Dr. Aaron Orkin

Dr. Aaron Orkin

Health and Wellbeing Advisor
he/him

Dr. Aaron Orkin is physician and researcher in emergency medicine and public health at the University of Toronto. His clinical practice and research focuses on strategies to build healthier, more equitable communities through first aid programs and other efforts to engage the general public in health service delivery. He has a passion for salutogenics — approaches that create and enrich community health and wellbeing rather than merely responding to disease. Aaron has over 15 years of experience in wilderness and outdoor medicine, and supporting communities, organizations, and people of all ages and abilities to live, learn, and play in outdoor and wilderness settings. Aaron is a husband and a father of three, and when he isn’t working he can be found paddling, hiking, or tinkering with something at the family cabin.

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