02/25/2026
A Life Spent in Service to the Health of Canadians ššØāāļø
Dr. Ken Walker (who writes under the pseudonym of Dr. W. Gifford-Jones, MD) is a graduate of the University of Toronto and the Harvard Medical School. He trained in general surgery at Strong Memorial Hospital, University of Rochester, Montreal General Hospital, McGill University and in Gynecology at Harvard. His storied medical career began as a general practitioner, shipās surgeon, and hotel doctor. For more than 40 years, he specialized in gynecology, devoting his practice to the formative issues of womenās health. In 1975, he launched his weekly medical column that continues to be published by national and local Canadian and U.S. newspapers. Today, the readership remains over seven million.
His advice contains a solid dose of common sense and he never sits on the fence with controversial issues. He is the author of nine books including, āThe Healthy Barmaidā, his autobiography āYouāre Going To Do What?ā, āWhat I Learned as a Medical Journalistā, and ā90+ How I Got There!ā
Many years ago, he was successful in a fight to legalize he**in to help ease the pain of terminal cancer patients. His foundation at that time donated $500,000 to establish the Gifford-Jones Professorship in Pain Control and Palliative Care at the University of Toronto Medical School. At 93 years of age he rappelled from the top of Torontoās City Hall (30 stories) to raise funds for children with a life-threatening disease through the Make-a-Wish Foundation.
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