We are IH: A decade of care rooted in community

Dr. Mike Robinson and Dr. Hilary Brotherhood share a routine: a celebratory half-sweet oat milk mocha.

Name: Mike Robinson (he/him/his)
Job Title: Urologist
Years of Service: 10
Worksite: Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital (KBRH)
Community: Trail
Ancestral Territory: Sinixt, syilx and Ktunaxa 

Raised in the small lakeside town of Christina Lake, B.C., Dr. Mike Robinson always knew the West Kootenays would be part of his story. What he didn’t know, as a young student passionate about human physiology, was that he would one day become a cornerstone of surgical care in the region he calls home.

After completing his undergraduate degree in Human Kinetics and Exercise Physiology at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Dr. Robinson continued to medical school through UBC’s Northern Medical Program in Prince George, as part of only the second cohort of this innovative, community-based initiative. 

He later returned to Vancouver for a surgical residency at UBC and spent a year working locum positions in Vancouver before ultimately finding his professional home in Trail.

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