Sarah Bezanson has been working as an emergency physician since 2014, practicing primarily in rural Nova Scotia. Sarah attended Dalhousie for multiple degrees and continues to be a part

of the Faculty of Medicine as an assistant professor. She first attended Dalhousie in 1999 in the Bachelor of Science program and completed that degree with a double major in Biology and Computer Science in 2004. She continued with a Master of Health Informatics (MHI), graduating in 2006. During her initial time at Dalhousie, Sarah participated with the Dalhousie Premedical Society.

She worked as a research assistant for the Canadian Fabry Disease Initiative following graduate school, however it was not long before she returned to Dalhousie to pursue a Doctor of Medicine degree graduating in 2012. Following medical school she completed her post-graduate residency training in Family Medicine at Dalhousie. During her medical school training she continued to be involved with the school as the IT representative on the Dalhousie Medical Students’ Society as well she sat on the Medical Informatics Advisory Committee. Sarah chose to use her elective time to participate as a student member of the Medical School Admissions Committee.

Sarah is very proud of her long history of volunteering with her community throughout the years, with the Saint John Ambulance First Aid Brigade, the Meal Assistance and Cardiac Rehab Programs at Capital District Health Authority, the Lifesaving Society of Nova Scotia collecting data for the annual drowning reports and with the Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Training Programs.

More recently Sarah has spent time growing her career and family. Sarah met her husband during their undergraduate time at Dalhousie in the Faculty of Computer Science. They have two energetic young sons, whom she loves to spend as much time with as possible. Now that they are out of their baby-stage however, she feels the strong pull to return to volunteer work and her first thought was to give back to the Dalhousie community where she has spent so much time and received so much in the way of education, relationships and great experiences.