May 21, 2019  |  5:30pm - 8:15pm

Leadership Basics Program Half-Day Session 3

Pearls and Pitfalls in Leadership - From Suburban Family Practice to CMA Presidency

Presenter: Dr. Sandy Buchman 

Dr. Sandy Buchman received his medical degree from McMaster University in 1981 and completed his family medicine residency training at the University of Toronto in 1983.

He is an associate professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto and provides home-based palliative and end-of-life care through the Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care in Toronto. He is also involved with the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless program out of Inner City Health Associates in Toronto.

He has practised comprehensive family medicine for many years with a special interest in primary care cancer care, palliative care, HIV/AIDS, global health and social accountability. He currently serves as the medical lead for a group working to build the new residential Neshama Hospice in Toronto. He recently chaired the Primary Care Committee of the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer and the Social Accountability Working Group of the College of Family Physicians of Canada. He was president of the College of Family Physicians of Canada in 2011–2012 and the Ontario College of Family Physicians in 2005–2006.

Dr. Buchman has received several awards for his work as a family physician, including the Award of Excellence from the College of Family Physicians of Canada for his work as regional primary care lead for the Toronto Regional Cancer Program at Cancer Care Ontario. He was also recognized as Family Physician of the Year for Southern Ontario by the Ontario College of Family Physicians.

Outside of his medical practice, Dr. Buchman has devoted many volunteer hours to helping provide hospice care for the homeless and has also participated in medical missions to Africa and South America.

He is married to Gail Baker, with whom he has three sons, three daughters-in-law and four grandchildren.

 

A light dinner will be provided. 

To register or for more information on this and other sessions in the program, visit the Leadership Basics Program page. 

 

Contact

If you have any questions please email DFCM Faculty Development
pd.familymed@utoronto.ca