Dr. Nadine Caron

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Dr. Nadine Caron

Canada's 1st Female First Nations General Surgeon

Dr. Nadine Caron was born in Kamloops, BC. She went on to study Medicine at the University of British Colombia and graduated at the top of her class. After graduating medical school, she completed MA in Public Health from Harvard University, whilst also completing her postgraduate fellowship focused on Endocrine Surgical Oncology at the University of California, San Francisco. Currently, Dr. Caron works as a general endocrine surgeon at Prince George Regional Hospital. She is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery, UBC Faculty of Medicine, and was appointed Co-Director of UBC's Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Health in 2014. As well, she works as an associate faculty member at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.


“I think part of it is, how do we change our health-care system so that we celebrate, as a country, our Indigenous people — so that we actually ensure that our health-care services are a safe space for them that they feel empowered to use, that they have the right to use and benefit from, just like all Canadians,”

-Dr. Nadine Caron

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Indigenous Medicinal Practices & Rights

Dr. Caron is on numerous committees where she works to improve wellness outcomes amongst Indigenous Peoples. She is the inaugural First Nations Health Authority chair in cancer and wellness at the University of British Colombia, while also serving as co-director of UBC’s Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Health. Dr. Caron strongly believes that traditional Indigenous healing practices and Western medicine can co-exist. As such, she has published numerous works (found in the document to the right) where she has studied both medicinal areas and their relationships with one another.