Dr Robert J McMurtry

Robert Y. McMurtry is the former Dean of Medicine for the University of Western Ontario. He was a member of the Health Council of Canada for 3½ years and a member and special advisor to the Royal Commission on the future of  health care in Canada. Dr. McMurtry was a visiting Cameron Chair to Health Canada for providing policy advice to the Minister and Deputy Minister of Health and the Founding and Associate Deputy Minister of Population & Public Health, Canada. Presently Dr. McMurtry is Professor (Emeritus) of Surgery, University of Western Ontario.

In October 2010 a multidisciplinary group of approximately 100 professionals -including medical doctors, acousticians, psychologists, physicists, pharmacists and occupational therapists – got together at a symposium, shared their knowledge and realised that they all needed to get very serious about the emerging global issue of adverse health effects (AHEs) experienced by people living next to industrial wind…