2023 INDUCTEE Carol P. Herbert, MD Patient Care, Women in Medicine, Leadership in Organizational Development

Carol Herbert inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame

Member, Board of Governors of Simon Fraser University

Chair of the Board of Trustees of AUC (American University of the Caribbean), Board member since 2012

Retired from Western University and appointed Professor Emerita

Senior Associate, In-Source Research Consulting, a research partnership that applied complex adaptive systems thinking to health care issues

Member of CIHR Gender and Health Scientific Advisory Board

Co-author of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences major assessment report: “Transforming Care for Canadians with Chronic Health Conditions: Put People First, Expect the Best, Manage for Results”.

(Nasmith L., Ballem P., Baxter R., Bergman H., Colin-Thorme D., Herbert C., Keating N., Lessard R.,,Lyons R., McMurchy D., Ratner P., Rosenbaum P., Tamblyn R., Wagner E., & Zimmerman B. (2010)

Founding Fellow of Canadian Academy of Health Sciences

Served as a board member from 2009-2019 and president from 2015-17

Dr. Herberts chairs the National Expert Committee, Health Canada Interprofessional Education (IPE) for Patient-Centred Collaborative Care which funded many innovative IPE projects.

One of many committees and Task Forces she chaired or served on over decades

Board Chair - CMHF

Visiting Overseas Scholar at St. John’s College, Cambridge University

Dr. Herbert serves as Dean, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at Western University.

Continued to teach throughout term as dean, both PBL groups and a course on Advocacy

Co-editor of Patient Education & Counseling, the international journal. Continued to serve on Editorial Board until 2018.

Co-Principal Investigator of Haida Gwaii Diabetes Project, one of the first participatory research partnerships with Canadian Indigenous communities.

Developed innovative written agreement on ethical research with Haida Gwaii community partners.

Co-developed Guidelines for Participatory Action Research in Health Promotion

Review and Recommendations for the Development of Participatory Research in Health Promotion in Canada. UBC and the B.C. Consortium for Health Promotion Research, for the Royal Society of Canada (Green, L.W., George, M.A., Daniel, M., Frankish, C.J., Herbert, C.P., O'Neill, M.)

Dr. Herbert is a founding member of UBC Institute of Health Promotion Research

Royal Canadian Legion Professor and Head of Family Practice, UBC

Dr. Herbert serves as the president of North American Primary Care Research Group, most influential primary care research organization in the world.

Dr. Herbert becomes the founding co-director of Sexual Abuse Assessment Pilot Project

Dr. Herbert serves as the founding co-director of Vancouver Sexual Assault Assessment Service (still operating in 2023)

Dr. Herbert was a pioneer in community-based primary care research, with research questions arising from practice and grounded in patient and community care needs.

Established and ran autogenic training groups for stress management. (Herbert, C.P., and Gutman, G., Practical Group Autogenic Training for Management of Stress-Related Disorders in Family Practice in Clinical Hypnosis in Medicine, Yearbook Medical Publishers, Chicago, Illinois, 1980;109-117)

Worked as full-service family physician at REACH Centre, one of the first community health centres in Canada, which was established in 1969 and is still operating in 2023. REACH was established as a community teaching site for medical students and residen

Obtained MD degree from UBC and completed rotating internship at St Paul's Hospital in Vancouver. Completed UBC Pediatrics resident (Jan-July 1971)

Obtained Honours BSc in Biochemistry concurrently with completing first year Medicine at UBC