Registration is open to all Canadian residents from Royal College training programs in Public Health and Preventive Medicine. Registration is also open to practicing physicians seeking to review core public health and preventive medicine topics.

Register

The deadline for in-person registration (individuals or groups) is October 14 at 11:00 am ET / 2:00 pm PT.

The deadline for virtual registration is October 24 at 2:00pm ET / 5:00pm PT.

Group registration for PHPM Residency Programs

We are pleased to be able to offer a group discount for eligible residents. To qualify for the group rate, all R4 and R5 residents from a university’s residency program must be enrolled in the NRC and the residency program must pay the registration fees on behalf of the residents. To access this rate, send a request to the NRC project manager at phpm.reviewcourse@gmail.com. 

Financial Hardship Subsidy

Up to three $550 scholarships are available to support virtual course registration for PHPM residents experiencing financial hardship.

Eligibility:

• Senior resident (R4 or R5) enrolled in a Canadian PHPM residency program

• The resident’s PHPM program or PGME must not cover NRC course registration costs

Application Instructions:

To apply for the financial hardship subsidy, residents must submit a brief rationale (up to 500 words) to phpm.reviewcourse@gmail.com by October 3, 2025. Decisions will be made by the NRC Scientific Planning Committee, with priority going to R5 residents.

Indigenous & Black PHPM Residents Scholarship

To challenge systemic inequities faced by Indigenous and Black PHPM residents in Canada, the NRC has made available $1500 to be distributed across up to three eligible applicants to cover a portion of course fees.

Eligibility:

• Senior resident (R4 or R5) enrolled in a Canadian PHPM residency program

• Not enrolled at UBC or Queen’s (registration is already subsidized)

• Self-identifies as Indigenous or Black

Application Instructions:

To apply for the Indigenous & Black PHPM Residents Scholarship, residents must contact phpm.reviewcourse@gmail.com by October 3, 2025. Should more than three eligible applicants apply, the recipients will be chosen at random.

Registration Fees

Registration Type – Individual Rate	Price
PHPM Residents (In-person in Kingston or Vancouver)	$700
PHPM Residents (Virtual attendance)	$550
Registrants not in a PHPM residency program (In-person in Kingston or Vancouver)	$1350
Registrants not in a PHPM residency program (Virtual attendance)	$1200
Registration for one session (Virtual attendance)	$175
Medical students (Contact phpm.reviewcourse@gmail.com for instructions)	Free
Registration Type – Group Rate	Price
PHPM Resident Group Rate (In-person in Kingston or Vancouver)	$650 (per resident)
PHPM Resident Group Rate (Virtual attendance)	$500

Registration Notes:

The final day of registration for in-person attendance is October 14, 2025. Registration for virtual attendance will be available until October 24, 2025.

Registration is not required for UBC and Queen’s residents – you will be given further details by email.

Cancellation Policy:

If written notice of withdrawal and is received at UBC CPD by October 15, 2025 the registration fee, less a $100 CDN handling charge, will be refunded. No refunds will be granted for withdrawal after this date. No refunds will be granted after the course has commenced for any reason.

Core topics will include: Leadership & Management, Environmental Health, Qualitative Methods, Quantitative Methods, Health Policy, Communicable Diseases, Epidemiology, Public Health Ethics, Indigenous Health, Emergency Management, Non-Communicable Diseases, Vaccine-Preventable Diseases, Health Promotion, Public Health Law

Participants attending in-person will be provided with a light breakfast, lunch and snacks during each day of the course.

Kingston

9:30am to 6:30pm daily*

Vancouver

8:00am to 5:00 pm daily*

*Notes:

• Exact times will vary each day. The schedule will be provided to registered participants.
• Exam prep sessions, scheduled before or after the main sessions, will be available to all registered participants. Practicing physicians may choose to skip these sessions. 

 Speaker Bios (2025)

Trevor Corneil
Dr. Trevor Corneil is a public health and preventive medicine specialist and inner-city medicine physician with over 20 years’ experience in both clinical and administrative practice in British Columbia, Canada. Trevor is currently Associate Director Clinical Faculty Affairs at the University of British Columbia’s School of Population and Public Health, Program Director of the school’s Public Health and Preventive Medicine Residency Program, and a Medical Health Officer with BC’s Northern Health Authority. He is a Clinical Professor at the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Medicine.

Trevor received his Bachelor in Life Sciences and Doctor of Medicine degrees from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. He then undertook his residency training at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, completing fellowships in both family medicine and public health and preventative medicine, and a Master’s degree in public health and epidemiology. Trevor is a fellow of both the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the College of Family Practice of Canada.

Megan Erickson
Megan Erickson is Lead for Public Health Response at Northern Health, where, with her dyad partner Dr. Trevor Corneil, she spearheads efforts to strengthen preparedness and response to public health emergencies, supporting resilient, effective, and equitable public health systems.

