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William T. Mustard, MD
Skin, Bones, Muscles & Joints, Heart & Vessels
William T. Mustard built a reputation as one of Canada’s great surgical pioneers and was instrumental in advancing the orthopaedic and cardiac…
Robert Salter, MD
Skin, Bones, Muscles & Joints, Global Health, Patient Care, Health and Medical Education & Training
As Chief of Orthopedic Surgery at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, and later as Surgeon-in-Chief, Dr…
Herbert Jasper, MD PhD
Brain & Mind, The Early Days - Health Care Pioneers
Dr. Herbert Jasper played a leading role at the Montreal Neurological Institute with his exploration of the brain's operation in both health and…
Charles P. Leblond, MD PhD
Dr. Charles Leblond developed a groundbreaking technique that allowed researchers to visualize radioactive tissues and cells under the microscope…
Charles Drake, MD
Brain & Mind, Leadership in Organizational Development, Health and Medical Education & Training
Dr. Charles Drake devoted his life to improving the care of brain aneurysms in Canada. Throughout his distinguished career, he established a…
Maude Abbott, MD
The Early Days - Health Care Pioneers, Women in Medicine, Heart & Vessels, Health & Humanities
Dr. Maude Elizabeth Seymour Abbott was a pioneer in cardiology and helped lay the foundation for many more women to enter the field of medicine in…
Wilder Penfield, MD
Leadership in Organizational Development, The Early Days - Health Care Pioneers, Health and Medical Education & Training, Brain & Mind
Dr. Wilder Penfield’s dream was to create a center of research and treatment that integrated neurology, neuropathology and neurosurgery. In 1934,…
James Collip, MD PhD
Hormones, Diabetes, Leadership in Organizational Development
Dr. James Collip is perhaps best known as a member of the team that discovered Insulin. Long after his role in that momentous discovery, however,…
Jacques Genest, MD
Leadership in Organizational Development, Hormones, Genitourinary Tract
Dr. Jacques Genest became the pre-eminent Canadian investigator of the cause and treatment of high blood pressure. He also became a champion of…