Maple Ridge

Dr. Laura Kelly’s embrace of physician wellness began, sadly, after a doctor colleague in her community of Maple Ridge committed suicide several years ago. A short time after that tragedy, Dr. Kelly, who spends half her time as an ER physician and the balance in a family practice, had the opportunity to meet Dr. Paul Farnan, former executive director of the Physician Health Program. He wanted to launch a network of groups to deal specifically with physician health and wellness in local communities throughout the province.

After discussing issues of staying connected with other docs in our community at our last PHP meeting, the group in Maple Ridge has been working on putting together a yearbook for our local docs. We have approached our local administration team and they are helping us to develop this and are even paying for half!