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Adrian completed his medical degree at one of the top ranked medical schools in Canada, McMaster University, in 2010. His postgraduate medical education was completed in Innercity Family Medicine at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 2012. Since that time, he has worked on multidisciplinary teams in prenatal care, labour and delivery, maternal addictions, and outreach/street medicine. He has trained extensively in reproductive health, delivered babies and provided postnatal care at the Saint John Regional Hospital in 2012, worked on a midwife-family physician collaborative team at the BC Women's and Children's Hospital in 2013 and provided prenatal and intrapartum maternal addiction care through the Sheway Program in Vancouver from 2013 to 2014. He provided outreach healthcare to sexworkers in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and men seeking sobriety and exiting the prison system from 2013 to 2014.
He has produced research on HIV stigma, refugee access to healthcare, transgender access to healthcare, the relationship between poverty, imprisonment and health, and the social movement of Peace through Health. His top priority throughout his training and practice has consistently been to understand and address the needs of marginalized patients and communities, and their social determinants of health.