Biography of Dr. Jeremy L. Freeman, MD, FRCSC, FACS
  Dr. Jeremy Freeman was born in Hamilton, Ontario and grew up in Toronto. He attended medical school at the University of Toronto, graduating in 1973 with high honours. After one year of general internship, he spent three years in the Otolaryngology program at the University of Toronto followed by one year in General Surgery at the University of California in Los Angeles.
 

After receiving his Fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada in 1978, he spent two further years of advanced training, one as a Gordon Richards Fellow at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto in Radiation and Medical Oncology and a second year as a McLaughlin Fellow, training in Head and Neck Oncology at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London, UK. He was the first fellow of the Advanced Training Council sponsored by the two head and neck societies.

Returning from Europe in 1980, he assumed a staff positions at the Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto Hospital, Sunnybrook & Women’s Health Sciences Centre and the Princess Margaret Hospital. A Full Professor, he occupies the Temmy Latner/Dynacare Chair in Head and Neck Oncology at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine. He is Otolaryngologist-in-Chief at the Mount Sinai Hospital and the Director of the Division of Head and Neck Oncology in the Department of Otolaryngology. He has an active practice focusing on head and neck oncology with a primary interest in endocrine surgery of the head and neck.

 

Dr. Freeman is very involved in teaching undergraduates, residents and fellows. He is Director of the University of Toronto Head and Neck Fellowship Program, which in combination with colleagues at the University Health Network, is one of seventeen worldwide under the auspices of the American Head and Neck Society for the advanced training in head and neck oncology. Numerous international fellows who have participated in the program have gone on to be program chairs. He has also collaborated with several renowned basic scientists and has reported on a number of major breakthroughs in head and neck oncological research. In addition to his clinical and basic science research, Dr. Freeman has won numerous teaching awards at the University of Toronto.

He has given over 500 scholarly presentations, has been invited as a visiting professor and surgeon internationally, and has published over 200 papers in the scientific literature. He has been an invited speaker all over the world and has delivered many eponymous lectures. These include the Sholem Kay lecture in South Africa, the Schliffer lecture in Israel, the Foundation lecture of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in New Zealand, the Royal College of Surgeons Lecture (twice) to the Eastern Canada Otolaryngology Society, the Stell and Maran Lecture in London, and the H. S. Birkett Memorial Lecture at McGill University. He has been involved in a number of administrative roles in the American Head and Neck Society and is also on the editorial board of a number of high impact journals focusing on head and neck oncology.

He has spare time to spend exercising, playing basketball, fly-fishing, traveling, collecting oriental rugs and vintage militaria, studying history and watching old movies. He is married to Elayne Bonnie Freeman, a graphic designer, and is the proud father of Lauren, Ph.D in Philosophy at Boston University and soon to relocate to Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and Allison, a fine arts graduate of Concordia and University of Toronto presently an MA candidate at Yale University.