Canadian medical researchers

Abby Lippman got her BA from Cornell University and her PhD from McGill University. She is currently Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, with cross appointments in Family Medicine and Social Studies of Medicine, all at McGill. ...more on Wikipedia about "Abby Lippman"

Allan Steven Detsky is a Canadian physician, health policy expert and international expert in clinical epidemiology. ...more on Wikipedia about "Allan S. Detsky"

C. David Naylor, DPhil MD (born 1954 in Woodstock, Ontario) is a celebrated medical researcher and president of the University of Toronto. ...more on Wikipedia about "C. David Naylor"

Dr. Charles Herbert Best, CC, ( February 27, 1899 – March 31, 1978) was a medical scientist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Best"

Charles Kirk Clarke ( 1857 - 20 January 1924) was a psychiatrist who was influential in Canadian politics. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Kirk Clarke"

Charles Thomas Beer (born November 18, 1915) is a Canadian chemist who helped in the discovery of Vinblastine. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Thomas Beer"

Donald Brian Calne (born 1936) is a Canadian neurologist who is a leading Parkinson's disease researcher. He was the first researcher who used synthetic dopamine to treat Parkinson's disease. He has shown that latent damage occurs in the brain even before the symptoms of Parkinson's disease appears. ...more on Wikipedia about "Donald Calne"

Duncan Archibald Graham (died February 18, 1974) was a Canadian physician and academic who held the first position in the British Empire of chair of clinical medicine, established by John Craig Eaton at the University of Toronto in 1919. He held this position and was Chair of the Department of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief at the Toronto General Hospital, until 1947. ...more on Wikipedia about "Duncan Archibald Graham"

Sir Frederick Grant Banting, KBE, FRSC ( November 14, 1891 – February 21, 1941) was a Canadian medical scientist, doctor and Nobel laureate noted as one of the co-discoverers of insulin. ...more on Wikipedia about "Frederick Banting"

Frederick Hans Lowy is a respected Canadian medical educator and former President and Vice-Chancellor of Concordia University. ...more on Wikipedia about "Frederick Lowy"

Guilford Bevil Reed ( 1887– 1955) was a Canadian medical researcher who reseach involved diseases such as tuberculosis, gas gangrene and tetanus and rinderpest. ...more on Wikipedia about "Guilford Bevil Reed"

Harold Elford Johns ( 4 July 1915 – 23 August 1998) was a Canadian medical physicist, noted for his extensive contributions to the use of ionizing radiation to treat cancer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Harold E. Johns"

Dr. Henry J.M. Barnett, CC , MD , D.Sc , FRCP(C.), (born February 10, 1922) is a Canadian physician, a leading stroke researcher and pioneer of the use of aspirin for stroke prevention. ...more on Wikipedia about "Henry Barnett"

Henry G. Friesen (born July 31, 1934) is a Canadian endocrinologist, a distinguished professor emeritus of the University of Manitoba and the discoverer of prolactin, a hormone which stimulates lactation in mammary glands. ...more on Wikipedia about "Henry Friesen"

Jacques Genest (born May 29, 1919, Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian physician and scientist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jacques Genest"

James Bertram Collip ( November 20, 1892 – June 19, 1965) was part of the Toronto group which isolated insulin. Born in Belleville, Ontario, he served as the Dean of Medicine at the University of Western Ontario from 1947- 1961, where he was also a member of the Kappa Alpha Society. ...more on Wikipedia about "James Collip"

John Alexander "Jack" Hopps ( 1919 – November 24 1998) is the Canadian inventor of the world's first artificial pacemaker and is known as the "father of biomedical engineering in Canada". ...more on Wikipedia about "John Alexander Hopps"

John Alexander Hopps ( 1919 - November 24, 1998) was the Canadian co-inventor of the artificial pacemaker in 1950. He developed the pacemaker in collaboration with Dr. Wilfred Bigelow and Dr. John Callaghan at the Banting Institute in Toronto. ...more on Wikipedia about "John Hopps (inventor)"

Mark A. Wainberg (born April 21, 1945) is a Canadian scientist and AIDS researcher. He is the Director of the McGill University AIDS Centre and Professor of Medicine and of Microbiology at McGill University. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mark Wainberg"

Canadian researcher Martin Henry Dawson was born in Truro, Nova Scotia, 6 August, 1896 and was educated at Dalhousie University and McGill University. Dawson made many important contributions in the fields of infectious diseases. Among these were studies on the transmutation of strains of pneumococci, and on the biological variants of the streptococcus and other microorganisms. His studies on the nature and treatment of arthritis made him a recognized authority in this disorder. He was a pioneer in penicillin therapy, and was the first in Canada to prepare it and use it in human disease. This included the successful treatment of bacterial endocarditis with penicillin, and the use of gold salts in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. ...more on Wikipedia about "Martin Henry Dawson"

Maud Leonora Menten ( March 20, 1879 – July 26, 1960) was a Canadian medical scientist who made significant contributions to enzyme kinetics and histochemistry. Her name is associated with the famous Henri-Michaelis-Menten equation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Maud Menten"

Murray Llewellyn Barr ( June 20, 1908 – May 4, 1995) was a Canadian physician and medical researcher, who discovered, in 1948, an important cell structure, the " Barr body". ...more on Wikipedia about "Murray Barr"

Phil Gold (born September 17, 1936), CC, OQ, MD, PhD, FRS(C), FRCP(C), MACP is a Canadian physician, scientist, and professor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Phil Gold"

Robert Laing Noble ( 1910 – December 11, 1990) was a Canadian physician who was involved in the discovery of Vinblastine. ...more on Wikipedia about "Robert Noble"

Robert Bruce Salter C.C. , M.D., D.Sc., F.R.S.C., F.R.H.S.C. (hon.) (born December 15, 1924), is a Canadian surgeon and a pioneer in the field of pediatric orthopaedic surgery. ...more on Wikipedia about "Robert Salter" Connect with shortopedia.

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