Dr. David McCann is Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario as well as Clinical Assistant Professor in the Departments of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Mercer University School of Medicine in Macon, Georgia. A practicing physician for nearly 20 years, Dr. McCann is board certified in Family Medicine and Disaster Medicine in the United States. He is also Canadian board certified in Family Medicine and board eligible in Emergency Medicine in Canada. Dr. McCann is licensed to practice medicine in Georgia, Florida and Ontario.

Since 2003, Dr. McCann is the Chief Medical Officer of Florida One Disaster Medical Assistance Team of the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) under the US Department of Health & Human Services. He has deployed to multiple disasters in the United States including Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma most recently in 2005. He also served in New York City in the aftermath of 9/11.

Dr. McCann is the current Chair of the American Board of Disaster Medicine, the nation’s only certifying body for physicians practicing Disaster Medicine. He is committed to the furtherance of Disaster Medicine as its own medical specialty as called for by President Bush in Homeland Security Presidential Directive 21 released in October, 2007.

He has spoken to many audiences in the US and internationally on the subjects of Homeland Security, terrorism and Disaster Medicine. He is also a member of the National Speaker’s Association. Dr. McCann has multiple publications including, most recently, a chapter on core competencies in Disaster Medicine training published in 2007.

Dr. McCann was born and raised in Boston but moved to Canada to attend university in 1978. He obtained his BSc with Honors in Biology and Biochemistry from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1983. Thereafter, he pursued medical studies at that same institution, graduating with his MD in 1988. After completing his postgraduate medical education in Newfoundland, he worked as a physician for 5 years in Atlantic Canada before moving back to the United States in 1994. Dr. McCann has worked the last thirteen years in Southwestern Georgia until accepting a full-time teaching position at McMaster University in 2007. He is currently pursuing his Master’s Degree in Public Health at the University of Massachusetts with expected graduation in 2009. He is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. He has been chosen one of America’s Top Physicians for the last 3 years by the Consumer Research Council of America in Washington, DC.

Dr. McCann’s main area of research interest involves developing a Disaster Medicine curriculum for Schools of Public Health in Canada. He is also interested in developing an international disaster research database at McMaster University. He is a devoted husband and father of five children.