The collected wisdom of ...DR. ROGER STRASSER Founding Dean of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine The Northern Ontario School of Medicine is a medical school created through a partnership between Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario and Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Age: 52 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Q What's the most valuable thing you've ever lost? "I lost my passport when I was in South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. . I hadn't appreciated the significance of that until I was due to fly out a day or two later and didn't have any identification. I was in Durban and the Australian embassy is in Pretoria. "With a lot of help, we were able to put the documentation together and courier it to Pretorla and I got a passport within 24 hours." Q If forced, what song would you sing at a Karaoke bar? "I think probably I'd fall back on Waltzing Matilda, I would feel safe." Q How can you personally tell if a job applicant is fibbing fib n. An insignificant or childish lie. intr.v. fibbed, fib·bing, fibs To tell a fib. See Synonyms at lie2. ? "I think it's the twitch in the left ear, isn't it?" Q Invite three people--living or dead--for dinner. Who would they be? "Nelson Mandela Noun 1. Nelson Mandela - South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918) Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela . He's obviously an international statesman and he's also a great cricket fan. "William Osler Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet (July 12, 1849 – December 29, 1919) was a Canadian-born physician. He has been called one of the greatest icons of modern medicine and described as the Father of Modern Medicine. (Osler himself thought Avicenna held this honour. , a great Canadian physician who took a lead role in medical education about a hundred years ago, first in the U.S. at Johns Hopkins Medical School and then at Oxford in the U.K. An enormous intellect, student and writer about medicine. And the other person is William Shakespeare. I imagine it would be an erudite er·u·dite adj. Characterized by erudition; learned. See Synonyms at learned. [Middle English erudit, from Latin conversation." Q Why did you want this job? "It wasn't because I was attracted to the deep-freezing winters. It was really because what I had done before in Australia was establishing a multi-site, rural-based, clinical school providing medical education, nursing, pharmacy (and) various elf-disciplines. The opportunity to come here and set up a multi-site full medical school seemed like the next logical step. I enjoyed living and working in Canada (London's University of Western Ontario Western is one of Canada's leading universities, ranked #1 in the Globe and Mail University Report Card 2005 for overall quality of education.[2] It ranked #3 among medical-doctoral level universities according to Maclean's Magazine 2005 University Rankings. ), so the idea of coming back was quite attractive." Q What parallels do you draw between delivering rural health education in rural Australia and Northern Ontario? "Since 1992, I've chaired an international committee of an organization of family doctors focused on rural health and practice. What I've found is the major issues of rural health and education are pretty much the same the world over. The No.1 over-arching issue is better access to health care for people living the communities and that includes access to physicians and health-care providers." |
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