The Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences is one of the constituent faculties of

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. It was established in 1829 after the Montreal Medical Institution was incorporated into McGill College as the college's first faculty; it was the first medical faculty to be established in

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. The Faculty awarded McGill's first degree, and Canada's first medical degree to William Leslie Logie in 1833. McGill's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences is one of the most well-regarded medical schools in the world. Many researchers, physicians, clinicians, and pioneers within their respective fields have graduated from or have been affiliated with the faculty. Its graduates have gone on to found the

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and the

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. There have been at least two

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laureates who have completed their entire education at McGill University including MD at the McGill University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences including Andrew Schally (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1977) and David H. Hubel (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1981).

History

The Montreal Medical Institution, was established in 1823 by four physicians,

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, John Stephenson, William Caldwell and William Robertson, all of whom had been trained at the

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, and were involved in the foundation of the

Montreal General Hospital The Montreal General Hospital (MGH) (french: Hôpital Général de Montréal) is a hospital in Montreal, Quebec, Canada established in the years 1818-1820. The hospital received its charter in 1823. It is currently part of the McGill University ...

. In 1829 it was incorporated into McGill College as the new College's first faculty; it thus became the first Faculty of Medicine in Canada. A highly didactic approach to medical education called the "Edinburgh curriculum", which consisted of two six-month courses of basic science lectures and two years of "walking the wards" at The Montreal General Hospital, was instituted. From 1833 to 1877 the Faculty followed the pattern set by the University of Edinburgh and required graduating students to submit an 'inaugural dissertation' - a database of these is available. Sir William Dawson, the principal of McGill, was instrumental in garnering resources for the faculty and pioneering contributions from Thomas Roddick, Francis Shepherd, George Ross and

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helped to transform the Victorian era medical school into a leader in modern medical education. Osler graduated from the MDCM program at McGill University Faculty of Medicine in 1872, and co-founded the present-day

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in 1893. In 1905, the

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Medical Faculty Montreal who established in Montreal in 1871 closed and amalgamated with McGill University to create the new McGill University Faculty of Medicine, where BU graduates such as Maude Abbott, one of the Canada's earliest female medical graduates transferred to work for McGill as the Curator of the McGill Medical Museum. The McGill University Health Centre was part of a $2.355 billion Redevelopment Project on three sites - the Glen, the Montreal General and Lachine hospitals. A new $1.300 billion MUHC Glen site fully integrated super-hospital complex opened in 2015. A new satellite campus for McGill Medicine for a French stream MD, CM program was established in 2020 for the

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region with a graduating class size of 24 and total of 96 in the program. The establishment of the program is part of a $32.5-million construction project of the Groupe de médecine familiale universitaire (GMF-U) de Gatineau. In September 2020, the Faculty of Medicine changed its name to the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences to reflect the growth of interprofessionalism and the diversity in the Faculty of Medicine. McIntyre Medical Building - panoramio

Education

The faculty offers a four-year MDCM degree in medicine and surgery. The Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences also offers joint degree programs with other disciplines including business (M.D.-

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) and science/engineering (M.D.-

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). There is also an accelerated program for selected graduates of the Quebec college system (PRE-MED-ADM or MED-P) that combines one year of science curriculum with the four-year M.D., C.M. degrees. It is closely affiliated with the McGill University Faculty of Dentistry. Students of dentistry receive instruction together with their medical student colleagues for the first 18 months of their professional training. The faculty includes six schools: the School of Medicine, the Ingram School of Nursing, the School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, the School of Population & Global Health and the School of Biomedical Sciences. It also includes several research centres involved in studies on, for example, pain,

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, and aging. Most of the non-clinical parts of the faculty are housed in the McIntyre Medical Sciences Building ("The Beer Can", “McMed”), situated on McGill's downtown campus on the south side of

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between Avenue des Pins and Avenue Docteur-Penfield. The McGill University Faculty of Medicine was the first medical school in Canada to institute a joint MD-MBA program in 1997 in collaboration with the Desautels Faculty of Management. This program allowed students to complete both degrees in five years.

Affiliations

McGill University Health Centre

*GLEN super hospital ** Royal Victoria Hospital **

Montreal Children's Hospital Montreal Children's Hospital (french: Hôpital de Montréal pour enfants) is a children's hospital in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1904, it is affiliated with the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) and McGill University, Faculty of M ...

