Gordon Scott McCreadie was born on February 7th 1967 in Victoria, British Columbia. He grew up on beautiful Vancouver Island and after high school attended Brigham Young University where he majored in Exercise Science with an emphasis on Pre-Med. After completing his undergraduate degree he returned to Canada in 1991 to attend the University of British Columbia School of Medicine in Vancouver. In 1992 he married the former Sue Keller of North Bend, Washington. He graduated with his MD degree in 1995. He then completed a residency in Emergency Medicine at Michigan State University-Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies. In 2012 the program was renamed and incorporated into the newly formed Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine. In his last year of residency Dr McCreadie served as Chief Resident. In 1999 following residency he moved his young family back to the Northwest and began practicing emergency medicine in community hospitals in Western Washington. In 2017 he moved to Oregon to take a position as the Emergency Department Medical Director at a hospital there. He and Sue are the proud parents of six amazing children. One Night in the ER is his first book and has been a labor of love to bring to the page some of his thoughts and feelings about his wonderful career in emergency medicine