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James Heilman

January 13, 2023

This article is about the Wikipedian himself. For his user page, see User:Doc James.

James M. Heilman (born 1979 or 1980) is a Canadian emergency physician, Wikipedian, and advocate for the improvement of Wikipedia's health-related content. He encourages other clinicians to contribute to the online encyclopedia.[1][2]

James Heilman
Heilman at Wikimania 2015
Born1979/1980 (age 42–43)
Saskatchewan, Canada
EducationUniversity of Saskatchewan (BS, MD)
Medical career
ProfessionPhysician
FieldEmergency medicine
Institutions
James Heilman introducing himself
recorded August 2017

With the Wikipedia username Doc James, Heilman is an active contributor to WikiProject Medicine and a volunteer Wikipedia administrator. He was the president of Wikimedia Canada between 2010 and 2013, and founded and was formerly the president of Wiki Project Med Foundation.[3][4][5][6][7] He is also the founder of WikiProject Medicine's Medicine Translation Task Force.[8] In June 2015, he was elected to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, a position which he held until he was removed on December 28, 2015.[9][10][11] Heilman was re-elected to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees in May 2017.[12] His term ended in November 2021.[13]

Heilman is a clinical assistant professor at the department of emergency medicine at the University of British Columbia,[14][15] and the head of the department of emergency medicine at East Kootenay Regional Hospital in Cranbrook, British Columbia, where he lives.[1][16]

Early life and education

Heilman was born in 1979 or 1980,[16] near Cochin, Saskatchewan.[17] He graduated from the University of Saskatchewan in 2000 with a Bachelor of Science degree in anatomy, and he subsequently earned his medical degree there in 2003.[1] He then completed his family medicine residency in British Columbia from 2003 to 2005.[18] Heilman currently holds a certificate of added competency in emergency medicine with the College of Family Physicians of Canada.[19]

Medical career

Heilman worked at Moose Jaw Union Hospital, a hospital in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, until 2010, when he began working at East Kootenay Regional Hospital,[1][20] where, in October 2012, he was appointed head of the department of emergency medicine.[1] In 2014, he told the Cranbrook Daily Townsman that the emergency department at East Kootenay saw an average of 22,000 patients each year.[21]

Research

As of May 2014, Heilman was working on a study with Samir Grover, of the University of Toronto, which would assign medical students to take a test using either Wikipedia or medical textbooks to determine which is more accurate.[22] Later that year, Heilman co-authored a version of the Wikipedia article for dengue fever in the peer-reviewed journal Open Medicine.[23] Heilman also worked on a study with Microsoft which found that in the three countries where the 2013–2016 Ebola outbreak had the largest impact, Wikipedia was the most popular source for information about the disease.[24] In 2015, Heilman and Andrew West published a study which found that the number of Wikipedia editors who focused on editing medical articles decreased by 40 percent from 2008 to 2013.[25] These results, together with other detailed analyses about the production and consumption of medical content on Wikipedia, were published by the Journal of Medical Internet Research in 2015.[26]

Wikipedia and Wikimedia activities

Question and answer session with Heilman about editing Wikipedia at the University of British Columbia

Since the beginning of his activity as a contributor to medicine-related Wikipedia articles in 2008, Heilman has been promoting the improvement of medical content by encouraging fellow physicians to take part.[1] He became interested in editing Wikipedia on a slow night shift, when he looked up the article on obesity and found that it contained many errors. "I realized that I could fix it. I made a huge number of edits and improved the quality a great deal. I sort of became hooked from there," he told the Hamilton Spectator in 2011.[2] In 2016, he stated that he edited medical articles on Wikipedia for about 60 hours a week.[27] His time spent editing decreased to 20 hours a week in 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic.[17]

