Dr. Dave Hepburn

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SEVEN NUMBERS YOU ABSOLUTELY NEED TO KNOW TO.... DIE YOUNG
This is, in fact, what we as doctors want you to do. Die young.... at an old age. Predict, prevent, project and prepare. You, not your doctor, are responsible for your own health. Knowledge is power, and with health being your greatest wealth, this lecture may be the most valuable investment you ever make.

MEDICAL MYTHINFORMATION

Drs. Hepburn and Sealey wade through the plethora of medical misinformation that creates a cornucopia of confusion in our hi-tech fast-paced society. Discussing the top ten modern medical myths and confronting some of the ideas that are easily formed but firmly held thanks to oodles of Googles and health by “House.”  “A broken clock tells the right time twice a day.”

THE FUTURE IS NOW

There has been more progress in medicine in the last six months than in the last 6000 years! As we balance precariously on the cusp of this remarkable third great era of medicine , the biomolecular, biointelligence revolution, Drs. Hepburn and Sealey discuss how nanomedicine, bioengineering, stem cells, genomics, epigenetics, pharmacogenomics, artificial intelligence, immunotherapeutics, etc apply to you. Medicine is now so dynamic that if your doctor is practicing the same way he/she did two years ago, they are practicing museum medicine.

LESSONS FROM A JUNGLE ISLAND

Practicing bush medicine and living, as the only white man among tens of thousands on the primitive island of Tanna in the forsaken part of the South Pacific, Dr. Dave Hepburn observes what we as a “civilized” 

society MUST learn. Dr. Hepburn finally answers some common if not minor questions ranging from the real meaning of life, how to truly de-stress and, of course, how to fend off a raging dugong.

100 WAYS TO ENJOY GROWING OLDER

 Dr Hepburn expounds on his famous list published in The Doctor is In(Sane). An up-to- date, fun and informative discussion on what you absolutely MUST know to enjoy and not just endure growing older. The goal is to end up being loved by those you want to be loved by. "There ain't much fun in medicine but there is a heck of a lot of medicine in fun."

Summary Profile

Dr. Dave Hepburn is an award winning syndicated columnist to more than 100 newspapers across the United States and Canada. He is a recipient of the prestigious Canadian Community Newspaper Association columnist of the year award as well as the Arizona Newspaper Association columnist of the year.  He is the author of "The Doctor Is In(sane)" which was released in April 2009 and nominated for several book awards. He is also co-host of the popular national radio program "Wisequacks" heard weekly across Canada.

In 1995 Dr. Hepburn lived in the remote Pacific island of Tanna in the country of Vanuatu where, for most of a year he was the sole doctor and bush surgeon to 30,000 Tannese, many of whom had never seen a white man. His remarkable Vanuatu exploits, including that of standing on the edge of a volcano as it exploded were chronicled weekly on CBC radio.

Dr. Hepburn was a Canadian naval surgeon in the Persian Gulf War in 1991. He is a helicopter pilot who flew the infamous Sea King helicopters in the Persian Gulf War. He served as the doctor for the West Coast fleet for three years. 

His interest in sports and sports medicine resulted in him being called to be a medical director of the 1994 Commonwealth Games and a team physician in the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. He has been or currently is the team doctor to national rugby teams as well as junior and professional hockey teams. 

He has coached at the highest level of hockey for 12 years and he himself entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest scoring defenceman in the longest hockey game in history. As well, he is on the Board of Directors for the David Foster Foundation and is a clinical instructor with University of British Columbia Medical School.  

Dr. Hepburn's thrill-seeking exploits have taken him around the globe and across the equator several times. He is an avid outdoorsman and whitewater enthusiast, and has survived being a leader in the Canadian Boy Scouts for 14 years.