1st Year Residents
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2nd Year Residents
- Amanda Mills, Vancouver Site
Amanda, our aquatic aficionado, is practically part fish. When she’s not making a splash in the Emergency Department, you can find her beach combing, camera… Read more: Amanda Mills, Vancouver Site - Amy Dhillon, Vancouver Site
Born and raised in a far away land called Surrey, Amy brings a unique blend of wit and dedication to the world of Emergency Medicine.… Read more: Amy Dhillon, Vancouver Site - Bronwyn Delacruz, Vancouver Site
Introducing Bronwyn, a Wild West spirit, hailing from the heart of Grande Prairie Alberta. She’s our very own horse whisperer, often spotted turning barrels or… Read more: Bronwyn Delacruz, Vancouver Site - Chelsey Ju, Vancouver Site
Chelsey was born and raised in Toronto where she first started turning heads as a pediatric figure skater in Degrassi alongside her co-star, Drake. Now,… Read more: Chelsey Ju, Vancouver Site - Danny Jomaa, Vancouver Site
Meet Danny Friday, the man of many talents and even more degrees! With not one, but two master’s degrees under his belt, Danny’s brain could… Read more: Danny Jomaa, Vancouver Site - Eleanor MacLean, Interior Site
Raised in Vancouver, Eleanor is horse girl, cyclist and outdoors enthusiast. She developed her sea legs early, spending much of her childhood living on boats:… Read more: Eleanor MacLean, Interior Site - Emma Bedard, Interior Site
Don’t be fooled, Emma may not have a French accent but she’s definitely from Montréal. As a child, Emma dreamed of being on Broadway. But… Read more: Emma Bedard, Interior Site - Hannah Minnabarriet, Fraser Site
Hannah is First Nations (Nlaka’pamux and Secwepemc) from Ashcroft, BC. She completed an undergrad in Health Sciences at SFU and with the motto “from cell… Read more: Hannah Minnabarriet, Fraser Site - Jasmine Lam, Vancouver Island Site
Jasmine was born in Ontario but was raised in arguably the best arm of BC, Salmon Arm. She attended Queen’s University for both undergrad and… Read more: Jasmine Lam, Vancouver Island Site - Katie Zumwalt, Vancouver Island Site
Katie is joining us from Calgary, where she was born and raised. Growing up, Katie never stopped moving whether it was swimming in the pool,… Read more: Katie Zumwalt, Vancouver Island Site - Parker Nann, Fraser Site
Recovering from a brief stint in management consulting, Parker has exchanged east coast corporate America for west coast med school and residency. Although he sometimes… Read more: Parker Nann, Fraser Site - Remi Kandal, Vancouver Site
Remi, our resident with a flair for the unexpected! When she invited us to go kiting, we thought we’d be struggling with a kite in… Read more: Remi Kandal, Vancouver Site - Riley Reel, Vancouver Island Site
Riley was born and raised in Cranbrook, BC, but upon moving to Victoria eight years ago, she decided she never wanted to leave. During her… Read more: Riley Reel, Vancouver Island Site
3rd Year Residents
- Breezy (Brianna-Lee) Beaudry, Vancouver Island Site
Breezy joins us from the NOSM Thunder Bay campus where she completed her medical school training. Her passion for the great outdoors is only matched… Read more: Breezy (Brianna-Lee) Beaudry, Vancouver Island Site - Damian Feldman-Kiss, Interior Site
Damian was born in Ottawa but raised by the mountains in BC and New Zealand. How, might you ask? Well, refusing to become an adult,… Read more: Damian Feldman-Kiss, Interior Site - Daniel Shi, Vancouver Site
Daniel hails from the far-away land of Brampton, Ontario. He grew up playing chess, video games, cards, and pretty much any other type of game… Read more: Daniel Shi, Vancouver Site - Daria Hutchinson, Interior Site
Born and raised in the small coastal town of Tsawwassen, BC, Daria always knew she wanted to broaden her horizons and see the wide world… Read more: Daria Hutchinson, Interior Site - Eva Bruketa, Vancouver Island Site
Eva joins us with a bit of mileage under her belt as she was born in Germany, lived in California, and then moved to Toronto… Read more: Eva Bruketa, Vancouver Island Site - Francesca Bell Peters, Vancouver Site
Francesca grew up on beautiful Gabriola Island, trail running, cliff jumping, and getting sea-sick on the ferry to school every day. After completing her degree… Read more: Francesca Bell Peters, Vancouver Site - Hanna Parmar, Vancouver Site
Hanna joins an elite crew of UBC lifers, having completed her undergraduate and medical degrees in Vancouver before joining the Vancouver emergency medicine residency program.… Read more: Hanna Parmar, Vancouver Site - Inderdeep Mander, Fraser Site
Inderdeep was born and raised in cold and snowy Edmonton. She completed her undergrad in Psychology and Bio Sci and worked on community advocacy throughout… Read more: Inderdeep Mander, Fraser Site - Jessica Jacob, Fraser Site
Jessica was born in South India and spent her early childhood in the UK and the Middle East before finally settling in Maple Ridge, BC.… Read more: Jessica Jacob, Fraser Site - Sarah Douglas, Vancouver Island Site
Sarah completed a degree in biomedical engineering at UVIC and when she was starting to get a few too many looks for talking to the… Read more: Sarah Douglas, Vancouver Island Site - Tracy Huynh, Vancouver Site
Tracy was born and raised in the beautiful city of Surrey, BC. She went to Simon Fraser University and never finished her degree in Molecular… Read more: Tracy Huynh, Vancouver Site - Trisha Kandiah, Vancouver Site
Having lived in Ontario her whole life, Trisha was excited to make the drive from her hometown Ottawa all the way to Vancouver in order… Read more: Trisha Kandiah, Vancouver Site - Victoria Forcina, Vancouver Site
