Linda Van Pelt

Health | Primary care delivery in low barrier clinic settings, gender affirming primary and specialty care

Linda Van Pelt began her career in healthcare in 1986, working as an RN across acute care settings, and then specializing in emergency, critical care and aeromedical transfer in medical centres in Canada and the U.S. In 1996 she began to shift her practice focus to primary health care in remote First Nations communities in Northwest Territories, Yukon, Nunavut and British Columbia. In 2007, she completed her MScN Family Nurse Practitioner degree at UNBC. Linda held a position as coordinator of the UNBC Family Nurse Practitioner Program at the rank of assistant professor in the UNBC School of Nursing from 2009 to 2022. She transitioned out of the coordinator role and assistant professor rank in 2022, and is now a Senior Instructor in the NP Program. She has also served as clinical faculty for the UBC Northern Medical Program since 2011, and maintained her practice as a nurse practitioner, including key involvement in the creation of a local primary health care access clinic in Prince George BC. She continues to practice at that clinic as a family primary care provider in family primary health care as well as specialized services in gender care.