International Faculty
Professor Amanda Howe
Professor Amanda Howe is a practising general practitioner in Britain, an academic professor, and a national and international leader in family medicine. Since 2001, she has been Professor of Primary Care at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, where she was part of the founding team for the Norwich Medical School.
Professor Howe has particular expertise in effective models and impacts of involving family medicine in community based medical education; in the teaching and learning of professionalism and patient safety; and in resilience and doctors’ wellbeing. She also has clinical research interests in primary care mental health, the contribution of patients to health care and health systems; and in early interventions for health risk factors.
She is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto Department of Family and Community Medicine (DFCM).
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Dr. Frank Sullivan
Dr. Frank Sullivan has been an academic GP since 1984. He was appointed as the Professor of Primary Care Medicine in the University of St. Andrews in 2017 where he also leads the Division of Population and Behavioural Science. His research interests lie mainly in health informatics and community based trials, covering the spectrum from record-linkage of electronic health records to decision support to the evaluation of complex interventions. Professor Sullivan has published 234 papers on primary care research, notably in the early detection of cancer and the management of diabetes and Bell’s palsy. He won the British Medical Association Research paper of the year in 2009 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2011 – the first family physician since 1908. His clinical practice is currently in Glenrothes.
From March 1998 until February 2014 he was the NHS Tayside professor of R&D in General Practice and Primary Care. In the seven years before moving to Toronto he was the clinical director of the Scottish School of Primary Care. From 2014-17 he was the inaugural Gordon F. Cheesbrough Research Chair at North York General Hospital and director of the University of Toronto’s Practice Based Research Network: UTOPIAN. He is an honorary professor in the University of Dundee, the Department of Family & Community Medicine and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto and an Adjunct Scientist in the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), Ontario.
Biography taken from the University of St. Andrews.
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Dr. Thiago Trindade
Dr. Thiago Trindade is an adjunct professor in the Department of Clinical Medicine at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte in Natal, Brazil, and in the Department of Family and Community Medicine in the University of Toronto. He is also the past president of the Brazilian Society for Family Medicine.
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