Curriculum Vitae

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Dr. Granger Avery and Mrs. Winnie Avery at the 2011 ceremony where Granger received the BCMA Silver Medal award for services in the medical profession.

Below is Granger’s abbreviated CV. Click here to view a full CV

Education, Training and Practice

2012     Methadone Exemption to augment addiction and counseling medicine
2003     Full Service, Inter-professional FP with 8 remote Outreach clinics
1980     Commenced student, then resident teaching
1974     Commenced full service General Practice in Port McNeill, B.C. with Emergency Medicine, Obstetrics, GP Surgery & Anaesthesia
1973     Resident 3 position in Anaesthesia, Vancouver General Hospital
1973     Diploma in Obstetrics, Auckland University, New Zealand
1971     MB., BS. The London Hospital, University of London, England

Doctors of B.C.

2016 – now     Associate Director of the Rural Co-ordination Centre of BC
2015 – now      Chair, Rural Issues Committee
2009 – 2014     Chair, Business Meeting of the AGM for Doctors of BC
2007 – 2015     Executive Director of the Rural Co-ordination Centre of BC
1997 – 1998     President, BCMA
1985 – 2004     Member, BCMA Board of Directors
1992 – 1994     Chair, Board of Directors
1997 – 1998     Chair, Negotiating Advisory Group
1993 – 1996     Chair, Council on Health Promotion
1990 – 1995     Chair, Committee on Aboriginal Health
1993 – 1994     Founder, Council on Health Economics & Policy
1994 – 1996     Vice Chair, Council on Health Economics & Policy
1991 – 1992     Chair, Ad-hoc Committee on Health Care Funding
2001 – 2014     Co-Chair, Rural Joint Standing Committee
1999 – 2011     Chair, Rural Negotiating Committee
1997 – 2005 & 2014   Chair, Rural Issues Committee
1998 – 2008     Chair, sub-Committee on Rural Education
1986 – 1991     Chair, Northern & Isolation Allowance Committee

Canadian Medical Association

2016 – 17       President, CMA
2015 – 16
      President-elect, CMA
1993 – on       Numerous committee membership and chair positions, including ten years as a Board member, and two as Vice Chair

Awards

2014     Honorary Alumnus, UBC Medicine
2014     “Freedom of the Town” award, Port McNeill
2013     Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for Services to Rural Medicine
2012     Dr. Don Rix Gold Medal for Physician Leadership, BCMA
2011     BCMA Silver Medal for services to the Medical Profession
2009     Fellowship of Rural and Remote Medicine, SRPC

University of British Columbia Appointments

2008 – 2014     Member, Admissions Selection Committee
2006 – date     Clinical Professor, UBC Dept. of Family Practice
2011 – date     Member, Dept. of FP Executive Advisory committee

President, Canadian Medical Association (CMA)