** Montreal Chest Institute *

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(contains MGH's outpatient psychiatry) *

Montreal Neurological Hospital The Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital (MNI), also known as Montreal Neuro or The Neuro, is a research and medical centre dedicated to neuroscience, training and clinical care, located in the city's downtown core of Montreal, Quebec, Cana ...

Hôpital de Lachine Lachine Hospital (french: Hôpital de Lachine) is a public hospital in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located at 650 16th Avenue in the borough of Lachine (at the corner of Saint Antoine Street). A community general hospital, it offers a range o ...

McGill affiliate hospitals

Lakeshore General Hospital The Lakeshore General Hospital (Hôpital général du Lakeshore) (LGH) is a district general hospital in Pointe-Claire, Quebec, a suburban municipality near Montreal, Quebec. The hospital employs 1,599 employees and contains 265 beds, and serves a ...

Jewish General Hospital The Jewish General Hospital (JGH; french: Hôpital général juif), known officially as the Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital (french: Hôpital général juif Sir Mortimer B. Davis) since 1978, is an acute-care teaching hospital in M ...

* St. Mary's Hospital * Douglas Mental Health University Institute * Shriners Hospital for Children *Hôpital de Gatineau - Groupe de médecine de famille universitaire (GMF-U) de Gatineau * Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital (JRH) *Mount Sinai Hospital Montreal

Reputation

McGill's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences has a national and international reputation with a list of faculty and alumni, many of whom were pioneers in their respective fields. It is also ranked as the number 1 medical school nationally in Canada by

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for 18 straight years (including the most recent ranking for 2023). McGill's Medical School has also consistently ranked in the top medical schools worldwide and ranked 21st worldwide on a recent QS World University Ranking of top medical schools world-wide. Particularly, among McGill University's renowned reputation of Rhodes Scholars, McGill's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences has also produced a number of Rhodes Scholars (Cecil James Falconer Parsons, Munroe Bourne, Douglas George Cameron, Alan G. Kendall, Robert Murray Mundle, John Doehu Stubbs, Geoffrey E. Dougherty, Brian James Ward, Lesley Fellows, Anne Andermann, Astrid-Christoffersen-Deb, Aleksandra Leligdowicz, Benjamin Mappin-Kasirer, Alexander Lachapelle), including one in the recent 2018 cohort. For medical school students entering in Fall 2020, the mean four-year undergraduate GPA was 3.87 (excluding graduate GPA), and the mean

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score was 32.1 (85th-88th percentile). Admissions to the McGill Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences M.D., C.M. program are highly competitive with an acceptance rate of 5.7% for the Class of 2026. The Department of Anatomy and Physiology at McGill University ranked 3rd globally in the 2017

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after Oxford University and Cambridge.

Harry Houdini incident

In October 1926, renowned magician Harry Houdini was giving a lecture on exposed mediums and spiritualists at McGill University and had invited medical students to his dressing room at Montreal's Princess Theatre. J. Gordon Whitehead, a medical student and boxer, had asked Houdini if he could take a sudden punch to the stomach, as had rumoured to be the case; Houdini received several unexpected punches. Feeling ill later that evening and after refusing medical treatment, Houdini was diagnosed with acute appendicitis a couple of days later and died on October 31, 1926. It remains a controversy whether Houdini died as a result of the punches or was simply unaware of a current appendicitis prior, and Whitehead was never charged.

Notable faculty and alumni

Bernard Nathanson Bernard N. Nathanson (July 31, 1926 – February 21, 2011) was an American medical doctor and co-founder, in 1969, of the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (NARAL), later renamed NARAL Pro-Choice America, National Abortion Rig ...

M.D., C.M. 1949 — obstetrician/gynecologist * Victor Dzau M.D., C.M. 1972 — president of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, former president and CEO of

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* Daniel Borsuk O.Q., B.Sc. 2000, M.D., C.M. 2006, M.B.A. 2006 — performed first face transplant in Canada * Thomas Chang O.C., M.D., C.M., Ph.D., FRCP(C), FRS(C) — pioneer in biomedical engineering, “Father of Artificial Cells” *

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O.C., O.B.C., M.D., C.M., M.S., M.B.A. — Canadian engineer and physician, astronaut, and chancellor emeritus

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. *

Joannie Rochette Joannie Rochette (born January 13, 1986) is a Canadian physician and retired competitive figure skater. She is the 2010 Olympic bronze medallist, the 2009 World silver medallist, the 2008 and 2009 Four Continents silver medallist, the 2004 G ...

