Canadian Medical Hall of Fame
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The Canadian Medical Hall of Fame is a Canadian
charitable organization, founded in 1994, that honours Canadians who have contributed to the understanding of disease and improving the health of people. It has a museum
in London, Ontario
, and has an annual induction ceremony.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
charitable organization, founded in 1994, that honours Canadians who have contributed to the understanding of disease and improving the health of people. It has a museum
Museum
A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities...
in London, Ontario
London, Ontario
London is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada, situated along the Quebec City – Windsor Corridor. The city has a population of 352,395, and the metropolitan area has a population of 457,720, according to the 2006 Canadian census; the metro population in 2009 was estimated at 489,274. The city...
, and has an annual induction ceremony.
2012
- Terry Fox
- John James Macleod
- Dr. Armand Frappier
- Dr. Peter Macklem
- Dr. John Dirks
- Dr. F. Clarke Fraser
- Dr. Lap-Chee Tsui
2011
- Albert AguayoAlbert AguayoAlbert Juan Aguayo , is a Canadian neurologist at McGill University. He is a native of Argentina.-Honours/Awards:* 1984 - Made a member of the Royal Society of Canada* 1988 - Received the Gairdner Foundation International Award...
- John Bienenstock
- Paul DavidPaul DavidPaul David, was a Canadian cardiologist, founder of the Montreal Heart Institute, and Senator.Born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Louis-Athanase David and Antonia Nantel, he received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Paris in 1939 and his MD from the Université de Montréal in 1944...
- Jonathan Campell Meakins
- Allan Ronald
- D. Lorne Tyrrell
2010
- Alan C. Burton
- William A. CochraneWilliam Arthur CochraneWilliam Arthur Cochrane, is a Canadian physician, pediatrician, academic, and medical executive.Born in Toronto, Ontario, he received his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Toronto in 1949...
- Phil GoldPhil GoldPhil Gold, CC, OQ, FRSC, FRCPC, MACP is a Canadian physician, scientist, and professor.Born in Montreal, Quebec, he received a B.Sc. degree in 1957, a M.Sc. degree in 1961, a M.D. degree in 1961, and a Ph.D. in 1965 from McGill University.In 1968, he co-discovered with Samuel O...
- James C. Hogg
- Vera Peters
- Calvin R. Stiller
2009
- Sylvia FedorukSylvia FedorukSylvia Olga Fedoruk, OC, SOM is a Canadian scientist, curler and the 17th Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan.Born in Canora, Saskatchewan, of Ukrainian immigrants, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics at the University of Saskatchewan, in 1949, and a M.A...
- Tak Wah MakTak Wah MakTak Wah Mak, OC OOnt FRS FRSC is an award-winning Canadian researcher who has worked in a variety of areas including biochemistry, immunology, and cancer genetics...
- Ronald MelzackRonald MelzackRonald Melzack, is a Canadian psychologist.After studying for his Ph.D. in 1954 with D. O. Hebb at McGill University in Montreal, he began to work with patients who suffered from "phantom limb" pain — people who feel pain in an arm or leg that has been removed...
- Charles Tator
- Mladen Vranic
2007
- Elizabeth BagshawElizabeth BagshawElizabeth Catherine Bagshaw, CM was one of Canada's first female doctors and the medical director of the first birth control clinic in Canada.-History:...
- Felix d'HerelleFélix d'HerelleFélix d'Herelle was a French-Canadian microbiologist, the co-discoverer of bacteriophages and experimented with the possibility of phage therapy.-Early years:...
- Jean DussaultJean DussaultJean H. Dussault, was a Canadian endocrinologist. He helped develop a blood test for the early detection of congenital hypothyroidism, a condition of severely stunted physical and mental growth due to untreated congenital deficiency of thyroid hormones.Born in Quebec City, Quebec, Dussault...
- Wilbert KeonWilbert KeonWilbert Joseph Keon, OC is a heart surgeon, researcher and was a Canadian Senator.Born in Sheenboro, Quebec, he received a Bachelor of Science from St. Patrick's College, Carleton University and a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Ottawa.After a period of studying and teaching at Harvard...
