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Dartmouth, NS – Kerry Copeland, creator and coordinator of Doctors Nova Scotia’s Kids’ Run Club will receive the Health, Wellness and Sport Progress Women of Excellence Award at a gala tonight at the World Trade and Convention Centre, Halifax.

Do you ask questions about the risk or potential harm of some treatments or discuss safer options?
Barry Clarke and his team have engineered a major change in the way that family physicians provide primary care to seniors in nursing homes in the Halifax area.
Each May, the graduating class of Dalhousie Medical School awards one of their professors the Silver Shovel Award. It’s an honour that recognizes teaching excellence, rewarding a professor’s dedication, compassion and commitment to helping their students succeed.
Over the past year the Clare physicians have started mentoring residents, allowing them to return home to study and work alongside local doctors while doing their training.
Doctors are often leaders in their communities, not only because they provide care to thousands of patients, but because they create and support programs and events that enhance the welfare of the province’s communities.
Dr. Kenny Yee’s career has not gone how he originally intended, but he says in the end he wouldn’t change a thing.
The key to maintaining momentum is keeping the end goal in sight: This is about helping patients.

Dr. Cindy Forbes has always been drawn to work that results in positive change.

Her early experiences sitting on boards and committees became the foundation of a career characterized by leadership.

The responsibility to help the underprivileged isn’t something Dr. Elwood MacMullin, a general surgeon in Sydney, N.S., takes lightly.
A tan is harmful to your health. Whether you get your golden glow from a tanning bed or the natural sun, tans are the result of exposure to harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation which damages your health over time.
When she realized her local elementary school didn’t have a Kids’ Run Club, Dr. Jocelyn Foran took the lead.
When you see a doctor you should feel confident that your personal health information is confidential and protected.
With warm temperatures and busy beaches, it’s obvious that summer is in full swing in Nova Scotia. And as the temperatures rise, so does the population of blacklegged ticks.
 Each year, the Strive Award is presented to a Nova Scotia community group making innovative and strategic action to support and promote health. The award is accompanied by a $10,000 grant for the winning organization to use to bolster its community health promotion activities.

Every year at the Doctors Nova Scotia Annual Conference, several outstanding doctors are recognized for their dedication to improving health care in Nova Scotia.

Dartmouth, NS – Halifax-based anaesthetist, Dr. David Milne, was installed as President of Doctors Nova Scotia at the association’s annual conference on Saturday, June 6 in Membertou, Cape Breton.

Doctors Nova Scotia welcomed Dr. David Milne as its new President during the association’s annual conference on Saturday, June 6 in Cape Breton.

Dartmouth, NS – Nova Scotia physicians will meet this weekend, as part of Doctors Nova Scotia’s annual conference, to discuss prescription drug misuse and how physicians can take leadership.

This career choice isn’t for everyone but there are many tactics that can help maximize a doctor’s clinical abilities.