Behnam Nowrouzi-Kia completed his BSc and MPH at the University of Toronto. He loved the large city experience and continued his MD at McMaster university. He followed by completing his family medicine residency at Western University with an enhanced skills diploma in Hospitalist medicine. His passions include inpatient care, cancer related care, palliative care, and teaching. He multiple research publications and has frequent residents and medical students involved in his clinical practice.