Charles Helm
CHARLES HELM BIOGRAPHY Charles Helm has been a family physician in Tumbler Ridge since 1992. He received his medical degree in South Africa at the University of Cape Town in 1981. He is a Fellow of the College of Family Physicians of Canada. In 2013 he received the Rural Long Service Award from the Society of Rural Physicians of Canada, and in 2016 received the Rural Family Physician of the Year Award from the British Columbia College of Family Physicians. He is an organizer of medical conferences, with interests in polypharmacy, evolutionary biology, and health promotion through healthy lifestyle choices. He enjoys teaching medical residents and students. He is the author of nine books on northern British Columbia. He has been an explorer in the Wolverine Nordic and Mountain Society, designing, building and maintaining 100 km of hiking trails. He was a founder of the Tumbler Ridge Museum Foundation in 2002. He developed the proposal that led to the creation of the Tumbler Ridge UNESCO Global Geopark in 2014, and was its first President. His palaeontological research interest is in Pleistocene vertebrate tracks in South Africa (including hominin yracks) and Cretaceous vertebrate tracks in northern British Columbia. He is currently enrolled for his Ph. D. in the Department of Geoscience, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa.
