100 Years of Daffydil Drama Laughter Is the Best Medicine

SPRING 2011 University of toronto medical al u m n i association magazine MAAMatters 100 Years Of Daffydil Drama Laughter is the best medicine

Female oncologists go online • Thanks to donors TREASURER’S REPORT DR. RONN GOLDBERG (CLASS OF 1981)

Alumni donate almost $300,000 in 2009/2010 15 per cent drop in donations

a core value, the MAA and $3,560,253, which is a 7.5 per cent our membership believe that increase from the previous year despite As the future alumni of our the portfolio funding budget shortfalls world-class medical school should not resulting from the drop in donations. be deterred from a world-class medical I would especially like to thank Ruth education because of overwhelming Gillings and her MAA staff, as well as the financial concerns. board and executive for their dedication The MAA raises funds through direct and hard work. Thanks also to our mail appeals, online donations, gifts of members, students, volunteers and the

securities, and income from designated Faculty. I am also grateful to our donors, Ph ot

funds. Last fiscal year, despite the recession, whose commitment is generous and ograp our alumni generously donated $295,722. commendable; I encourage all alumni to hy:

While representing a significant 15 per consider the importance of supporting ta y cent decrease from 2008/2009, these funds bursaries, and $162,000 in student loans today’s students, tomorrow’s alumni – and lor allowed the MAA to distribute on your – as well as supporting alumni events. the tradition that links us together. zh ou behalf $177,190 in scholarships and At year end, our portfolio was valued at

DEAN’S MESSAGE Dr. Catharine Whiteside (Class of 1975)

specific challenges of a medical education Friends, fun, and clinical practice. These friendships often flourish during key pieces of extracurricular activities both organized and casual. From Daffydil and the myriad student life of volunteer programs to spontaneous

tudents come to the Faculty of coffee dates and dinners, these aren’t just Ph otograp Medicine to become doctors, to diversions from academics. They are an dedicate themselves to continual integral piece of student life. S hy: M enrichment of their intellect and practical Students may not recognize the significance clinical skills. Along the demanding road of of these relationships when they are in the acdonnel study, they also acquire something equally thick of their studies. But members of the as important – lifelong friends. MAA can attest to their importance, not only Ph otograp Those of us who have gone through the remain forever. They provide a vibrant life as a support during education and training, experience know that relationships forged beyond academics. And they provide a but as treasured associations and friendships, hy during medical school and residency support network uniquely attuned to the forged in shared formative experiences.

MAA Matters is published by the Design and Art Director: The MAA respects your privacy. Medical Alumni Association in Luisa De Vito We do not rent, trade or sell our co-operation with the University For more information, please contact: mailing list. If you do not wish of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine. Ruth Gillings, Room 3249, Medical to receive MAA Matters, please contact Editor: Fiona Irvine-Goulet Sciences Building, 1 King’s College us via phone, fax, or email. Contributors: Celeste Alora, Taren Circle Toronto M5S 1A8 Byrne, Paul Cantin, Heather Evans, Tel.: (416) 978-0991 Dr. Suan-Seh Foo, Ruth Gillings, E-mail: [email protected] Medical Alumni Association Dr. Ronn Goldberg, Julie Lafford, Website: http://maautoronto.ca Nadia Molinari, Dr. Tom Patterson, On the cover: Julienne Ramos, Dr. Martina Trinkaus, Cast members of the Dr. Catharine Whiteside, Jennifer 2011 Daffydil show. 2 University of Toronto • Spring 2011 Williams, Dr. Peter Wyshynski Photo: Trason Fernandes Cover Story 100 years of Daffydil drama Venerable student variety show celebrates a century of entertainment

Nothing to do with Narcissus, spring or ducks Where did the name “Daffydil” come from? It was first used in 1912, derived from a comic strip in the Toronto Sunday World newspaper. “Daffydowndilly” was a small figure with a pumpkin-like head who offered a weekly wise-crack or play on words to readers. “I saw a horsefly through a window. Do you suppose it felt pain?” was the kind of groaner Daffydowndilly was likely to utter. es nd a n Fer on ras T : : o t Students sing and dance up a storm in 2011 Daffydil show o 2011 Ph

There is no doubt that University of Toronto Faculty of “Why do students want to Medicine alumni have tremendous star participate in Daffydil?” power. Sir Frederick Banting, Dr. Ernest “If you put 250 high-achieving, A-type McCulloch and Dr. William Thornton personalities in one room, you’re fortunately going to get people who can Mustard are just a few of our stellar sing, dance or play an instrument. It’s a grads whose accomplishments shine great thing that a lot of med students’ brightly around the globe. But who extra-curricular activities are already knew that the innovator of the “Mustard in line with what Daffydil is all about.” Stuart Douglas (2013), Co-Producer, Operation” was also the esteemed Daffydil 2011 winner of the Daffydil Cup, presented to the 1936 med student “showing the much more than ample medical talent. most outstanding acting ability”? Herewith, according to Torontonensis That award – and his participation 1925 is a short, selective history of in the Faculty’s annual Daffydil variety the “two-night performance of show – may not show up in Dr. Mustard’s colour, sarcasm and humour, Canadian Medical Hall of Fame bio, depicting situations that might but it is proof that many of our past – amuse the morbid mind of and present – students are blessed with the future medico. . .”

