Dr. Patterson (Métis) is a social scientist active in Aboriginal community health research and capacity building for over 15 years. He completed his Ph.D. in Sociology at Carleton University in 2003, focusing on the meeting of two worlds: First Nations in Cyberspace. His postdoctoral training at the School of Nursing, University of Ottawa, gave him essential skills in primary community health, research grantsmanship and management, and Knowledge Translation. Mike has worked with many First Nations Elders, communities and NGOs in fields as diverse as Native music, prophecies and oral histories, HIV/AIDS and injury prevention, research capacity building, networking in cyberspace, and the syncretic weaving of Western and Aboriginal worldviews. He developed the first graduate seminar in Aboriginal health at the School of Nursing at uOttawa. He also hosted Spirit Voice Native radio for seven years, and was music editor for Aboriginal VOICES magazine. Currently he is Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton, working on telehealth for Aboriginal peoples and online community health networks. Mike works with and teaches qualitative and mixed methods, involving principles found in participatory action and community-based research.