James is a physician and author, most recently of “Life on the Ground Floor”, a memoir about teaching emergency medicine in Canada and Ethiopia, which won his countryÄôs largest non-fiction literary prize. He practices at St. Michael’s, Toronto’s inner-city hospital, and is partnered with Addis Ababa University to train EthiopiaÄôs first emergency physicians.He is a member of Medecins Sans Frontieres, for whom he has worked as both physician and journalist, and practices and teaches mindfulness at the Consciousness Explorers Club in Toronto.