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Faculty Kudos

Sam Grief Named One of Chicago’s Top Doctors

With over 35,000 MDs in metro Chicago, the array of choices for patients is dizzying. Which makes it all the more laudable that Sam Grief, MDCM’89, has been named to Chicago Magazine’s top doctor list. Read more

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Alumni Moments

Dr. David Boyd: World Leader in Emergency Services

“Trauma care is an amazingly complex and demanding field,” says Dr. David Boyd, MDCM’63. “Every case is different. People get shot differently, they are critically injured, you have to think fast and have a rapid, accurate response to their situation.” Read more

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Key Dates

Time to Have a Ball at the Goodman Gala

Two years after the most successful fundraising event in McGill history, the organizers of the 2nd Goodman Cancer Research Gala 2012 are hoping to repeat the magic of that fabled night and raise $2.5 million to support cancer research. Read more

Lung Cancer: Myths, Facts, Choices

Basic science and advanced personalized care — a survivor’s testimonial. Part 3 of the public forum series, Waging War Against Cancer in the 21st Century. Read more

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Feature

When he was named the consulting cardiologist to the McGill Baffin Project in 1973, John H. Burgess, BSc’54, MDCM’58, didn’t know that he would end up falling in love with Canada’s North. He did, and spent the next three decades serving as a consulting cardiologist to the Inuit in Nunavut and Nunavik. Burgess has now retired from practice, but he has not stopped giving to the North. Read more

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News Highlights

Golden Key Students Give to Cancer Research

Students from McGill’s Golden Key Society recently presented the Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Research Centre with a cheque for close to $1,000, the happy result of their fundraising efforts. Read more

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