Dr. Paul Gross
Treasurer, Medical Director and Co-founder
Dr. Gross is a family physician with a full-time practice at Spectrum Health, where he focuses on HIV and men’s health. Since 2009, he has also maintained a part-time practice at Vancouver Native Health Society (VNHS), which provides a full range of health care services to mainly First Nations, Inuit, Metis peoples living in and around the Downtown Eastside. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Practice at University of British Columbia, and is a Founder of the Dudes Club.
Dr. Lyana Patrick
Interim Chair
Dr. Patrick is a member of the Stellat’en First Nation and Acadian/Scottish. She received her BA and MA from the University of Victoria, where she specialized in Canadian history, film studies and Indigenous Governance. She went on to study Indigenous documentary film at the University of Washington through a Canada/US Fulbright Fellowship. Dr. Patrick completed her PhD at the University of British Columbia in 2019. Her doctoral studies brought together research interests in Indigenous community health and well-being and self-determination in urban health governance models. These interests were informed in part by three years spent completing pre-requisites for medical school and several years working in the BC Government in treaty negotiations. She joined the SFU Faculty of Health Sciences in 2019.
Henry Morgan
Director
Bio soon.