James Heilman
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James M. Heilman (born 1979 or 1980) is a Canadian
With the Wikipedia username Doc James, Heilman is an active contributor to
Heilman is a clinical assistant professor at the department of emergency medicine at the University of British Columbia,[14][15] and the head of the department of emergency medicine at East Kootenay Regional Hospital in Cranbrook, British Columbia, where he lives.[1][16]
Early life and education
Heilman was born in 1979 or 1980,[16] near Cochin, Saskatchewan.[17] He graduated from the University of Saskatchewan in 2000 with a Bachelor of Science degree in anatomy, and he subsequently earned his medical degree there in 2003.[1] He then completed his family medicine residency in British Columbia from 2003 to 2005.[18] Heilman currently holds a certificate of added competency in emergency medicine with the College of Family Physicians of Canada.[19]
Medical career
Heilman worked at
Research
As of May 2014, Heilman was working on a study with Samir Grover, of the
Wikipedia and Wikimedia activities
Since the beginning of his activity as a contributor to medicine-related Wikipedia articles in 2008, Heilman has been promoting the improvement of medical content by encouraging fellow physicians to take part.
Heilman takes part in an initiative through Wiki Project Med Foundation with
Heilman spoke at
Ebola contributions
By reviewing and correcting medical content in the manner promoted by Heilman (and with many of his contributions), in Wikipedia articles like that about
Rorschach test images
In 2009, Heilman, who was then a resident of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan,
Discovery of textbook plagiarism of Wikipedia
In 2012, Heilman noticed that the book Understanding and Management of Special Child in Pediatric Dentistry, published by Jaypee Brothers, contained a long passage about HIV that was plagiarized from Wikipedia's article on the subject.[29] This subsequently led to the book being withdrawn by the publisher.[47]
In October 2014, while reading a copy of the Oxford Textbook of
Tenure on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
In June 2015, Heilman was elected by the community to the
The volunteer community re-elected him to the Wikimedia Foundation board in 2017, until November of 2021.[53]
Other
In 2012, Heilman was one of two Wikimedia contributors sued by
Personal life
Heilman enjoys running
- James Heilman; Eckhard Kemmann; Michael Bonert; Anwesh Chatterjee; et al. (2011). "Wikipedia: a key tool for global public health promotion". Wikidata Q24595401.
- Heilman, James (September 2011). "Why we should all edit Wikipedia" (PDF). University of British Columbia Medical Journal. 3 (1): 32–33. Retrieved December 29, 2015.
- Manu E Mathew; A Potkay Joseph; James M Heilman; Prathap Tharyan (October 22, 2013). "Cochrane and Wikipedia: The Collaborative Potential for a Quantum Leap in the Dissemination and Uptake of Trusted Evidence". Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Wikidata Q24202827. Archived from the originalon October 18, 2014. Retrieved June 9, 2014.
- James Heilman; Jacob de Wolff; Graham Beards; Brian Basden (October 2, 2014). "Dengue fever: a Wikipedia clinical review". Wikidata Q28651505.
- James M Heilman; Andrew G West (March 4, 2015). "Wikipedia and medicine: quantifying readership, editors, and the significance of natural language". Wikidata Q28651276.
- James Heilman (August 2015). "Open Access to a High-Quality, Impartial, Point-of-Care Medical Summary Would Save Lives: Why Does It Not Exist?". Wikidata Q28608451.
- Wikidata Q27131582.
- Gwinyai Masukume; Lisa Kipersztok; Diptanshu Das; Thomas Shafee; Michaël R. Laurent; James M Heilman (November 1, 2016). "Medical journals and Wikipedia: a global health matter". The Lancet Global Health. 4 (11): e791. Wikidata Q27480279.
- Thomas Shafee; Gwinyai Masukume; Lisa Kipersztok; Diptanshu Das; Mikael Häggström; James Heilman (August 28, 2017). "Evolution of Wikipedia's medical content: past, present and future" (PDF). Wikidata Q38380447.
See also
- List of Wikipedia people
- Wikipedia coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic
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External links
- James Heilman publications indexed by Google Scholar
- James Heilman's Wikipedia user page