Dr Ami Brosseau

Dr  Ami Joseph Brosseau is a family practitioner at the Cool Aid Community Health Center and the Victoria Native Friendship Center. He is also a husband and proud Indigenous father of two Métis sons. Dr Brosseau practices primary care for marginalized communities and tries to help patients navigate the multiple barriers present within our medical system. He believes we can all learn from each other to make this system better for patients and physicians. His special interest lies in equity and social justice and in helping with the Division’s work towards cultural safety.

Dr Sarah Chritchley

Dr Sarah Chritchley became a VDFP board member in 2021 and was re-elected in 2023. She has been a family doctor for 26 years and working in Victoria since 2001. Before establishing her longitudinal practice in 2010, she worked in many areas; as a dialysis unit clinical assistant, a surgical assist, in WICs, community health clinics, focused medicine clinics, and as a locum. Along the way she met and learned from fantastic family physicians who share her love of clinical medicine and helping people. She is extremely grateful for all the help she has had and the different perspectives and ideas of the many doctors she has worked with. She also has three kids, an ER doctor husband, and a few pets to round out her free time. Dr. Chritchley shares her love of medicine teaching medical students and residents. Her heart lies in the patient-physician relationship that exists so strongly between family physicians and their patients.

Dr Ali Dozzi

Dr Alexandra (Ali) Dozzi completed the UBC Family Practice Residency program at the Victoria site in June, 2023, and is now practicing as a new locum physician in the Greater Victoria community. She is originally from northern Ontario, and proudly completed medical school at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine. Prior to medicine, she obtained a mechanical engineering degree from UBC, graduating with distinction and completing the co-operative education program that allowed her to work in many different cities and industries across Canada. During her engineering degree, she was very active in promoting mentorship and diversity in STEM fields, and was recognized nationally for these efforts. Having lived and worked in different Canadian cities as both an engineering and medical student, she is very happy to call Victoria home for the foreseeable future. Her favourite activities are downhill skiing, running and cycling. She also enjoys cooking, coffee, and exploring new places. When she is not working or studying, you can usually find her outdoors with her husband and her fluffy Goldendoodle!

Dr Melissa Duff

Dr Melissa Duff has been practicing for more than 16 years. Six years of full-scope community longitudinal family medicine in Victoria and previous family medicine roles in Alberta, including emergency medicine, military medicine, hospitalist, rural locum, and walk-in clinic, have given her a deep understanding of the unique challenges family physicians encounter in different settings. As a female physician and mother of three young children, she has also had a real-world experience balancing medicine with the stresses of family life. Dr Duff feels compelled to make a positive impact on our struggling profession. She began leadership work as a PCN physician lead in 2021 to find tangible solutions for local FPs. She was elected to the VDFP Board later in 2021 and assumed the role of VDFP board chair in 2022. Dr Duff is also a UBC clinical instructor, the BC Family Doctors representative for our district, a Representative Assembly member at the Doctors of BC, a board director with the Health Data Coalition, and an author with the Foundation for Medical Practice Education. Determined to be an effective advocate for family medicine, she is pursuing an MBA at UBC. While balancing advocacy at this critical time for our profession and raising her young kids, she works at UPCCs.

Dr Steve Goodchild

Dr Steve Goodchild has practiced longitudinal family medicine through his solo family practice in downtown Victoria for 30 years, initially including obstetrics, ER, hospital work, and long-term care, while at the same time demonstrating a passion for supporting family medicine as a viable and enjoyable profession. He has been involved with leadership roles both locally as previous Co-Chair of the Victoria Division and provincially as past president of the SGP (now BC Family Doctors) and Board Chair of same for the past 10 years. The past four years he has been working for Island Health as Medical Director of Primary Care Strategy.  Stepping out of the Island Health and BC Family Doctors’ roles this year has allowed for more time to spend with Doctors of BC committees and The Division. He was on the Family Practice Services Committee (now FPSC) when the Divisions of Family Practice were formed and is pleased to resume working with the Victoria Division as it continues to advocate for its members and their patients.

