Catherine Arta Johnson Jarvis, MD, is a faculty lecturer in the Department of Family Medicine at McGill University. She obtained her medical degree from the University of Alberta (1994) and did her residency training in family medicine at McGill University (1996), followed by fellowships in Maternal-Child Health and Palliative Care (1997). She currently practices family medicine at the Centre Local de Services Communautaires (CLSC), an inner-city community health centre in Côte-Des-Neiges, which services a large immigrant population and where she also teaches undergraduate and postgraduate trainees. Her previous practice has included working at the Herzl Family Practice Centre, the Jewish General Hospital, and the Royal Victoria Hospital Palliative Care Unit, as well as running an obstetrical intake clinic for resident teaching. She has served in many Church capacities and is currently the public affairs codirector (with her husband) for the Quebec-Ottawa coordinating council and is the assistant director of public affairs in the North America North East Area.