Jeff was born in Toronto and came to settle in Launceston via Western Australia and Hobart, for a combination of lifestyle and work reasons. Jeff's a Skin Cancer Specialist, and Tasmania has the second highest rate of melanomas in Australia after Queensland, which has is the skin cancer capital of the world.  He met his Australian wife on a flight from Vancouver to Mexico when he was still a medical intern and she was doing a ski season in British Columbia. 

Although Canada and Australia are largely culturally very similar, Jeff has observed a few differences especially around education and has some astute observation around a few idiosyncratic quirks of life in Tasmania including the Launceston-Hobart rivalry and the custom of wearing shorts in winter !