Mary-Kay Whittaker
Class of 2022
Mary-Kay Whittaker is a health-care policy consultant and advocate. With more than 30 years’ experience, Mary-Kay has worked on health professional regulatory policy reforms and programmatic innovation in health professional education. A strategic and policy adviser to medical schools, the Council of Ontario Universities, Health Canada and others, her body of work includes negotiations leading to doubling the number of physicians trained annually in Ontario, quality improvement curriculum design, a comprehensive national review of physician resource planning, and development of new Indigenous medical residency programs. Mary-Kay loves to dive into a cold lake in May and hails from Parry Sound and Toronto.
‘Chipping away at barriers’: Nurse practitioners filling primary-care gap
‘A very different experience for our class’: Medical students and the virtual world
‘Lives are at stake’: Burnout, staff shortages raise spectre of harmful events in hospital
TALKING TABOO
Nursing Shortage
Despite (or because of?) pandemic, students are flocking to nursing
Vaccination among the pregnant lagging despite growing evidence of safety and efficacy
Smart bras, molecular imaging and genome sequencing: Innovations take on breast cancer
