Ann grew up in her mother’s biochemistry labs at McGill and Yale Universities. She herself trained at McGill in Biochemistry and medicine followed by postgraduate training in Internal Medicine and Respirology. She’s been an Intensive Care clinician and renowned teacher for 25 years at McGill’s Jewish General, at the University of British Columbia and now, in association with Dalhousie, at the Valley Regional Hospital in Kentville, Nova Scotia. Ann was also the Medical Director of the longstanding Pulmonary Rehab Program and the Medical Director Pulmonary Function Lab.

Her care, scientific experience and patient empathy helped her create a simple solution for a frustrating and overlooked primary care problem.