Enlist in our MASH unit: an invitation to join the Meaningful Analogies in Sports and Health network
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Steven Lewis is President, Access Consulting Ltd., Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and Adjunct Professor of Health Policy at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Mark Wahba is an emergency physician and Clinical Assistant Professor at Royal University Hospital, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Mary Smillie, former Senior Quality Improvement Consultant at the Health Quality Council of Saskatchewan, is now an independent consultant.
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