He is also the co-director of the Centre for Rural Health Research, part of the Vancouver Coastal Health Research institute, co-Leader for the Michael Smith Foundation’s BC Rural and Remote Health Research Network and co-principal investigator of the Rural Maternity Care New Emerging Team. His current research is focused on the study of rural maternity care in British Columbia with the goal of improving health services for parturient rural women and their families. He has also had a long term commitment to building research capacity through strategies to support clinical investigators in family medicine.