Heilman takes part in an initiative through Wiki Project Med Foundation with Translators Without Borders, working to improve and translate English Wikipedia medical articles of top importance into minority languages.[28][29][30] The Wiki Project Med Foundation has started a collaboration with the University of California, San Francisco as a recruit for scientifically literate editors, by giving students college credit for improving medicine-related Wikipedia pages.[31] In 2014, the Wiki Project Med Foundation also partnered with the Cochrane Collaboration, with the goal of improving the reliability and accuracy of information on Wikipedia. With regard to this partnership, Heilman said, "The way Wikipedia works is that all content is to stand entirely on the references that are listed. If the best quality sources are used to write Wikipedia there's a good chance that Wikipedia will contain the best quality information."[32]

Heilman spoke at Wikimania 2014, where he said that 93 percent of medical students use Wikipedia, and argued that "fixing the internet" is now a critical task for anyone who cares about healthcare.[33]

Ebola contributions

By reviewing and correcting medical content in the manner promoted by Heilman (and with many of his contributions), in Wikipedia articles like that about Ebola, Wikipedia has become a source of information to the general public, thus being regarded among respected sites run by the World Health Organization[34] and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,[35] covering the topic.[3][36] Heilman reduced the time he spent working in the emergency department so he could spend more time updating this page.[37] In 2014, he told the Cranbrook Daily Townsman that with respect to Wikipedia's coverage of Ebola, "The big thing is emphasizing what we know, making sure that minor concerns don’t get blown out of proportion."[38] He also said that, despite rumours to the contrary, there was no evidence that the disease had become airborne, and that Ebola had caused far fewer deaths than other conditions such as malaria and gastroenteritis.[38]

Rorschach test images

In 2009, Heilman, who was then a resident of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan,[39] added public domain images of the ink blots used in the Rorschach test to the Wikipedia article on the subject, and concerned psychologists said that this could invalidate the tests.[20][40][41] Some psychologists stated the test had "already lost its popularity and usefulness."[20][41] In an interview with The New York Times, Heilman stated that he added the entire set because a debate about a single image seemed absurd and psychologists' fears were unfounded.[42] Appearing on Canada AM on July 31, 2009, Heilman also said that "This information [i.e. the inkblots] is encyclopedic. This is what people expect to see when they see this page."[43] In August 2009, two Canadian psychologists filed complaints about Heilman to his local doctors' organization; Heilman called the complaints "intimidation tactics".[44] In September 2009, the College of Psychologists of British Columbia urged the Saskatchewan College of Physicians and Surgeons to launch an investigation into Heilman's posting of the images. Heilman told CTV News that "The psychological community is trying to exclude everybody outside their field from taking part in discussions related to what they do. And personally, I think that's bad science."[45] An extensive debate ensued on Wikipedia, and the images were kept.[42]

Discovery of textbook plagiarism of Wikipedia

In 2012, Heilman noticed that the book Understanding and Management of Special Child in Pediatric Dentistry, published by Jaypee Brothers, contained a long passage about HIV that was plagiarized from Wikipedia's article on the subject.[28] This subsequently led to the book being withdrawn by the publisher.[46]

In October 2014, while reading a copy of the Oxford Textbook of Zoonoses (published by Oxford University Press), Heilman noticed that the book's section on Ebola was very similar to the Wikipedia page on that subject.[25] He initially suspected that a Wikipedia editor had copied the portion but later noticed that the part of the Wikipedia article that resembled the part of the textbook had been written in 2006 and 2010, while the textbook had not been published until 2011.[25] Christian Purdy, an Oxford University Press spokesperson, acknowledged that some of the text in the textbook had been copied but described it as an "inadvertent omission of an appropriate attribution" rather than plagiarism.[25]

Tenure on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

In June 2015, Heilman was elected by the community to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.[9] In December 2015, the board removed Heilman from his position as a Trustee,[10][47] a decision that generated substantial controversy amongst members of the Wikipedia community.[48] A statement released by the board declared the lack of confidence of his fellow trustees in him as the reasons for his ousting. Heilman later stated that he "was given the option of resigning [by the board] over the last few weeks. As a community elected member I see my mandate as coming from the community which elected me and thus declined to do so. I saw such a move as letting down those who elected me."[49] He subsequently pointed out that while on the board, he had pushed for greater transparency regarding the Wikimedia Foundation's controversial Knowledge Engine project and its financing,[50] and indicated that his attempts to make public the Knight Foundation grant for the engine had been a factor in his dismissal.[51]

