Meredith Vanstone

Meredith Vanstone
Professor, Family Medicine

0000-0002-7347-6259

Overview

Meredith Vanstone is Professor in the Department of Family Medicine, where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Ethical Complexity in Primary Care and the David Braley and Nancy Gordon Chair in Family Medicine. Dr. Vanstone is also the Director of McMaster's MD/PhD educational program. Dr. Vanstone researches primary care. Her research program aims to help patients, clinicians, and policy-makers navigate the provision of care in areas where evidence doesn't exist, is ambiguous, or is not the main decision determinant. She uses health policy and health professional education strategies to translate this knowledge into health system improvement.

Dr. Vanstone is also a member of the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis. She supervises graduate students in the following McMaster programs: Health Policy (PhD), Health Research Methodology (MSc, PhD), Health Sciences Education (MSc), Global Health (MSc or PhD).

Read more about Dr. Vanstone's research and education work on her personal academic website: http://www.meredithvanstone.com/