Steering Committee Members
Dr. Ahmed Bayoumi
Ahmed Bayoumi is a general internist and health services researcher in Toronto. His clinical and research interests focus on the health of people living with HIV and other disadvantaged populations. He is committed to the concepts of social and economic justice. He has been active on the MRG steering committee for over 10 years.
Dr. Michaela Beder
Michaela Beder is a resident in psychiatry at the University of Toronto. She is interested in the intersection between social justice and medicine, and in working with marginalized communities to ensure health for all. She believes health requires not only access to services for maintaining physical and mental health, but requires full economic, social, environmental, and political rights for all people.
Dr. Ritika Goel
Ritika Goel is a family physician who completed her medical school training at McMaster University in 2008 and her family medicine residency at St. Michael's Hospital through the University of Toronto in 2010. Her interests lie in the health and well-being of marginalized communities including those in the inner city of Toronto, rural Canada as well as internationally. She believes that health is a human right and should be made accessible to all.
Dr. Gordon Guyatt
Gordon Guyatt is a Professor in the Departments of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Medicine at McMaster University. He has made important contributions to clinical and health care research, recognized by over 700 publications in peer-reviewed journals. He coined the term “evidence-based medicine” in 1990 and has since been an advocate for evidence-based approaches to medical decision making. Dr. Guyatt was instrumental in founding the Medical Reform Group in 1979 and has spent most of the subsequent three decades as a spokesperson for the group. He has contributed to the development of MRG policy, and in recent years has taken a major role in packaging and dissemination of MRG approaches to health issues. He has published over 100 articles in the lay press with the underlying theme of the benefits of high quality, publicly funded health care, delivered by not-for-profit providers, for all Canadians.
Dr. Rosana Pellizzari MD, MSc, CCFP, FRCPC
Dr Rosana Pellizzari is the Medical Officer of Health for Peterborough County-City Health Unit. Prior to specializing in Community Medicine, Dr Pellizzari worked as a Family Physician in Hamilton and Toronto. As a Community Health Centre physician, she specialized in the care of immigrant, refugee and HIV infected populations. She is past president of the Association of Ontario Health Centres and a former Chair of the City of York Board of Health. Dr Pellizzari holds academic appointments at the University of Toronto and Queen's University. She has worked internationally and in First Nations communities in Canada.
Dr Yves Talbot
Yves Talbot is Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and Health Administration at the University of Toronto and Director of the Global Health Programs in the department of Family and Community Medicine. He has been involved in South America since August 1995 in programs of Capacity Building in Primary Care. The programs are aimed at training teams of professionals working in different cities of Brazil, Chile and Argentina. Dr Talbot has served on the Ontario (PECCCAR) Committee for Primary Health Care Reform and has a particular interest in the role of primary care and questions of Equity.