Provincial Association Committee

摘要

In February 2013, a new committee was started at theCanadian Rheumatology Association (CRA) meetingin Ottawa to bring all the various provincial rheuma-tology associations together, with the goal of sharing bestpractices and ideas. Dr. Shahin Jamal and Dr. VandanaAhluwalia started this initiative, after they realized thatthe provinces were working on various, often similar proj-ects, but had never had the opportunity to comparen otes. The inaugural meeting was held with representa-tion from British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec,an d New Brunswick. Information and facts wereexchanged on subjects such as drug access and physicianremuneration