Medical Alumni Association 3 Cover Story 100 years of Daffydil 1945

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“It was a real bonding experience” 2000 “Some of the people who were in the shows with me are still my really good friends today. It was so much fun and a real bonding experience.” Dr. Jacqueline James (1987) Member of the Daffydil chorus and speaker at Daffydil 100th Anniversary Gala, January 2011

1895 1910 1912 1913-1922 1922 Reportedly the year the Marauding med The first official Faculty members Reportedly the first first U of T all-student students participated performance of medical awarded a “Daffydil year female students medical show took in a downtown Toronto skits – a.k.a “Daffydil” Loving Cup” to the were allowed to place (some sources say Halloween demonstra- – took place in class year judged to perform in the skits. 1897). A puppet show tion – some say riot – Convocation Hall, have the best skit. Made Due to its bawdy in the British “Punch prompting Dr. Charles in front of approximately in Birmingham, England, content, the Faculty and Judy” style, the Clarke, the dean of 1600 people. Some in 1921, this silver cup began censoring the performance featured medicine at the time, reports state that faculty was permanently won show. This was known send-ups of professors. to implement a more were not invited; others by the Class of 1922 as “the cleaning for acceptable outlet for say that teaching staff and now sits in the the dean.” youthful energy. Since were awarded free MAA office. The cup’s the invention of video seats in the front row. base is engraved with games was still decades Many of the skits were a list of names from away, the Medical off-colour. 1988 until 1992. It’s Society duly decided not clear what these that performing medical names represent. skits would fill the bill.

Thanks to Dr. Tom Patterson, MAA volunteer archivist, for his research assistance. 4 University of Toronto • Spring 2011 1980 1978

1939 1945 1953 1987 2011 When the Second Students petitioned to The first time an “In late February, Daffydil debuts as a World War began, have Daffydil reinstated. original operetta, the show is brought musical and turns 100. the Faculty took the The Faculty agreed, known as “The together in its rather opportunity to ban assured by the Medical Anomaly” was osteoporotic, skeletal Daffydil’s wild perfor- Society that the show performed as part form before our mances, telling the would be non-offensive of Daffydil. The operetta director’s gaze; usually Medical Society to to an average audience. featured the first one of either stark discontinue them. The ode ever sung to terror, or tearful Med Society rejected an appendix. remorse.” the order, but after –Daffydil description, university administration from 1987 Faculty of intervened, the show Medicine Yearbook was closed down for Over $500,000 for the the duration of the war. Canadian Cancer Society Over the past few decades Daffydil has donated over $500,000 to the Canadian Cancer Society, receiving the Society’s Community Partner Award in 2006. Show producers expect to raise about $30,000 for the Society in 2011. 2011Medical Alumni Association 5 Thanks TO MAA DONORS 2010

Dedicated donors From student financial assistance to Med Society support, your MAA donation makes a difference

