James Heilman

James M. Heilman (born 1979 or 1980) is a Canadian <a href="/facts/Emergency_medicine/HmVeC5R9">emergency physician</a>, <a href="/facts/Wikipedian/og34SNfy">Wikipedian</a>, and advocate for the improvement of <a href="/facts/Health_information_on_Wikipedia/RzUEs6HJ">Wikipedia's health-related content</a>. He encourages other clinicians to contribute to the online encyclopedia.
With the Wikipedia username Doc James, Heilman is an active contributor to <a href="/facts/WikiProject_Medicine/xVUzfD4R">WikiProject Medicine</a> and a volunteer Wikipedia administrator. He was the president of <a href="/facts/Wikimedia_Canada/0tdyXotI">Wikimedia Canada</a> between 2010 and 2013, and founded and was formerly the president of Wiki Project Med Foundation. He is also the founder of WikiProject Medicine's Medicine Translation Task Force. In June 2015, he was elected to the <a href="/facts/Wikimedia_Foundation/W1XHdpK2">Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees</a>, a position which he held until he was removed on December 28, 2015. Heilman was re-elected to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees in May 2017. His term ended in November 2021.
Heilman is a clinical assistant professor at the department of emergency medicine at the <a href="/facts/University_of_British_Columbia/8QCl5YGd">University of British Columbia</a>, and the head of the department of emergency medicine at <a href="/facts/Regional_District_of_East_Kootenay/aoRHMCVH">East Kootenay Regional Hospital</a> in <a href="/facts/Cranbrook%2c_British_Columbia/2QC1nIaQ">Cranbrook, British Columbia</a>, where he lives.

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James Heilman