Dr. David Price is Professor and Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University, and has been Chief of Family Medicine at Hamilton Health Sciences since 2004.
Dr. Price is the founding director of the Maternity Centre of Hamilton, a multidisciplinary centre caring for ...
Dr. David Price is Professor and Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University, and has been Chief of Family Medicine at Hamilton Health Sciences since 2004.
Dr. Price is the founding director of the Maternity Centre of Hamilton, a multidisciplinary centre caring for prenatal and intrapartum patients. The model of care developed at the Maternity Centre has been replicated across the country and has been the subject of national presentations and publications. Dr. Price is also the Medical Director and co-investigator of the Quality in Family Practice program; a six year undertaking of four concurrent projects, focusing on the development and implementation of continuous quality improvement initiatives.
Dr. Price is the administrative lead for OSCAR (Open Source Clinical Application Resource), an Electronic Medical Record (EMR), and MyOSCAR Personal Health Record. OSCAR was developed at McMaster and is now utilized across Canada by more than 1500 family physicians and is the fastest growing EMR in Ontario.
Locally, Dr. Price was instrumental in helping to create the academic Family Health Team at McMaster University, an interprofessional team consisting of physicians, nurse practitioners, social workers, dieticians, occupational therapists, physician assistants, pharmacists, and psychiatrists. The McMaster Family Health Team currently serves over 29,000 patients in the Hamilton area.