Tuesday, November 14, 2006 7:30pm FREE
Hart House, Library (7 Hart House Circle)

The Reading Series welcomes Andrew Nikiforuk, journalist and author of Pandemonium:Bird Flu, Mad Cow Disease, and Other Biological Plagues of the 21st Century, as well as Dr. Vincent Lam, author of Scotiabank Giller Prize Winner 2006,Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, and co-author of The Flu Pandemic and You: Canadian Guide, with Dr. Colin Lee, to an evening of discussion about the viruses that are plaguing civilization and offers up a survival guide – both to pandemic influenza, and to the hype surrounding it.


Dr. Vincent Lam was born in London, Ontario, and grew up in Ottawa. His family is from the expatriate Chinese community of Vietnam. Dr. Lam did his medical training in Toronto, and is an emergency physician who also does international air evacuation work and expedition medicine on Arctic and Antarctic ships. His non-fiction has appeared in The Globe and Mail, the National Post, and The University of Toronto Medical Journal. His fiction has been published in Carve. Vincent’s website is www.vincentlam.ca.

Dr. Colin Lee is a public health physician and an emergency physician. He serves on a number of infectious disease control committees at the hospital, community, and provincial levels in Ontario. His work also extends globally to developing countries.

Andrew Nikiforuk’s work as a journalist – for such magazines as Saturday Night, Maclean’s, Canadian Business, Report on Business Magazine, Georgia Straight, and Equinox – has earned him four National Magazine Awards, the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy, and top honors from the Association of Canadian Journalists. His best-selling book School’s Out: The Catastrophe in Public Education and What Parents Can Do About It was shortlisted for the Gordon Montador Award for writing on issues of key social interest.