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| About the author | Last modified Jan. 11, 2007 webmaster@askdrray.com |
Dr.
Ray Schilling was born in 1945 in Tübingen, Germany. He grew up in
Southwest Germany and returned to his home town to study medicine at the
Eberhard-Karls-University Medical School where he graduated in 1971. He
wrote his thesis in endocrinology to obtain his M.D. (1), and published
a paper in English in an abridged version in the Acta Endocrinologica
(2). Following his internship in Germany, he immigrated into Canada in
1972. He started a post-doctoral cancer research position at the prestigious
Ontario Cancer Institute in Toronto from the fall of 1972 onwards until
the end of 1995. He published three papers in the area of cell immunology
and cell separation methods using a mouse model (3,4 and 5).
Ray always felt drawn to practicing medicine and to prepare for this he enrolled in a 2 1/2 year family medicine program equivalent (mixed internship program) at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. After the Canadian State Examination (called LMCC) he moved to western Canada to practice family medicine for 16 years in a suburb of Vancouver, B.C. In 1983 he trained at the University of British Columbia in clinical hypnosis and joined as a member of the Canadian Society of Clinical Hypnosis. He incorporated this knowledge into his general practice and applied it in patients with various disorders.
In 1994 he joined the Worker's Compensation Board of British Columbia as a medical advisor in occupational health while continuing his clinical work in walk-in-clinics. There he perceived that patients have a need to know more about their medical conditions than the busy general practitioner can communicate to them under the time constraints of modern medical practice. This was the basis for him to write this book, called 'NetHealthBook' (6), because it is strictly published only for the Internet. Since October 2002 Dr. Schilling has been publishing a monthly health newsletter on the Internet under www.askdrray.com (7). In it a choice of five timely health topics from up-to-date medical literature is published every month. An effort is made to summarize research findings that affect our health. This would include new insights into diseases, new treatment modalities and conceptual changes in medicine, all in easy to understand general language.
References:
1. Prof. Dr. Mayer, Fachbereich Klinische Medizin der Universität Tübingen University, wrote on Jan. 5, 1972: "On July 29th , 1971 he graduated as a doctor of medicine with the thesis " The Demonstration of CRF-Avtivity in Hypothalamic Extracts of Man" with the mark "very good" (summa cum laude). From Sept. 1, 1971 onwards he has been working as as intern in several hospitals of Tübingen University. He is expected to receive his Medical Licence (in German called "Ärztliche Approbation") in September 1972."
2. RM Schilling and Blobel: Acta Endocrin 73:1-10, 1973.
3. RA Phillips, DA Clark, RM Schilling and RG Miller: Progr. Immunol., 1975.
4. R.M. Schilling, RA Phillips and RG Miller: J.Exp. Med. 144: 241-258, 1976.
5. RG Miller, RM Schilling and EA Phillips: J Immunol 118: 166-174, 1977.
6. nethealthbook.com is an Internet based medical site for patient information. It was published in Kelowna, British Columbia, in February 2002.
7. askdrray.com is the home of the monthly health newsletter that Dr. Schilling publishes through this site. 5 relevant medical news stories are published every month. This accumulation of key medical publications from the current medical literature was started in October of 2002.