CLASSES OF Dr. Thomas Robson Dr. Donald Cruickshank Dr. Bernard Langer Dr. Arthur Price Dr. Katherine Turner 1930 TO 1939 Dr. Donald Ross Dr. George Davis Dr. Beverly Lewis-Harris, Dr. David Price Dr. Nancy Tuttle Dr. Louis Lester Dr. Alexander Rota Dr. Ruth Davis in memory of Dr. Janice Dr. Gordon Prowse Dr. Murray Tyber Dr. George McQuade Dr. Irving Rother Dr. John Deadman Huffman and Dr. Dr. Gordon Ralph Dr. David Van Praagh Dr. Benson Rogers Dr. George Sanger Dr. George deVeber Dorothea Kulis (1957) Dr. Savitri Ramcharan Dr. Ian Van Praagh Dr. Sydney Wise Dr. Joseph Scales Dr. Robert Dicker Dr. Isadore Lidsky Dr. Donald Ranney Dr. Stanley Venis Dr. Myron Shapiro Dr. Frederick Ditchburn Dr. Thomas Longo Dr. Marvin Reingold Dr. Joseph Wagner CLASSES OF Dr. David Shaul Dr. Peter Dyck Dr. Arnold Lowden Dr. Wells Renwick Dr. Paul Walfish 1940 TO 1949 Dr. Robert Sheppard Dr. Grant Eckert Dr. Sandy Lowden Dr. Robert Ridge Dr. Frederick Walsh Dr. James Anderson Dr. Gordon Snider Dr. Gerald Edelist Dr. Ahti Lundquist Dr. Mary Robertson, in Dr. David Watson Dr. Crawford Anglin Dr. Shena Sourkes Dr. Richard Edwards Dr. Doreen MacDonald memory of Dr. Janice Dr. W. Donald Watt Dr. John Barker Dr. John St. John Dr. Sidney Effer Dr. Duncan MacDonald Huffman (1957) Dr. Donald Welsh Dr. Henry Barnett Dr. Bette Stephenson Dr. Abraham Eisen Prof. Robert MacDonald Dr. John Robinson Dr. Howard Wernick Dr. Elizabeth Bridgman Dr. Robert Stephenson Dr. John Elliott Dr. William MacEachern Dr. Gerald Rosen Dr. Howard Wernick Dr. Lois Burgess Dr. Irvin Strathman Dr. John Evans Dr. Milton Margulies Dr. Harold Rotman Dr. Robert Wheler Dr. F. John Button Dr. Stuart Vandewater, Dr. Michael Fair Dr. Cyril Marks Dr. Sam Rubenzahl Dr. Lawrence White Dr. Douglas Campbell in memory of Drs. John Dr. Richard Farmer Dr. Newton Markus Dr. Robert Ruderman Dr. William Whittaker Dr. George Campion Hazlett, John Bauckham, Dr. Rosalind Field Dr. John Campbell Martin Dr. Leon Rudnick Dr. Joseph Wiener Dr. Doreen Caplin John McBirnie, Douglas Dr. Robert Fielden Dr. Robert Martin Dr. Francis Rundle Dr. Ruth Wiens Dr. Morris Charendoff Gear (1947) Dr. Leslie Fine Dr. Edward Masson Dr. Clark Russell Dr. E. Douglas Wigle Dr. Frederick Clinckett Dr. Earle Varty Dr. Samuel Fine Dr. Hisashi Matsusaki Dr. Mitsuko Sada Dr. Douglas Wilson Dr. Peter Crassweller Dr. Neil Watters Dr. Marjorie Fish, in Dr. William McAdam Dr. William Samis Dr. Henry Wolstat Dr. Elsie Crawford Dr. M. Patricia White memory of Dr. Dr. Donald McCorvie Dr. Paul Schaffer Dr. T. Edward Yielding Dr. John Crawford Dr. Edward Wilford Dorothea Kulis (1957) Dr. Rebecca McDermot Dr. Douglas Schatz Dr. Ross Dobson Dr. Donald Wilson Dr. Paul Freeman Dr. John McIlraith Dr. David Scott CLASSES OF Dr. Natalie Dyer Dr. Megan Wynne-Jones Dr. Gordon Fyffe Dr. William McIlroy Dr. Donald Shier 1960 TO 1969 Dr. L. Jean Erb Dr. John Yoshioka Dr. Dorothy Gauld Dr. Thomas McKee Dr. Robert Shortreed Dr. Edward Allen Dr. Morris Faigen Dr. Lorne Gazley Dr. Kenneth Middlemiss Dr. Bernard Silverman Dr. Robert Allin Dr. Emmanuel Farber CLASSES OF Dr. Barnett Giblon Dr. Frederick Moffat Dr. Lloyd Silverman Dr. Warren Allin Dr. John Finlay 1950 TO 1959 Dr. Norman Gladstone Dr. Harvey Moldofsky Dr. Michael Simurda Dr. Robert Annis Dr. Harold Fireman Dr. Reginald Allman Dr. Benjamin Glatt Dr. Gerald Arbus Dr. John Firstbrook Dr. Douglas Alton Dr. Gerald Goldberg Dr. Harvey Armstrong Dr. John Flint Dr. Kenneth Asselstine Dr. Charles Gonsalves Dr. Eleonore Arwa Dr. Donald Fraser Dr. Bernard Awerbuck Dr. Duncan Gordon I would like to Schumacher Dr. John Gardiner Dr. W. James Bailey Dr. David Gove Dr. Theodore Avruskin