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James Heilman
Born	1979 or 1980 (age 44–45)
Citizenship	Canadian
Medical career
Profession	Doctor
Field	Emergency room physician
Institutions	East Kootenay Regional Hospital, University of British Columbia

James Heilman is an emergency room physician known as an advocate for the improvement of Misplaced Pages's health-related content, and for encouraging other clinicians to contribute to the website. He became interested in editing Misplaced Pages on a slow night shift, when he looked up the article on obesity and found that it contained many errors. "I realized that I could fix it. I made a huge number of edits and improved the quality a great deal. I sort of became hooked from there," he recalls. He formerly sat on the Wikimedia Canada board of directors, and is president of Wiki Project Med Foundation. Heilman is a clinical instructor at the department of emergency medicine at the University of British Columbia, and an emergency physician at East Kootenay Regional Hospital in Cranbrook, British Columbia, where he lives.

Misplaced Pages advocacy and controversy

In 2009, Heilman added public domain images of the ink blots used in the Rorschach test to the Misplaced Pages article on the subject, and concerned psychologists said that this could invalidate the tests. However, some psychologists said the test had previously lost its popularity and usefulness. In an interview with The New York Times, Heilman stated that he added the entire set because a debate about a single image seemed absurd and psychologists' fears were unfounded. In August 2009, two Canadian psychologists filed complaints about Heilman to his local doctors' organization; Heilman called the complaints "intimidation tactics". An extensive debate ensued on Misplaced Pages, and the images were kept.

In 2012, Heilman was one of two Wikimedia contributors sued by Internet Brands for shifting freely licensed content and volunteer editors from the for-profit site Wikitravel to the non-profit site Wikivoyage. The Wikimedia Foundation defended Heilman's actions in the lawsuit, citing volunteer freedom of choice. In February 2013 the parties settled their litigation.

Heilman is part of an initiative through Wiki Project Med Foundation with Translators Without Borders, working to improve and translate the top importance English Misplaced Pages medical articles into minority languages. The Wiki Project Med Foundation has also partnered with the University of California, San Francisco to give students college credit for improving medicine-related Misplaced Pages pages. In 2014, the Wiki Project Med Foundation partnered with the Cochrane Collaboration, with the goal of improving the reliability and accuracy of information on Misplaced Pages. Heilman said, "Much of Misplaced Pages can still use improvement and we know that with the support of research evidence experts, our goal to create easy-to-read, thoroughly referenced articles can be more easily reached and maintained."

Publications

• Misplaced Pages: A Key Tool for Global Public Health Promotion, Journal of Medical Internet Research (2011)
• Why We Should All Edit Misplaced Pages, University of British Columbia Medical Journal (2011)
• Creating Awareness for Using a Wiki to Promote Collaborative Health Professional Education, International Journal of User-Driven Health Care (2012)
• Cochrane and Misplaced Pages: the collaborative potential for a quantum leap in the dissemination and uptake of trusted evidence, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (2014)

References

1. ^ Laidlaw, Katherine (September 2013). "Is Google Making Us Sick?". Reader's Digest. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
2. Fleck, Fiona (January 1, 2013). "Online encyclopedia provides free health info for all" (PDF). Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 91 (1). World Health Organization: 8–9. doi:10.2471/BLT.13.030113. PMID 23397345. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
3. ^ Mcneil, Mark (October 4, 2011). "Misplaced Pages makes a house call to Mac". The Spec. Retrieved January 12, 2014.
4. Berko, Lex (2013). "Medical Students Can Now Earn Credit for Editing Misplaced Pages". Vice. Retrieved January 12, 2014.
5. Trujillo, Maria (November 25, 2011). "Misplaced Pages and Higher Education – The Infinite Possibilities". University of British Columbia. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
6. Bunim, Juliana. "UCSF First U.S. Medical School to Offer Credit For Misplaced Pages Articles". University of California, San Francisco. Retrieved January 12, 2014.
7. "James Heilman, MD, CCFP-EM". University of British Columbia. Retrieved March 19, 2014.
8. Sample, Ian (July 29, 2009). "Testing times for Misplaced Pages after doctor posts secrets of the Rorschach inkblots". The Guardian. Retrieved January 12, 2014.
9. White, Patrick (July 29, 2009). "Rorschach and Misplaced Pages: The battle of the inkblots". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved January 12, 2014.
10. ^ "Sask. MD's Misplaced Pages posting of ink blots angers psychologists". CBC News. July 31, 2009. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
11. ^ Cohen, Noam (July 28, 2009). "A Rorschach Cheat Sheet on Misplaced Pages?". The New York Times. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
12. Cohen, Noam (August 23, 2009). "Complaint Over Doctor Who Posted Inkblot Test". New York Times. Retrieved January 10, 2014.
13. Cohen, Noam (September 9, 2012). "Travel Site Built on Wiki Ethos Now Bedevils Its Owner". New York Times. Retrieved January 10, 2014.
14. Morris, Kevin (September 6, 2012). "Wikimedia announces travel site, launches countersuit against competitor". The Daily Dot. Retrieved January 10, 2014.
15. Musil, Steven (February 17, 2013). "Wikimedia, Internet Brands settle Wikivoyage lawsuits". CNET. Retrieved January 20, 2014.
16. Cohen, Noam (June 12, 2012). "Book That Plagiarized From Misplaced Pages Is Pulled From Market". New York Times. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
17. Teigen, Sarah (October–November 2012). "Medical translations for minority languages" (PDF). Multilingual. Retrieved January 12, 2014 – via TranslatorsWithoutBorders.org.
18. Bunim, Juliana (September 26, 2013). "UCSF First U.S. Medical School to Offer Credit For Misplaced Pages Articles". University of California, San Francisco. Retrieved March 19, 2014.
19. Robertson, Paul (February 11, 2014). "Wikiproject Medicine partnership aims for greater reliability on Misplaced Pages". Cover Magazine. Retrieved March 19, 2014.
20. Heilman, James M.; Kemmann, Eckhard; Bonert, Michael; et al. (January 31, 2011). "Misplaced Pages: A Key Tool for Global Public Health Promotion". Journal of Medical Internet Research. 13 (1): e14. doi:10.2196/jmir.1589.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
21. Heilman, James (September 2011). "Why We Should All Edit Misplaced Pages" (PDF). University of British Columbia Medical Journal (UBCMJ). 3 (1). Retrieved January 14, 2014.
22. Heilman, James (2012). "Creating Awareness for Using a Wiki to Promote Collaborative Health Professional Education". International Journal of User-Driven Healthcare. 2 (1): 86–87. doi:10.4018/ijudh.2012010113.
23. Mathew M, Joseph A, Heilman J, Tharyan P (2013). "Cochrane and Misplaced Pages: the collaborative potential for a quantum leap in the dissemination and uptake of trusted evidence". Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 10: ED000069. PMID 24475488.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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