Dr. French is a graduate of UBC Faculty of Medicine (1996) and completed his residency in Plastic Surgery at Dalhousie University (2002). He completed a Masters degree in Surgical Education at Mount Saint Vincent University and Dalhousie University (2003). He completed a one year fellowship in Hand, Wrist and Microsurgery at Harvard University (2004).  He has a Diploma in Sports Medicine (2017) from the Canadian Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine (CASEM). In 2021 he completed a Masters Certificate at Harvard in Medicine And The Media.

Dr. French is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada and a Diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners in the United States (1998). He is an active member of the Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons where he served on the Educational Committee for 8 years. He is also an active member of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH), and the International Wrist Arthroscopy Society (IWAS).  He is an international guest Faculty instructor for the IWAS wrist Arthroscopy Course in Strasbourg, France each November.

Dr. French is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of Plastic Surgery at the University of British Columbia. He is in private practice at the Specialist Referral Clinic and operates at Cambie Surgery Center in Vancouver.  Since 2014 he has been on staff at the Visiting Specialists Clinic (VSC) of WorkSafeBC in Richmond.

A particular interest and focus for Dr. French is sports-related hand and wrist injuries. He has been Head Team Physician for the Canadian Snowboard Team at the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea in February 2018. At the Summer Olympics Tokyo2020 he was a Core Team Physician for the Canadian Olympic Team. He has been the consultant hand and wrist surgeon to both the Vancouver Whitecaps of Major League Soccer and to the Calgary Flames of the NHL. He has been a Consultant Hand Surgeon and Plastic Surgeon to the NHL Players' Association since 2005 and is now a consultant of the Combined NHL / NHLPA Medical Second Opinion Program that formed in 2014.

He has been invited to present an annual course at the ASSH on “Treating Hand Injuries in Professional Athletes”. He has written book chapters in “Sports Injuries in the Upper Extremity,” and the bible of sports medicine, “Brukner and Khan’s Clinical Sports Medicine 5th Edition”.

Dr. French provides medical insights for NHL Player Safety serving on the NHL Safety & Equipment Subcommittee since 2019.