Nadia Llanwarne, MD
Université de Montréal, Quebec
Nadia Llanwarne is a family doctor and assistant clinical professor at the Université de Montréal. She helped establish a new university-affiliated primary care clinic on Montreal’s South Shore (GMF-U des Montérégiennes), where she now works and teaches.
Trained in the UK, Nadia holds a medical degree (University of Manchester), an MA in medical anthropology (SOAS, University of London), and an MPhil in Primary Care Research (University of Cambridge). She was awarded NIHR fellowships in Cambridge. Her work focused on different dimensions of healthcare quality and patients’ experiences of primary care.
Nadia’s research interests span both the broader organisational structures of healthcare and the intricacies of doctor-patient interactions. Having worked on both sides of the Atlantic, she has been struck by the contrast between Quebec’s strong emphasis on relational continuity—largely absent in the UK—and its stark inequities in access to primary care. She is committed to exploring solutions to this pressing challenge: how can we ensure equitable access to primary healthcare without sacrificing the therapeutic benefits of relational continuity.
