This episode features an interview with Laurie Dokis, who is from the Dokis First Nation and a member of the Anishinabek Nation in Ontario. Laurie is a registered nurse with more than 30 years of clinical experience focusing on advancing anti-racism and cultural safety. She is also the co-chair of the Inquiry Committee of the BC College of Nurses and Midwives and sits on the BC Health Regulators' Indigenous Community of Practice.

Through stories and real-life examples from her personal and professional journey, Laurie offers valuable insights into what Indigenous cultural safety looks like in practice.

This episode features an interview with Dr. Ingrid Cosio on creating a safe and inclusive practice for gender-diverse patients.

Dr. Cosio is the medical director at Trans Care BC. She has been a family physician in Prince George for 20 years and is the physician lead for the Northern Gender Clinic.

Resources mentioned during the episode:

• Trans Care BC
  • The Education Centre
  • ECHO: Gender-Affirming Primary Care
  • Creating affirming services
  • Gender Inclusive Language (PDF)
  • Making Mistakes (PDF)
• Fenway Institute: Affirmative Services for Transgender and Gender-diverse People – Best Practices for Frontline Health Care Staff (PDF)
• We Are Allies

This episode features Dr. Mei-Ling Wiedmeyer on the importance of language interpretation in health care.

Dr. Wiedmeyer is a family physician and clinical assistant professor in the UBC department of family practice. She works for a community health centre that uses a novel team-based care model with cross cultural health brokers to provide comprehensive primary care to refugees, immigrants and migrant populations. She is also the co-principal investigator of the Evaluating Inequities in Refugee and Immigrants’ Health Access Project.