The Canadian Medical Hall of Fame is a Canada is an independent sovereign state in northern North America, the northern-most country in the world, and the second largest in total area. Bordering the United States, its territorial claims extend north into the Arctic Ocean as far as the North Pole. Canada is a federation of ten provinces... 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 A museum is a non-profit making, permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education and enjoyment, the tangible and intangible evidence of people and their environment. This definition is taken... museum in London is a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada with a metropolitan area population of about 447,286; the city proper has a population of about 351,267 (2002). It was settled in 1826 and incorporated as a city in 1855. London and the surrounding area (roughly, the territory between Kitchener... London, Ontario, and an annual induction ceremony.

Laureates

2005

• David Hunter Hubel (b. February 27, 1926) was co-recipient with Torsten Wiesel of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system; the prize was shared with Roger W. Sperry for his independent research on the cerebral hemispheres. Research The... David Hubel
• John McEachern
• Ian McWhinney
• Anthony Pawson
• Hans Selye (1907 - 1982), a Canadian physician, did much important theoretical work on the physical effects of stress. Some commentators considered him the first to demonstrate the existence of a separate stress disease, the stress syndrome, or General adaptation syndrome. To grossly oversimplify to the point of circular argument, Selye... Hans Selye

2004

• Avery, Dr. Oswald Theodore
• FitzGerald, Dr. John Gerald
• Marc Lalonde (born July 26, 1929) is a retired Canadian politician and Cabinet minister. Marc Lalonde obtained a Master of Laws degree from the Université de Montréal, as well as a Masters degree from Oxford University and a Diplôme détudes supérieures en droit (D.E... Lalonde, Honorable Marc
• LeClair, Dr. Maurice
• McCulloch, Dr. Ernest
• Till, Dr. James Edgar

2003

• Feindel, Dr. William Howard
• Hebb, Dr. Donald O.
• Hollenberg, Dr. Charles H.
• Huggins, Dr. Charles B.
• James Fraser Mustard, C.C., O.Ont., M.D., LL.D., F.R.S.C., (born 1927) is a Canadian physician and scientist. Born in Toronto, Ontario, he attended Whitney Public School and the University of Toronto Schools graduating in 1946. He received a MD from the University of Toronto... Mustard, Dr. J. Fraser
• d'Youville, Saint Marguerite

2001

• Bradley, Dr. John E.
• Friesen, Dr. Henry
• Gallie, Dr. William E.
• The Honourable Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, QC, MBA, LL.D., (born July 26, 1928, in Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian lawyer, politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985. Lougheed is the grandson of Sir James Alexander Lougheed. In 1950, he received... Lougheed, Honorable Peter
• Montizambert, Dr. Frederick
• Charles Robert Scriver (born 1930) is a Canadian physician and genetics researcher. He discovered the importance of vitamin D in children’s skeletal disease of rickets. He helped establish a nationwide metabolite screening program for newborns that was considered landmark work in genetics research. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Scriver... Scriver, Dr. Charles
• Teasdale-Corti, Dr. Lucille

2000

• Belleau, Dr. Bernard
• Brown, Dr. G. Malcolm
• Evans, Dr. John
• Hirsh, Dr. Jack
• King, Dr. Lenora
• Sackett, Dr. David

1998

• Barr, Dr. Murray
• Dr. Henry Norman Bethune (March 30, 1890 - November 12, 1939) was a Canadian physician, medical innovator, and humanitarian. Dr. Bethune was born in Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada. A thoracic surgeon, he travelled to Spain (1936-1937) and China (1938-1939) to perform battlefield surgical operations on war casualties. Bethunes work... Bethune, Dr. Norman
• Roberta Bondar Roberta Lynn Bondar is a Canadian astronaut, the first Canadian woman in space. She was born on December 4, 1945, in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. She holds a BS in zoology and agriculture from the University of Guelph (1968), an MS in experimental pathology from the University of... Bondar, Dr. Roberta
• Thomas Clement Douglas PC,CC,SOM (October 20, 1904 - February 24, 1986) was a Scottish-born Canadian Baptist minister and democratic socialist politician. As Cooperative Commonwealth Federation premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961, he led the first socialist government in North America and introduced universal public medicare to Canada... Douglas, Honorable Thomas C.
• Farquharson, Dr. Ray
• Fisher, Dr. C. Miller
• Fortier, Dr. Claude
• Gingras, Dr. Gustave
• Johns, Dr. Harold
• Lehmann, Dr. Heinz
• Menten, Dr. Maud

1997

• Beer, Dr. Charles Thomas
• Dr. Wilfred Gordon Bigelow (born June 18, 1913 in Brandon, Manitoba) is a heart surgeon famous for his role in developing the artificial pacemaker. He gained his MD from the University of Toronto in 1938 In the 1950s, Bigelow developed the idea of using hypothermia as a medical procedure. This... Bigelow, Dr. Wilfred Gordon
• Breault, Dr. Henri J.
• Sir Wilfred Grenfell Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (February 28, 1865-October 9, 1940) was a medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador. He was born at Parkgate, Wales and married Anne Elizabeth Caldwell MacClanahan of Chicago, Illinois in 1909. She predeceased him in 1938. They had three children. Medical education and... Grenfell, Dr. Wilfred Thomason
• Masson, Dr. Pierre
• Milner, Dr. Brenda
• Noble, Dr. Robert Laing
• Louis (Lou) Siminovitch (born May 15, 1920) 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 from... Siminovich, Dr. Louis

1995

• Barnett, Dr. Henry J.M.
• Chown, Dr. Bruce
• Jasper, Dr. Herbert
• Leblond, Dr. Charles P.
• Mustard, Dr. William Thorton
• Robert Bruce Salter (born December 15, 1924), C.C. , M.D., D.Sc., F.R.S.C. is a Canadian surgeon and a pioneer in the field of pediatric orthopaedic surgery. Born in Stratford, Ontario, he graduated in medicine from the University of Toronto in 1947. He worked at the... Salter, Dr. Robert Bruce
• Smith, Dr. Michael

1994

• Abbott, Dr. Maude Elizabeth Seymour
• Sir Frederick Banting Sir Frederick Grant Banting (November 14, 1891–February 21, 1941) was a Canadian medical scientist and Nobel laureate. Banting was born in Alliston, Ontario. After studying medicine at the University of Toronto, he served in the Canadian Army Medical Corps during World War I. When the... Banting, Dr. Frederick Grant
• Charles Herbert Best, CC, ( February 27, 1899 – March 31, 1978) was a medical scientist. He was born in West Pembroke, Maine, USA to Canadian parents. While a 22-year-old student studying medicine at the University of Toronto, he worked as an assistant to Dr. Frederick Banting and played... Best, Dr. Charles Herbert
• Browne, Dr. John Symonds Lyon
• Collip, Dr. James Bertram
• Copp, Dr. Douglas Harold
• Drake, Dr. Charles George
• Genest, Dr. Jacques
• Sir William Osler (July 12, 1849 - December 29, 1919) was a Canadian physician. He has been called one of the greatest icons of modern medicine, the Father of Modern Medicine, which is what he himself considered Avicenna to be. He was born in Bond Head, Canada West (now Ontario) and... Osler, Sir William
• Wilder Graves Penfield (January 25/26, 1891 - April 5, 1976) was a American-born Canadian neurosurgeon. He was born in Spokane, Washington, and studied at Princeton University before winning a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University and obtaining his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University. He spent several years training at... Penfield, Dr. Wilder Graves

External link

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