Tiana Bressan is a medical student at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine in the Rural Generalist Pathway. Born and raised in Sault Ste. Marie, ON, she has completed a Bachelor of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Guelph and plans to stay in Northern Ontario to practice rural family medicine. She’s walked the El Camino de Santiago pilgrimage in Spain, completed a Cardiology placement in Italy, and researched the challenges to implementing technology in rural and remote Indigenous communities in Peru. Her research involvement includes obstetric skill maintenance in rural communities and AI applications in primary care. She’ll most likely be found baking bread, playing squash, ballroom dancing, or spending time outdoors.      

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