M.D., C.M. 2020 — medal-winning Olympic figure skater * E. Fuller Torrey M.D., C.M. 1963 — psychiatrist and schizophrenia researcher, founder of the Treatment Advocacy Center *

Maurice Brodie Maurice Brodie (1903–1939) was a British-born American virologist who developed a polio vaccine in 1935. Early years and education Brodie was born in Liverpool, England, the son of Samuel Broude and Esther Ginsburg. The family immigrated to Ott ...

M.D., C.M. 1928 — polio researcher * Jack Wright M.D., C.M. 1928, — internationally top-ranked tennis star, winner of three Canadian Open men's singles titles and four doubles titles * Mark Cohen M.D., C.M. 1992 — ophthalmologist, laser eye surgeon and co-founder of LASIK MD * Avi Wallerstein — ophthalmologist, laser eye surgeon and co-founder of LASIK MD * Charles Scriver M.D., C.M. 1955 — Canadian pediatrician and biochemical geneticist *

Dafydd Williams Dafydd Rhys Williams (alternately known as David Rhys Williams) OC OOnt CCFP FCFP FRCPC FRCP FRCGS (born May 16, 1954) is a Canadian physician, public speaker, CEO, author and a retired CSA astronaut. Williams was a mission specialist o ...

O.C., O.Ont., M.D., C.M. 1983, M.S., M.B.A. — a Canadian physician, public speaker, CEO, author and multi-mission astronaut. * David R. Boyd M.D., C.M. 1963, — trauma surgeon, and developer of Regional Trauma Emergency Medical Services ( EMS). * Charles R. Drew M.D., C.M. 1933 — father of modern blood-banking; namesake of Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science; founding medical director of the Red Cross Blood Bank in the United States * Richard Goldbloom O.C., O.N.S., M.D., C.M. 1949 — pediatrician, chancellor of Dalhousie University 1986-2004 *

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M.D., C.M. 1933 — professor of medicine, specializing in infectious diseases; discoverer of

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* Ian Stevenson M.D., C.M. 1943 — Canadian-born U.S. psychiatrist * Ken Evoy M.D., C.M. 1979 — Emergency physician, entrepreneur, founder and chairman of the board of SiteSell * William Wright M.D., C.M. 1848 — first person of colour to earn a medical degree in North America * Laurent Duvernay-Tardif M.D., C.M. 2018 — offensive guard for the NFL's New York Jets *

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, B.Sc. 1957, M.Sc. 1961, M.D., C.M. 1961, Ph.D. 1965 — physician, scientist, and professor, discoverer of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), the first biomarker for cancer * Haile Debas M.D., C.M. 1963 — Dean of the

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from 1993 to 2003 * Phil Edwards, M.D., C.M. 1936 — "Man of Bronze", Canada's most-decorated Olympian for many years, and expert in tropical diseases * David Goltzman, B.Sc. 1966, M.D., C.M. 1968 — physician, scientist, and professor *

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, pediatric infectious diseases expert, former Dean of

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1999-2003 and first woman in Canada to be named Dean of a medical school. * Vivek Goel, M.D., C.M. 1984 — president and vice-chancellor of the

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* Katherine O'Brien, M.D., C.M. 1988 — infectious disease expert; Director of the World Health Organization's Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals * Frederick Lowy, M.D., C.M. 1959 — former

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and

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of Concordia University *

— first dean and co-founder of McGill College Medical Faculty *

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M.D., C.M. 1990 — – cardiologist and board member of the Heart and Stroke Foundation * David Hunter Hubel B.Sc. 1947, M.D., C.M. 1951 — Nobel laureate in Physiology (1981) * Joanne Liu M.D., C.M. — International President of

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(Doctors Without Borders) * Colin MacLeod M.D., C.M. 1932 — Canadian-American geneticist, identified DNA as hereditary material in the body,

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* John Lancelot Todd B.A. 1898, M.D., C.M. 1900 — parasitologist * Claude Roy — one of the founding fathers of the field of paediatric gastroenterology *

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Ph.D. 1954 — developed the McGill Pain Questionnaire * Jack Wennberg M.D., C.M. 1961 — pioneer in public health of medicine and founder of