Victoria is from Toronto, Ontario but made the big move to BC for EM and wouldn’t have it any other way. Shocked by the flashing… Read more: Victoria Forcina, Vancouver Site
4th Year Residents
- Adam Arthurs, Vancouver Site
Did he drive from Northern Ontario, or did he actually trail run to Vancouver? We will never know. What we do know is Adam grew… Read more: Adam Arthurs, Vancouver Site - Alex Senger, Interior Site
Alex grew up on a grain farm in rural Saskatchewan, which means his first exposure to emergency medicine was as a patient. Somehow, seeking treatment… Read more: Alex Senger, Interior Site - Brendan Lee, Vancouver Site
Brendan is the only flat-lander to make his way to the VGH crew all the way from Saskatchewan. As a born and bred prairie boy,… Read more: Brendan Lee, Vancouver Site - Christina Botros, Vancouver Site
Christina hails from the far-away town of Langley, BC. She grew up as a classically trained competitive dancer, but now can commonly be found tearing… Read more: Christina Botros, Vancouver Site - Devon Mitchell, Vancouver Site
Born and raised in the cosmopolitan metropolis of Langley, BC, Devon is our program’s UBC lifer, spending undergrad, med school and now residency in beautiful… Read more: Devon Mitchell, Vancouver Site - Dylan Collins, Vancouver Site
A retired competitive Alpaca handler, Dylan brings many valuable skills to the Emergency Department. After he left the Petri dishes of UVic’s biochemistry labs behind,… Read more: Dylan Collins, Vancouver Site - Emily Lostchuck, Fraser Site
Hailing from the end of a loooong dirt road in rural Ontario, Emily spent her youth galloping through open meadows on horseback and sailing off… Read more: Emily Lostchuck, Fraser Site - Frances Clayton, Interior Site
A love child hailing from Montreal, Frances spent her early years growing up across Northern England and Chicago before her parents came to their senses… Read more: Frances Clayton, Interior Site - Hilary Drake, Vancouver Island Site
Hilary grew up on the North Shore but has since steeped in many different towns including Sackville NB where she completed her undergraduate degree at… Read more: Hilary Drake, Vancouver Island Site - Jen-ai Lai, Fraser Site
Jen-Ai has been enjoying beautiful BC for the last 9 years, ever since a fateful phone call from UBC altered her life path. Offered a… Read more: Jen-ai Lai, Fraser Site - Kiran Grant, Vancouver Site
Kiran grew up in Calgary playing any and all sports at a largely mediocre level. After an undergrad in his hometown and stints working in… Read more: Kiran Grant, Vancouver Site - Morgan Haines, Vancouver Site
Found beside a hiking trail in North Vancouver, baby Morgan lived a simple life until he was “discovered” by a talent agent in a coffee… Read more: Morgan Haines, Vancouver Site - Paul Clerc, Fraser Site
Born at Royal Columbian, raised in Coquitlam, legend has it Paul was destined for the Fraser Emergency Medicine program from the very beginning. Cast overseas… Read more: Paul Clerc, Fraser Site - Rod Vafaei, Vancouver Island Site
Rod Vafaei grew up on B.C.’s beautiful North Shore and acquired numerous nicknames from his rugby days including Hot Rod, the Persian Rifle, and… less… Read more: Rod Vafaei, Vancouver Island Site
5th Year Residents
- Aidan McParland, Vancouver Site
This Brockville (aka Brock Vegas) import brought a whole new level of stoke to the VGH ED. Joining us from Toronto, this committed carnivore is… Read more: Aidan McParland, Vancouver Site - Andrew Chang, Vancouver Site
Andrew hails from “far away” Coquitlam, BC, where he grew up with the dream of moving to the big city. From SFU for undergrad, he… Read more: Andrew Chang, Vancouver Site - Ateshia York, Fraser Site
Ateshia likes exploring and taking the scenic route and she held true to that in her journey to becoming an EM resident. Born and raised… Read more: Ateshia York, Fraser Site - Chris Doyle-Kelly, Fraser Site
Chris grew up in Montreal, Irish-blooded and English-speaking. He later drifted to southwestern Ontario for an undergrad in Kinesiology at Western, an experience which, to… Read more: Chris Doyle-Kelly, Fraser Site - Claire Ronsley, Vancouver Site
Though Claire would tell you she chose Emerg late in the game, with her numerous visits to the ER, we knew it was never in… Read more: Claire Ronsley, Vancouver Site - Kevin Duncan, Interior Site
Kevin grew up in Summerland with a farm full of chickens to call friends! He then moved to the big city of Kelowna, and then… Read more: Kevin Duncan, Interior Site - Lulu Yang, Vancouver Island Site
Hailing from Vancouver (where she did both her undergrad and medical school), Lulu has decided to ditch the traffic and noise of the big city… Read more: Lulu Yang, Vancouver Island Site - Max Moor-Smith, Vancouver Island Site
This young buck was born & raised in Richmond, BC. He finally found his footing at the age of 17 and wandered over to Vancouver… Read more: Max Moor-Smith, Vancouver Island Site - Meg Singh, Vancouver Site
Meg, if that’s even her real name, lived in five countries before she started university at McGill for undergrad. Now that she’s lived in both… Read more: Meg Singh, Vancouver Site - Ryan Kohler, Interior Site
Like any good emerg doc, Ryan was constantly on the move since day one. Originally hailing from Ontario, he lived in Singapore and Australia for… Read more: Ryan Kohler, Interior Site - Seb Przech, Fraser Site
Somehow not ashamed to admit that he came from Onterrible, or that he cheers for the Leafs, Seb grew up in Etobicoke, where he spent… Read more: Seb Przech, Fraser Site