Daniel Kalla is a Canadian author and physician. He has written several popular novels in the thriller and historical fiction genres, all with medical themes. He was the director of Emergency Medicine at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia. Both Kalla's father and grandfather were also practicing physicians; his grandfather fled Czechoslovakia weeks prior to the Nazi annexation of that country in 1939. Kalla was born in Vancouver on May 4, 1966. He attended the University of British Columbia, where he studied math as an undergraduate, and received his M.D. He also took a screenwriting course at Simon Fraser University, which encouraged his writing ambitions. His first novel, Pandemic, was inspired by his experiences screening potential SARS patients in Vancouver during the 2003 outbreak. He went on to head the Emergency Medicine departments at two Vancouver hospitals. He is an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of British Columbia. As of 2016, he has published nine novels with two publishers, Tor and HarperCollins. He has used a recurring character, Dr. Franz Adler, in three of his novels. Bibliography Pandemic, Tor, 2005 Resistance, Tor, 2006 Rage Therapy, Tor, 2006 Blood Lies, Forge (Tor) 2008 Cold Plague, Forge (Tor), 2008 Of Flesh and Blood, Forge (Tor), 2010 The Far Side of the Sky, HarperCollins Rising Sun, Falling Shadow, HarperCollins, 2013 Nightfall Over Shanghai, HarperCollins 2015 We All Fall Down, Simon and Schuster, 2019 Lost Immunity, Simon and Schuster, 2021 References Canadian male novelists Canadian emergency physicians University of British Columbia alumni University of British Columbia faculty Writers from Vancouver Living people 1966 births 21st-century Canadian novelists 21st-century Canadian male writers