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CMA mourns loss of health-promotion advocate

Canadian Medical Association Journal 1996; 155: 741

Dr. Martin Bass, a University of Western Ontario professor of family medicine who for many years was active in developing health care and promotion policies through the CMA, Health Canada and the Ontario Medical Association (OMA), died July 30 in London, Ont. He was 54. Dr. Bass was Ontario's representative to the CMA Council on Health Care and Promotion from 1992 to 1995. During that time he chaired the council's Working Group on Prevention, which in 1995 prepared the CMA's policy on the physician's role in disease prevention and health promotion. He also chaired the Health Canada-sponsored "Tools for Prevention" workshop in March 1995 and had been involved in population-health work for the OMA. A 1968 graduate of the University of Toronto, Dr. Bass was on the medical staff of Victoria Hospital and the courtesy staff at St. Joseph's Health Centre. He also served as director of the Centre for Studies in Family Medicine at Western.

| CMAJ September 15, 1996 (vol 155, no 6) |