He also works part time at Peace Arch Hospital in White Rock BC. He completed his medical school at McMaster University and a PhD in epidemiology and biostatistics at McGill University in 1997. He completed emergency medicine residency training at the University of Ottawa in 2001. He is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of British Columbia, and an adjunct professor in the School of Population and Public Health at UBC. He is also a scientist at the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences (CHÉOS). His active areas of research are in sepsis and septic shock, and infectious diseases. He is also the medical director for UFC events in Vancouver, and has a strong interest in MMA and crossfit.