Dr Kristen Iverson

Dr Kristen Iverson is a partner at Moss Rock Medical, a group physician practice in Fairfield where she provides longitudinal patient care. She moved to Victoria from Nova Scotia in 2018. She worked in rural Cape Breton for 2 years following her Family Medicine Residency through Dalhousie University at their Moncton, New Brunswick site. Dr Iverson is looking forward to using her experience working in different health care models across Canada and the UK to help create innovative and practical solutions to the difficulties we face in this profession. In order to further enhance her leadership skills, she will be participating in the FPSC Leadership and Management Development Program this year.

Peter Lockie

Peter Lockie holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Edinburgh and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.  He is currently President of Inverleith Consulting Inc., which provides a range of management consulting services.  

Previously Peter worked at Camosun College for fifteen years, most recently as Interim President and prior to that as Vice President, Administration and Chief Financial Officer.  He is currently Secretary/Treasurer of Canadian Scientific Submersible Facility, an international operator of a remotely operated submersible vehicle and 94 Forward, which manages the legacy funds of the 1994 Victoria Commonwealth Games. 

Peter is personally committed to community involvement and has been Board Chair, Treasurer and a Director of the United Way of Greater Victoria, the Victoria Cool Aid Society and the Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence.

Dr Margaret Manville

After finishing her residency in Victoria (1999), Dr Manville's undergraduate French degree finally became useful practicing medicine in Geraldton, a remote town in Northern Ontario. She completed a Care of the Elderly fellowship in Ottawa then moved to the Comox Valley to practice family medicine. Dr Manville held many medical leadership and consultant roles in the valley, and in the Strathcona Residency Program. After moving to Victoria, she decided to focus her clinical work in LTC. She co-chairs the LTCI Steering Committee and is the Island Health LTC Medical Director. As a medical educator, Dr Manville sees how impactful it is for students to learn about longitudinal practice so they can imagine the joys and challenges of a career in relationship-based family medicine. She looks forward to serving on this progressive and innovative board!

Dr Anna Mason

Dr Anna Mason has been working as a family physician in Victoria since 2003. Since 2010, she has had a full-service community family practice in the Gordon Head neighborhood. Dr Mason enjoys being part of a team of four physicians, a primary care RN and four excellent MOAs. She loves the Victoria Primary Care Network (PCN) cohort model where her clinical team has expanded to include a social worker, a mental health consultant, an academic clinical pharmacist, and a senior’s outreach nurse. These team members are not co-located at the clinic but are integrated into the clinic’s EMR to allow for true collaborative team-based care. Dr Mason is a University of Toronto graduate completing med school in 1999 and residency in 2001. She is interested in quality improvement and enjoys working on practice efficiency. Dr Mason is serving her second term on the Victoria Division Board and is highly involved in the planning and implementation of the Victoria PCN as one of the physician leads for her neighborhood. She is also a peer mentor for MedAccess EMR through the Practice Support Program. Dr Mason feels strongly about supporting the existing patient medical homes in Victoria and is interested in discovering innovative solutions to close the care gap for the unattached patients in our geographic area.

Dr Carien Smit
(R2)

Dr Carien Smit is a first-generation Canadian raised in the lower Nicola Valley. She completed her undergraduate and medical school training in Scotland at the University of St Andrews and the University of Edinburgh. After almost ten years of living abroad for study and then work as a junior doctor, Dr Smit returned home to British Columbia as a UBC Family Medicine resident. Now in her second year, she is looking forward to completing her residency and starting a career that will incorporate primary care obstetrics and women's health alongside a longitudinal family practice. In her free time, she enjoys gardening (mainly plants of the edible variety), spending time with friends cooking and the outdoors.

Dr Brett Dueck
(R1)

Dr Brett Dueck was born and raised on Treaty 1 territory in Manitoba where he completed an undergraduate degree in kinesiology at the University of Winnipeg followed by medical school training at the University of Manitoba. He is excited to be a new resident of Victoria with his partner and 2 dogs while completing family medicine residency training. A previous 13-year career in construction created a predilection for hands-on work - as such he likes to have a home improvement or carpentry project on the go. Dr Dueck has broad interests including acute care, small procedures, and palliative care and is focused on creating a future family practice that addresses the needs of his local community.