreditation, curriculum development, policy frameworks, and admissions. As Associate Dean, Partnerships, Dr. Hubinette established partnerships and local leadership for clinical education across UGME and PGME programs and is responsible for cultivating relationships, clinical faculty networks, distributed education infrastructure and educational capacity that advance the school’s education, research, scholarship and social accountability missions. She has a program of research and education scholarship focused on equity and social accountability in health professions education.
Karl Le Roux was born in Sweden but grew up in South Africa. He qualified from the University of Cape Town in1999, and has postgraduate diplomas in Anaesthetics and Obstetrics and a Masters in International Health from Uppsala University in Sweden. From November 2006, he worked at Zithulele Hospital, a rural facility in the former homeland of the Transkei, now in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Karl le Roux was a visiting research fellow at the Center for Health and Wellbeing, Princeton University. He stood as a parliamentary candidate for the Democratic Alliance and was elected to the National Assembly of South Africa in 2024.
Paul is a doctor, writer, film maker and lifelong patient, although not necessarily in that order. He has spent his entire medical career working in rural hospitals. He has developed, written, produced or directed over 40 hours of commercial television, numerous short films and two feature documentaries - Donated to science about human dissection and Behind the Mask about frontline workers during the COVID pandemic.
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