- Endel TulvingEndel TulvingEndel Tulving is an experimental psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist whose research on human memory has influenced generations of psychological scientists, neuroscientists, and clinicians...
2006
- David Hubel
- John McEachern
- Ian McWhinneyIan McWhinneyIan Renwick McWhinney, OC, FRCGP, FCFP, FRCP, is an English physician and academic known as the "Father of Family Medicine" for his work in creating a family medicine program at the University of Western Ontario....
- Anthony PawsonAnthony PawsonAnthony 'Tony' James Pawson, OC, OOnt, CH, FRS, FRSC , British-born Canadian scientist whose research has revolutionized the understanding of signal transduction, the molecular mechanisms by which cells respond to external cues, and how they communicate with each other...
- Hans SelyeHans SelyeHans Hugo Bruno Selye, CC was a pioneering endocrinologist. Selye did much important scientific work on the hypothetical non-specific response of an organism to stressors. While he did not recognize all of the many aspects of glucocorticoids, Selye was aware of their role in the stress response...
2004
- Oswald AveryOswald AveryOswald Theodore Avery ForMemRS was a Canadian-born American physician and medical researcher. The major part of his career was spent at the Rockefeller University Hospital in New York City...
- John Gerald FitzGerald
- Marc LalondeMarc LalondeMarc Lalonde, PC, OC, QC is a retired Canadian politician and Cabinet minister.Lalonde was born in Île Perrot, Quebec and obtained a Master of Laws degree from the Université de Montréal, a Master's degree from Oxford University, and a Diplôme d'études supérieures en droit from the University of...
- Maurice LeClairMaurice LeClairJ. Maurice LeClair, CC is a Canadian physician, businessman, civil servant, and academic.Born in Sayabec, Quebec, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1947 and a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1951 from McGill University. In 1953, he became a General Practitioner in Shawinigan, Quebec...
- Ernest McCullochErnest McCullochErnest Armstrong McCulloch, OC, O.Ont, FRSC was a University of Toronto cellular biologist, best known for demonstrating – with James Till – the existence of stem cells.-Biography:...
- James TillJames TillJames Edgar Till, OC, O.Ont, FRSC is a University of Toronto biophysicist, best known for demonstrating – with Ernest McCulloch – the existence of stem cells.-Early work:...
2003
- William FeindelWilliam FeindelWilliam Howard Feindel, is a Canadian neurosurgeon, scientist and professor.Born in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, he received a B.A. in Biology from Acadia University in 1939, a M.Sc. from Dalhousie University in 1942, and an MDCM from McGill University in 1945. Attending Merton College, Oxford as a...
- Donald Olding HebbDonald Olding HebbDonald Olding Hebb FRS was a Canadian psychologist who was influential in the area of neuropsychology, where he sought to understand how the function of neurons contributed to psychological processes such as learning...
- Charles HollenbergCharles HollenbergCharles H. Hollenberg, was a Canadian physician, educator and researcher.Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he received a Bachelor of Science in 1950 and a Doctor of Medicine in 1955 from the University of Manitoba. In 1960, he joined the Department of Medicine at McGill University...
- Charles B. Huggins
- Fraser Mustard
- Marie-Marguerite d'YouvilleMarie-Marguerite d'YouvilleSaint Marguerite d'Youville was a French Canadian widow who founded the religious order the Order of Sisters of Charity of Montreal, commonly known as the Grey Nuns of Montreal...
2001
- John E. Bradley
- Henry FriesenHenry FriesenHenry George Friesen, is a Canadian endocrinologist, a distinguished professor emeritus of the University of Manitoba and the discoverer of prolactin, a hormone which stimulates lactation in mammary glands....
- William Gallie
- Peter LougheedPeter LougheedEdgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....
- Frederick MontizambertFrederick MontizambertFrederick Montizambert, CMG, ISO was a Canadian physician and civil servant. He was the first Director General of Public Health in Canada....
- Charles ScriverCharles ScriverCharles Robert Scriver, is an eminent Canadian pediatrician and biochemical geneticist. Scriver made many important contributions to our knowledge of inborn errors of metabolism...
- Lucille Teasdale-CortiLucille Teasdale-CortiLucille Teasdale-Corti, was a Canadian physician, surgeon and international aid worker, who worked in Uganda and contributed to the development of medical services in the country.-Early life in Canada:...
2000
- Bernard BelleauBernard BelleauBernard Belleau, OC, FRSC was a Canadian molecular pharmacologist best known for his role in the discovery of Lamivudine, a drug used in the treatment of HIV and Hepatitis B infection....
- G. Malcolm Brown
- John Robert EvansJohn Robert EvansJohn Robert Evans, is a Canadian pediatrician, academic, businessperson, and civic leader.After graduating from the University of Toronto Schools, he received his medical degree from the University of Toronto in 1952 and was a Rhodes Scholar...
- Jack HirshJack HirshJack Hirsh, is a Canadian clinician and scientist specializing in anticoagulant therapy and thrombosis.Born in Melbourne, Australia, Hirsh is a graduate of the University of Melbourne Medical School. He studied hematology at Washington University in St. Louis, the London Postgraduate Medical...
- Lenora KingLenora KingLeonora Howard King was a Canadian physician and medical missionary who spent 47 years practicing medicine in China. She was the first Canadian doctor to work in China....
- David SackettDavid SackettDavid Lawrence Sackett, OC, FRSC is a Canadian medical doctor and a pioneer in evidence-based medicine. He founded the first department of clinical epidemiology in Canada at McMaster University, and the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine...
1998
- Murray BarrMurray BarrMurray Llewellyn Barr, OC, FRSC, FRS was a Canadian physician and medical researcher who discovered with graduate student Ewart George Bertram, in 1948, an important cell structure, the "Barr body"....
- Norman BethuneNorman BethuneHenry Norman Bethune was a Canadian physician and medical innovator. Bethune is best known for his service in war time medical units during the Spanish Civil War and with the Communist Eighth Route Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War...
- Roberta BondarRoberta BondarRoberta Bondar,is OC, O.Ont, FRCP, FRSC is Canada's first female astronaut and the first neurologist in space. Following more than a decade as NASA's head of space medicine, Bondar became a consultant and speaker in the business, scientific and medical communities.-Education:Roberta Bondar had...
- Tommy DouglasTommy DouglasThomas Clement "Tommy" Douglas, was a Scottish-born Baptist minister who became a prominent Canadian social democratic politician...
- Ray FarquharsonRay FarquharsonRay Fletcher Farquharson was a Canadian doctor, university professor, and medical researcher. Born in Claude, Ontario, he attended and taught at the University of Toronto for most of his life, and was trained and employed at Toronto General Hospital...
- Charles Miller Fisher
- Claude FortierClaude FortierClaude Fortier, was a Canadian physiologist and expert on the pituitary gland.From 1974 to 1975, he was the President of the Royal Society of Canada.-Honours:* In 1970, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada....
- Gustave GingrasGustave GingrasGustave Gingras, was a Canadian physician and founder of the Montreal Institute of Rehabilitation in 1949....
- Harold E. JohnsHarold E. JohnsHarold Elford Johns, OC was a Canadian medical physicist, noted for his extensive contributions to the use of ionizing radiation to treat cancer.-Early life and education:...
- Heinz LehmannHeinz LehmannHeinz Edgar Lehmann, OC, FRSC was a German born Canadian psychiatrist best known for his use of chlorpromazine for the treatment of schizophrenia in 1950s....
- Maud MentenMaud MentenMaud Leonora Menten was a Canadian medical scientist who made significant contributions to enzyme kinetics and histochemistry. Her name is associated with the famous Michaelis-Menten equation in biochemistry.Maud Menten was born in Port Lambton, Ontario and studied medicine at the University of...
1997
- Charles Thomas BeerCharles Thomas BeerCharles Thomas Beer, CM was a Canadian organic chemist who helped in the discovery of Vinblastine.Born in Leigh, Dorset, England, he received a D.Phil in Chemistry from Oxford in 1948. He came to North America in the early 1950s to the department of medical research at the University of Western...
- Wilfred Gordon BigelowWilfred BigelowWilfred Gordon "Bill" Bigelow, OC, FRSC was a Canadian heart surgeon known for his role in developing the artificial pacemaker and the use of hypothermia in open heart surgery.Born in Brandon, Manitoba, the son of Dr...
