Raymond Gottschalk
Raymond Gottschalk studied medicine at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, graduating cum laude 1981. Internship was at the main teaching hospital in Cape Town, Groote Schuur Hospital. This was followed by 2 years of mandatory military training as a medical officer. Subsequently he moved to Canada and did a locum tenens for 6 months in rural Saskatchewan before starting a residency program in internal medicine at the University of Calgary. He completed internal medicine, was chief resident, then started respiratory medicine training. He did a research year and a half at the Firestone clinic under Dr. Frederick Hargreave in airway inflammation and biology with special interest in cellular dispersion methods for assessing airway inflammation. Subsequently he returned back to Calgary on staff at the Calgary General Hospital and after 2 years returned to Hamilton to join a sleep medicine practice with Dr. Les Berman. His involvement has been in education as codirector of the sleep medicine training program at McMaster University. This remains an active undertaking. Respiratory and sleep medicine trainees come through the clinical practice under supervision. He works with the CPSO as an inspector for the IHF program which is the independent health facilities program which reviews standards of treatment in respiratory and sleep medicine facilities. He has helped in the last 3 updates and has been cochair for the last 2 publications, for the clinical practice parameters for
