David Waltner-Toews is a Canadian epidemiologist, essayist, poet, fiction writer, veterinarian, and a specialist in the epidemiology of food and waterborne diseases, zoonoses and ecosystem health. He is best known for his work on animal and human infectious diseases in relation to complexity. A professor in the Department of Population Medicine at the University of Guelph, he is the founding president of Veterinarians without Borders/ V�t�rinaires sans Fronti�res, and founding president of the Network for Ecosystem Sustainability and Health. Besides about 100 peer-reviewed scholarly papers and a textbook, he has published half a dozen books of poetry, a collection of poems and recipes, an award-winning collection of short stories, a murder mystery and a book about the natural history of diseases people get from animals. In 2011 he collaborated with artist Diane Maclean on her exhibition Bird at Killhope North of England Lead Mining Museum, contributing a new poem, The Love Song of the Javanese Singing Cock 

January 1st, 1948 in Canada (Age 76)