Carol Fenton
Dr. Fenton completed her Medical Degree (2013), Master of Science in Population/Public Health (2017), and specialty training in Public Health and Preventive Medicine (2018) at the University of Calgary. She previously worked as a Medical Health Officer for Interior Health based in Kamloops, supporting the Immunization program through the roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccinations before transitioning to supporting the toxic drug emergency response. Dr Fenton currently works at Island Health, supporting the Addiction Medicine and Substance Use teams, the Healthy Community and Healthy Schools programs, as well as being academic lead for the region.

Sarah Funnell
Dr. Sarah Funnell is a First Nations family physician, public health specialist, and clinician scientist. Her background is mixed Algonquin and Tuscarora ancestry, and she grew up among the Mississaugas of Alderville First Nation and is a current band member of Kitigan Zibi First Nation. Her Algonquin name, Minwanimad, means pleasant breeze and was given to her by her great Auntie who saw her gift of leadership.

Dr. Sarah Funnell is the Associate Dean and Chair of Indigenous Health at Queen’s Health Sciences (QHS) and Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine. In these roles she leads efforts to incorporate Indigenous health and cultural perspectives into health education, administration, research, and clinical practice.

Dr. Funnell has a passion for leadership and good governance. She is an executive and founding member of the National Consortium for Indigenous Medical Education and a Senior Editor for the Canadian Journal of Public Health. Throughout her career, she has been an active voice and advocate to improve Indigenous health and curriculum through her volunteer work with College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC), Royal College, Medical Council of Canada, Medical Council of Canada (MCC), and the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC).

Her research focus includes food sovereignty, Indigenous population health, Indigenous data governance, and the impact of COVID-19 on the healthcare of Indigenous older adults. She is an award-winning educator and prolific speaker on topics related to Indigenous health, health equity, public health, and primary care.

Hugh Guan
Dr Hugh Guan is the interim Program Director for the Queen’s PHPM Residency program. He previously was a Director and Associate Medical Officer of Health at Kingston, Frontenac, and Lennox & Addington Public Health. His interests are in communicable diseases and health systems.

Azim Kasmani
Azim Kasmani is Niagara Region’s Medical Officer of Health and Commissioner of Public Health and Emergency Services. He took on the role in May of 2023 after serving as Niagara’s Associate Medical Officer of Health since the summer of 2021.

Dr. Kasmani attended McMaster University for his undergraduate degree and medical school followed by Queen’s University for specialty training in Public Health and Preventive Medicine. He obtained a Master’s in Public Health and Health Promotion from Brunel University in London, England.

JinHee Kim
JinHee Kim is a Physician Lead at PHO and an Assistant Professor in the Clinical Public Health Division at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. JinHee’s interests include assessment of environmental hazards, exposures, and health outcomes to enhance information for public health action, the relative impact of different environmental health issues on the health of the population, food safety and human health risk assessment for environmental hazards as it applies to public health.

Ellina Lytvyak
Dr. Ellina Lytvyak, MD, PhD, DABOM, FRCPC, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. She is certified in Public Health and Preventive Medicine by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and in Obesity Medicine by the American Board of Obesity Medicine. She is the Founder and Director of the Bariatric Medicine Clinic at the University of Alberta and provides comprehensive evidence-based tertiary care for a complex multimorbid population of patients at the forefront of the latest science.

She has an academic record spanning over 23 years and manages an extensive research platform in collaboration with international consortia. She is a Principal and Co-Principal Investigator for over 40 research projects, focusing on chronic diseases epidemiology, prevention and management, cancer screening, food insecurity and gender and socio-economic disparities.
She has been actively involved in teaching and supervision of medical students, residents, advanced fellows and healthcare professionals. She serves as an Evidence-Based Medicine curriculum Lead in the MD Program at the University of Alberta and as an Instructor for the Foundation Course in Occupational Medicine for physicians. Dr. Lytvyak is actively involved in international teaching as a Course Developer and Instructor for the Alberta Institute, Wenzhou Medical University.

Dr. Lytvyak has authored over 240 peer-reviewed publications, with an h-index of 22, i10-index of 42, and g-index of 56, including high-impact scientific journals Journal of Hepatology, Hepatology, The Lancet Global Health and The Lancet.

Liane Macdonald
Dr. Liane Macdonald is Physician Lead, Communicable Disease Control and Medical Education, at Public Health Ontario (PHO). She is an Assistant Professor (Status Only) at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. She represents PHO on multiple Ontario universities’ Public Health and Preventive Medicine residency program committees.

Richard Mather
Dr. Richard Mather is a public health physician in Communicable Disease Control at Public Health Ontario (PHO). He is an Assistant Professor (Adjunct) at Queen’s University in the Department of Family Medicine where he completed his M.D. and medical residency in Public Health and Preventive Medicine including Family Medicine.

Geoff McKee
Dr. McKee completed his Medical Degree (2013), Master of Public Health (2017), and specialty training in Public Health and Preventive Medicine (2018) at the University of British Columbia. He previously worked as a Medical Health Officer at Vancouver Coastal Health providing support for the Coastal Rural region, Population Health, Indigenous Health, and the Public Health Surveillance Unit.

