He received his MD from Harvard Medical School and his MPH from the University of Washington. Larry trained initially as a paediatrician and holds U.S. board certification in both Paediatrics and in Preventive Medicine and Public Health. Prior to returning to Canada, he held the John S. and Doris M. Andrews Chair in Community Health at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine. He has also held faculty positions at the University of Hawaii (pediatrics) and the University of Kansas (preventive medicine). In addition to numerous other teaching activities outside BC, Larry developed and has taught “Epidemiological Statistics” within the Population Health Data Analysis program offered by the University of Victoria in partnership with Population Data BC and teaches SPPH 302, “Topics in Health Care Informatics” at UBC.