Together, we will explore culturally humble approaches to teaching and providing clinical care. We will also consider the value of our own self-awareness and ways we can sit with discomfort while acknowledging inherent power dynamics that exist in teaching and practicing.
The webinar is particularly relevant for the students, staff and faculty in health-related programs but is open to all members of the University of Waterloo community. As this event is only for UW community members, please ensure to register with your "@uwaterloo.ca" account to receive the webinar link.
This event is part of a series that is hosted once per term by the Decolonizing UW Health Studies Working Group comprised of UW’s Schools of Pharmacy, Social Work, Optometry and Public Health and Health Systems. All members of the UW community - faculty, staff and students – are welcome.
Meet Dr. McMurren:
Dr. Chase Everett McMurren [he&him] lives and works in Tkarón:to | GichiKiiwenging | Toronto, though comes from Lethbridge, which is on traditional Siksikaitsitapi | Blackfoot Confederacy Territory and is covered by Treaty 7. His clan is the Turtle and his spirit name is Water Song Medicine Keeper. His ancestors are Michif/Métis, Celtic, French and Ukrainian. Dr. McMurren feels privileged to practice medicine & provides integrative medical psychotherapy, primarily for physicians and artists struggling with grief and overwhelm. Dr. McMurren also has a small home-visiting palliative practice for long-living people with advanced illness. Currently, Dr. McMurren serves as the Indigenous Health Theme Lead in the MD Program and the Indigenous Practitioner Liaison within the Office of Indigenous Health in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto, where he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family & Community Medicine. At the moment, Dr. McMurren is honoured to be the Co-Chair of the Practising Well Implementation Group at the Ontario College of Family Physicians & the Co-Chair of the National Consortium for Indigenous Medical Education (NCIME) Working Group on Physician Wellness and Joy in Work.