SAPCReN is a collaboration of family physicians and other primary care providers working in community practice, and academic primary care researchers in the Research Hub of the Department of Family Medicine, University of Calgary. Network members are encouraged to generate research questions in response to problems they encounter in their clinical practice. These questions then become the focus of externally-funded multidisciplinary research studies, designed to provide timely and scientifically rigorous answers which have local relevance and national and international significance.