A leader of the Canadian academic medical community
After receiving his MD from the University of Manitoba and pursing post-graduate training in internal medicine, Dr. Charles Hollenberg turned to a life of academic medicine and leadership.
Dr. Hollenberg’s academic career began at McGill University in the 1960s, where he carried out an active programme of research in fat metabolism, and actively promoted the growth of scientific medicine at the Montreal General Hospital. The following decade he spent as Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto, where he was successful in furthering the mission of the department in all areas: teaching, administration and, most notably, in research.