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Louis is a native Montrealer who went west, fell in love with the open space and clear blue skies of Alberta, and never left.
Previously, he has worked as an emergency medical technician in the Arctic, and as a professional photographer with a studio in Old Montreal. Louis completed his MD and PhD at the University of Alberta, and while training as a resident in general surgery became very interested in the field of injury control.
There he founded the Injury Awareness and Prevention Centre and developed the award winning multimedia injury prevention program for teenagers called HEROES.
He later completed his training at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health in Baltimore where he completed his Master of Public Health degree and a Preventive Medicine Residency while pursuing further studies in injury control and public health.
He is now a Professor in the School of Public Health and in the Department of
Emergency Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta, and also works as an emergency physician in the Emergency Departments of the Royal Alexandra Hospital and the Northeast Community Health Centre in Edmonton.
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