Wellness, two-eyed seeing and system change: Dr. Evan Adams at TEDxPowellRiver

tedxpowellriver... Award-winning 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 Emmy-winning 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 past-president 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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[@dennyisl]

This touches very deeply. I do wish the slides would have been shown.

[@nikkidang4280]

I love the way Thomas tell the story..

[@cindywhiting1649]

I have watched and shared this talk many times. Thank you Dr. Evan Adams for advocating and inspiring greater knowledge that can be practiced everyday by every person.

[@MrF4tty]

What an entertaining and intelligent individual.

[@dahleeeng]

YOU are STILL amazing........Great talk

[@claudialegarde856]

Miigwetch for the teachings, our young people should be mindful of these teachings. They need to know how important they really are for the future and the next 7 generations. Ahow!

[@bellaswan484]

dr Evan Adams a awsome doctor

[@jweiserjweiser]

This was really worth seeing, but I am frustrated that your camera person did not show us the slides Dr. Adams was talking about. I would really have liked to see them -- and other TED talks always include the "visuals". Please in the future, instruct your camera operator to give us later viewers the "entire picture", thanks!

[@SherSinclair]

Thank you for the story! I learned alot.

[@elsasam5417]

He is great Auditor! Fantastic Actor too!

[@thoughfullylost6241]

great info thank you

[@priscillawagner8520]

Very nice! 🌼❤️

[@claudialegarde856]

Yes the land owns us, we do not own the land, mother EARTH can sustain us on all aspects of the medicine wheel.

[@IanJackson33]

IT'S THOMAS. hey Thomas tell me a story i'm Indian you know.

[@txexmxiii9561]

🖤 HearT 💙

[@nightnurse13]

I wish I could see the masks