Prof. William Geisler Dr. Donald Barr Dr. Joseph Grader express my sincere Dr. George Awais Dr. Donald Gibson Dr. James Bassingthwaighte Dr. Gordon Gray Dr. Robert Babchuk Dr. William Graham Dr. T. Arnold Bayley Dr. Paul Greenhow Dr. Karen Baer Dr. W. Robson Grier Dr. E. Geoffrey Beatty Dr. Dallas Grogan thanks for being Dr. Henry Bahmann Dr. George Harvey Dr. Lindsay Belch Dr. David Grotell Dr. Joyce Barrett Dr. Gordon Hawks Dr. Barbara Berner Dr. Cyril Gryfe presented with the Dr. Beverley Bayes Merson Dr. Barbara Hazlett Dr. Abraham Bernstein Dr. Robert Hadden Dr. Mary Bedford-Jones Dr. Raymond Heimbecker Dr. George Bernstein, in Dr. Irene Hain Dr. Sidney Bender Dr. Carl Hill memory of Dr. Merton Dr. Harry Hall MAA scholarship. Dr. Maurice Bent Dr. Harry Hotz Bernstein (1950) Dr. James Hall Dr. Peter Bentz Dr. Margaret Hunter Dr. James Boone Dr. William Hanley —Dr. Jing Qin, Class of 2008 Dr. Louis Brenner Prof. Harold Kalant Dr. Frederick Boughen Dr. Harry Harley Dr. Harvey Bruner Dr. Norman Kalant Dr. Thomas Briant Dr. Wilbur Harris Dr. Harvey Bruner Dr. John Kilgour Dr. James Bricker Dr. Beverley Haw, in Dr. William Buckton Dr. Hubert Kline Dr. Alice Briggs memory of Dr. George Dr. Emory Burke Dr. John Laidlaw Dr. Earl Brightman Connell (1957) Dr. Stephen Butler Dr. John Laughton Dr. Donald Brown Dr. Rodger Hines Dr. Donald Butt Dr. William Lawler Dr. Alfred Browne The late Dr. Paul Hoaken Dr. Iivi Campbell Dr. Oliver Laxdal Dr. George Buckley Dr. Gordon Horne Prof. Peter Carlen Dr. Wallace Lotto Dr. Joseph Burkholder Dr. Scharley-May Horne Dr. Donald Carom Dr. James Low Dr. Kenneth Butler Dr. Joseph Houpt Dr. Donald Montgomery Dr. Francis Skain Dr. William Cass Dr. John MacLean Dr. Robert Carlisle Dr. Merle Howes Dr. N. Peter Montgomery Dr. Joseph Sladen Dr. John Caverhill Dr. Joseph Marotta Dr. James Carson Dr. Karl Irwin Dr. George Morrison Dr. Robert Slinger Dr. Patricia Chaikoff Dr. Alice Martin Dr. David Cartwright Dr. Patricia Irwin Dr. Peter Morse Dr. Donald Smith Dr. Douglas Chenoweth Dr. Ernest Mastromatteo Dr. Joseph Cavon Dr. Teruo Izukawa Dr. Philip Morton Dr. Wolodymyr Dr. Eugene Chorostecki Dr. Dermot McCarthy Dr. Leo Chaikof Dr. Peter Janetos Dr. Kenneth Mustard Sochaniwskyj Dr. Peter Clarke Dr. Katharine Mirhady Dr. Hugh Chambers Dr. Diane Johnson Dr. Peter Neelands Dr. David Sowby Dr. William Cohoon Dr. Jack Moldofsky Dr. James Charters Dr. Ronald Johnston Dr. Ryoichi Nishikawa Dr. Ross Speck Dr. Allan Connolly Dr. Marjorie Moore Dr. William Coates Dr. Gerald Jones Dr. George Novotny Dr. Margaret Spence Dr. Gerald Cooney Dr. Edwin Morgan Dr. Brian Coggins Dr. Fred Kahn Dr. Elizabeth Oliver-Malone Dr. Manuel Spivak Dr. Perry Cooper Dr. George Moss Dr. Gerald Cohen Dr. Sydney Kasten Dr. Thomas Patterson Dr. Harold Stein Dr. Ronald Crago Dr. Stephen O’Brien Dr. May Cohen Dr. Martin Kazdan Dr. John Peacock Dr. Lawrence Steinberg Dr. Barbara Craig- Dr. William Paul Dr. Aldo Colantonio Dr. John Keenleyside Dr. Beverley Pearson- Dr. John Stewart Wenstrom Dr. Lois Pearce Dr. Arthur Cole Dr. Irwin Keltz Murphy Dr. Edward Taras Dr. Karen Cronin Dr. Edgar Peer Dr. James Colquhoun Dr. William Klassen Dr. G. Allan Pengelly Dr. Henry Taylor Dr. William Crysdale Dr. Joseph Peller Dr. Garson Conn Dr. Jerome Kopstein Dr. Reginald Perkin Dr. Hugh Thomson Dr. Edward Davies Dr. John Ridge Dr. Harvey Coopersmith Dr. Stefan Kopytek Dr. Paul Perry Dr. Robert Thomson Dr. Stanley Debow Dr. Paul Roberts Dr. Donald Cowan Dr. Martin Kosoy Dr. Frank Philbrook Dr. Howard Trupp Dr. David Dellandrea Dr. John Robinson Dr. Robert Creighton Dr. Robert Lane Dr. Charles Pickett Dr. Allan Tucker Dr. Helen Demshar