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Ph.D. 1952 — neuropsychologist, "founder of neuropsychology" * Eric Berne BSc 1931, M.D., C.M. 1935 — psychiatrist who created the theory of

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* William Reginald Morse M.D., C.M. 1902 — one four founders of the West China Union University in Chengdu, Sichuan, in 1914; went on to become dean of the medical faculty * Robert Murray - B.A., M.A., M.D., C.M. 1943 - Bacteriologist *

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Ph.D. 1945, M.D., C.M. 1950 — pioneer in medical genetics * Perry Rosenthal M.D., C.M. 1958 — professor of ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and developer of the first gas-permeable scleral contact lens * William Feindel M.D., C.M. 1945 — neurosurgeon and neuroscientist * Francis Alexander Caron Scrimger M.D., C.M. 1905 — Lieutenant Colonel in the

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recipient of the

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* Cara Tannenbaum M.D., C.M. 1994 — geriatric medicine physician and researcher *

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M.D., C.M. 1878 — physician, Canada's first professional physiologist * Mark Wainberg O.C., O.Q., B.Sc. 1966 — HIV/AIDS researcher, discoverer of

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, Director of the McGill University AIDS Centre, *

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Ph.D. 1991 — immunologist and eye researcher, President & Vice-Chancellor

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* William Osler M.D., C.M. 1872 — professor, medical pioneer, developed bedside teaching, one of the four founders of the

* Betty Price M.D., C.M. 1980 — anesthesiologist and American politician/member of the

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* Edward Llewellyn-Thomas M.D., C.M. 1955 — English scientist, university professor and science fiction author * Rocke Robertson B.Sc. 1932, M.D., C.M. 1936 — physician * William Henry Drummond — Irish-born Canadian poet, physician *

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M.D., C.M. 1930 — physician and pioneer aviator * Harold Griffith M.D., C.M. 1922 — anaesthesiologist, pioneered the use of

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as a muscle relaxant, formed and was first President of World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists * Alice Benjamin Res. OB/GYN 1978 — maternal-fetal medicine specialist and pioneer in the field; performed Canada's first successful diabetic renal transplant and pregnancy *

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M.D., C.M. 1895 — physician, Canadian senator, and governor and one of the leaders of the establishment of the American College of Surgeons * Arnold Aberman O.C. B.Sc. 1965, M.D., C.M. 1967 — Dean of

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1992–1999, and instrumental founder/consulting dean of

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* Victor Goldbloom O.Q., O.C., M.D., C.M. 1945 — pediatrician, politician * Franklin White M.D., C.M. 1969 — public health scientist * Martin Henry Dawson M.D., C.M. 1923 — infectious disease researcher, first person in history to inject penicillin into a patient, 1940 * Walter Mackenzie — Canadian surgeon and academic, Dean of University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine 1959-1974 * John Thomas Finnie M.D., C.M. 1869 — physician and Quebec politician *

Philip Seeman Philip Seeman, (8 February 1934 – 9 January 2021) was a Canadian schizophrenia researcher and neuropharmacologist, known for his research on dopamine receptors. Career Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Seeman was raised in Montreal. He received a ...

M.D., C.M. 1960 — Canadian schizophrenia researcher and neuropharmacologist, known for his research on dopamine receptors * Munroe Bourne M.D., C.M. 1940 — physician, Olympic medal-winning swimmer, Rhodes Scholar, Major in the

* George Genereux M.D., C.M. 1960 — diagnostic radiologist and Olympic gold medalist and inductee in the

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* Peter Macklem O.C., M.D., C.M. 1956 — cardio-pulmonary physician and researcher, founding director of the Meakins-Christie Laboratories * Richard Margolese O.C., M.D., C.M. — surgeon, researcher and pioneer in treatment of breast cancers *

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M.D., C.M. 1901 — physician and inventor of the British Smoke Hood (an early gas mask) * Thomas George Roddick M.D., C.M. 1868 — surgeon, politician and founder of the

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* Andrew Schally Ph.D. 1957 — Nobel laureate in Physiology (1977) * Vincenzo Di Nicola BA, 1976; Res. Psychiatry 1986 — Italian-Canadian psychologist, psychiatrist and family therapist, and philosopher of mind * Maurice LeClair M.D., C.M. 1951 — Canadian physician, businessman, civil servant, and academic; Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the

