Talks

Thank you all for attending Dr. James Maskalyk talk about his personal experience in Sudan as an active member with Doctors Without Borders (MSF).









Dr. Maskalyk is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto where he teaches and practices emergency medicine. His academic time is spent advocating for global perspectives in the education of young physicians, and as one of the founding editors of Canada's newest open-access medical journal, Open Medicine. Most recently, he has returned from Abyei, Sudan where he worked as a medical doctor for the humanitarian organization Medecins Sans Frontieres.

He is the author of a very popular blog written during his time in Sudan, and it has been excerpted for publication in the Globe and Mail and the UK Telegraph. Currently he is working on a book detailing his experiences for Random House Canada. The book will be published in
Spring 2009.

Dr. Maskalyk will spend an hour discussing the role of humanitarian assistance as he experienced it in Abyei, Sudan and through that, provide a broader context for one of the world's most complex contemporary stories. He will touch on the history of Sudan, of humanitarian intervention, and importantly, the personal trajectory one experiences during such a mission.