Global Health in Ottawa: An Interview with Dr. Anne McCarthy, Lead for Undergraduate Medical Education in Global Health

Dr. Annie McCarthy, MD, is Professor of Medicine at the University of Ottawa and a member of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Ottawa Hospital. She is the Lead for Undergraduate Medical Education Global Health and previous Director of the Office of Global Health for the Faculty of Medicine,...

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Published in:University of Ottawa journal of medicine 2017-07
Main Authors: Rhee, Gaeun, Dong, Yuan Yi (Ryan)
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:Dr. Annie McCarthy, MD, is Professor of Medicine at the University of Ottawa and a member of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Ottawa Hospital. She is the Lead for Undergraduate Medical Education Global Health and previous Director of the Office of Global Health for the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa. In addition, she is the Director of the Tropical Medicine and International Health Clinic at the Ottawa Hospital. She is in charge of tropical medicine teaching at an UGME and PGME level. For more than two decades, she has been involved with travel medicine on a clinical, research and policy level. She has been committed to preparing particularly medical trainees for safe and ethical electives in resource poor settings. Her clinical work includes many new Canadians, including many refugees. She has a large educational commitment, including undergraduate, postgraduate medical and continuing education teaching in infectious disease, travel medicine, tropical medicine and global health.
ISSN:2292-650X
2292-6518
DOI:10.18192/uojm.v7i1.1909