Sean Groves

Dr. Sean Groves graduated from the University of Saskatchewan in 2003 and completed his residency through the Department of Family Medicine’s newly established Prince Albert program in 2005.  He grew up in Saskatoon, but on the completion of residency, dragged his family of then 5 (now 6) to La Ronge where he still lives and practices.  Since joining the group in La Ronge, Sean has been actively involved in training medical students and residents and helped establish the La Ronge Rural and Remote Family Medicine Residency training program in 2010, for which he continues to act as Site Director.

Sean is actively involved in a number of boards and committees, including 17 years as a member of the Saskatchewan Medical Association’s Committee on Rural and Regional Practice, which he has chaired since 2022 after taking on the role from an amazing mentor and physician, Larry Sandomirsky.  He has been actively involved with the provincial Primary Care Compensation Working Group since 2021, he is a founding member and current member-at-large for the newly established SMA Section of Addiction Medicine and also acts as the Northern Medical Services Physician Lead for the La Ronge Medical Clinic site.  In 2019, Sean joined the Saskatchewan Chronic Disease Management Quality Improvement Planning Committee and continues to advise with this group.  Since 2019, he has acted as President of the SMA Far Northeast Medical Staff Association and with this role, acts as a standing member of the SHA Provincial Liaison Committee.  He has served as co-chair with another amazing mentor, Dr. Kishore Visvanathan, on the Provincial Improving Access to Specialists and Diagnostics Committee since 2013.

Sean’s main areas of clinical interest include rural generalist practice, addictions medicine, obstetrics, sport medicine, and primary care HIV and Hepatitis C management.  He is also extremely passionate about electronic medical record design and how EMRs can support local quality improvement initiatives in family medicine clinics.

Outside of medicine, Sean is actively involved in sports and community activities.  During the winter, he participates in hockey, acts as team physician for the SJHL’s Junior A Ice Wolves, and in the summer serves on the La Ronge Minor Baseball League Board, coaching the U15 and U18 baseball teams.  He and his wife Beckie raised their four children in La Ronge and Beckie currently teaches mathematics at Churchill High School. Their oldest daughter Julia, recently completed a 4 year Bachelor of Nursing degree, their son Solomon, is entering his second year of engineering at the University of Saskatchewan, their daughter Isabel is in her second year at the College of Education and their youngest daughter Pikaea (Pike – Ay – ah) graduated from high school in June and is entering her first year at the University of Saskatchewan in the College of Arts and Science.  As a family, they try to spend as much time as possible at their cabin on one of the islands of Lac La Ronge.  Sean and Beckie have traveled extensively and when they’re at home in La Ronge, spend their time working on projects around their home and cabin.