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SPEAKER PROFILES - CME Program
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Dr. George Carson (Traditional Medicine)
Dr. George Carson is the Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Director of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region. He is a graduate of Queen's University who did residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Boston Hospital for Women and the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal and Perinatology at McGill University. His is involved in undergraduate, resident and continuing medical education. In his CME work he is one of the founders of the ALARM obstetrical course for the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada. In clinical and administrative work he led the establishment of the Women's Health Centre at the Regina General Hospital.

Dr. Fiona Nelson (Complementary Medicine)
Dr. Fiona Nelson is an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Women's Studies Program at the University of Calgary. A sociologist by training, her areas of specialization include women's health, sex and gender, sexual identities, lesbian motherhood/lesbian families, new motherhood, and culture and identity. She has published extensively on motherhood, both heterosexual and lesbian. In the early 1990s, she was contracted by the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies to research Canadian women's access to assisted insemination. Previously an instructor in the Sociology department at the University of Alberta, Dr. Nelson has designed and taught a wide diversity of courses ranging from the social-psychology of marriage and intimate relationships through gender and health to research methodologies.

Dr. Janet Wright (Physician's Health)
Dr. Janet Wright is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Calgary. Her clinical interests include eating disorders and psychiatric treatment of physicians and their families. She is the Chair of the Well Physician Course in the undergraduate medical education program at the University of Calgary, Past President of the College Of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta and a current Council Member of the College.

Peter Everett (Practice Management)
Peter is Vice President Planning and Business Development for PPI Financial Group in Toronto. A tax lawyer, he graduated from Bishop's University in 1974 and McGill University Law School in 1977 and is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Law Society of British Columbia, the Canadian Bar Association, the Canadian Tax Foundation and the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. His practice is restricted to taxation, corporate reorganizations and insurance related matters. Peter's professional training and development includes the In-Depth Tax Course and Income Tax Practice courses offered by the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants, and the income tax practice course offered by the University of Western Ontario Law School. He is a frequent conference speaker and author for the legal, accounting and insurance community.

Gordon Cairns (Wealth Management)
Gordon Cairns is an associate of Gregory Hilderman, senior partner of G2 Financial Group, and has been with the firm since February 2000. From 1995 to 2000, Gordon practiced financial planning for the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce as a senior financial advisor focused on professionals and high valued small business owners. Gordon is a Certified Financial Planner and is currently working towards Chartered Life Underwriter and Chartered Financial Consultant designations. He is a member of the Financial Planners Standards Council and the Canadian Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors. Gordon received his Bachelor of Arts and Science from the University of Lethbridge in 1994.

Jessie Johnnie (Local Content)
Jessie Johnnie was born and raised in Hoonah Alaska, to her parents Lilly (Houston) Johnnie and Clark Johnnie. Jessie joined two brothers and a sister. Being raised by her Grandmother for most of her young life, Jessie has always been interested in the culture and the preservation of the traditions, stories and the values of the Tlingit people. She has dedicated her life to teaching about the culture and the values that her Grandmother related to her and those life lessons that she has acquired by living a common life while raising her children and staying close to her many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.