6 University of Toronto • Spring 2011 Dr. Ernest Dick Dr, Murray & Ruth Miskin Dr. Allan Walker Dr. Robert Heath Dr. Oscar Mandel Dr. Ori Rotstein Dr. Francis Dicum Foundation Dr. Anne Wallace Dr. Patrick Heffernan Dr. Oscar Mandel Dr. Allan Rubin Dr. Gordon Donsky Dr. David Mitchell Dr. Christopher Watson Dr. Michael Henry Dr. Keith Mann Dr. Edward Russell Dr. Allan Dyer Dr. John Moffat Dr. Marvin Waxman Dr. Stephen Herman Dr. Pirjo Manninen Dr. Paul Salciccioli Dr. Ivan Elkan Dr. Liliana Monti Dr. Howard Weinberg Dr. Gillian Hicks Dr. Douglas Margison Dr. Abraham Saltzman Dr. Edward English Dr. Nicholas Moore Dr. Michael Weinstock Dr. Anthony Hii Dr. John Marshall Dr. Takaki Sameshima Dr. Jerome Epstein Dr. Nathan Morrow Dr. William Weiser Dr. David Hinton Dr. James Martin Dr. David Samra Dr. Inara Ezers Dr. Kathleen Moses Dr. Daniel Wise Dr. Dorothy Holness Dr. Stephen Martin Dr. William Santo Dr. Joseph Falletta Dr. Paul Muller Dr. Edward Wong Dr. Rosanna Honig Dr. Anne Matlow Dr. David Saslove Dr. Fredrick Feldman Dr. John Murnaghan Dr. Jeffrey Wyndowe Dr. Patricia Houston Dr. Michael Matthews Dr. Sam Schachter Dr. Shim Felsen Dr. John Murray Dr. Peter Wyshynski Dr. Hilary Hui Dr. Andrew Maykut Dr. Jocelyn Schaffenburg Dr. Ronald Filderman Dr. Bruce Mutter Dr. Thomas Yates Dr. Robert Hyland Dr. Mary McBean Dr. Brian Schwartz Dr. Sylvia Fishbein Dr. Martin Myers Dr. Raymond Zarins Dr. Christopher Ibey Dr. David McGillivray Dr. Avram Selick Dr. Bernard Fogel Dr. Grant Nadon Dr. Irving Zelcer Dr. Margaret Ibey Dr. Robert McKenzie Dr. Violet Shadd Dr. Paul Forrest Dr. David Naiberg Dr. George Jablonsky Dr. David McKnight Dr. Elizabeth Shane Dr. William Franks Dr. Paul Newbigging CLASSES OF Dr. Dayanand Jagdeo Dr. Richard McLean Dr. Anne Shepherd Dr. Arnis Freiberg Dr. Donald Niece 1970 TO 1979 Dr. Richard Jay Dr. William McMullen Dr. Rick Sheppard Dr. Larry Fremont Dr. Arnold Noyek Dr. Peter Adamson Dr. Wayne Johnson Dr. Patricia McNama Dr. Judith Shindman Dr. Lynn From Dr. Marvin Nussbaum Dr. Carolyn Allan Dr. Elizabeth Johnston Dr. David McNeely Dr. William Shoichet Dr. Marvin Gans Dr. Richard Ogilvie Dr. J. Byron Alldred Dr. John Jordan Dr. Marianne McPhail Dr. Earl Silverman Dr. William Gardner Dr. Jerry Omelon Dr. Janice Andreyko Dr. Helen Karsai Dr. Terence McQuiston Dr. Katherine Siminovitch Dr. Charles Gold Dr. Roberta Ongley Dr. William Appell Dr. Martin Kates Dr. Beverly Morningstar Dr. Vahe Sivaciyan Dr. Sidney Gold Dr. John Osborn Dr. Eric Barker Dr. Gerald Goldman Dr. Priit Pallopson Dr. Nah-Amakuma Barnor Dr. James Graham Dr. James Panabaker Dr. Peter Barreca Dr. Ronald Graham Dr. John Parker Dr. David Beatty Dr. Samuel Greenspan Dr. Donald Payne Dr. Harold Becker I wish in the near future, Dr. Richard Grosch Dr. Gail Payne Dr. Agostino Bellissimo Dr. Allan Gross Dr. Charles Pearce Dr. William Bennett I can share in the honour Dr. Lawrence Grossman Dr. Melvyn Petersiel Dr. Paul Blusys Dr. Gershon Growe Dr. Terry Picton Dr. Thomas Bluthardt Dr. Dinah Gruber Dr. Paul Pitt Dr. Francis Bobik-Orchard of assisting other medical Dr. William Guest Dr. David Posen Dr. Maarten Bokhout Dr. Ann Haag Dr. David Preston Dr. Mel Borins Dr. Vladimir Hachinski Dr. Kenneth Pritzker Dr. Denise Bowes students to achieve their Dr. Edward Hambley Dr. Ronald Puley Dr. Robin Brooks-Hill Dr. Brian Hands Dr. Edward Rabinovitch Dr. Ronald Burkes goals. The future holds Dr. Dorothy Hartsell Dr. David Rapoport Dr. Patrick Butler Dr. Gerhard Helmel Dr. Juri Reial Dr. Arthur Cain Dr. Donald Henderson Dr. Steven Richie Dr. Robert Carlen much to look forward to! Dr. John Henderson Dr. Michael Robinette Dr. June Carroll Dr. Muriel Henderson Dr. Jane Roseborough Dr. Donna Cescon —Dr. Katie Yu, Class of 2009 Dr. John Hilditch Dr. Noel Rosen Dr. Mel Cescon Dr. John Hodgkinson Dr. Andrew Royko Dr. Alex Chan Dr. Jane Hosdil Dr. Baiba Rozkalns Dr. John Chan Dr. James Houston Dr. George Rungi Dr. Richard Chan Dr. Verner Isaak Dr. Joseph Schatzker Dr. Kenneth Cheung Dr. James Israel Dr. Leonard Schwartz Dr. Joseph Chu Dr. Edward Istvan Dr. Gordon Sellery Dr. Terence Colgan Dr. Brian Jacks Dr. Stephen Shapero Dr. Ronald Cyr Dr. Ivan Jackson Dr. Gerald Sheldon Dr. Roman Dale Dr. Murray Jacobs Dr. Yehudi Shields Dr. William