The volunteer community re-elected him to the Wikimedia Foundation board in 2017, until November of 2021.[52]

Other

In 2012, Heilman was one of two Wikimedia contributors sued by Internet Brands for shifting freely licensed content and volunteer editors from the for-profit site Wikitravel to the non-profit site Wikivoyage. The Wikimedia Foundation defended Heilman's actions in the lawsuit, citing volunteer freedom of choice.[53][54] In February 2013, the parties settled their litigation.[55] In 2014, Heilman criticized a study which concluded that nine out of ten Wikipedia medical articles contained errors.[5][56][57] In 2015, the Atlantic ran a piece about conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia which detailed Heilman's efforts to counteract edits made by employees of Medtronic to the Wikipedia page for percutaneous vertebroplasty.[25] In 2017, Vice also ran an article about conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia, in which the author noted that Heilman had vocally called on the Wikimedia Foundation to increase its enforcement of Wikipedia's policy against undisclosed paid editing.[58]

Personal life

Heilman enjoys running ultramarathons and adventure racing.[20][59] He and his girlfriend ran the Gobi March in 2008.[60] He has also run the Marathon des Sables, the Adventure Racing World Championships,[18] and the Saskatchewan Marathon.[61]

Wikipedia-related publications

  • James Heilman; Eckhard Kemmann; Michael Bonert; Anwesh Chatterjee; et al. (2011). "Wikipedia: a key tool for global public health promotion". Journal of Medical Internet Research. 13 (1): e14. doi:10.2196/JMIR.1589. ISSN 1438-8871. PMC 3221335. PMID 21282098. Wikidata Q24595401.
  • Heilman, James (September 2011). "Why we should all edit Wikipedia" (PDF). University of British Columbia Medical Journal. 3 (1): 32–33. Retrieved December 29, 2015.
  • Manu E Mathew; A Potkay Joseph; James M Heilman; Prathap Tharyan (October 22, 2013). . Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. doi:10.1002/14651858.ED000069. ISSN 1469-493X. PMID 24475488. Wikidata Q24202827. Archived from the original on October 18, 2014. Retrieved June 9, 2014.
  • James Heilman; Jacob de Wolff; Graham Beards; Brian Basden (October 2, 2014). "Dengue fever: a Wikipedia clinical review". Open Medicine. 8 (4): e105-15. ISSN 1911-2092. PMC 4242787. PMID 25426178. Wikidata Q28651505.
  • James M Heilman; Andrew G West (March 4, 2015). "Wikipedia and medicine: quantifying readership, editors, and the significance of natural language". Journal of Medical Internet Research. 17 (3): e62. doi:10.2196/JMIR.4069. ISSN 1438-8871. PMC 4376174. PMID 25739399. Wikidata Q28651276.
  • James Heilman (August 2015). "Open Access to a High-Quality, Impartial, Point-of-Care Medical Summary Would Save Lives: Why Does It Not Exist?". PLOS MEDICINE. 12 (8): e1001868. doi:10.1371/JOURNAL.PMED.1001868. ISSN 1549-1277. PMC 4549298. PMID 26305335. Wikidata Q28608451.
  • Amin N Azzam; David E. Bresler; Armando J. Leon; et al. (September 13, 2016). "Why Medical Schools Should Embrace Wikipedia: Final-Year Medical Student Contributions to Wikipedia Articles for Academic Credit at One School". Academic Medicine. 92 (2): 194–200. doi:10.1097/ACM.0000000000001381. ISSN 1040-2446. PMC 5265689. PMID 27627633. S2CID 24613560. Wikidata Q27131582.
  • Gwinyai Masukume; Lisa Kipersztok; Diptanshu Das; Thomas Shafee; Michaël R. Laurent; James M Heilman (November 1, 2016). "Medical journals and Wikipedia: a global health matter". The Lancet Global Health. 4 (11): e791. doi:10.1016/S2214-109X(16)30254-6. ISSN 2214-109X. PMID 27765289. Wikidata Q27480279.
  • Thomas Shafee; Gwinyai Masukume; Lisa Kipersztok; Diptanshu Das; Mikael Häggström; James Heilman (August 28, 2017). "Evolution of Wikipedia's medical content: past, present and future" (PDF). Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 71 (11): 1122–1129. doi:10.1136/JECH-2016-208601. ISSN 0143-005X. PMC 5847101. PMID 28847845. Wikidata Q38380447.

