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Avalon Roberts, MD (born August 18, 1945), is a prominent Alberta healthcare advocate and political activist. She was born in Newfoundland, has lived in six of Canada's provinces, and has resided in Calgary since 1980. Educated at McGill University in Montreal (B.Sc.N.) and at Dalhousie University (M.D.), Roberts is a community-practice psychiatrist and former president of the Alberta Psychiatric Association; she has also served as chairwoman of the Calgary and Alberta chapters of Friends of Medicare, a group dedicated to the preservation of public healthcare. Other health-related service includes a period as Director of the Psychiatric Assessment Service (outpatients) at the Calgary General Hospital and Director of the Outpatient Assessment Service (psychiatry) at the Eric Martin Pavilion in Victoria, B.C. ==Health care activism== A vocal advocate for improved access to medical facilities and decreased waiting time, Roberts has argued that contracting out services to private clinics will likely result in increased costs for Alberta's public health system. She has made multiple public statements on health care: · She has described as "very dangerous" a proposal for private surgery clinics in Alberta〔(Calgary Herald, 15 Sept 02)〕 · She has argued that private/public healthcare partnerships would likely result in greater expense and less financial transparency〔(Calgary Herald, 2 Nov. 03)〕 · During the 2004 Alberta election, she condemned then-premier Ralph Klein for refusing to clarify his health-care plans〔(Calgary Herald, 11 Nov 2004)〕 · She has criticized Klein’s "Third Way" plan to introduce some private services to the public system〔(Edmonton Journal, 12 Aug 2005)〕 · In 2005, Roberts arranged and presided over a Friends of Medicare symposium in Calgary〔(Edmonton Journal, 31 March 2005)〕 · As spokesperson for Friends of Medicare, she denounced the Fraser Institute's report ("How Good is Canadian Health Care?") as an effort to push private, for-profit health care."〔(CBC News, 19 Dec 2006)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Avalon Roberts」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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