After graduating with a Bachelor of
Science (BSc. – cum laude) at the University
of Ottawa in 1970, Dr. Eric Young completed his medical
school training (MD) at the same university in 1974.
He did an internship at the Toronto East General
Hospital, then followed up with a year as a Senior
House Officer in Chirstchurch, New Zealand and a
year as a resident in Internal Medicine at St. Paul’s
Hospital in Vancouver, BC.
He subsequently worked as a general practitioner
in Surrey, BC until 1992. During that time, he was
active in both Surrey Memorial Hospital and the BC
Medical Association committees.
In 1992, Dr. Young began his specialty training in
Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. During
those four years he also obtained a Master’s Degree in Community Health and Epidemiology
(MHSc) and became a Certificant of the College of Family
Physicians (CCFP). He became a fellow of the Royal
College of Physicians of Surgeons of Canada (FRCP)
in 1996.
After completing his community medicine specialization,
he served as Associate Medical Officer of Health and
Director of Communicable Disease Control at the Scarborough
Health Department until 1997, when he moved to Regina,
Saskatchewan to become Deputy Chief Medical Health
Officer and Director of the Communicable Disease Control
Unit, Population Health Branch, Saskatchewan Health.
In that capacity, he served on many provincial and
national committees dealing with issues such as pandemic
influenza, AIDS, blood borne pathogens and injection
drug use, diabetes, West Nile virus and public health
information systems.
In May 2004, Dr. Young became the Deputy Provincial
Health Officer (DPHO) for the Province of British Columbia.
In this role, he supports the work of the Provincial
Health Officer (PHO), acting in place of the PHO when
required and participating in a wide range of committees
at both the provincial and national level.
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