Project ECHO: St. Joseph’s Care Group

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Bryan MacLeod, MD, CCFP, FCFP

Bryan MacLeod is the Medical Director for SJCG’s Chronic Pain Management Program. He is a Co-Chair of SJCG ECHO Chronic Pain Interprofessional Medical Education Program.

He cut his teeth as a rural family doc in Marathon Ontario after graduating CCFP from the Northwestern Ontario family medicine program (NOMP) in 1998.  Since his return to Thunder Bay he was TBRHSC Director of Palliative Care, Led the NIACT Arthritis clinic and worked in long term care before joining St. Joe’s Chronic Pain.

Bryan passionately advocates to for improved access to Pain Education at all levels of training and is one of two final reviewers for AFMC’s Canadian curriculum on chronic pain, opioids and addiction (release in 2021).

Other interprofessional passions include: geriatrics, rheumatology and palliative care.

Research interests include Chronic Pain in the ER, chronic pain education, and The Indigenous Pain Reality;

He is a father of and cab driver for three busy increasingly adult, teenagers.  His passions include: his family, Improv theatre, basketball, and of course medical education.