A woman in a man's world.

Graduating from the University of Alberta in Chemistry (1963) and Medicine (1967), Jean was the founding Head of the Dalhousie Division of General Medicine, Associate Dean of Postgraduate Medical Education (1988-1996) and Associate Dean of Continuing Medical Education (1996-2002). She has served as President, Vice-President and Chair of numerous societies and as a member of several other national and international committees and boards. She is a Member of the Order of Canada and has two honorary doctorates.

Achieving the World Health Organization's vision for clinical pharmacology.

Clinical pharmacology is a medical specialty whose practitioners teach, undertake research, frame policy, give information and advice about the actions and proper uses of medicines in humans and implement that knowledge in clinical practice. It involves a combination of several activities: drug discovery and development, training safe prescribers, providing objective and evidence-based therapeutic information to ethics, regulatory and pricing bodies, supporting patient care in an increasingly subspecialized arena where co-morbidities, polypharmacy, altered pharmacokinetics and drug interactions are common and developing and contributing to medicines policies for Governments. Clinical pharmacologists must advocate drug quality and they must also advocate for sustainability of the Discipline.

Promoting gender equity through health research: impacts and insights from a Canadian initiative.

The World Health Organization (WHO) recently identified major knowledge gaps regarding gender and sex as determinants of health. Canada recognized the importance of mobilizing research, and informing programs and policies focused on promoting the health of males and females across their lifespans by creating a national research institute that is focused on the study of gender, sex and health. No other country has created a national research institute dedicated to gender and health.

Voices leadership is all very well, but leaders need people to lead, says jean gray.

As we await publication of the report on care failings at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, which is due in the new year, it becomes increasingly clear that the most important issue facing the profession is safe staffi ng levels.

Voices - The battle for reform of us health care rages on, writes Jean Gray.

Dr Russell Dohner is seen as something of a hero by the people of Rushville, Illinois. Patients visiting the GP's practice are charged only $5 per consultation, the same price they would have paid in the 1970s.

Voices.

The end of July is the last chance to nominate a candidate for this year's SADS UK annual awards, celebrating individuals who have taken action to save a life.