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Marion  Maar

Marion Maar

Canada

Marion Maar is a medical anthropologist and Associate Professor at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine in Canada. She is a faculty coordinator for a unique cultural emersion experience for medical students in Aboriginal communities. She has lead and collaborated on many research projects, including Aboriginal research ethics, diabetes care and prevention, mental health and health services research. Her current research continues to focus on Aboriginal community-based health research with a focus on chronic illnesses prevention. Prior to her faculty appointment she worked as a Research and Evaluation Coordinator for an Aboriginal Health Access Centre on Manitoulin Island in Northern Ontario for eight years. Her work there focused on community-based Aboriginal health research based using a participatory action model.


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Original Research 20 March 2019

Keeping kids safe: caregivers' perspectives on the determinants of physical activity in rural Indigenous communities


Project Report 28 March 2017

Developing a grounded theory for interprofessional collaboration acquisition using facilitator and actor perspectives in simulated wilderness medical emergencies


Project Report 3 October 2014

Faculty analysis of distributed medical education in Northern Canadian Aboriginal communities


Original Research 27 January 2010

Reaching agreement for an Aboriginal e-health research agenda: the Aboriginal telehealth knowledge circle consensus method

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Retention of early-career GPs as independent specialists in former training practices
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Clinical outcomes in patients hospitalised with dysmagnesemia in the NT
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Examining workplace safety for remote area nurses in Australia
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Women's wellbeing and Niska (goose) Harvesting in subarctic Ontario, Canada
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Rural GP Association of Scotland (RGPAS) Annual Conference #RGPAS24, 15–17 November 2024, Inverness, Scotland
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11th Biennial Pacific Region Indigenous Doctors Congress (PRIDoC) 2024, 2–6 December 2024, Kaurna Country, Adelaide, Australia
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Te Tāreitanga: Evolving understanding of health workforce research, 9 December 2024, Dunedin, NZ, and online
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4th International Indigenous Health & Wellbeing Conference 2025, 16–19 June 2025, Adelaide Convention Centre, Kaurna Country, Australia
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