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Dr. Evan Adams - Past President
Coast Salish, Sliammon First Nation
Division of Aboriginal Peoples Health
Department of Family Practice, UBC

Evan Tlesla II Adams of the Sliammon First Nation (Powell River, BC) is an actor and physician whose numerous performances include a starring role in the Emmy-winning TV-movie LOST IN THE BARRENS and, most memorably, as Thomas Builds-The-Fire in the Miramax feature SMOKE SIGNALS, which won him many awards including an Independent Spirit Award for performance in 1999. Dr. Adams completed his MD at the University of Calgary, his Aboriginal Family Practice residency at St Paul’s Hospital/UBC (as Chief Resident), and is currently the Director of the Division of Aboriginal People’s Health, Department of Family Practice, UBC.