“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
January 2012
For Phil Gold, BSc’57, MDCM’61, MSc’61, PhD’65, the career path that earned him McGill’s 2011 Medicine Alumni Global (MAG) Lifetime Achievement Award, really began in Grade 5, at Montreal’s Bancroft Elementary School. “I realized I was being taught what I had already learned in Grade 4,” says Gold. Read more
December 2011
“Before I embarked on a career in academic medicine, I wanted experience in less than ideal settings.” For McGill alum Richard Deckelbaum, BSc’63, MDCM’67, these “less than ideal settings” have spawned a lifelong pursuit of serving the underserved and training future clinicians and scientists to be proponents of global health. Read more
November 2011
“I’m humbled and honoured by this award… to the point that I’d like to offer you all free Botox.” Sam Daniel, MDMC’96, BSc’02, winner of the Faculty of Medicine’s 2011 Young Alumni Award, exudes his trademark warmth and wit as he speaks to a crowd of well-wishers at Homecoming’s flagship event, the Dean’s Cocktail Reception. Read more
August 2011
Just over a year ago, the McGill Medicine alumni community lost one of its most cherished friends – ophthalmologist, Mila Oh MDCM’95. The Class of 1995, deeply moved by the life and accomplishments of their departed friend, has since raised over $60,000 toward the Mila Oh Bursary – a fitting tribute to an individual who inspired hope and devotion among all that knew her. Read more
Spring 2011
To borrow a cliché, you can’t make this stuff up: a grand total of four Charles P. Larsons – all from the same family – have graduated from McGill with MDCMs. Now the latest in the long line, Charles P. Larson, MDCM’08, is about to become the chief resident of general pediatrics at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children. Read More
Spring 2011
Choosing the final winners for the annual McGill Medicine Alumni Global Awards from the more than 100 nominations received is a formidable task that falls on the capable shoulders of the members of the Dean’s Leadership Council. Read More
Spring 2011
Paul Khairy, MDCM’95, MSc’02, enjoys watching his patients get older. For some of them, it seems almost a miracle. Khairy specializes in the treatment of adults with congenital heart disease, many of whom would not have survived into adulthood just three or four decades ago. Now, thanks to advances in pediatric cardiology and cardiac surgery, the adult population with congenital heart disease is growing. Treating a new patient population is a challenge, but one that Khairy embraces. “I derive a lot of inspiration from my patients,” says the cardiologist. Read More
Spring 2011
For Joanne Liu, MDCM’91, recipient of the 2010 Medicine Alumni Global Community Service Award, medicine is about providing aid in the context of crises, where few want to be. As a pediatrician with Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) for the last 15 years, Liu has witnessed war, disease and famine first-hand. She has led research on epidemics like HIV, acting as a voice for some of the world’s most fragile populations. Read More
Spring 2011
“But I’m not finished yet!” was his first thought upon hearing he had received the Medicine Alumni Global Lifetime Achievement Award. As Victor Dzau, BSc’68, MDCM’72, DSc’08, so adamantly says, “Our work in medicine is never done.” Since graduating from McGill, he hasn’t stopped learning and accomplishing ever greater feats in medical science. From pioneering research in renin angiotensin and publishing over 400 research papers and six books, to assuming high-ranking positions with such well-regarded institutions as Harvard, Stanford and Duke, his scientific and academic influences know no bounds. Read More