Davies Dr. Laurence Jerry Dr. Jack Shuber Dr. Jacqueline Davis Capt. Paul Jordan Dr. Sandy Shulman Dr. Dorrit de Demeter Dr. Robert Joynt Dr. Roger Sider Dr. Rueben Devlin Dr. Otto Kahn Dr. Elaine Silver Dr. Raouf Dimitry Dr. Dagnija Kalnins Dr. Gerald Skory Dr. Peter Dodek Dr. James Kavanagh Dr. Gary Morningstar Dr. Kenneth Sniderman Dr. Brenda Kane Dr. John Sloane Dr. Peter Donat Dr. Warren Ke Dr. Douglas Munkley Dr. Frank Sommers Dr. Jerome Kazdan Dr. David Smith Dr. Alice Dong Dr. Barbara Kee Dr. Robert Myers Dr. John Srigley Dr. Shirley Kellam Dr. Charles Snelling Dr. Kwame Donkor Dr. Peter Keefe Dr. Renate Neim Dr. John Stephen Dr. Alvin Kelly Dr. Barry Sniderman Dr. Jeffrey Edelson Dr. Donald Kim Dr. Jeffrey Nisker Dr. Leonard Sternberg Dr. Allan Kemp Dr. Marja Soots Dr. Jonathan Ennis Dr. Albert Kirshen Dr. Peter Noble Dr. Janet Still Dr. John Kempston Dr. Phyllis Spier Dr. David Etlin Dr. Max Kleinman Dr. Peter Norman Dr. Susan Still Dr. Sylvia Kennedy Dr. Joseph Starr Dr. Paul Fisch Dr. Irvin Klinghofer Dr. Claire Nunes-Vaz Dr. Stephen Stokl Dr. Jay Keystone Dr. Romas Stas Dr. Pietro Flora Dr. Irene Kolabinski Dr. Sidney Nusinowitz Dr. Martin Strauss Dr. J. Marcus Kirby Dr. Brian Steele Dr. John Floras Dr. Jouni Kraft Dr. Diana Omylanowski Dr. Benedykt Syposz Dr. Agnes Klein Dr. Bernard Stein Dr. Dennis Forrester Dr. Stephen Kraft Dr. James Ooi Dr. Thomas Tam Dr. Gunter Koch Dr. Lorne Stephen Dr. Stephen Fremes Dr. Janet Krulewitz Dr. Clifford Ottaway Dr. Alexander Tang Dr. Gerald Koffman Dr. Grant Stewart Dr. Kan Ying Fung Prof. Walter Kucharczyk Dr. Howard Ovens Dr. David Teitel Dr. Peter Kopplin, in honour Dr. Steven Strasberg Dr. W. Derek George Dr. Denis Kulesha Dr. David Page Dr. Jerome Teitel of Dr. Robert Reid (1963) Dr. Ronald Strickler Dr. John Gibson Dr. Barry Kurtzer Dr. David Parratt Dr. Martin Tepper Dr. Richard Kunica Dr. Donald Sutherland Dr. Michael Gildiner Dr. Willem Kwant Dr. James Parrish Dr. Perry Tepperman Dr. D’Arcy Lawrence Dr. R. Ian Sutherland Dr. Douglas Goodall Dr. Alice Lai Dr. Michael Pascoe Dr. Victoria Thompson Dr. Anne Lazenby Dr. Claude Swayze Dr. Stuart Goodman Dr. Walter Lauf Dr. Peter Petrosoniak Dr. I. E. Henry Tiedje Dr. John Lee Dr. Rocco Tamburro Dr. Robert Greco Dr. Michael Lawrie Dr. Michael Pezim Dr. Nancy Tozer Dr. Randolph Lee Dr. Richard Tan Dr. Laurence Green Dr. John Lazarus Dr. Brian Phillips Dr. Mary Trotter Dr. H. Lavina Lickley Dr. Charles Tator Dr. Michael Green Dr. Lap-Cheung Lee Dr. Lesley Pinder Dr. John Ying Choi Tsang Dr. Irving Lipton Dr. Bryce Taylor Dr. Rudy Greene Dr. Victor Lee Dr. Patricia Pirie Dr. Eugene Turgeon Dr. Charles Listgarten Dr. Paul Teague Dr. Lorne Greenspan Dr. Jerrold Lerman Dr. Gerald Pogoriler Dr. Felix Tyndel Dr. Joseph Losos Dr. Jason Trent Dr. Keith Greenway Dr. Richard Levy Dr. Brian Power Dr. Gabriel Vadasz Dr. James MacDougall Dr. Myron Troster Dr. Ann Grise Dr. Robert Lewis Dr. Howard Price Dr. John Vale Dr. Gary Magee Dr. Paul Truscott Dr. Ronald Grossman Dr. Bill Lim Dr. William Price Dr. Reet Vanaselja Dr. John Martin Dr. Albert Tuboku-Metzger Dr. John Grynoch Dr. Gary Liss Dr. Anita Rachlis Dr. Gary Viner Dr. Paul Martin Dr. John Turner Dr. Michael Guinness Dr. Yuen Liu Dr. Val Rachlis Dr. Jobst Von Heymann Dr. Florian Matsalla Dr. Walter Unger Dr. Flavio Habal Dr. Konstantin Loewig Dr. Paul Ranalli Dr. Helen Vosu Dr. Donald McGillivray Dr. Glen Van Loon Dr. R. Andrew Hackett Dr. Elgin Loney Dr. Chamkurkishtiah Rao Dr. Marilyn Walker Dr. John McKinstry Dr. Otto Veidlinger Dr. Michael Haiduk Dr. Alan Lossing Dr. Richard Reddick Dr. Thomas Weinberger Dr. John McLean Dr. Hillar Vellend, in Dr. John Hall Dr. Donald Lowcock Dr. Anthony Reid Dr. David Weingarten Dr. George McQuibban honour of Dr. Jay Dr. Edward Hamer Dr. Kathleen Luscott Dr. Timothy Richardson Dr. Solomon Weinstock Dr. James Mergelas Keystone (1969) and his Dr. Howard Hamer Dr. Janis Lusis Dr. Richard Rinn Dr. Catharine Whiteside Dr. Norman Mesaglio wife, Margaret Dr. Darlene Hammell Dr. John MacIntyre Dr. Frank Rosenberg Dr. J. David Whitney Dr. Vytautas Mickus Dr. Bryn Waern Dr. Stephen Hanet Dr. Richard Mah Dr. David Rosenthal Dr. Jerry Wilk Dr. Adrian Minor Dr. John Wait Dr. Jeremy Hatch Dr. Ellen Mak Dr. Sherryn Roth Dr. Mark Wise

