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Greg Stidham
Greg Stidham is a pediatric intensivist (intensive care unit physician) who retired in 2012 after a 32-year career in academic medicine. In retirement, he has resurrected his passi...view moreGreg Stidham is a pediatric intensivist (intensive care unit physician) who retired in 2012 after a 32-year career in academic medicine. In retirement, he has resurrected his passion for literature and creative writing. He has published a memoir, numerous pieces of short fiction, and creative nonfiction. But his real passion has been and is poetry. Dr. Stidham grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and attended the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. He graduated with a degree in English while completing prerequisite courses to attend medical school. He received his MD and pediatrics training at the University of Toledo College of Medicine in Toledo, Ohio, before continuing his training in pediatric critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.Following his training, Dr. Stidham joined the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center and LeBonheur Children's Medical Center in Memphis. He started the Critical Care Program at LeBonheur and was Chief of the Division of Critical Care. Later in his tenure in Memphis, he started the hospital's Pediatric Palliative Care Program and chaired the Biomedical Ethics Committee for more than a decade.After twenty-eight years at the children's hospital in Memphis, Dr. Stidham moved to Kingston, Ontario, where he assumed the position of Professor of Pediatrics at Queen's University and Kingston Health Sciences Center. He currently serves as a volunteer grief counselor for bereaved parents through Bereaved Families of Ontario. He continues to live and write in Kingston with his wife, Pam, and Dexter, the last survivor of their ever-evolving pack of rescue dogs. An accomplished writer, Dr. Stidham has published a memoir, numerous pieces of short fiction, and creative nonfiction. But his real passion is writing poetry.view less
Books by Greg Stidham
Dear Friends: Short Stories By Greg Stidham Blessings and Sudden Intimacies: Musings of a Pediatric Intensivist Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings