Monday, December 19, 2011

Vincent Lam

Photo: CBC News

Dr. Vincent Lam was born in Ottawa in 1974. He is an emergency room physician and a lecturer with the U of T's Department of Family and Community Medicine.

He is also the winner of the 2006 Giller Prize for Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, his collection of connected short stories about Med students studying at the U of T and doctors practicing in Toronto hospitals around the time of the SARS epidemic. The book has been adapted and produced as a TV series.

Speaking of epidemics, Lam has also co-authored with Dr. Colin Lee, a book on Pandemics, entitled The Flu Pandemic and You.

Recently, he has written a novel called The Headmaster's Wager, slated for publication by Doubleday. He has also published, as part of the Extraordinary Canadians series, a biography of Tommy Douglas. In 2011, he appeared at the Kingston Writers' Fest.

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