2025
The Department of Family Medicine held the annual Dr. Ian McWhinney Lecture Series on Wednesday, September 17.
The lecture series has been established in memory of Dr. Ian McWhinney, the founding chair of the Department of Family Medicine and one of the leading thinkers in the discipline of Family Medicine.
The event will began at 1:00 p.m. with a Research Hour hosted by the Centre for Studies in Family Medicine. Steve Slade, Research Director at The College of Family Physicians of Canada, presented An evidence-based balanced story of family medicine practice in Canada.
We were pleased to have our very own Dr. Moira Stewart as the 2025 Dr. Ian McWhinney Lecture Series speaker.
The title of Dr. Stewart's lecture was Intellect, Emotion, Action and Evidence.
Dr. Moira Stewart PhD, is an Epidemiologist and Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the Centre for Studies in Family Medicine, Department of Family Medicine at Western University. She was a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Primary Health Care Research (2003-2017). Dr. Stewart has published widely on the topic of Patient-Centered Care and has edited, with colleagues, an international series of books applying the patient-centered clinical method. She is Co-Principal Investigator of a CIHR Community-based Primary Health Care Team Grant on Patient-Centered Innovations for Persons with Multimorbidity. She has been a National leader in capacity building for research as the inaugural Principal Investigator on a CIHR Strategic Training Grant on interdisciplinary primary health care research called TUTOR-PHC. Dr. Stewart created a researchable database of the Electronic Medical Record data in Southwestern Ontario. She has worked closely with policy-makers and patients at the provincial level on INSPIRE-PHC and the Ontario SPOR Support Unit. Dr. Stewart received numerous awards including the James Mackenzie Medal from the Royal College of General Practitioners (2004) and the prestigious Maurice Wood Award for Lifetime Contribution to Primary Care Research from the North American Primary Care Research Group (2017).
Photos from the day can be viewed and downloaded here.
