Edward James Moran Campbell, (August 31, 1925 – April 12, 2004) was a Canadian physician. He was the founding Chair of the Department of Medicine at

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from 1968 to 1975. He was also the inventor of the

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. Born in

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, the son of a

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, he received his Doctor of Medicine from Middlesex Hospital Medical School (now

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) in

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in 1949. In 1960, he published a paper for the

, a method for delivering constant specific oxygen concentration to a patient, crucial for treating lung disease. In 1965, he delivered the

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at the

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in London. In 1968, he moved to Canada to become the founding chair of medicine at

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's new medical school. There he helped to establish the schools problem based teaching method. Medical students were not given formal testing and instead were given realistic problems to solve and avoided use of traditional testing examinations. While living in

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, he was an active member of the community and fought for the protection of the bike paths in the city. He was elected as Fellow of the

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in 1983 and made an Officer of the

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in 2001. His memoirs about his struggle with manic-depression, ''Not Always on the Level'' () was published in 1988.Campbell EJM. Not always on the level. London: The Memoir Club, BMJ, 1988 He died in 2004 after a long battle with

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