Dr. Alex McComber is Kanien’kehá:ka Bear Clan from Kahnawake Territory near Montreal, Qc. He has been married for forty years to Theresa Canadian, Wolf Clan and they have three children and seven grandchildren. Alex is a teacher by nature, was teacher and principal at the Kahnawake Survival School from 1978-1994. He has worked with the Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project since 1994 in many capacities including project director, intervention facilitator, training coordinator; currently a Community Advisory Board member & Community Researcher. Alex is also a health promotion consultant, a strategic planning facilitator and is co-investigator on several health promotion research projects.
Alex is an Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Family Medicine, McGill University, an instructor with the Dept. of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill, an adjunct professor in the Dept. of Kinesiology & Physical Studies, Queens University and is on the faculty of First Nations Technical Institute, Ontario. He holds an honorary Doctor of Science from Queens University (2015), a Masters in Education Administration from McGill University (1996), and a Certificate in Indigenous Community Health Approaches from First Nations Technical Institute and St. Lawrence College (2008).
Join Alex’s for Trivia with Alex Quebec (IMNP), you will have the opportunity to meet other students and test your trivia skills. Thursday, August 13th; 12:00 pm PDT/ 4:00 pm ADT.