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Dr. Barry Lavallee - Treasurer
Saulteaux and Métis Nations of Manitoba
Practicing Physician, Manitoba

Barry is a member of the Saulteaux/Metis Aboriginal communities of Manitoba. He is the currently practicing family medicine at the St. James Street Medical Clinic and Hope Centre.  He graduated from the University of Manitoba and completed his post-graduate training in Family Medicine with an emphasis on rural/Aboriginal health in 1990.   He completed his Masters of Clinical Sciences in Family Medicine at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario in 2004. His area of research focuses on the experience of Aboriginal patients within the patient-physician therapeutic relationship, diabetes and other chronic diseases, Pap smear screening programs in Aboriginal communities, collaborative practices and international Indigenous health. He has an interest in trans generational trauma as it manifests itself in the challenges some First Nations and Metis face in working towards health and healing.

Barry is the past president of the previous Native Physician’s Association in Canada and now sits as a board member of the newly formed Indigenous physicians association of Canada. He is a member of the Canadian working group of the International Indigenous Health Knowledge and Development.