James Heilman

James Heilman
Heilman in 2015
Born1979 or 1980 (age 44–45)
Saskatchewan, Canada
EducationUniversity of Saskatchewan
(BS, MD)
Medical career
ProfessionPhysician
FieldEmergency medicine
Institutions
James Heilman introducing himself
recorded August 2017

James M. Heilman (born 1979 or 1980) is a Canadian emergency physician, Wikipedian, and advocate for the improvement of Wikipedia's health-related content. He encourages other clinicians to contribute to the online encyclopedia.[1][2]

With the Wikipedia username Doc James, Heilman is an active contributor to WikiProject Medicine and a volunteer Wikipedia administrator. He was the president of Wikimedia Canada between 2010 and 2013, and founded and was formerly the president of Wiki Project Med Foundation.[3][4][5][6][7] He is also the founder of WikiProject Medicine's Medicine Translation Task Force.[8] In June 2015, he was elected to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, a position which he held until he was removed on December 28, 2015.[9][10][11] Heilman was re-elected to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees in May 2017.[12] His term ended in November 2021.[13]

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]

  1. ^ a b James Heilman (January 1, 2013). "Online encyclopedia provides free health info for all. Interview by Fiona Fleck". Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 91 (1): 8–9. doi:10.2471/BLT.13.030113. ISSN 0042-9686. PMC 3537258. PMID 23397345. Wikidata Q24633998.
  2. ^ Mcneil, Mark (October 4, 2011). "Wikipedia makes a house call to Mac". The Hamilton Spectator. Archived from the original on December 25, 2018. Retrieved January 12, 2014.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference ebola was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Berko, Lex (2013). "Medical Students Can Now Earn Credit for Editing Wikipedia". Vice. Archived from the original on January 12, 2014. Retrieved January 12, 2014.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference bbc was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Trujillo, Maria (November 25, 2011). "Wikipedia and Higher Education – The Infinite Possibilities". University of British Columbia. Archived from the original on December 25, 2018. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
  7. ^ Bunim, Juliana (September 26, 2013). "UCSF First U.S. Medical School to Offer Credit For Wikipedia Articles". University of California, San Francisco. Archived from the original on October 11, 2018. Retrieved January 12, 2014.
  8. ^ Beck, Julie (March 5, 2014). "Doctors' #1 Source for Healthcare Information: Wikipedia". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on December 25, 2018. Retrieved August 1, 2015.
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference board was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  10. ^ "Resolution:James Heilman Removal". Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. December 28, 2015. Archived from the original on December 25, 2018. Retrieved December 29, 2015.
  11. ^ Kleinz, Torsten (December 29, 2015). "Wikimedia Foundation feuert Vorstandsmitglied". Heise Online (in German). Archived from the original on December 25, 2018. Retrieved January 1, 2016.
  12. ^ Chan, Katie; Sutherland, Joe (May 20, 2017). "Results from the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections". Wikimedia blog. Wikimedia Foundation. Archived from the original on December 25, 2018. Retrieved July 13, 2017. The results from this year's community selection of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees are in! Congratulations to María Sefidari (User:Raystorm), Dariusz Jemielniak (User:pundit), and James Heilman (User:Doc James) for receiving the most community support. They will begin the three-year terms being filled through this process after they are officially appointed by the current trustees, which will occur at their August meeting at Wikimania 2017.
  13. ^ "Resolution:Term Extension of Dariusz Jemielniak and James Heilman, 2021". wikimedia.org. August 26, 2021. Archived from the original on August 24, 2022. Retrieved May 31, 2022.
  14. ^ "James Heilman, MD, CCFP-EM". University of British Columbia. Archived from the original on December 25, 2018. Retrieved April 19, 2016.
  15. ^ McClurg, Lesley; Brooks, Jon (November 3, 2016). "Should You Use Wikipedia for Medical Information?". KQED. Archived from the original on November 5, 2016. Retrieved November 4, 2016.
  16. ^ Laidlaw, Katherine (September 2013). "Is Google Making Us Sick?". Reader's Digest. Archived from the original on December 25, 2018. Retrieved January 9, 2014.