WORDS Literary and Creative Arts Festival: Vincent Lam at Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry

"Narrative in Medicine: Why We Need Stories in an Age of Evidence"

Originally born in London, Ontario, Dr. Vincent Lam did his medical training in Toronto where he now practices in addictions medicine. He is a Lecturer at the University of Toronto, and has worked in international air evacuation and expedition medicine on Arctic and Antarctic ships. Dr. Lam's first book, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, won the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize, and was adapted for a television series on HBO Canada. He co-authored The Flu Pandemic And You, a non-fiction guide to influenza pandemics, and he is the author of a biography of Tommy Douglas published by Penguin Canada as part of Extraordinary Canadians series. The Headmaster's Wager, his first novel about a Chinese compulsive gambler and headmaster of an English school in Saigon during the Vietnam War, was a finalist for the 2012 Governor General’s Prize. It was longlisted for the 2013 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, long listed for the 2013 IMPAC Dublin Prize, and shortlisted for the 2013 Commonwealth Book Prize.

Thank you to our sponsors: Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, the Narrative Medicine Initiative, the Department of English, and the Public Humanities at Western.

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