Aaron was born in London, Ontario and moved to Thunder Bay many years ago to start his Nurse Practitioner (NP) career. After Aaron graduated from UWO in 1996 with his BScN degree, he worked for several years in Ontario’s far north in remote Indigenous communities as a community health nurse.
Aaron returned to school at the University of Windsor and graduated in 2000 from the NP program and again in 2011 from the Master of Nursing program. Since graduating as a NP, Aaron has worked in a variety of primary care health settings including, the Norwest Community Health Centre Thunder Bay and Armstrong sites, Anishnawabe-Mushkiki Health Centre, The Chatham-Kent Health Alliance Urgent Care Centre and the Confederation College Student Health Centre. Aaron also advocated for the advancement of the NP role in Ontario as the past communication specialist for the Nurse Practitioners’ Association of Ontario. Aaron currently works as a Palliative Care NP at the Northwest LHIN (formerly the Community Care Access Centre).
As a previous member of the Lakehead Nurse Practitioner Led Clinic (LNPLC) steering committee and former board member, Aaron is excited to re-join the board of directors to continue the work of both advancing the high quality of health care offered at the LCNPLC and advocating for the continued growth of the NP led model in the primary care setting.