Dr. Terry Anderson received his medical training at Oxford University and the Royal London Hospital. He was a family doctor in Ontario for six years, then completed a PhD in epidemiology and physiology at the University of Toronto. He spent the following years reaching medical students and doing research in the epidemiology of heart disease and cancer. During this time he maintained his links to clinical medicine by working a weekly shift in the busy Emergency Room of the Toronto East General Hospital. In 1979 Dr. Anderson was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada for his contributions to epidemiology, and in 1980 he became head of the department of Health Care and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, UBC.
During his career Dr. Anderson has been a consultant in epidemiology on a variety of projects, but in recent years he has restricted his consulting work to life expectancy in the medicolegal context. Dr. Anderson has published over 100 articles, and has been accepted into the Supreme Court of BC as an expert witness in the estimation of life expectancy.
