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Dr. **Nili Kaplan-Myrth** is a Canadian family physician based in [[canada:ontario:Ottawa]], [[canada:Ontario]]. | Dr. **Nili Kaplan-Myrth** MD, CCFP, PhD is a Canadian family physician based in [[canada:ontario:Ottawa]], [[canada:Ontario]]. She practices medicine at [[Common Ground Collaborative Care]].((//Home.// Dr. Kaplan-Myrth. Retrieved September 7, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220908051110/http://www.drkaplanmyrth.ca/)) |
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| Kaplan-Myrth describes herself as a [[feminism|feminist]] community activist, and her [[https://www.campfire.wiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=screencapture-linkedin-in-nili-kaplan-myrth-045b4921-2022-09-07-22_14_06.pdf|LinkedIn profile]] notes that she is an "old fashioned community family doctor with a feminist twist." |
===== History ===== | ===== History ===== |
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==== Education ==== | ==== Education ==== |
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Kaplan-Myrth completed medical school at the [[University of Ottawa]]. She won a Commonwealth scholarship to [[University College London]], and a Fulbright for her PhD at [[Yale University]] where she wrote her thesis on Indigenous self-determination and health. | Kaplan-Myrth attended [[McGill University]] for her Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Anthropology from 1993-1997, travelling to [[Australia]] on exchange to the [[University of Adelaide]] in her final year. She completed medical school at the [[University of Ottawa]]. She won a Commonwealth scholarship to [[University College London]], and a Fulbright for her PhD at [[Yale University]] where she wrote her thesis on Indigenous self-determination and health. |
==== COVID-19 ==== | ==== COVID-19 ==== |
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In August 2022, Kaplan-Myrth announced she was running to be a trustee for the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, stating "we need to ensure there are voices that don’t debate the validity of science."((Crawford, B. (2022, August 15). //Jabapalooza’s Dr. Nili Kaplan-Myrth sets sights on school board trustee job.// Ottawa Citizen. https://archive.ph/Ef4f8)) | Kaplan-Myrth alleges to have received death threats as a result of holding mass-vaccination pop-ups in residential neighbourhoods. Among the threats was a letter which she forwarded to the [[College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario]] and the [[Ottawa Police Service]].((Ibrahim, E. (2021, November 11). //Ottawa doctor pleads for help from the prime minister after death threat.// CTV News Ottawa. https://web.archive.org/web/20220908052455/https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/ottawa-doctor-pleads-for-help-from-the-prime-minister-after-death-threat-1.5662499)) An article covering the incident (and Kaplan-Myrth's plea for help to [[Justin Trudeau]]) written by [[The Canadian Press]] and published by [[CTV News]] was funded by [[Facebook]] and [[Canadian Press News Fellowship]]. |
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| As of September 2022, Kaplan-Myrth requires that patients wear masks for all appointments.((//Home.// Dr. Kaplan-Myrth. Retrieved September 7, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220908051110/http://www.drkaplanmyrth.ca/)) |
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| In August 2022, Kaplan-Myrth announced she was running to be a trustee for the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, stating "we need to ensure there are voices that don’t debate the validity of science."((Crawford, B. (2022, August 15). //Jabapalooza’s Dr. Nili Kaplan-Myrth sets sights on school board trustee job.// Ottawa Citizen. https://archive.ph/Ef4f8)) ((//Home.// Dr. Nili Kaplan-Myrth for Trustee Zone 9 (Capital, Alta Vista). Retrieved September 8, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220908053414/https://www.nilikm.ca/)) |
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