James Maskalyk practices emergency medicine at St. Michael’s, Toronto’s downtown, inner-city hospital. He is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto, and divides his academic time teaching, being an editor at the open access medical journal Open Medicine , and advocating for global health issues at the University. Currently, he is working with Ethiopian partners at Addis Ababa University to develop a program that will train the country’s first emergency physicians.
His work has lead him to several countries throughout Asia, South America, and Africa. He has worked with MSF twice, first as a journalist writing a blog about neglected diseases, and most recently as a physician in Sudan.
James lives in Toronto’s Kensington Market, and still only cooks half the time. He is looking forward to his second book with DoubleDay, and though a topic as serious Sudan cannot be ruled out, after months of recalling the truths from a difficult experience, he is considering making the next one up. He owes all of his successes to not having a singing voice, because if he did, he would be living in a basement somewhere, wondering where the last 15 years went.