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![HLA National Health Fellows at a table discussing health care.](https://www.degroote.mcmaster.ca/files/2024/02/Beige-Brown-Thank-You-for-Watching-fashion-and-beauty-1920-x-1080-px-2-2-1600x900.png)
Insights Into Healthcare: Reimagining Healthcare From the Patient’s Perspective
HLA National Health Fellow and patient care advocate Donald Carty shares his insights on providing patients with care and dignity.
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Amy Montour on Leading With Relationships
HLA National Health Fellow program provocateur Dr. Amy Montour shares her thoughts on being an Indigenous leader.
![Amy Montour](https://www.degroote.mcmaster.ca/files/2024/01/Amy-Montour_HLA-NHF-1920x1080-1-1600x900.png)
Insights into Healthcare: Sharing Indigenous Teachings
Health Leadership Academy National Health Fellow program provocateur, Dr. Amy Montour, shares her insights on Indigenous ways of knowing.
![Doctor advising a patient](https://www.degroote.mcmaster.ca/files/2023/11/Halton-Conservation-1-1600x900.png)
Insights Into Healthcare: From Rural Communities to Citizen-Led Transformation
HLA National Health Fellow Paul Heinrich shares his insights on healthcare challenges faced in northern and rural communities.
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Insights Into Healthcare: Personalizing Patient Care
HLA National Health Fellow Dr. Kathleen Ross shares her insights on healthcare innovations, disruptions, and the need to humanize healthcare
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Insights Into Healthcare: The Transformation of Home Healthcare
HLA National Health Fellow Farah Ismail shares her insights on the impact technology will have on home healthcare and patient privacy.
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Dancifying Life: A New Approach to Parkinson’s Rehabilitation
Director of McMaster's Digital Music Lab Matthew Woolhouse on why music and dance is beneficial for people with Parkinson's Disease (PD).
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Rick Hackett: Canadian healthcare needs agile leaders and bold visions for the future
Healthcare leaders need to be of high integrity and have a systems-wide, "big picture" mindset, writes Hackett.
![Greg McQueen](https://www.degroote.mcmaster.ca/files/2019/03/170-airplane-building-2018.jpg)
Health Leadership Academy welcomes Greg McQueen as Acting Co-Director
McQueen has provided senior leadership at several medical schools and health science centres across North America.
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Sitting is the new smoking: Using design thinking to tackle a public health challenge
Students from McMaster's Innovation by Design (IBD) course recently shared their experiences tackling the "epidemic" of sitting.
![Gillian Mulvale speaking](https://www.degroote.mcmaster.ca/files/2019/02/gillian-hla-1350x900.jpg)
New research looks at how to integrate peer support workers into clinical settings
Gillian Mulvale says the lived experience can improve the quality of care across the health system.
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Lessons in leadership: Three Emerging Health Leaders program participants share their stories
“This has stretched my brain in a way it hadn't been before,” says second-year student Rachel Bierbrier.