I was raised and educated in BC including completion of my MD and Medical Biochemistry residency training. I have worked at St. Paul’s Hospital since 2009 and have enjoyed working in this patient focused chemistry lab where I spend 70% of my time as the Division Head, as well as at Vancouver General Hospital where I have a weekly clinic treating adult patients with inborn errors of metabolism. Finally, I am an educator directing the UBC Medical Biochemistry Residency Training Program and chairing the Royal College National Specialty Committee.

More recently, I have taken my interest in addressing the climate crisis on a personal level into my work as a medical biochemist. I am promoting a seismic shift in our medical model of care such that decisions on support for medical programs, and particularly for those contingent on laboratory testing, are reviewed from a quadruple bottom line: a) QALY (in current generation), b) Safety (in current generation), c) Resource cost to current and future generations (in a limited resource planet in which we live), d) and pollution cost (in a planet tipping over pollution boundaries that will irrevocably change health care options for future generations).