After serving in the Medical Branch of the RCAF for three-and-a-half years during the Second World War, Dr. Bradley co-founded the Wainwright Medical Clinic, where he practised medicine until 1960.

After acquiring post-graduate medical training as an endocrinologist in Boston, Dr. Friesen entered the Department of Medicine at McGill University, where he carried out research on human growth hormone which made successful replacement therapy in hormone-deficient children possible.

After spending time training in New York, Dr. Gallie returned in 1906 to Toronto to join the surgical staff of the Hospital for Sick Children. He was a brilliant and innovative general surgeon with a particular expertise in orthopaedics.

When, in 1975, natural resources revenues provided the Province of Alberta with a substantial surplus, Premier Lougheed had the foresight to envision a Heritage Foundation for the future support and development of the potential talent and capacity of young Albertans.

Dr. Montizambert travelled to Edinburgh for post-graduate training before taking up the post of medical superintendent of the Grosse-Île Quarantine Station in 1869, a post he held for thirty years.

In 1961, Dr. Scriver founded the DeBelle Laboratory in Biochemical Genetics at the Montreal Children’s Hospital to study genetic disorders in children. His discovery of hereditary forms of rickets in children followed his lobby for the addition of vitamin D to marketed milk in Quebec to eradicate the nutritional cause of rickets, thus raising society’s awareness of the genetic causes of rickets.

After residency training at Ste-Justine Hospital in Montreal and l’Hôpital de la Conception of Marseille, Dr. Teasdale-Corti dedicated herself to a career in Uganda, together with her husband, Dr. Piero Corti.