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Women In Wellness: Dr Patricia Celan On The Five Lifestyle Tweaks That Will Help Support People’s Journey Towards Better Wellbeing
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As a part of my series about the women in wellness, I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Patricia Celan.
Dr. Patricia Celan is a Canadian physician working as a junior mental health professional for the Nova Scotia Health Authority. She obtained her MD at the University of British Columbia. She is currently in postgraduate training to specialize in psychiatry.
Thank you so much for joining us in this interview series! Our readers would love to “get to know you” better. Can you share your “backstory” with us?
My pleasure — and thank you for inviting me! Before I started medical school, I was always interested in physical and mental wellness. I also love animals, and growing up I had several friends and family who were vegetarian or vegan. It became a natural transition to combine my love of wellness and animals into choosing to become vegan in 2014. As well, I…