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David Robert Montoya
David Robert Montoya (born July 3, 1955) is a Canadian physician specialist in emergency medicine. He has also worked as a family physician, educator, researcher, medical administrator and healthcare consultant.

Early Life
David R. Montoya was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada the first child of immigrant parents from Spain: Angeles Lozano Martin and Emilio Montoya Sanchez. His family settled in the Eastview (now Vanier) neighbourhood of Ottawa where they were joined by his paternal grandmother, Rosa. The family grew to include three younger sisters: Rose, Angela and Virginia.

His father worked as a lab technician at the Experimental Farm of Ottawa while continuing his studies and later became a university professor of Spanish. His mother was a hairdresser who had her own salon, working out of the family home and eventually went to to become a successful real estate agent.

Education
David started school at Ducharmes elementary, a French Catholic primary school in Eastview. At the age of 11, his family moved to Lucerne Quebec for a short while before moving to Waterloo, Ontario in 1966 where his father was offered his first teaching position at Waterloo Lutheran University (now Wilfred Laurier University). In Waterloo, David attended Empire English Public School where he made the transition to English education.

In Waterloo, he attended Centennial Middle School and then went on to high school at the Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate and Vocational School (KWCVS) more commonly known as KCI. His studies were focused in the languages and he was an active participant in extramural sports including basketball, track and wrestling.

In 1971, his father was offered a teaching position at Memorial University in Newfoundland and the family moved.

Here, in St. John's, he attended Gonzaga High School: a Jesuit Catholic school for boys. His scholastic focus shifted from languages to the sciences and he excelled academically as well as in sports. He created and captained the high school wrestling team and went on to win a provincial gold medal in his weight category. He was also a member of the basketball team that won the city championship in his senior year. He also trained for the Canada Summer Games in cycling.

In his senior year, he also wrote a poem "An Elderly Lady", an homage to his grandmother which was published in "Pandora's Box" an anthology of Canadian poetry.

He graduated from Gonzaga with the highest cumulative average in the province and was awarded the Archbishops scholarship.

In 1973, he began his studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) as a chemistry major. After his second year, he was awarded the Atlantic Provinces Inter-University Committee on the Sciences (APICS) scholarship and spent the summer months working in the Department of Biochemistry in the Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. There, he worked on the "Enzyme Kinetics of Alcohol Dehydrogenase" under the mentorship of Prof. Huntley Blair.

The following year, he was re-awarded the APICS scholarship to continue his work with Prof. Blair in Halifax but was also awarded an IAESTE (International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience) grant to work on the "Isolation and Purification of Bacitracin Isomers" under the guidance of Prof. P. Pfaeder in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, Germany.

That year, he changed his major from chemistry to biochemistry and in 1976 he was accepted and entered Medical School at Memorial University.

In 1978, he was awarded a Bachelor's of Medical Science degree and in 1980 he was granted a Medical Degree (MD) and received the Dr. John Darte Scholarship.