Dr. Cael Enns graduated from the University of Manitoba Faculty of Medicine in 2020, completing his clerkship through the Brandon Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship program. He finished his Family Medicine residency in 2022 in the Brandon Rural Stream and has since worked primarily in Emergency Medicine at Brandon Regional Health Centre. His clinical experience also includes ICU and SCU care, hospital medicine, and outpatient practice across Brandon, rural communities in Prairie Mountain Health, and Boundary Trails. 

Dr. Enns lives on an acreage outside Brandon with his spouse, a registered nurse, and their four young children. Their family values rural life and the opportunities it provides for outdoor activities such as cycling, running, horseback riding, and skating, while still being close to the amenities of the city. Drawing on his experience as both a learner and a practicing physician in multiple settings, Dr. Enns aims to support and advocate for physicians and learners across the Brandon area. He is committed to fostering positivity and helping the region adapt as it continues to grow and evolve.

Dr. Carina Kaiser has served as the Brandon District representative on the Doctors Manitoba Board of Directors for the past four years and is a member of the Governance and Human Resources Committee.

Dr. Kaiser graduated medicine from the University of Pretoria Medical School in 1994 and did her residency at the HF Verwoerd Hospital in Pretoria. She began her career in private practice in Empangeni — KwaZulu Natal, South Africa and worked at a TB Clinic and Cardiac clinic at a rural Ngwelezana Hospital. In 2000 she moved to Canada to work in private practice. She worked at the Addictions Foundation of Manitoba for 7 years as their in-house physician and was trained in Methadone for Addictions and recently completed a course in Methadone for Palliative Care. Since moving to Brandon, Dr. Kaiser has started the Methadone Clinic, becoming the first physician in Manitoba to prescribe Methadone for addictions outside of Winnipeg.

In 2008, she started working as a part-time hospitalist, but in 2010 left AFM to work exclusively as a hospitalist specializing in internal medicine in Brandon. With many family physicians in Brandon and surrounding areas without hospital privileges, hospitalists are responsible for these patients.

Dr. Kaiser joined the board to advocate for family physicians and hospitalists. Both, she believes, are undervalued. She sees that we are heading towards a crisis in family medicine as fewer and fewer graduates want to practice family or hospital medicine. Family physicians and hospitalists are the constant in patient care, pulling together all of the different pieces and making sure that nothing is forgotten or missed. 

In her spare time Dr. Kaiser does cross fit four or five mornings a week with her husband. She enjoys skiing, gardening, boating, and fishing with her husband, but her biggest passion is reading. Any chance she gets, her nose is in a book. She and her husband have three daughters and a son, ranging in age from 12 to 23. As the general handy-person/accountant/gardener/pool person/​organizer/​finder of lost things of her family, there is not much Dr. Kaiser cannot do. If she finds there is something she has not done before, she does her research and gives it a try!

Fun Fact: Her daughter’s horse, named CJ, is Dr. Kaiser’s​“therapy animal” and she finds it relaxing to visit the barn.