Physicians on the North Shore currently providing peer support:
- Dr. Erin Hasinoff
Dr. Erin Hasinoff is a family physician who is grateful to live and work on the North Shore. She is involved with the North Shore Division of Family Practice and co-leads the Physician Wellness committee. She is a certified leadership and executive coach and seeks to support colleagues to build resilience, prevent burnout, and find renewed joy and meaning in medicine. In her free time, she enjoys skiing, biking and hiking on the trails close to home with her family and beloved pup.
- Dr. Sasha Nyirabu
Dr. Sasha Ho Farris Nyirabu is grateful to work on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples, including the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, and to have previously worked in ᐃᓄᐃᑦ (Inuit), Nihtat Gwich’in, and ᐃᓄᕕᐊᓗᐃᑦ (Inuvialuit) communities in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories.
She is committed to Truth and Reconciliation and to anti-colonial practice through advancing equitable, culturally safe healthcare that respects First Nations, Métis, and Inuit sovereignty, leadership, and knowledge systems. She supports physician collaboration and advocacy to advance human rights-based, equitable care for 2SLGBTQIA+ communities.
Her experience includes refugee and migration health, transgender healthcare, tuberculosis programs, public health, and AI-informed epidemiological research. She has collaborated with IRCC Canada, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
Dr. Nyirabu is a Past President of Resident Doctors of Canada. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she designed, implemented, and participated in the MAPLE Network, a workplace peer-support initiative created to foster connection, resilience, and mutual support among colleagues.
- Dr. Lisa Gaede
Dr. Lisa Gaede did her medical training in Alberta and then moved to North Vancouver in 1999 and has had her family practice here since then. She has been an active member of the North Shore Division of Family Practice and has been involved in leadership work with several physician organizations. She has an interest in physician health and in improving our system to provide better care to patients.
Dr. Colleen Lawlor
Dr. Colleen Lawlor has been a physician on the North Shore for 20 years, practicing in Family Medicine. She entered medical school later in life at age 33 at the University of San Antonio, Texas, after working as a nurse in the mental health field for five years in Montreal and San Diego. During her medical training, she had both of her children, giving her firsthand experience of the challenges of feeling unbalanced.
Now that she has greater control over her schedule, Dr. Lawlor strives to maintain a healthy work-life balance and hopes to support fellow physicians in navigating stressful situations.
Dr. Ken Satake
- Dr. Dalbir Makh