I am a writer, doctor and teacher of medicine. Throughout my career, I have split my time between North and South — practicing as a fly-in physician for isolated communities in the Canadian Arctic and working with actors, instructors, and students while designing curriculum and teaching at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. For over fifteen years I have served as the regular visiting doctor to Naujaat, Nunavut, a traditional Inuit community on the Arctic Circle, whose people, culture and geography greatly inform the setting and character of my first novel, Compass. For me, medicine at its core is an exploration of story and a study of character. I have spent most of my life sucking up stories. Writing is the creative expression that lets them all back out.