Spotlight on Collaboration

When you talk to Brian Match, you realize very quickly that working in collaboration with others comes pretty much second nature to him. As a social worker, partnering with different professionals — whether in the health field, education arena or other areas — is at the heart of his discipline's whole philosophy. >more

Wendy MacDonald has worked as a Speech-Language Pathologist (S-LP) for 19 years; 14 of them at Stanton Territorial Hospital in Yellowknife. During that time, she has seen a lot of changes in the way services have been provided, but nothing that has been quite as effective and worthwhile as her time spent working with the Child Development Team. >more

Ruth Dimopoulos is a physiotherapist who would drive a long way to be part of a winning team. For just that reason she commutes 90 km daily from her home in Brockville to Merrickville, Ontario, to work at the Merrickville District Community Health Centre (MDCHC). > More

Canada's beacon of interdisciplinary collaboration is shining brightly from Southern Alberta where there are no tall buildings, trees or mountains to block the long view. Taber is a town known for its big sky, excellent sweet corn and now for great primary health care. Ask anyone who knows the scene and the Taber Project comes up. > More

Rashna Batliwalla is an Ottawa community pharmacist about to work much more closely with a very important part of the community: its family practice physicians. > More

Angela Hardie is the occupational therapist and one of four case managers for the Geriatric Outreach Program on Vancouver's North Shore. > More

Barb Leslie is a dietitian who has made collaboration her way of doing things for over ten years. > More