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This article is about the Wikipedian himself For his user page see User Doc James James M Heilman born 1979 or 1980 is a Canadian emergency physician Wikipedian and advocate for the improvement of Wikipedia s health related content He encourages other clinicians to contribute to the online encyclopedia 1 2 James HeilmanHeilman at Wikimania 2015Born1979 1980 age 42 43 Saskatchewan CanadaEducationUniversity of Saskatchewan BS MD Medical careerProfessionPhysicianFieldEmergency medicineInstitutionsEast Kootenay Regional HospitalUniversity of British ColumbiaJames Heilman introducing himself source source recorded August 2017With the Wikipedia username Doc James Heilman is an active contributor to WikiProject Medicine and a volunteer Wikipedia administrator He was the president of Wikimedia Canada between 2010 and 2013 and founded and was formerly the president of Wiki Project Med Foundation 3 4 5 6 7 He is also the founder of WikiProject Medicine s Medicine Translation Task Force 8 In June 2015 he was elected to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees a position which he held until he was removed on December 28 2015 9 10 11 Heilman was re elected to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees in May 2017 12 His term ended in November 2021 13 Heilman is a clinical assistant professor at the department of emergency medicine at the University of British Columbia 14 15 and the head of the department of emergency medicine at East Kootenay Regional Hospital in Cranbrook British Columbia where he lives 1 16 Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Medical career 3 Research 4 Wikipedia and Wikimedia activities 4 1 Ebola contributions 4 2 Rorschach test images 4 3 Discovery of textbook plagiarism of Wikipedia 4 4 Tenure on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 4 5 Other 5 Personal life 6 Wikipedia related publications 7 See also 8 References 9 External linksEarly life and education EditHeilman was born in 1979 or 1980 16 near Cochin Saskatchewan 17 He graduated from the University of Saskatchewan in 2000 with a Bachelor of Science degree in anatomy and he subsequently earned his medical degree there in 2003 1 He then completed his family medicine residency in British Columbia from 2003 to 2005 18 Heilman currently holds a certificate of added competency in emergency medicine with the College of Family Physicians of Canada 19 Medical career EditHeilman worked at Moose Jaw Union Hospital a hospital in Moose Jaw Saskatchewan until 2010 when he began working at East Kootenay Regional Hospital 1 20 where in October 2012 he was appointed head of the department of emergency medicine 1 In 2014 he told the Cranbrook Daily Townsman that the emergency department at East Kootenay saw an average of 22 000 patients each year 21 Research EditAs of May 2014 Heilman was working on a study with Samir Grover of the University of Toronto which would assign medical students to take a test using either Wikipedia or medical textbooks to determine which is more accurate 22 Later that year Heilman co authored a version of the Wikipedia article for dengue fever in the peer reviewed journal Open Medicine 23 Heilman also worked on a study with Microsoft which found that in the three countries where the 2013 2016 Ebola outbreak had the largest impact Wikipedia was the most popular source for information about the disease 24 In 2015 Heilman and Andrew West published a study which found that the number of Wikipedia editors who focused on editing medical articles decreased by 40 percent from 2008 to 2013 25 These results together with other detailed analyses about the production and consumption of medical content on Wikipedia were published by the Journal of Medical Internet Research in 2015 26 Wikipedia and Wikimedia activities Edit source source source source source source source source Question and answer session with Heilman about editing Wikipedia at the University of British Columbia Since the beginning of his activity as a contributor to medicine related Wikipedia articles in 2008 Heilman has been promoting the improvement of medical content by encouraging fellow physicians to take part 1 He became interested in editing Wikipedia on a slow night shift when he looked up the article on obesity and found that it contained many errors I