COLDBROOK - Kings County native Dr. Trevor Jain recently earned a significant upgrade in his education and qualifications.
Jain, a former Coldbrook resident and a graduate of Acadia University in biology and computer science, is currently employed as an Emergency Medicine Specialist at the Queen Elizabeth II Hospital in Charlottetown, P.E.I.
On Sept. 25, Jain graduated with his M.Sc. degree in Disaster Medicine from the University of Brussels, Belgium and the University of Avogadro Piedmont in Novara, Italy.
The degree focused on aspects of disaster medicine and management, utilizing an international team of faculty from the World Health Organization and the Red Cross, as well as subject matter experts in their own fields from different universities.
He successfully defended his thesis in May 2014 and continues to research the most effective and efficient triage systems enabling the most lives to be saved during mass casualty incidents.
Following his graduation from Dalhousie University medical school, Jain pursued further studies in medicine at the University of Ottawa and Queen’s University.
He has served as a family physician, emergency specialist, a clinical director for a NATO hospital unit in Bosnia, and as a pathology operations officer in the aftermath of the Swissair disaster in 1999.
As well as his duties at the Queen Elizabeth, Jain, a former infantry officer, has also served as a medical officer with the Canadian Forces Reserves.
He serves as medical director of the Paramedicine programs at Holland College in Charlottetown, as well as being the online control physician for EMS in P.E.I. and Group Surgeon for the 36th Canadian Brigade Group.
In his spare time, Jain loves to fly as a hobby (he has also flown commercial aircraft). The son of Dr. Nirmal and June MacGregor-Jain of Coldbrook, he lives in Charlottetown with his wife Kara and twin daughters, Sydney and Natasha.
