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Steering Committee Members

Dr. Ahmed Bayoumi

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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.

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Irfan Dhalla is an internal medicine resident physician at St. Michael’s Hospital and the Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Science Centre in Toronto. He graduated as the valedictorian of his University of Toronto medical school class in 2003. As a medical student, he and several of his classmates conducted a nationwide survey of medical students—their findings, published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, showed that medical students overwhelmingly came from privileged families and that increasing tuition fees were adversely affecting the medical school population.

Since graduating from medical school, Dr. Dhalla has served as an editorial and research associate to the National Advisory Committee on SARS and Public Health, published several articles on inappropriate prescribing in the elderly, and currently sits on the executive committee of the Professional Association of Internes and Residents of Ontario. He joined the Steering Committee in 2003.

Dr. PJ Devereaux

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PJ Devereaux is a cardiologist and health care researcher who is currently advancing his education in clinical epidemiology at McMaster University. Among the issues about which he feels strongly is a physician's interaction with the pharmaceutical industry. Dr. Devereaux does not accept gifts or free food from the pharmaceutical industry, and his principled stand was recently highlighted in a major article in the Globe and Mail.

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Steering Committee Members