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James Maskalyk is a Canadian DJ, emergency room doctor, author and meditation leader.[1][2][3] Dr Maskalyk's second book Life on the Ground Floor won the 2017 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.[4]

Early life

Maskalyk's was born in Alberta to parents who owned an lumber-planing business just outside Edmonton.[2]

Education

In 1995, Maskalyk graduated with a degree in physiology from the University of Alberta where he also won the Heritage Medical Research Award.[2]

Maskalyk graduated with a degree Medicine from the University of Calgary in 1999[5]. While studying, he did his a medical elective in Santiago, where he worked as a cardiologist.[2]

During his medical residency he worked in Cambodia.[2]

Also, during his residency, he turned down an offer to study at Harvard University in order to do a writing fellowship at the Canadian Medical Association Journal.[2]

In 2004, Maskalyk qualified as an emergency specialist from the University of Toronto.[5]

Career

Prior to becoming a doctor, Maskalyk worked in a sawmill, as a courier, as a security contractor, and is a part time DJ.[2]

Maskalyk is an associate professor at University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine[6][5] and an emergency room physician at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto.[1] He also works as a wellness co-ordinator for St. Michael's Hospital staff.[7] He has been praised for highlighting the issue of drug interactions with grapefruit consumption.[8]

Maskalyk has worked for Médecins sans Frontières in Dadaab refugee camp, Kenya[7] and in 2007[9] worked in Abyei, Sudan.[10][11]

He has worked in Black Lion Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and is the director of Toronto-Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration in Emergency Medicine [12] He has also worked in Columbia and Bolivia.[13][14]

Maskalyk was a founding editor of the, now defunct, Open Medicine journal.[15][16]

He is the author of two books about his about his international humanitarian work: Six Months in Sudan and Life on the Ground Floor.[17] He has been working on his this book Doctor, Heal Thyself writing about covers western, Traditional Chinese and Indigenous medicine since before he was diagnosed with cancer.[1]

Maskalyk host daily public events on Facebook, where he leads meditation sessions and conversations about a wide rage of topics including sex, alcohol, kindness, existentialism, exercise, economics, computer modelling and death.[7]

Personal life and health

Maskalyk was diagnosed with stage 4 thyroid cancer in May 2020.[1]

He has a younger bother, Dan.[2]

His hobbies include breakdancing.[2]

Maskalyk's grandfather lives in a trapper's cabin in Alberta.[18]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Doctor who helped people meditate through pandemic fears diagnosed with stage 4 cancer". CBC. 27 Oct 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Sibbald, Barbara (2002-10-29). "Emergency MD becomes CMAJ's fifth editorial fellow". CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. 167 (9): 1045. ISSN 0820-3946.
  3. ^ "The Current's new year party brings you laughter, live music, and some people you'll want to meet! by The Current". Podchaser. Retrieved 2021-12-15.
  4. ^ Patrick, Ryan B (20 Sep 2017). "Terese Marie Mailhot, Elizabeth Hay among finalists for $60K Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction". CBC.
  5. ^ a b c Barclay, James Andrew (2011-12-02). "At the heart of the problem". BMJ. 343: d6429. doi:10.1136/sbmj.d6429. ISSN 1756-1833.
  6. ^ Salinas, Carlos C. (2021-03-03). "Covid-19, vaccines, and the environment". The Manila Times. Retrieved 2021-12-15.
  7. ^ a b c White, Patrick (2020-04-08). "Doctor at Toronto's St. Michael's Hospital wins online following for COVID-19 updates, guided meditations". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2021-12-15.
  8. ^ Spence, J. David (15 Oct 2002). "Correspondence - Drug interactions with grapefruit" (PDF). JAMC.
  9. ^ Kaplan, Jonathan (2009-04-15). "A place where dreams turn to dust". BMJ. 338: b1489. doi:10.1136/bmj.b1489. ISSN 0959-8138.
  10. ^ "Six Months in Sudan". CBC. 9 Jan 2019.
  11. ^ Roedde, Gretchen (2009-04-28). "Making sense of the senseless". CMAJ. 180 (9): 955–955. doi:10.1503/cmaj.090593. ISSN 0820-3946.
  12. ^ "Spruce Grove-born doctor, James Maskalyk, releases his second memoir, makes best-seller list". sprucegroveexaminer. Retrieved 2021-12-15.
  13. ^ "Opinion | A master of the medical memoir". The Toronto Star. 2017-11-21. ISSN 0319-0781. Retrieved 2021-12-15.
  14. ^ "The best Canadian nonfiction of 2017". CBC. 19 Dec 2017.
  15. ^ "James Maskalyk | Writers' Trust of Canada". James Maskalyk | Writers' Trust of Canada. Retrieved 2021-12-15.
  16. ^ "Canadian medical journal, Open Medicine, stops publishing". 4 Nov 2014.
  17. ^ Pal, Nicole E. (2017-07-03). "Life on the ground floor: letters from the edge of emergency medicine". Medicine, Conflict and Survival. 33 (3): 232–234. doi:10.1080/10796126.2017.1384531. ISSN 1362-3699. PMID 28994316.
  18. ^ "'Life on The Ground Floor' Is All About Caring". 'Life on The Ground Floor' Is All About Caring. Retrieved 2021-12-15.
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