Membership

The Circulus SCI Primary Network encourages participation from a variety of group and individuals

• Individuals with lived experience with SCI and care providers instrumental to the understanding of barriers to care and how to best understand their needs and align primary care initiatives.

• Individuals representing historically disadvantaged populations.

• Primary care clinicians and other clinicians interested in spinal cord injury.

• Researchers with expertise in SCI and health economic data.

• Community organizations such as Spinal Cord Injury Ontario.

• Research funders such as Ontario Neuro-Trauma Foundation and Praxis.

• Health care leadership, administration, and policy makers.

Any others who wish to promote primary care for individuals with spinal cord injury.

Activities

The Circulus SCI Primary Network provides a variety of learning, research and knowledge exchange activities including:

• Periodic summits that will focus on the network’s knowledge translation and priority alignment.

• Information dissemination and interaction with the community through social media and other communication channels such as newsletter emails, educational videos.

• Interactive webinars that will encourage dialogue, knowledge sharing and dissemination of best practices.

• Collective Research

• The development of national primary care guidelines for spinal cord injury.

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NEW: National Community of Practice (CoP) for individuals with a common interest in spinal cord injury who are providing care and/or working on the front lines of primary care through community organizations

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Interested in joining? Email allison.harrison@family-medicine.ca for more information