Medical Alumni Association 7 Dr. Sheldon Wise Dr. Brenda Hayakawa Dr. Arif Qureshi Dr. Nancy Behme Dr. Jeremy Lo CLASSES OF Dr. Joseph Wohlgelernter Dr. Peter Hayashida Dr. Sparrow Rabideau Dr. Ira Bernstein Dr. Louella Lobo 2000 TO 2010 Dr. Hoi Wong Dr. Robert Hegele Dr. Jan Raczycki Dr. Dana Boctor Dr. Brian Louie Dr. William Andrade Dr. Lai Wong Dr. Brian Higgins, in Dr. Sumana Reddy Dr. Christopher Booth Dr. Grant Lum Dr. Lukasz Bartosik Dr. Patrick Wong memory of Dr. Hubert Dr. Linda Redman Dr. Adrian Brown Dr. Laura MacKinnon Dr. Winston Bharat Dr. Winston Wong Higgins (1950) Dr. Christopher Ricci Dr. C. Elizabeth Brown Dr. Roxanne MacKnight Dr. Katherine Bingham Dr. Daniel Wu Dr. Gail Hirano Dr. Kevin Rittenberg Dr. Susan Campbell Dr. Phillip Mah Dr. Ann Bugeja Dr. Sing Wu Dr. Holger Hirte Dr. Gordon Robison Dr. Wayne Chamberlain Dr. Trisha Mark Dr. T. Mark Campbell Dr. Peter Yeung Dr. Holger Hirte Dr. Cleo Rogakou Dr. Mun Chan Dr. Robert Masnyk Dr. Ahmed Chadi Dr. Bernita Young Dr. Richard Holloway Dr. Murray Rosenbaum Dr. Benny Chang Dr. Michael Maurice Dr. Albert Chang Dr. Charlene Young Dr. Collin Hong Dr. Stanley Rosenblum Dr. Douglas Cherepacha Dr. Stuart McCluskey Dr. Martin Chang Dr. Catherine Zahn Dr. Elliot Hudes Dr. Jay Rosenfield Dr. Ian Chin Dr. Evan McIntosh Dr. Grant Chen Dr. Arthur Zalev Dr. David Hughes Dr. Robert Ross Dr. Yun Yee Chow Dr. Janet McKeown Dr. Hillary Chen Dr. Shery Zener Dr. Eric Hurowitz Dr. Lea Rossiter Dr. Andrew Chuma Dr. H. Charania Medicine Inc. 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Frederick Doris Dr. David Malkin Dr. Tony Vettese Dr. Daniel Gorman Dr. Sherylan Young Dr. Kenneth Doyle Dr. Drue Mandel Dr. Olga Vujovic Dr. Peter Grant Dr. Kenneth Yuen Dr. Robert Dreckmann Dr. Erica Mantay Dr. Patricia Waite Dr. Cindy Grief, inmemory Dr. Anthony Zucconi Dr. Stuart Dyment Dr. Douglas Mark Dr. Bethel Warren of Philip Grief Dr. Neil Edwards Dr. Pamela Mark Dr. Cheryl Waters Dr. Eric Grief Dr. Joel Eisen Dr. Paul Marks Dr. Lynne Watson Dr. Judy Hagshi Dr. Ronald Esterbauer Dr. Claudio Martin Dr. Joel Weinstein Dr. Karin Hahn Dr. Edward Etchells Dr. Lyndon Mascarenhas Dr. James Welch Dr. Susan Harder Dr. Robyn Evans-Jones Dr. Robert Masih Dr. Karen Weyman Dr. Susan Hegge OTHER SUPPORTERS Dr. Bernard Farber Dr. Frederick Matzinger Dr. David Wheler Dr. Michael Heiber The Class of 1965 Dr. Ousama Fashho Dr. Martin Mauer Dr. Tanya-Gay Williams Dr. Jayna Holroyd-Leduc The Class of 1975 Dr. Michael Fehlings Dr. Michael McKee Dr. Dana Wilson Dr. Aaron Hong The Burton Charitable Foundation Dr. Lisa Fettes Dr. Carolyn McLean Dr. Albert Wong Dr. Anne-Marie Humniski Neil & Marlene Elekes, in memory of Dr. Andrew Fong Dr. Donna McRitchie Dr. Clement Wong Dr. Gregory Ip Dr. George Connell (1957) Dr. Vito Forte Dr. Sandra Mergler Dr. John Wong Dr. Rajnee (Sony) Jolly The Estate of Dr. Bruce Charles (1938) Dr. Esti Friedman Dr. Robert Merotto Dr. Mary Wong Dr. Heather Karn The Estate of Dr. Dorothea Kulis (1957) Dr. Richard Friedman Dr. Kathleen Michalski Dr. Ian Woolfson Dr. Jacob Kempenaar The Estate of Dr. Carl Witus (1936) Dr. Steven Gallinger Dr. Donald Miettinen Dr. Homer Yang Dr. Michael Kiang Dr. Bruce French, in memory of Dr. George Connell (1957) Dr. John Giannoccaro Dr. Heather Milkovic Dr. Doreen Yee Lt Col James Kile Ms. Pam Gollish, in honour of Dr. Marvin Tile (1957) Dr. Leonard Ginsberg Dr. Lori Moore Dr. Daniel Yim Dr. Joanne Kirby and in memory of her parents, Dr. Irvin (Kelly) Gollish Dr. Rodger Glover Dr. Debra Morrison Dr. Deepa Kumar (1957) and Mrs. Gertrude “Gittie” Gollish Dr. Jeannette Goguen Dr. Gary Morrow Dr. Catherine Kurosu CLASSES OF Dr. Savita Kalra Dr. Ronn Goldberg Dr. David Mowbray Dr. John Kusnierczyk 1990 TO 1999 Mrs. Norma Kindree, in memory of Dr. Laverne Kindree Dr. David Gordon Dr. Domenic Nasso Dr. Michael Aberman Dr. Richard Kvas (1947) Dr. Andrew Graham Dr. Michael Neumeister Dr. Gary Abraham Dr. Anthony Kwan Ms. Victoria Lee, in honour of Dr. Philip Hebert (1984) Dr. Wendy Graham Dr. Bo-Yee Ngan Dr. Ryojo Akagami Dr. Paul Lai Dr. H.M. 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8 University of Toronto • Spring 2011 2011 class reunions Where classmates connect

