2001 INDUCTEE William Gallie, MD Skin, Bones, Muscles & Joints, Health and Medical Education & Training, Leadership in Organizational Development

William Gallie posthumously inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame

Winnipeg, Manitoba

The R. Samuel McLaughlin Foundation was established

This foundation supports advanced post-graduate studies for surgeons in Canadian medical schools.

William Gallie’s post graduate training course in surgery was established

This two-year residency program in surgery exposed students to a year of training in general surgery followed by periods of specialization in urology, neurosurgery or pediatric surgery. It soon spread to all teaching hospitals associated with the University of Toronto.

Appointed Surgeon-in-Chief at Toronto General Hospital and Professor of Surgery at the University of Toronto

Excelling in positions of leadership, he became Dean of Medicine in 1936.

After the war, William Gallie returned to Canada and became surgeon in Chief at the Hospital for Sick Children

During this period, he continued his research on the use of tissue in surgical repair.

Gallie joined Canada’s war effort

He served in England at the Canadian Special Treatment Hospital and earned the rank of Major (Act.).

Returned to Toronto to join the surgical staff of the Hospital for Sick Children

He was also appointed junior surgeon at the Toronto General Hospital where he worked until 1910.

After entering medical school at the age of 17, Gallie graduated with his MD in 1903

He then spent a year as an intern at the Hospital for Sick Children and another year at the Toronto General Hospital. He then travelled to New York for further training at its Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled.