Dr. Terrence O’Malia is a Family Physician, disabled Veteran, Former Marine, world traveler and author of The Wolf Hunter. Enlisting in the Marine Corps when he was seventeen, he was stationed in Hawaii, Okinawa, and Japan. From those duty stations he visited countless other locations in the far east and Pacific Islands. After his honorable discharge from the Marine Corps he lived in Hawaii, where he built custom homes to support his love for surfing. He took advantage of his GI Bill, graduating from Gardner-Webb University with a bachelor’s in science with his eye on medical school. He worked as a back-country wilderness guide, carpenter, and youth counsellor before beginning his medical training. He graduated Medical School from the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine in Erie, Pennsylvania. When his Family Medicine Residency in Virginia was completed, he moved with his wife and three daughters to rural Mississippi. After a wonderful year practicing medicine along the Natchez Trace in Mississippi, the mountains started calling his name. He relocated his family to the Flathead Indian Reservation in Polson, MT, where he worked as an Emergency Physician for four years. Always in search of new adventures he then moved to the Alaskan Bush, where he traveled to remote Inupiaq and Yupik villages by prop plane to bring healthcare to the natives in rural Alaska. He now lives in the Mountains of Montana where he owns his own private clinic. He has a love for people, traveling the world and any type of outdoor adventure. Having been in over twenty countries, on five different continents he has amassed a wealth of experiences. His true passion in life is Medical Missions. From the mountains of Ecuador to the sub-Saharan deserts of Niger, he has brought hope to many people around the world. He travels regularly to Zambia where he conducts medical clinics in many remote villages around the copper belt. While he is not traveling to Africa or seeing patients in his rural Montana clinic, he is writing about fictional character Mack Murphy, his alter ego, a down on his luck Marine with an anger management problem. Read more about this authorRead less about this author