M. IAN BOWMER

Ian Bowmer is Professor of Medicine (infectious diseases) at Memorial University of Newfoundland and was Dean of the Faculty until December 2003. In January of 2004 he became one of 13 nongovernmental appointees to the Health Council of Canada. He joined the Memorial faculty in 1975 and practices infectious disease and HIV care in the Health Care Corporation of St. John’s. He was President of the Medical Council of Canada in 1991 and a member of the Council of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada from 1993 to 2003. In 1994 he became the first chair of the new regionalized community health board-Community Health St. John’s Region. He is a recipient of Canada’s 125th Confederation medal and in 2003 he was elected to the Royal College of Physicians, London. He also received the Medical Council of Canada’s 2004 Louis Lavasseur award for contributions to medical education. He graduated from McGill University in 1969 and completed an internal medicine residency and MRC Fellowship in microbiology.