Joseph E. Cangas, M.D.
Thanks for checking out my website!  I'm a Board Certified
Pediatrician and an Illinois native. While I was born in Ft.
Madison, IA in 1970, most of  my childhood was spent in a
small town in western Illinois,
Dallas City, which has a
population of 1,000.  I graduated from Dallas City High School
in 1988, with a graduating class of 34 students.  I married my
wife Natasha  in August 2008. We have two children, Jonathan
4, and Ashley 7.

My mother, JoAnn Flaherty, owns a clothing consignment
shop,
Stage 2, in Ft. Madison, IA, which she has run since
1985.  Dan Flaherty, my father, works in marine construction.  I
also have two siblings, a brother, Karl, who is 17, and a sister,
Misty, who is 29.

After graduating high school, I joined the U.S Army and worked
in Counterintelligence and was instructed in the Korean
language at the
Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA.  
After discharge, I returned to the Dallas City area, where I
worked for DuPont for a year prior to returning to college.

In 1993, I began college, obtaining my B.S. from
Western
Illinois University in 1997.  I subsequently attended the
University of Illinois College of Medicine, after which I attended
the
University of Missouri for my pediatric training, which I
completed in 2004.

I moved to
Columbia, IL, and started Illini Pediatrics in 2006
after two years of service in Salem, IL. Check out the website
for the helmet program I started,
Helmets First!
Dr Joseph E. Cangas
Biography