Vanessa Wiseman MD was born in Lahr, Germany and being in a military family lived in several places including Gander, Newfoundland and Kingston, Ontario. Kingston is where Vanessa lived the longest and completed an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry at Queen’s University. She then completed her medical studies at Saba University School of Medicine, which is located on a small Dutch Caribbean Island called Saba. Her clinical medical training was completed in multiple places in the United States including Baltimore Maryland, Bridgeport Connecticut, Brooklyn New York, and Cape Cod Massachusetts. After many years of travelling, Vanessa was happy to return to Canada. Initially an Internal Medicine resident, Vanessa transferred to Queen’s University General Surgery to pursue her dream of becoming a trauma surgeon with an interest in global surgery.