OUR FACILITATORS
Bryan MacLeod, MD FCFP
Bryan MacLeod, MD FCFP
Bryan MacLeod, MD FCFP
Bryan MacLeod is a Chronic Pain Physician and Associate Professor at The Northern Ontario School of Medicine.
Bryan cut his teeth as a rural family doc in Marathon Ontario after graduating CCFP from the Northwestern Ontario family medicine program (NOMP) back in The Dark Ages.
Bryan is a Recovering Over-Achiever and humble Mindful Self-Com
Bryan MacLeod is a Chronic Pain Physician and Associate Professor at The Northern Ontario School of Medicine.
Bryan cut his teeth as a rural family doc in Marathon Ontario after graduating CCFP from the Northwestern Ontario family medicine program (NOMP) back in The Dark Ages.
Bryan is a Recovering Over-Achiever and humble Mindful Self-Compassion enthusiast and teacher-in-training; melding his enthusiasm for a life in medicine with a need for all of us to have a healthier balanced way forward.
Monique Mercier, MA
Bryan MacLeod, MD FCFP
Bryan MacLeod, MD FCFP
Monique is a psychological associate registered with the College of Psychologists of Ontario and a trained teacher of the Mindful Self-Compassion offerings through the Centre for Mindful Self-Compassion.
Monique has been practicing clinically
or over a decade with adults struggling with stress, burnout, anxiety, depression, and trauma.
M
Monique is a psychological associate registered with the College of Psychologists of Ontario and a trained teacher of the Mindful Self-Compassion offerings through the Centre for Mindful Self-Compassion.
Monique has been practicing clinically
or over a decade with adults struggling with stress, burnout, anxiety, depression, and trauma.
Monique is passionate about helping professionals re-connect with themselves, their needs, and values to live a more happy and balanced life.
Our Research Team
Sarah Hunt, M.Sc.
Sarah Hunt, M.Sc.
Sarah Hunt, M.Sc.
Researcher
NOSM, Class of 2023
Sarah is a 4th year NOSM student. She has been involved with the mindful self-compassion research team from the very beginning. Her work is primarily focused on quantitative data measuring improved well-being following participation in the Self-Compassion for Healthcare Communities course
Jenna Simpson
Sarah Hunt, M.Sc.
Sarah Hunt, M.Sc.
Researcher NOSM, Class of 2024
I have had the privilege of working with the Mindful Self-Compassion for Healthcare Communities at NOSM research team on the qualitative side, organizing, conducting, and analyzing focus groups to learn more about what the program meant to participants. I was fortunate to be able to co-present our findings wi
Researcher NOSM, Class of 2024
I have had the privilege of working with the Mindful Self-Compassion for Healthcare Communities at NOSM research team on the qualitative side, organizing, conducting, and analyzing focus groups to learn more about what the program meant to participants. I was fortunate to be able to co-present our findings with respect to learner participants at the Northern Health Research Conference and look forward to the upcoming SACME conference to highlight the faculty results.
Jacob Bélanger
Sarah Hunt, M.Sc.
Jacob Bélanger
Researcher NOSM, Class of 2024
Jacob spearheaded the Asynchronous Module Program (AMP). This is an ongoing program with the goal of creating online mindful self-compassion modules that can be made available to healthcare providers. In creating short online modules, our goal was to increase the availability, accessibility, and efficiency of
Researcher NOSM, Class of 2024
Jacob spearheaded the Asynchronous Module Program (AMP). This is an ongoing program with the goal of creating online mindful self-compassion modules that can be made available to healthcare providers. In creating short online modules, our goal was to increase the availability, accessibility, and efficiency of mindful self-compassion practice. The practical use of these modules would be to provide concise self-compassion teachings and strategies that could be used regularly by busy clinicians.
Chad Tremblay
Chad Tremblay
Jacob Bélanger
Researcher NOSM, Class of 2025
Chad is a second year student at NOSM U, East campus. Chad worked as a nurse in a remote Indigenous setting in Saskatchewan before settling back in Northern Ontario. He has utilized mindfulness meditation in medically distressing situations and employs the practice in his daily life. After taking the Mindfuln
Researcher NOSM, Class of 2025
Chad is a second year student at NOSM U, East campus. Chad worked as a nurse in a remote Indigenous setting in Saskatchewan before settling back in Northern Ontario. He has utilized mindfulness meditation in medically distressing situations and employs the practice in his daily life. After taking the Mindfulness Self-Compassion course, he felt a strong desire to be a part of the research team and will contribute to the great work of the team going forward. In his free time, Chad is an avid cyclist.
Janelle Lazor
Chad Tremblay
Janelle Lazor
Researcher NOSM, Class of 2025
Janelle is a 2nd year NOSM student with a background as a Physiotherapist. She has been elected to the Student Wellness Committee as a 2025 Year Representative two years in a row, with a firm belief of taking care of oneself, before being able to fully take care of others. She attended the Mindful Self-Com
Researcher NOSM, Class of 2025
Janelle is a 2nd year NOSM student with a background as a Physiotherapist. She has been elected to the Student Wellness Committee as a 2025 Year Representative two years in a row, with a firm belief of taking care of oneself, before being able to fully take care of others. She attended the Mindful Self-Compassion Course as a first year student, and has joined the team for research starting in June 2022.