John R HewsonDr. JR Hewson ("JR") is a retired academic anesthesiologist and pioneer in Critical Care Medicine (CCM) who has done it all-clinical practice, teaching, research, and founding a worldclass intensive care unit. In his role as an intensivist/critical cre physician, he has served as CCM's national president (Canada), as its global secretary-general, and as a director on numerous boards; he has chaired countless medical committees and lectured across Canada and around the world. But there's another side to JR, a creative side. Over the years, he has written three novels and a two-act play. In recent times, he's become an award-winning actor in community theatre. Back in his college days, JR had a dance band, and he continues to maintain his expertise at the keyboard as the in-house pianist at a major hotel in Toronto. He volunteers as a tutor in literacy and numeracy at Literacy South Halton in Burlington and is the vice-president of its board of directors. Bottom line-JR loves words and ideas, mathematics, and music. Above all, JR loves people. He believes that we are, or should be, our brother's (and sister's) keeper. That's why he volunteers and why he vigorously champions the transmission of intellectual life skills to his fellow citizens. JR lives in Burlington, west of Toronto, near the sandy shores of Lake Ontario. His wife, Barbara Jacobsen, an amateur writer herself and raconteuse sans pareille, lives in the bucolic town of Willow Beach on Lake Simcoe, 150 kilometres to the northeast. They have both become experts at driving through blizzards. Read More Read Less