John is a family physician at Western Montana Clinic in Missoula. John grew up in Moab, Utah and Wallace, Idaho where he spent time splashing in streams and floating on rivers. Growing up in mining towns, he is aware of the health impact of environmental degradation. His mother was a social worker, legislator, and project manager on Superfund restoration projects in the Silver Valley in northern Idaho. In college, John studied sociology and completed a master’s in public health. He and his wife moved to Missoula to help start the Family Medicine Residency of Western Montana sponsored by the University of Montana. John is an avid rafter and has completed at least one multi-day rafting trip every year for the past twenty years on rivers throughout the West.