James Maskalyk

James Maskalyk is a Canadian emergency medicine physician, author, and meditation teacher.

He works at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, and is the strategic director of Toronto-Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration in Emergency Medicine, which has frequently taken him to Ethiopia. He was the executive editor-in-chief of the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

His work for Médecins sans Frontières in Abyei was the focus of his first memoir ''Six Months in Sudan'', which was nominated for, among others, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. His second book, ''Life on the Ground Floor'''','' won the 2017 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. He was nominated one of the "50 most influential Torontonians" in 2023. Provided by Wikipedia