Shaping Saskatchewan: Dr. John Froh

This year marks 40 years of service for STARS, the air ambulance service that provides life-saving care in Western Canada.

Saskatoon and Regina have had a STARS base since 2012.

STARS CEO Dr. John Froh was appointed to the role this year and is leading critical care services. Froh was born and raised in Saskatchewan and grew up in Fort Qu’Appelle. He has 24 years of frontline health-care experience as an emergency medicine physician.

Froh says that before STARS, geography would dictate a patient’s outcome.

“My job now as CEO is to make sure we’re here for the next 40 years and that we continually push the boundaries of what’s possible in clinical care and aviation, and helping as many people in these jurisdictions that we can. That’s really our mission,” he says.

In 2012, Froh joined