At a Glance / Aperçu

O'Connor named FP of the Year

Canadian Medical Association Journal 1996; 155: 563
Dr. John F. (Jake) O'Connor of Dartmouth, NS, has been named Family Physician of the Year by the College of Family Physicians of Canada. He is the 26th recipient of the award, which honours a frontline caregiver who brings an added human and professional dimension to family medicine.

O'Connor, a 1969 graduate of Dalhousie University, has been practising at the Dartmouth Medical Centre since 1972, and is chief of staff at the Dartmouth General Hospital and assistant professor in Dalhousie University's Faculty of Medicine. He has been active with the provincial medical society for 10 years and was editor of the Nova Scotia Medical Journal.


| CMAJ September 1, 1996 (vol 155, no 5)