Ross Pennie

Ross Pennie is a biography and memoir, mystery and thriller author, professor, jungle surgeon, infectious disease specialist and pediatrician from Ontario, Canada. After graduating with a doctor of medicine degree in 1976, he became an infectious diseases specialist in a career that spanned more than four decades and took him all across the world. Between 1991 and 2012 he would work as a professor, researcher, and specialist physician at McMaster University. He would then move on to work as an infectious disease MD at Brantford’s General Hospital. During his tenure at the hospital, he treated all manner of patients from long haul truckers, hockey stars, outspoken nuns, warrior clansmen, and doughnut addicts. During his long career, he has dealt with every type of infection from flesh-eating Streptococcus to Falciparum malaria.