Got a minute?
Here's a thumbnail about Dave
- Writer
- Retired family doc
- Professor Emeritus, Family & Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Adjunct Professor, Medical Education, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine & Health Sciences, Dubai, UAE
- Senior Global Advisor, AXDEV, Montreal, Quebec.
And a little about his writing
Later in life, Dave's (re)discovered a love of creative writing - a combination of his experiences with patients and people, and his love of travel. Oh, and a serious love of questions, too: what if the universe were contracting, not expanding? (the premise of A Potter's Tale). What if we could live forever? (ditto for The Last Immortal). What were the lessons his patients taught him? (his Spectator Commentaries, structured as a Blog, have lots of lessons).
And, a last question, occupying his headspace for the last year: what if there were actually a medical school in the Warsaw Ghetto?
For those with more patience . . .
Dave was a family physician in Ontario, Canada for nearly forty years, from 1970-2008. For much of that time, he was active in continuing education at Joseph Brant Hospital in Burlington, Ontario; responsible for continuing education at McMaster University’s innovative Faculty of Health Sciences; associate dean, continuing education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto; and chairman of Ontario’s Guidelines Advisory Committee. In 2008, Dave became a senior leader at the Association of American Medical Colleges, in Washington, DC. From 2016 to 2019, he shifted his focus to Dubai and a new institution, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine & Health Sciences.
In the field of medical education, he’s published over 200 peer-reviewed papers, abstracts, book chapters, and three major books on continuing education.
It's his non-medical writing however that is featured on this website and which has occupied his thinking for the last decade. In a kinda-retirement, Dave's rediscovered a love of creative writing, publishing commentaries in the Hamilton Spectator and a novel, “ A Potter’s Tale ,” available everywhere on Amazon. His former patients, renamed, altered and unrecognizable, figure prominently in his essays and writing. His second novel, “The Last Immortal,” the next in the Noah series, was published in 2021 by Story Merchant Books, Los Angeles. Much of it is situated in the miracle city of Dubai, a product of his time there.
His Spectator ‘career’ is actually six decades years old. His very earliest writing was as a Westdale High School reporter, back in "the day."
Last – definitely not least – Dave is the proud father of two, and an even prouder grandpa to two active boys. He and Maureen have been married for over fifty years (they were both eleven). He divides his time between Dundas, Ontario and (when the terrible damage inflicted by Hurrican Ian gets cleaned up) Fort Myers Beach, Florida.
