R. Petter Tonseth MD, FRCPC

After obtaining a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Victoria, Dr. Petter Tonseth completed medical school at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 1988. The following decade involved working as a general practitioner in various locations including many coastal BC communities, the Canadian arctic, and Australia as well as acting as a medical officer on the tall ship Concordia, crossing the Atlantic with students completing their secondary education.

In 1999, the opportunity to enter the UBC Radiology residency brought Dr. Tonseth and his wife back via Hawaii and they continued to live aboard in Vancouver while Dr. Tonseth completed the UBC dual radiology/nuclear medicine program. After finishing his residency in 2004, he joined NightHawk Radiology Services, providing teleradiology support to multiple sites across the United States from Australia. He returned to BC to take up a full-time position in the Functional Imaging Department at the BC Cancer Agency in 2011, reporting oncologic PET/CT, and more recently began working regularly at the Nuclear and Molecular Medicine Department in St.John’s Newfoundland. Dr. Tonseth holds academic appointments at both UBC and Memorial University and is the Director of the UBC International Outreach Program and Education Lead for Undergraduate Ultrasound at UBC.