I was born in Yellowknife, NWT and grew up in the Metis town of St. Albert, Alberta.
After a brief stint going to school in Edmonton and Los Angeles, my family and I moved to Castlegar in the Kootenays. Here I worked for Cominco in IT and Operations Research.
From Castlegar, we moved to Burnaby and Port Moody. Here I worked for Telus, BC Ambulance and ended up going to Medical School and Residency.
Immediately after residency, we again moved to the rural town of Port Alberni where I worked at Westcoast General Hospital as the only FRCPC Anesthesiologist in the 50 Bed Hospital. I acted as Department Head and Chief of Staff for the Hospital and Primary Care for the West Coast.
As part of my role there, I worked with the Community and the City to create a Community Operated Family Practice Clinic that the community could hire Doctors into. Over the years, it allowed the community to recruit a number of Doctors.
We also helped recover from the loss of the cities Internists by creating an Internal Medicine Clinic that new hires could walk into.
During this period, we protected the hospital from service loss and worked to protect the healthcare of the community. For my role in this, VIHA removed me as Chief of Staff, while the Community made me "Citizen of the Year". Different priorities, I guess.
In 2008, I moved to Abbotsford, and worked there as an Anesthesiologist and Local Department Head until I took on the lead for Physician Quality Improvement (PQI).
I am also a member of the community of Bamfield, on the Westcoast of the Island where I has been both a part time and fulltime resident as circumstances allow. My primary residence is now in Sooke, another small, but not remote community, close to my family.