Ron Stewart (politician)

The Honourable Ronald Daniel Stewart
At the Nova Scotia Legislative Assembly (November 2015).
MLA for Cape Breton North
In office 1993 – September 15, 1997
Preceded by	Brian Young
Succeeded by	Russell MacLellan
Minister of Health
In office June 11, 1993 – June 27, 1996
Preceded by	George Moody
Succeeded by	Bernie Boudreau
Personal details
Born	(1942-10-11) October 11, 1942 (age 74) North Sydney, Nova Scotia
Political party	Liberal
Residence	Bras d'Or, Victoria County, Nova Scotia
Occupation	Physician/Professor
Religion	Presbyterian

Ronald Daniel Stewart (born October 11, 1942) is a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Cape Breton North in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1993 to 1997. He was a member of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party.

Stewart was born in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, to father Donald and mother Edith, and raised in Sydney Mines. Stewart graduated with his BA and BSc from Acadia University, and from Dalhousie University in 1970 with his medical degree. During his time as an intern at the Victoria General Hospital he was heavily influenced by his professor and head of Emergency Medicine Dr. Bob Scharf. Upon graduation, he began his medical career by taking up a rural practice in Neil's Harbour, Nova Scotia.

In 1972, after two years in Cape Breton, Stewart entered the residency program in Emergency Medicine at the University of Southern California. He was the first medical director in the Los Angeles paramedic program. In Los Angeles, Stewart treated patients like Charles Manson. While working in Los Angeles he was also hired as a consultant for the television shows Emergency! and Marcus Welby, M.D..

In 1978, he left California for Pennsylvania, where he served as the founding head of the emergency medicine department at the University of Pittsburgh. He was appointed medical director for the Department of Public Safety of Pittsburgh, where he was known as "Doctor Emergency".