Roop Conyers
Roop Conyers, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, is proposed as a contested nominee with the following attributes:
- Practises in small rural farming community, with several adjacent communities including care for Bear River First Nation, providing a wide range of clinical, educational, and administrative services (comprehensive care, emergency medicine, hospitalist, palliative).
- CFPC involvement since 2012 (national and Chapter): CFPC Postgraduate Education Committee; Section of Teachers; Family Medicine Specialty Committee; Accreditation – internal reviewer, Dalhousie University, postgraduate medical education for the Department of Family Medicine; Nova Scotia College of Family Physicians (NSCFP) Board.
- Assistant professor and primary resident preceptor, Department of Family Medicine, Dalhousie University.
- In the 18th year of practice as of the 2025 Board election.
Hello CFPC Colleagues,
I am Dr. Roop Conyers, a proud rural generalist family physician living and working in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, located on the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq people.
I have put my name forward for Director-at-Large as I feel that my clinical, administrative, and academic experiences have increasingly revealed how important the role of the CFPC is in championing the value of family medicine in Canada. The primary care environment is changing rapidly across our country, with some provinces implementing ‘creative’ solutions to address the critical gaps in primary care. Concurrently, our profession is at a crossroads: family medicine education and training standards are in iterative/adaptive processes; relationships with membership and provincial Chapters are evolving; and health care transformation is progressing with and without family physicians. There is crucial work to be done in evolving the CFPC as it adapts to the future and in sustaining the profession of family medicine.
I am deeply committed to the specialty of family medicine and have spent my career living and working full time in a rural community providing office, acute, hospital, palliative, and home care in clinical environments with limited system resources. I am acutely aware of the front-line and system challenges in providing health care.
I have been fortunate to hold various leadership roles: in clinical medicine as Medical Site Lead for our local hospital; in medical education as a recovering Postgraduate Site Director, Family Medicine, Dalhousie University. My experiences on several CFPC committees—including the Postgraduate Education Committee, Section of Teachers, and Family Medicine Specialty Committee—have provided insights to CFPC work as it relates to training and maintenance of practice.
I am proud of my collaborative and inclusive approach to finding common ground and sustaining mutual respect despite competing interests. I appreciate the complexities of decision making at all levels and am aware of system, design, and strategic thinking approaches in problem solving and planning. I feel I have a broad perspective on the challenges and realities we face as a profession and College, as we strive to maintain, innovate, and strengthen family medicine in our respective provinces.
As a member of the CFPC Board I would commit to do my best for you and our profession, including: to listen and understand; to contemplate with an open mind; to collaborate and innovate; and to be respectful of the needs of our diverse membership.
As experts in family medicine we understand the complexity of providing care for our patients and communities, excel at providing continuity of care and dealing with uncertainty, adapt in the care we provide, and are leaders in the delivery of primary care and collectively have the knowledge to build a sustainable health system that delivers care to all Canadians.
As a Director-at-Large these are some of the values I would advocate on your behalf.
The CFPC is our professional home and I look forward to hopefully having the opportunity to contribute.
Dr. Roop Conyers, PhD, MD, CCFP, FCFP
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Please see Dr. Conyers’s CV.
