Dr. Price is a practicing family physician and professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University, where he served as department chair for 15 years until 2021. He is a nationally recognized leader in family medicine and primary care, with extensive consulting experience across Canada and internationally. During his time as chair, he oversaw a significant expansion of the department, in part by establishing new family medicine residency locations in several communities. His research interests include interprofessional primary care practice policies.

Dr. Price attended medical school at the University of BC and practiced comprehensive family medicine (including obstetrics and palliative care) in Vancouver for over a decade before being recruited to McMaster.

Dr. Price will have a visiting faculty appointment in the department of Biomedical Physiology & Kinesiology in the Faculty of Science.

A proud community member of Coast Salish Tla’amin Nation, Dr. Adams is a past Chief Medical Officer of the First Nations Health Authority (FNHA). He currently acts as Deputy Chief Medical Officer, where he champions the improvement of overall public health and wellness of First Nations communities in B.C. and advocates for the transformation of health care systems in service of culturally safe care.

During his time in previous roles, including Deputy Chief Medical Officer, First Nations & Inuit Health Branch Headquarters with Indigenous Services Canada and Deputy Provincial Health Officer for Aboriginal Health with the B.C. Ministry of Health, he has worked in close partnership with government and yet provided independent direction on Indigenous health concerns. His research interests lie at the intersections of environment, land, community and holistic wellness and he is a visiting professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences.

Dr. Adams received his MD from the University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine and his Masters of Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland. He undertook the Aboriginal Family Medicine residency training program at St. Paul's Hospital and is a past president of the Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada.

Dr Roger Strasser is a leader in the global reform of health professional education. Recognizing the importance of context and community in medical education and research, Dr Strasser has gained an international reputation for developing and refining novel strategies to educate health professionals in and for rural communities.

As a result of his formative work in this field, Dr Strasser has become one of the world’s foremost authorities in rural, socially accountable medical education, as well as a sought-after speaker and advisor.

Among his many academic and professional accomplishments, Dr. Strasser is also a former member of the Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools.

In September 2002, Dr Strasser was selected to lead the creation of the first medical school in Canada in 35 years—the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM), now NOSM University. NOSM U is the first Canadian medical school established with an explicit social accountability mandate to improve the health of the people and communities of the region it serves.

Dr Strasser is one of the few Professors of Rural Health in the world. He is leading a growing body of research relating to socially accountable health professional education, recruitment and retention of health professionals, and rural health service delivery models.

After 17 years as NOSM Founding Dean, Roger relocated to New Zealand in 2020 to take up the position of Professor of Rural Health at the University of Waikato where he was leading the University’s Rural Health public engagement and research capacity building for New Zealand.

Prior to moving to Canada in 2002, Roger Strasser was the Head of the Monash University School of Rural Health in Australia and had an international role with the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) as inaugural Chair of the Working Party on Rural Practice from 1992-2004.

A medical graduate of the University of London, Doctor Sarah Strasser is a global leader in rural health and medical education. She has held academic leadership roles in Australia, Canada, Guyana and most recently as the Dean for Te Huataki Waiora School of Health at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. She is internationally recognized for developing innovative health professional training programs for undergraduate, postgraduate and teacher training/faculty development in medicine and interprofessional health. Sarah was awarded the Member of the Order of Australia in 2019 for her work in medical education and rural practice. She is passionate about family medicine, health equity and encouraging youth to consider health as a career.

In Canada, Doctor Sarah was one of the inaugural faculty members for the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) and held a number of positions over fifteen years including Director of Phase 2 (when medical students undertake a year based in the community); Director of Faculty Development; and Head of Human Science Division.

In Australia, as Associate Dean she successfully led the development of new undergraduate medical programs at Flinders University in the Northern Territory and for the University of Queensland in Regional Queensland. She also held national roles in both the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners as National Director of Rural Training and Indigenous Health Training (postgraduate), and as the National Medical Advisor for the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine.

Doctor Strasser acted as a consultant to the University of Guyana, School of Medicine, UOG SOM, to refresh the curriculum and help regain accreditation status, with successful outcomes. Subsequently, she undertook a consultancy working with the Guyanese Department of Education and the World Bank to assist in developing an assessment strategy and blueprint for UOG SOM.

Clinically, along with being a family physician, she has worked in Public Health and was the Associate Vice President Academics and Interprofessional Health at Health Sciences North, the teaching hospital for NOSM in Sudbury. She has a distinguished track record in research, most recently for the World Health Organization (WHO) to inform the update of the WHO Global Recommendations on Recruitment and Retention for Remote and Rural Health Professionals.