Dr. Daniel Gouws is a medical practitioner licensed to practice in BC by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia. He has practiced medicine since 1985. Dr. Gouws is registered as a physician in Canada, and previously held registration in New Zealand and South Africa and has passed the Federation Licensing Examination of the USA. He is past teacher at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Since 1995 he has provided medical-legal and independent fitness for work evaluations to lawyers, insurance companies, employers, and government and union examinees. His main area of expertise is in the comprehensive medical assessment, rehabilitation, and diagnostic clarification of individuals in terms of their fitness for work. He has a special interest in mood disorders and chronic pain. Dr. Gouws is a Canadian Civil Aviation Medical Examiner and a Marine Examiner. He is the former president of Crossroads Medical Clinic Inc., Maple Ridge, BC, and is a past member of the psychiatric program team at Ridge Meadows Hospital in Maple Ridge. Dr. Gouws was the team physician for the Occupational Rehabilitation program at CBI (formerly known as Canadian Back Institute) in Coquitlam, BC, for more than 15 years and was a Medical Assessment and Return to Work Planning (MARP) examiner for Back in Motion in Coquitlam.
Dr. Gouws completed the 10 course requirements and passed his comprehensive exams towards an M.Sc.(A) in Occupational Health Sciences at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, in April 2000, is an associate of the Canadian Board of Occupational Medicine and past president of the Occupational and Environmental Medical Association of Canada. Dr. Gouws has served as the scientific chair for the 2012 OEMAC national conference in Vancouver and as the scientific chair for the OEMAC national conference in 2016 in Whistler.
