http://tedxpowellriver.com/ Awardwinning Canadian actor, playwright and medical doctor, Evan Tlesla Adams is a member of the Tla'amin (Sliammon) First Nations from the Upper Sunshine Coast.

As an actor, Evans has performed in the Emmywinning television move, Lost in the Barrens and in Miramax's Smoke Signals in which he won a 1999 Independent Spirit Award.

Dr. Adams graduated from the medical school at University of Calgary in 2002 and was chief resident in the Aboriginal Family Practice program at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, BC.

In 2005 Adams won the Murray Stalker Award form the College of Family Physicians of Canada Research and Education Foundation. He is the pastpresident of Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada, and is currently the Director of the Division of Aboriginal Peoples' Health, UBC Department of Family Practice.

In 2009 he completed his Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University while working with the Office of the Provincial Health Officer for the BC ministry of health.

Last April Adams was appointed as Deputy Provincial Health Office responsible for Aboriginal health. Dr. Adams reports on the health of Aboriginal people in BC to the ministry of health and works with the First Nations Health Authority to promote and improve health care ser

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