Dr. Rampersad was raised in a village called Tacarigua at the foothills of the Northern Range in Trinidad and Tobago in the Southern Caribbean by his grandmother – a kindergarten teacher and village matriarch who offered him a broad definition of love and community; one that includes the value of and responsibility to each small thing.

He grew up, then, wanting to live a life in reverence of and service to the romance of the natural world, as a teacher, healer, and student. And it is this central lesson that eventually led him to pursue veterinary medicine as a way to further explore health, relationship, and community at the micro and macroscopic levels.

Formally qualified in Canada with a Bachelor of Science at the University of Manitoba and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine, Dr. Rampersad fancies himself a 'One Health Practitioner' – a commitment that has led him to pursue multi-month interdisciplinary projects through 'Vets Without Borders' in rural Uganda to empower local village women with practical small ruminant medical skills, temple partnerships with monks in Cambodia to train local veterinary staff with Small Animal surgical skills to help fill the professional void left by the Khmer Rouge genocide, and conducting extended Mobile Outreach veterinary clinics to resource-starved communities in the Canadian sub-Arctic.

Dr. Rampersad has immense passion for immersive travel and inter-cultural exchange, and has been blessed to extend his love for martial arts and Vipassana meditation into multi-month stints as a full-time part of the Muay Thai and MMA scene in Southern Thailand, and a month-long silent Theravada monastic experience in Koh Samui – both interests he hopes to continue to pursue as he explores the warmth of Hawai'i, its people, and its pets.