Dr. Cole Stanley is the Medical Lead for the Hope to Health R&I Centre. He is also the Medical Lead for a number of Quality Improvement initiatives for both the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS and Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) Community and is a family physician at the John Ruedy Clinic in Vancouver.

His practice includes general family medicine, HIV primary care, hepatitis C treatment, and addictions care including prescribing of opioid agonist therapies. He completed medical school at The University of Toronto in 2011 and Family Medicine Residency at McGill (Montreal) in 2013. He went on to complete a three-month Enhanced Skills Program in HIV Primary Care at the University of British Columbia and has been practicing in Vancouver since then.