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 established her full-service longitudinal family practice in 2010. Prior, she experienced many areas of family medicine such as clinical work in a dialysis unit, surgical assists, team work at a community health centre and episodic care at walk in clinics. She understands the challenges faced by family physicians in different environments and believes we need to collaborate to improve the system. Her heart lies in the patient-physician relationship that exists so uniquely in full-service community family practice. Feeling that longitudinal primary care has been critically undervalued, she wishes to strongly advocate for community family doctors and make full-service family practice the most attractive job for family physicians to solve the primary care crisis. Dr Chritchley has been involved in many roles and committees since the inception of the Victoria Division of Family Practice.

Dr. Melissa Duff runs a full-service family medicine practice in an office she shares with three psychologists in Victoria, one of whom is her husband. She started her training in nursing at McMaster University and then switched her focus to medicine, graduating McMaster medical school in 2005. Her medical training was supported through the Canadian Forces Medical Officer Training Program, and she completed the Family Practice Residency (Rural Military stream) at UBC in 2007. She subsequently moved to Alberta, where she assumed many different roles in family medicine including emergency medicine, military medicine, hospitalist, rural locum and walk in clinic doctor. She moved to Victoria in 2016 with her family and shortly after opened her own general family medicine practice. Dr Duff began leadership work as a PCN Physician Lead with the VDFP. She is excited to hone her leadership skills through the FPSC LMDP course and is committed to a journey of cultural safety learning.

"Family Medicine is the bedrock of the Canadian universal health care system. This bedrock is formed upon by its family physicians with the support of their family and staff.

As a board member of the Victoria Division, I will dedicate my time, energy and passion to make the lives of family physicians and those they support better."

Dr. Kristen Iverson loves her current role as a family doctor in her community longitudinal family practice at Moss Rock, where she has worked for four years now.  As someone who is both relatively new to practice but also experienced in working in a variety of primary health care models across New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and British Columbia, she can bring a unique perspective. While completing her medical training she has seen the impact of both subtle and substantial differences between health care systems in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. As a partner at Moss Rock Medical, she knows the joys and challenges of running a multi-physician practice well. Dr. Iverson would like to use this experience to help create innovative and practical solutions to the difficulties we face in this profession.
 
Her recent participation in the MHSU living lab, where she helped shape this PCN resource in a collaborative setting, allowed her the privilege of helping to create an initiative to better support our community. This empowered her to seek more opportunities aimed to advance our profession to make it more desirable, rewarding, and sustainable. In order to further enhance her leadership skills, Dr. Iverson will be participating in the FPSC Leadership and Management Development Program this year. She is motivated and dedicated to use her previous experiences to advocate for the positive change in family medicine we so desperately need in Victoria.

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. Anna Mason has been working as a family physician in Victoria for the last 18 years. For the last 11 years, she has been working on a team of four physicians and a primary care registered nurse in full-service community family practice in the Gordon Head neighborhood of Victoria. Dr Mason finished Family Medicine Residency at the University of Toronto 20 years ago. She is interested in Quality Improvement and enjoys working on practice efficiency in Family Medicine. She is a peer mentor for MedAccess EMR through the Practice Support Program and involved in the development of the Victoria Primary Care Network as one of the MD co-leads for her neighborhood. 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 120,000 unattached patients in our geographic area. Her current personal goal is to get control of her charting and paperwork so she doesn’t have to work every weekend catching up. She enjoys hanging with both her hilarious 16 yo daughter and her wonderful husband of 20 years. 

Dr. Ali Dozzi's real first name is Alexandra, but most people call her Ali. 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 at UBC, during which time she was very active in promoting mentorship and diversity in STEM fields. 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.

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 ten years of living abroad for study and then work as a junior doctor, Carien is excited to return home to British Columbia as a first-year Family Medicine resident. In her free time, she enjoys gardening (mainly plants of the edible variety), cooking and spending time outdoors. A few of these activities include hiking, biking, camping, skiing and snowboarding. Her future career goals involve incorporating primary care obstetrics and women’s health along with a longitudinal family practice clinic.