realized that I could fix it I made a huge number of edits and improved the quality a great deal I sort of became hooked from there he told the Hamilton Spectator in 2011 2 In 2016 he stated that he edited medical articles on Wikipedia for about 60 hours a week 27 His time spent editing decreased to 20 hours a week in 2020 during the COVID 19 pandemic 17 Heilman takes part in an initiative through Wiki Project Med Foundation with Translators Without Borders working to improve and translate English Wikipedia medical articles of top importance into minority languages 28 29 30 The Wiki Project Med Foundation has started a collaboration with the University of California San Francisco as a recruit for scientifically literate editors by giving students college credit for improving medicine related Wikipedia pages 31 In 2014 the Wiki Project Med Foundation also partnered with the Cochrane Collaboration with the goal of improving the reliability and accuracy of information on Wikipedia With regard to this partnership Heilman said The way Wikipedia works is that all content is to stand entirely on the references that are listed If the best quality sources are used to write Wikipedia there s a good chance that Wikipedia will contain the best quality information 32 Heilman spoke at Wikimania 2014 where he said that 93 percent of medical students use Wikipedia and argued that fixing the internet is now a critical task for anyone who cares about healthcare 33 Ebola contributions Edit By reviewing and correcting medical content in the manner promoted by Heilman and with many of his contributions in Wikipedia articles like that about Ebola Wikipedia has become a source of information to the general public thus being regarded among respected sites run by the World Health Organization 34 and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 35 covering the topic 3 36 Heilman reduced the time he spent working in the emergency department so he could spend more time updating this page 37 In 2014 he told the Cranbrook Daily Townsman that with respect to Wikipedia s coverage of Ebola The big thing is emphasizing what we know making sure that minor concerns don t get blown out of proportion 38 He also said that despite rumours to the contrary there was no evidence that the disease had become airborne and that Ebola had caused far fewer deaths than other conditions such as malaria and gastroenteritis 38 Rorschach test images Edit In 2009 Heilman who was then a resident of Moose Jaw Saskatchewan 39 added public domain images of the ink blots used in the Rorschach test to the Wikipedia article on the subject and concerned psychologists said that this could invalidate the tests 20 40 41 Some psychologists stated the test had already lost its popularity and usefulness 20 41 In an interview with The New York Times Heilman stated that he added the entire set because a debate about a single image seemed absurd and psychologists fears were unfounded 42 Appearing on Canada AM on July 31 2009 Heilman also said that This information i e the inkblots is encyclopedic This is what people expect to see when they see this page 43 In August 2009 two Canadian psychologists filed complaints about Heilman to his local doctors organization Heilman called the complaints intimidation tactics 44 In September 2009 the College of Psychologists of British Columbia urged the Saskatchewan College of Physicians and Surgeons to launch an investigation into Heilman s posting of the images Heilman told CTV News that The psychological community is trying to exclude everybody outside their field from taking part in discussions related to what they do And personally I think that s bad science 45 An extensive debate ensued on Wikipedia and the images were kept 42 Discovery of textbook plagiarism of Wikipedia Edit In 2012 Heilman noticed that the book Understanding and Management of Special Child in Pediatric Dentistry published by Jaypee Brothers contained a long passage about HIV that was plagiarized from Wikipedia s article on the subject 28 This subsequently led to the book being withdrawn by the publisher 46 In October 2014 while reading a copy of the Oxford Textbook of Zoonoses published by Oxford University Press Heilman noticed that the book s section on Ebola was very similar to the Wikipedia page on that subject 25 He initially suspected that a Wikipedia