He serves on the Board of the Canadian Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine as well as the Executive of the BC Psychiatric Association. Prior to his medical training, he completed a PhD at the University of Nottingham where he studied mental illness using brain imaging. He completed medical school and a Psychiatry residency at UBC before a fellowship in Psycho-oncology and Psychosomatic Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Related to his volunteer work promoting mental and physical health through soccer in the Downtown Eastside, he was selected by the Canadian Medical Association to participate in the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Torch Relay and was also awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. He views teamwork as an integral part of Medicine and is happy to have found a spot on the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Team at St. Paul's.