Jeff Nisker has written or co-written over 150 scientific articles and book chapters and seven plays, performed in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and South Africa. He held Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Genome Canada grants exploring the use of theatre for citizen deliberation in health policy development. For his work using theatre for research and education, Jeff received the Royal Conservatory of Music’s Educator of the Year Award and Western’s Faculty Scholar Award for Innovation. Jeff has also been awarded the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada’s President’s Award, and he was chosen by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Peter Gzowski as one of the “Best Minds of Our Time.”
Book(s)
Books
From Calcedonies to Orchids
Jeff Nisker has been writing plays since the early 1990s. He did this in order to bring audiences to the position of persons immersed in the vortex of new scientific capacity and its social implications. Jeff ultimately aims to promote humanity in health policy development.
Patiently Waiting For...
Patiently Waiting For… is the story of the indomitable, feisty, and subversive Ruth, who, having quadriplegia, longs to access a wider world through use of available software and a computer.
This Sillysaurus: An Opus of a Memoir
The Sillysaurus wants you to know that her series of nine chapter books, collected in one volume, is now available in bookstores and for you to order online. The Sillysaurus dictated her stories to me while I was on chemotherapy, and I translated her stories from Sillysaurese into English.
Love and Injustice in Medicine
Love and Injustice in Medicine explores the injustices Jeff Nisker has witnessed in his many years in medicine, including the injustice of illness itself.
Confined to the Sidelines
Confined to the Sidelines is a juxtaposition of the poems Jeff Nisker wrote in the time of COVID with four of his related social-justice poems.