| 词条 | Vincent Lam |
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| name = Vincent Lam | image = Vincent-Lam-official-headshot.jpg | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1974|9|5}} | birth_place = London, Ontario, Canada | occupation = Short story writer, novelist, medical doctor | nationality = Canadian | period = 2000s–present | notableworks = Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures | spouse = Margarita Lam Antoniades | children = | website = {{URL|http://www.vincentlam.ca/index.php}} }} Vincent Lam (born September 5, 1974) is a Canadian writer and medical doctor. Early life and educationBorn in London, Ontario and raised in Ottawa, Lam's parents came to Canada from the Chinese expatriate community in Vietnam. He attended St. Pius X High School and did his medical training at the University of Toronto, graduating in 1999.{{citation needed|date=January 2015}} CareerLam worked as an emergency physician at Toronto East General Hospital and has done international air evacuation work and expedition medicine on Arctic and Antarctic ships.{{citation needed|date=January 2015}}. He is currently working as an addictions physician at Coderix Medical Clinic. Writing careerLam's first book Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures is based on his experiences in medical school. Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures won the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada's most prestigious literary award, on November 7, 2006. Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures was also a finalist for The Story Prize in 2008. His second book, the Flu Pandemic and You, which was co-authored by Dr Colin Lee, was published in 2008. Following Lam's Giller win, Shaftesbury Films announced that it had reached a deal to adapt Bloodletting into a television series,[1] which debuted in January 2010 on HBO Canada. Lam published a biography of Canadian politician Tommy Douglas, as part of Penguin Canada's Extraordinary Canadians series of historical biographies.[2] His first novel, The Headmaster's Wager, was published in 2012 by Doubleday Canada and has been shortlisted for the 2012 Governor General's Literary Award.[3] Personal lifeLam currently lives with his wife and 3 children in Toronto.[4] Bibliography
References1. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1163156347078&call_pageid=968332188492|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061111075935/http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar%2FLayout%2FArticle_Type1&c=Article&cid=1163156347078&call_pageid=968332188492|archive-date=2006-11-11|title=Toronto Star|last=|first=|date=|work=The Star|location=Toronto|access-date=|via=|deadurl=yes|df=}} 2. ^[https://www.straight.com/article-388906/vancouver/book-review-tommy-douglas-vincent-lam "Book review: Tommy Douglas, by Vincent Lam"]. The Georgia Straight, April 24, 2011. 3. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/vincent-lam/|title=Vincent Lam|last=Davis|first=Charlene|newspaper=The Canadian Encyclopedia|language=en|access-date=2017-01-21}} 4. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/vincent-lam/|title=Vincent Lam|last=Davis|first=Charlene|newspaper=The Canadian Encyclopedia|language=en|access-date=2017-01-21}}
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