Prior to coming to UBC, he worked with the Aga Khan Development Network implementing and extensive health promotion and early-childhood development initiative in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda (2000-2004). His work has been feature on a Canadian television documentary series, The Global Villagers. In 2007, he was nominated for the UBC Killam Teaching Prize. In 2008, he recieved the Peter Wall for Advanced Studies Early Career Scholar Award. His research focuses on how health professions education can best prepare future practitioners to make judgements that are not only technically sound but also ethically and socially responsible.