For the last two years, Saint James School of Medicine alumna Dr. Sara Kurki has run her own practice in Kirkland Lake. Dr. Kurki completed her medical degree in 2010 at Saint James in the Netherlands-Antilles. After completing a Canadian residency in Family Medicine at the University of Toronto in 2013, she decided to establish a varied practice that includes family practice, ER and in-patient care. Dr. Kurki, her wife Vanessa and their new born son relocated to Kirkland Lake at the beginning of 2014, where she based her practice out of the Kirkland District Family Health Team.