He is currently the Medical Director of Population and Public Health at the BCCDC, which is focused on prevention of chronic disease and injury through supporting health promotion and healthy public policy. The PPH team also supports the centre with knowledge generation, synthesis, and translation activities related to population health. He is also a clinical assistant professor at the UBC School of Population and Public Health.

Christine Navarro
Dr. Christine Navarro is a public health physician with the Immunization and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Team and the Enterics, Zoonotics, and Vectorborne Diseases Team at Public Health Ontario. She is also an Assistant Professor with the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.

Jasmine Pawa
Dr. Jasmine Pawa is a Public Health and Preventive Medicine physician. She works with a range of public sector organizations and is the Past President of the Canadian national specialty society, PHPC. She has also provided Medical Officer of Health locum services, including as acting Chief Public Health Officer for a territory. Her professional focus is on health policy/health systems – she’s committed to working with teams on integrating population health and medical expertise with the insights of community members (https://ehcgroup.ca/). She’s from Alberta, did parts of her training in Ontario and the UK, and continues to work across a few jurisdictions.

Thomas Piggott
Dr. Thomas Piggott (pronouns he/him) started with Peterborough Public Health in December 2021. In his position as MOH/CEO, Dr. Piggott brings experience working at various levels of public health in Canada and internationally. Prior to Peterborough, Dr. Piggott worked as MOH and VP lead for Population/Rural & Remote Health in the northern region of Labrador and as a field doctor with Médicins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Dr. Piggott completed medical training, residency in Public Health and Preventive Medicine and his PhD in Health Research Methods at McMaster University. He is involved in research, teaching, clinical work and a father of young children.

Ceinwen Pope
Dr. Ceinwen Pope is a Medical Health Officer at Vancouver Coastal Health. She is a recent graduate of the Public Health and Preventive Medicine residency at the University of Toronto, where she also completed a Master’s of Public Health in epidemiology and family medicine residency.

Emil Prikryl
Dr. Emil Azuma Prikryl is currently an Associate Medical Officer of Health with Ottawa Public Health and the Competency-Based Medical Education Lead for the Public Health and Preventive Medicine program at NOSM University. He previously served as a locum Medical Officer of Health with Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services. Emil completed his medical degree at the University of Ottawa, his PHPM residency at NOSM University, and a Master of Science in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He maintains a strong enthusiasm for public health, systems thinking, and the great outdoors.

Rohit Vijh
Dr. Rohit Vijh (he/him) works for Vancouver Coastal Health as Medical Health Officer (MHO) for Vancouver and also serves as the Regional Medical Director of Communicable Disease Control. He completed his B.Sc in Pharmacology and Therapeutics at McGill University and Doctor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He completed his Master of Public Health, Family Medicine Residency and Public Health and Preventive Medicine Residency Training at the University of British Columbia. He also works part-time as a STI Physician at the BC Centre for Disease Control.

Ariella Zbar
Dr. Ariella Zbar completed her residency in PHPM at Queen’s University. She has worked in local and provincial public health in Ontario and BC. She is currently Executive Medical Director for Population & Public Health, and the geographic Medical Health Officer for Surrey at Fraser Health.

 

This program was co-developed between UBC School of Population and Public Health and Queen’s University Department of Family Medicine (Public Health and Preventive Medicine residency program) and was planned to achieve scientific integrity, objectivity and balance.

Accreditation Credits for Royal College Specialists

The Division of Continuing Professional Development, University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine (UBC CPD) is fully accredited by the Continuing Medical Education Accreditation Committee (CACME) to provide CPD credits for physicians. This activity is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and approved by UBC CPD. You may claim a maximum of 25 hours (credits are automatically calculated). Each physician should claim only those credits accrued through participation in the activity.

Course Material

All registrants will be provided with electronic access to the course materials. To prevent unnecessary printing, we will not be providing paper copies of presentations or materials. There will be wifi at the course locations in Vancouver and Kingston to access the material online. Everyone with full registration will be given access to recordings and PowerPoint slides for asynchronous learning.

CONTACT US

Any questions about the 2025 National Review Course should be directed to phpm.reviewcourse@gmail.com

Vancouver 

The course will take place at City Square (555 W 12 Avenue, Vancouver).

Information on places to stay in Vancouver can be found on the Destination Vancouver Website: https://www.destinationvancouver.com/places-to-stay/

Travel to and around Vancouver

YVR Airport

Getting Around Vancouver

Visiting UBC

Kingston

The course will take place at the Donald Gordon Centre (421 Union Street, Kingston). A discounted rate is available until October 10 for course participants who wish to stay overnight at the Donald Gordon Centre. Please contact phpm.reviewcourse@gmail.com for discount details. 

Information on places to stay in Kingston can be found on the Visit Kingston Website: https://www.visitkingston.ca/places-to-stay/

Travel to and around Kingston

VIA Rail

YGK Airport

Getting Around Kingston

Any questions about the National Review Course should be directed to phpm.reviewcourse@gmail.com