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Daniel Waters, DO


Daniel James Waters, D.O. is a native of Southern New Jersey and a published author since 1981; a graduate of UMD/New Jersey School of Osteopathic Medicine (now Rowan SOM), he has practiced cardiac surgery for nearly thirty years. In addition to undergraduate and medical degrees, he holds a Graduate Certificate in Narrative Healthcare and a Master of Arts in Writing, both from The Center for Graduate Studies at Asheville/The Thomas Wolfe Center for Narrative at Lenoir-Rhyne University in Asheville, NC. He is the Director of Medical Education at Mercy Medical Center North Iowa and author of numerous scientific papers, essays, short stories, two books of surgical advice and one novel.