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Conversations with Jillian - Interview with Dr. Thomas Piggott [S3E02]

Release Date: 04/11/2025

Conversations with Jillian - Interview with Dr. Thomas Piggott [S3E02]

Conversations with Jillian

Join host Jillian Horton, MD, FRCPC as she speaks with Thomas Piggott, MD, FRCPC. Together they talk about formative experiences that influenced Dr. Piggott’s desire to become a public health physician. They also discuss the unique challenges that he and other health care professionals encounter when choosing a career in public health. Lastly, Dr. Piggott explains how advocacy and communication are integral to the work of a public health physician whose patient consists of an entire population rather than a single person. Royal College members: you can earn MOC Section 2 - Individual...

Conversations with Jillian - Interview with Dr. Nazik Hammad [S3E01]

Conversations with Jillian

Join host Jillian Horton, MD, FRCPC as she speaks with Nazik Hammad, MD, FRCPC about her own journey from Sudan to Canada as an International Medical Graduate (IMG) including the joys, barriers and resilience needed when learning and practicing in a new country. Dr. Hammad also speaks of her work in health equity as well as equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging from the point of view of medical education and systems design. Royal College members: you can earn MOC Section 2 - Individual Learning credits for watching this video. Dr. Nazik Hammad is a Professor in the...

Conversations with Jillian - Interview with Dr. P. Ronan O'Connell [S2E06]

Conversations with Jillian

Join host Jillian Horton, MD, FRCPC as she speaks with P. Ronan O’Connell, MD, FRCSC (Hon) about the importance of mentorship for surgeons-in-training and early career physicians. They also touch on the experience of bearing witness to changes in medicine throughout his career, as well as insights about the future of medical practice for physicians and surgeons. Royal College members: you can earn 0.5 MOC Section 2 credits for watching this video. Look forward to more credits as you apply reflections to the issues brought forward by Professor O’Connell. Professor O’Connell is...

Conversations with Jillian - Interview with Dr. Jamiu Busari [S2E05]

Conversations with Jillian

Join host Jillian Horton, MD, FRCPC as she speaks with Jamiu Busari, MD, FRCSC (Hon) about his career path in medicine and his passion for the science of teaching in medical education. They also discuss Dr. Busari’s approach and work in the equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) space. Royal College members: you can earn 0.5 MOC Section 2 credits for watching this video. Look forward to more credits as you apply reflections to the issues brought forward by Dr. Busari. Dr. Jamiu Busari is a pediatrician and dean at Horacio Oduber Hospital in Aruba. He is widely recognized for unwavering...

Conversations with Jillian - Interview with Dr. Jan Christilaw [S2E04]

Conversations with Jillian

Join host Jillian Horton, MD, FRCPC as she speaks with Jan Christilaw, MD, FRCSC about an impactful experience in her formative years influenced her approach to medicine: “What we need in medicine is not brilliant people, it’s human people.”. Their conversation also touches on the importance of having interests outside of medicine to enable physicians to see themselves in the context of their whole lives and not solely through the lens of their practice. Royal College members: you can earn 0.5 MOC Section 2 credits for watching this video. Look forward to more credits as you...

Conversations with Jillian - Interview with Dr. Garry L. Willard [S2E03]

Conversations with Jillian

Join host Jillian Horton, MD, FRCPC as she speaks with Garry Willard, MD, FRCPC about the extraordinary experience of practicing medicine in a war zone during the Vietnam War and how it forever shaped his world view and identity as a clinician. They also discuss Dr. Willard’s recollections as a battlefield surgeon and the similarities of the COVID pandemic on healthcare professions to battles of the past. Royal College members: you can earn 0.5 MOC Section 2 credits for watching this video. Look forward to more credits as you apply reflections to the issues brought forward by Dr. Willard....

Conversations with Jillian - Interview with Dr. Cornelia (Nel) Wieman [S202]

Conversations with Jillian

Join host Jillian Horton, MD, FRCPC as she speaks with Cornelia (Nel) Wieman, MSc, MD, about the importance of changing the physician mindset to accept that when you are sick, you “can’t fix it yourself”, and you can seek help to begin the journey of healing. They also discussed the structural barriers facing physicians when reentering practice after treatment for their illness. Royal College members: you can earn 0.5 MOC Section 2 credits for watching this video. Look forward to more credits as you apply reflections to the issues brought forward by Dr. Wieman. Dr. Nel Wieman is a...

Conversations with Jillian - Interview with Dr. Marie Faughnan and Dr. Robert Stewart [S201]

Conversations with Jillian

Join host Jillian Horton, MD, FRCPC, as she speaks with two physicians about their shared journey of organ donation: one as a living donor and the other as the recipient. Listen to their story about when the healer became the patient and the deliberations of a colleague who decided to donate the life-saving organ. Royal College members: you can earn 0.5 MOC Section 2 credits for watching this video. Look forward to more credits as you apply reflections to the issues brought forward by Dr. Faughnan and Dr. Stewart. Dr. Marie Faughnan is a Respirologist and Associate Scientist at St....

Conversations with Jillian - Interview with Dr. Mamta Gautam [08]

Conversations with Jillian

Host Jillian Horton, MD, FRCPC and guest Mamta Gautam, MD, FRCPC reflect upon the insights shared by the four Fellows featured in the four-episode special series, Finding a way back to balance: Wisdom from physician artists. Together Jillian and Mamta explore common themes such as the challenges facing women in medicine, the contribution of the arts and humanities to patient care, as well as the importance of nurturing art for personal and professional wellbeing. Royal College members: you can earn 0.5 MOC Section 2 credits for listening to this podcast. Look forward to more credits as you...

Conversations with Jillian - Interview with Dr. Lucie Filteau and Dr. Claude Mercier [07]

Conversations with Jillian

In the final episode of a special series entitled, Finding a way back to balance: Wisdom from physician artists, host Jillian Horton, MD, FRCPC speaks with two physicians about their artistic interests. In the first interview, Dr. Lucie Filteau shares how her Lego building hobby transitioned from a creative way to connect with family into a mindful and restorative activity for her own well-being. In the second interview, Dr. Claude Mercier explains how his passion for jazz music and the tenor saxophone enable him to relieve the everyday pressures of medicine and safeguard his mental...

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Dr. Thomas Piggott is currently the Medical Officer of Health and Chief Executive Officer of Peterborough Public Health in Peterborough, Ontario, having previously served as the Medical Officer of Health and VP lead for Population Health and Rural and Remote Health in northern Labrador. In addition to completing of his residency in Public Health and Preventive Medicine, he also completed his Masters in Public Health at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and his PhD in Health Research Methods at McMaster University.

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