Member Bio

Dr. Robert Yelle is a physician who graduated from McGill medical school. He works as a family physician in Ottawa, Ontario; he is an associate professor with the University of Ottawa Medical School, works in nursing homes, and is involved with palliative care.

He is married with four children. One child has Down Syndrome, and as such has special learning and medical needs.

He has had the privilege of providing relief medical work days after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. He has since returned to Haiti to work at a community level in family medicine. He has assisted in the set up of a medical clinic in Malawi, Africa, where a local physician continues to work.