LORRAINE BELL, MDCM, FRCPC, is a pediatric nephrologist, an Associate Professor of Pediatrics, and an Associate Member of the 平特五不中 Institute of Health Sciences Education. She is the founder and Director of the Pediatric Renal Transplant Programme at the 平特五不中 Health Centre 鈥� Montreal Children鈥檚 Hospital. Recently she was appointed Director of Pediatric Transition to Adult Healthcare. Her interest in issues related to transition is longstanding; she has authored several papers in the area and organized an international multidisciplinary consensus conference on the subject. In 2009-2010 she was a Teaching Scholar and her project involved creation of a curriculum related to adolescent health care transition. In her new role as Transition Director, she plans to further develop projects related to teaching of transition to patients and families, residents, teaching hospital staff and community partners. Her other areas of interest in medical education include teaching the non-medical expert CanMEDS roles, particularly advocacy, communication and professionalism.
E-mail: lorraine.bell [at] mcgill.ca
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