Dave Bailey

Who is Dave Bailey?

David Bailey is a retired track and field athlete, who represented Canada at the 1968 Summer Olympics in the men's 1.500 metres. He was the first Canadian to run the mile in less than 4 minutes in San Diego, CA on June 11, 1966 and the first Canadian to the run the mile in less than 4 minutes in Canada in Toronto on July 22, 1967. A resident of Willowdale, Ontario he won the bronze medal in this event at the 1967 Pan American Games and the silver medal in this event at the 1967 World University Games. He was two-time Canadian Universities Track and Field Athlete of Year and two-time inductee into the University of Toronto Sports Hall of Fame. He was a member of 9 Canadian National Track and Field Teams competing at World University Games, Budapest 1965 and Tokyo 1967, Commonwealth Games, Kingston, Jamaica, 1966, Pan American Games, Winnipeg, 1967, Commonwealth vs USA, Los Angeles, 1967, Pre-Olympic Games, Mexico City, 1967, Soviet Union Tour, 1968, European Tour, 1968, Olympic Games, Mexico City, 1968.

David Bailey completed undergraduate studies in Pharmacy and graduate work in Pharmacology at the University of Toronto. After post-doctoral training in Pharmacology at the University of Saskatchewan and work in drug development for the pharmaceutical industry, he returned to academia in 1986 at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He is currently full Professor in the Departments of Physiology & Pharmacology and Medicine. His research focused on mechanistic and translational clinical pharmacological investigations related to drug interactions.