editor had copied the portion but later noticed that the part of the Wikipedia article that resembled the part of the textbook had been written in 2006 and 2010 while the textbook had not been published until 2011 25 Christian Purdy an Oxford University Press spokesperson acknowledged that some of the text in the textbook had been copied but described it as an inadvertent omission of an appropriate attribution rather than plagiarism 25 Tenure on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Edit In June 2015 Heilman was elected by the community to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 9 In December 2015 the board removed Heilman from his position as a Trustee 10 47 a decision that generated substantial controversy amongst members of the Wikipedia community 48 A statement released by the board declared the lack of confidence of his fellow trustees in him as the reasons for his ousting Heilman later stated that he was given the option of resigning by the board over the last few weeks As a community elected member I see my mandate as coming from the community which elected me and thus declined to do so I saw such a move as letting down those who elected me 49 He subsequently pointed out that while on the board he had pushed for greater transparency regarding the Wikimedia Foundation s controversial Knowledge Engine project and its financing 50 and indicated that his attempts to make public the Knight Foundation grant for the engine had been a factor in his dismissal 51 The volunteer community re elected him to the Wikimedia Foundation board in 2017 until November of 2021 52 Other Edit In 2012 Heilman was one of two Wikimedia contributors sued by Internet Brands for shifting freely licensed content and volunteer editors from the for profit site Wikitravel to the non profit site Wikivoyage The Wikimedia Foundation defended Heilman s actions in the lawsuit citing volunteer freedom of choice 53 54 In February 2013 the parties settled their litigation 55 In 2014 Heilman criticized a study which concluded that nine out of ten Wikipedia medical articles contained errors 5 56 57 In 2015 the Atlantic ran a piece about conflict of interest editing on Wikipedia which detailed Heilman s efforts to counteract edits made by employees of Medtronic to the Wikipedia page for percutaneous vertebroplasty 25 In 2017 Vice also ran an article about conflict of interest editing on Wikipedia in which the author noted that Heilman had vocally called on the Wikimedia Foundation to increase its enforcement of Wikipedia s policy against undisclosed paid editing 58 Personal life EditHeilman enjoys running ultramarathons and adventure racing 20 59 He and his girlfriend ran the Gobi March in 2008 60 He has also run the Marathon des Sables the Adventure Racing World Championships 18 and the Saskatchewan Marathon 61 Wikipedia related publications EditJames Heilman Eckhard Kemmann Michael Bonert Anwesh Chatterjee et al 2011 Wikipedia a key tool for global public health promotion Journal of Medical Internet Research 13 1 e14 doi 10 2196 JMIR 1589 ISSN 1438 8871 PMC 3221335 PMID 21282098 Wikidata Q24595401 Heilman James September 2011 Why we should all edit Wikipedia PDF University of British Columbia Medical Journal 3 1 32 33 Retrieved December 29 2015 Manu E Mathew A Potkay Joseph James M Heilman Prathap Tharyan October 22 2013 Cochrane and Wikipedia The Collaborative Potential for a Quantum Leap in the Dissemination and Uptake of Trusted Evidence Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews doi 10 1002 14651858 ED000069 ISSN 1469 493X PMID 24475488 Wikidata Q24202827 Archived from the original on October 18 2014 Retrieved June 9 2014 James Heilman Jacob de Wolff Graham Beards Brian Basden October 2 2014 Dengue fever a Wikipedia clinical review Open Medicine 8 4 e105 15 ISSN 1911 2092 PMC 4242787 PMID 25426178 Wikidata Q28651505 James M Heilman Andrew G West March 4 2015 Wikipedia and medicine quantifying readership editors and the significance of natural language Journal of Medical Internet Research 17 3 e62 doi 10 2196 JMIR 4069 ISSN 1438 8871 PMC 4376174 PMID 25739399 Wikidata Q28651276 James Heilman August 2015 Open Access to a High Quality Impartial Point of Care Medical Summary Would Save Lives Why Does It Not Exist PLOS MEDICINE 12 8 e1001868 doi 10 1371 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