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* John Stephenson — co-founder of McGill College Medical Faculty * Arthur Vineberg B.Sc. 1924, M.D., C.M. 1928, Ph.D. 1933 — cardiac surgeon, pioneer of revascularization * Antoine Hakim — Canadian engineer and physician, former CEO of the Canadian Stroke Network * Sir Charles-Eugène-Napoléon Boucher de Boucherville M.D., C.M. 1843, Physician, politician, two-time

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* R. Tait McKenzie M.D., C.M. 1892 — pioneer of modern physiotherapy * David Saint-Jacques Res. FM 2007 — astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), astrophysicist, engineer, and a physician * C. Miller Fisher described lacunar strokes and identified transient ischemic attacks as stroke precursors * Marla Shapiro M.D., C.M. 1979 — primary medical consultant for

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* Meyer Balter M.D., C.M. 1981 — pulmonologist, medical researcher, and professor,

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M.D., C.M. 1896 Canada's first neurosurgeon, thoracic surgical pioneer *

Casey Albert Wood Casey Albert Wood (November 21, 1856 – January 26, 1942) was a Canadian ophthalmologist and comparative zoologist who studied aspects of animal vision especially those of birds. He collected books on birds and zoology and helped establish th ...

ophthalmologist and comparative zoologist * Maude Abbott M.D., C.M. 1894 — of Canada's earliest female medical graduates, international expert on congenital heart disease, namesake of Maude Abbott Medical Museum

Current and past faculty members

* Madhukar Pai — expert on global health and epidemiology, specifically tuberculosis * Nahum Sonenberg — Israeli-Canadian expert virologist, microbiologist, and biochemist, discoverer of mRNA 5' cap-binding protein * Jonathan Meakins B.Sc. 1962 — surgeon, immunologist * Heinz Lehmann Canadian psychiatrist, expert in treatment of schizophrenia the "father of modern psychopharmacology." * Maurice McGregor South-African cardiologist *

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, M.D., C.M. 1970 — prominent medical geneticist, pediatrician; expert in the field of inborn errors of folate and vitamin B12 metabolism * Michael Meaney — researcher and expert in biological psychiatry, neurology, and neurosurgery * Terence Coderre — researcher, pain expert, Harold Griffith Chair in Anaesthesia Research * Judes Poirier — researcher, professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, director of the Molecular Neurobiology Unit at the

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— neurosurgery pioneer, first director of the

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and Montreal Neurological Hospital * David Goltzman, B.Sc. 1966, M.D., C.M. 1968 — physician, scientist, and professor * George Karpati, nenowned Canadian neurologist and neuroscientist * Charles Philippe Leblond — pioneer of cell biology and stem cell research * Bernard Belleau — Canadian molecular pharmacologist best known for his role in the discovery of HIV drug Lamivudine *

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— Canadian endocrinologist, discoverer of human

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— Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist * James C. Hogg — expert in

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* Jonathan Campbell Meakins — Physician and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine 1941–1948, first President and Founder of the

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* Albert Aguayo — Canadian neurologist and assistant professor in the department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, former President

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* John J. R. Macleod — co-discoverer of insulin, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1923) laureate * Rémi Quirion — first Chief Scientist of Quebec * Lydia Giberson — Canadian-born psychiatrist and pioneering

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executive * Marvin Kwitko — Canadian ophthalmologist who pioneered in cataract surgery and laser eye surgery * Donald Ewen Cameron — Scottish-born psychiatrist known for his involvement in

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— Dean of the

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, former chair of

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and

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* Barbara E. Jones — Canadian neuroscientist, professor emerita in the McGill University Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery * Gustavo Turecki — Canadian psychiatrist, suicidologist, neuroscientist * Juda Hirsch Quastel — pioneer in neurochemistry and soil metabolism; Director of the McGill University-Montreal General Hospital Research Institute * John Dossetor — Canadian physician and bioethicist who is notable for co–coordinating the first kidney transplant in Canada and the Commonwealth * Ouida Ramón-Moliner — Canadian anaesthetist * Shyamala Gopalan — breast cancer researcher in the Faculty of Medicine and McGill-affiliated Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research; mother of U.S. Vice President

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References

External links

Medical Library Archives Collection
Osler Library Archives, McGill University. Collection of primary sources documenting the growth of the Medical Library at McGill University. Also includes announcements, university calendars, and directories related to the Faculty of Medicine {{DEFAULTSORT:Mcgill University Faculty Of Medicine McGill University Medical schools in Canada