Mentor Matching Service

Dr. Amy Pieroway is a family physician, working in mostly Older Adult Care and Gender Affirmative Care in Corner Brook, Newfoundland.

Dr. Jillian Parsons is in St. John's. She has been practicing in community-based fee-for-service Family Practice for the past 18 years. She is based in an urban area but loved her time during residency working in the cottage hospital setting and both of her parents are from a community in Bonavista North in which she passed a significant amount of time during childhood and as an adult. Dr. Parsons has hosted learners at various levels in the past in her clinic, however she is not a regular learning site and works in an overhead sharing-based group with two other Family Physicians.

When not at work Dr. Parsons is an active wife and mother of a 13- and 11-year-old girl. She enjoys spending time outdoors, exercise of all sorts, gardening (she is a novice), cooking, baking, and reading. She enjoys sharing a relationship with learners to help them interpret their experiences and surroundings to form a healthy perspective on their future career and life.

Dr. Jim Bowen has been a practicing Family Physician in Norris Point since 1985. Dr. Bowen started his career as a salaried doctor at the Old Cottage Hospital in Norris Point but then opened a fee-for-service practice in 1994. From 1994 to 2020 he managed a very busy solo practice in the community and did regular 1 in 3 ER shifts (weeknights, weekends) at the Bonne Bay Health Care Center as well. During that time Dr. Bowen also looked after In Patients, Long Term Care Patients, and did minor surgical procedures. Additionally he was Chief of Staff in Bonne Bay and the local Medical Examiner for many years. In 2020 he discontinued hospital work and switched to a full-time concentration in his office which is currently a blend of virtual and in-person, assisted by a well-tweaked EMR (Telus Platform). He has a great administrative assistance and his current secretary, Carol Ann McDonald, who is very tech savvy and experienced, has been with Dr. Bowen for 15 years.

In terms of external medical involvement, Dr. Bowen has sat on the Board of Directors of the NLMA several times and served on a variety of NLMA sub-committees. He has been a clinical assistant Professor of Medicine with Memorial University for many years with a focus on teaching second year residents.

Currently Dr. Bowen is on the Board of Directors for the Long Range Family Practice Network, which is a great fit, as the focus for the duration of his career will be on modernization and optimization of community family/primary care practice taking into account new innovations like virtual care, EMR and capitation/blended payment models.

Dr. Nicola Penney is a community-based family doctor located in Corner Brook. Dr. Penney completed medical school and Family Medicine residency training at McMaster University and then returned to Newfoundland eleven years ago. She started out in solo practice in Corner Brook and built a practice from scratch. She learned a lot about practice management and the business side of medicine during her early years as a solo fee-for-service provider. During her early years in practice she provided care in the inpatient, long term care and community setting before transitioning primarily to outpatient care. Four years ago Dr. Penney moved from solo fee-for-service practice to a new group practice, Medical on Second. There are now five physicians, with shared staff and overhead, in this practice. She has been able to incorporate special areas of interest including student health, contraceptive care and palliative care into her practice. Dr. Penney is excited to connect with family physicians if she can help support transition to practice.

Dr. Paula Cooper is in Corner Brook. She does a mix of fee-for-service clinic, ER (hourly rate), Surgical assist (hourly rate), and some hospitalist-based services (variable billing type). Occasionally, she also does locum work in Norris Point, a small rural site. She is part of a cost sharing group practice, where they all have their individual patient panels, but help cross cover for each other as needed.

Dr. Cooper accepts referrals for contraception procedures (IUD & subdermal implant insertions), transgender hormone prescribing and minor procedures. Dr. Cooper's life outside of work involves travel and multiple outdoor sports! She likes hiking, camping, snowboarding, rock climbing, paddle boarding, cross country skiing etc.

Dr. Shanda Slipp is a community family physician in Corner Brook. After finishing her Family Medicine residency in 2009, Dr. Slipp worked in Twillingate, Calgary, and Kingston, before settling in Corner Brook in 2016 and opening her group practice.

Dr. Slipp has held leadership positions with the Family Medicine residency program Western Stream, the Long Range Family Practice Network, and Health Accord NL.

Dr. Susan King is in St. John's. Dr. King commenced family medicine in 1984 and her first position was as an Emergency Room Physician at the Janeway Child Health Center. Dr. King, with another colleague, opened Newfoundland Drive Family Practice in 1986; relocated and became Eleven Elizabeth Family Practice in 2011. Dr. King has worked regular clinics in: MUN Student Health, Staff Health at Leonard Miller Center and Janeway Child Health Center, Occupational Health, Fit for Work and has worked in the area of Physician Health. She has a lot of experience in practice management and has learned through many trials and tribulations what only experience can bring. She is grateful to have had the opportunity to participate in the MyQ Quality in Family Practice Program through the Family Practice Renewal Program and she has adopted many of its significant learnings into her practice.

Dr. Price finished family medicine residency at Memorial University in 2012, and has been a family physician in St. John's since that time. She practices in a cost sharing fee-for-service family medicine clinic, and provides part time ER coverage. She has two kids and a one year old rescue dog. In her free time, she enjoys camping, boating, hiking and travel.