- Henri J. Breault
- Wilfred Thomason GrenfellWilfred GrenfellSir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, KCMG was a medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador.He was born at Parkgate, Wirral, England, the son of Algernon Grenfell, headmaster of Mostyn House School, and Jane Georgiana Hutchison and married Anne Elizabeth Caldwell MacClanahan of Chicago, Illinois, in...
- Pierre Masson
- Brenda MilnerBrenda MilnerBrenda Milner, is a Canadian neuroscientist who has contributed extensively to the research literature on various topics in the field of clinical neuropsychology. -Biography:...
- Robert Laing Noble
- Louis SiminovitchLouis SiminovitchLouis Siminovitch, CC is a Canadian molecular biologist. He was a pioneer in human genetics, researcher into the genetic basis of muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis, and helped establish Ontario programs exploring genetic roots of cancer.Born in Montreal, Quebec to parents who had emigrated...
1995
- Henry J.M. Barnett
- Bruce ChownBruce ChownBruce Chown, was a Canadian scientist who researched the blood factor known as the Rhesus factor and helped produced a Rh immune vaccine, Rh gamma globulin, which helps to prevent Erythroblastosis fetalis....
- Herbert JasperHerbert JasperHerbert Henri Jasper, was a Canadian psychologist, physiologist, anatomist, chemist and neurologist.Born in La Grande, Oregon, he attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon and received his PhD in psychology from the University of Iowa in 1931 and earned a Doctor of Science degree from the...
- Charles Philippe LeblondCharles LeblondCharles Philippe Leblond, was a pioneer of cell biology and stem cell research and a former Canadian professor of anatomy...
- William Thorton MustardWilliam MustardWilliam Thornton Mustard, was a Canadian physician and cardiac surgeon. In 1949, he was one of the first to perform open-heart surgery using a mechanical heart pump and biological lung on a dog at the Banting Institute...
- Robert Bruce SalterRobert B. SalterRobert Bruce Salter, , was a Canadian surgeon and a pioneer in the field of pediatric orthopaedic surgery....
- Michael SmithMichael Smith (chemist)Michael Smith, CC, OBC, FRS was a British-born Canadian biochemist who won the 1993 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.-Biography:...
1994
- Maude Elizabeth Seymour AbbottMaude AbbottMaude Elizabeth Seymour Abbott was a Canadian doctor and was one of Canada's earliest female medical graduates and an expert on congenital heart disease....
- Frederick Grant BantingFrederick BantingSir Frederick Grant Banting, KBE, MC, FRS, FRSC was a Canadian medical scientist, doctor and Nobel laureate noted as one of the main discoverers of insulin....
- Charles Herbert Best
- John Symonds Lyon Browne
- James Bertram CollipJames CollipJames Bertram Collip, Ph.D. was part of the Toronto group which isolated insulin. He served as the Chair of the Department of Biochemistry at McGill University from 1928-1941 and Dean of Medicine at the University of Western Ontario from 1947-1961, where he was a charter member of The Kappa Alpha...
- Douglas Harold CoppHarold CoppDouglas Harold Copp, was a Canadian scientist who discovered and named the hormone calcitonin, which is used in the treatment of bone disease....
- Charles George DrakeCharles George DrakeCharles George Drake, CC, O.Ont, FRCS was a Canadian neurosurgeon known for his work on treating aneurysms.Born in Windsor, Ontario, he received his B.Sc. and MD degrees from The University of Western Ontario....
- Jacques GenestJacques GenestJacques Genest, is a Canadian physician and scientist.-Honours:* In 1963, he was awarded the Gairdner Foundation International Award.* In 1967, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada....
- William OslerWilliam OslerSir William Osler, 1st Baronet was a physician. He was one of the "Big Four" founding professors at Johns Hopkins Hospital as the first Professor of Medicine and founder of the Medical Service there. Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet (July 12, 1849 – December 29, 1919) was a physician. He was...
- Wilder Graves PenfieldWilder PenfieldWilder Graves Penfield, OM, CC, CMG, FRS was an American born Canadian neurosurgeon. During his life he was called "the greatest living Canadian"...