THE CLASSES OF 1941, 1946, 1951 Hall and the Dean’s and 1961, in celebration of their 70th, Luncheon on June 1, 65th, 60th and 50th anniversaries, respec- 2011. Contact Dr. tively, will be among the honoured guests Douglas Schatz at at the MAA Convocation Banquet in the [email protected]. Great Hall, Hart House, on Mon., May 30, 2011. Classmates are also invited to the THE CLASS OF Pre-Convocation Ceremony on Wed., June 1961, in celebration of 1, 2011, in Convocation Hall, followed its 50th anniversary, will by the Dean’s Luncheon in the Medical also enjoy an afternoon Sciences Building. Contact Ruth Gillings wine and cheese reception at the MAA at (416) 978-0991 or at the Bochner Eye Institute, [email protected]. followed by a dinner at Massey College on Sun., May 29, 2011. Contact THE CLASS OF 1946, in celebration Drs. Al Cheskes at [email protected] The CLASS of 1991 will hold its of its 65th anniversary, will also enjoy a or Ann Cuddy at [email protected]. 20th reunion, May 27-28, 2011. This private luncheon, Tues., May 31, 2011, includes an informal reception on Fri. at the Granite Club. Contact Dr. Bette THE CLASS OF 1966, in celebration at 8 p.m. at the Madison Pub; and a Sat. Stephenson at (905) 737-3945. of its 45th anniversary, will hold a reunion reception at 4 p.m. and dinner-dance from October 21-23, 2011, at the Intercontinental 6 p.m. at the Park Hyatt Toronto (Bloor THE CLASS OF 1947 will hold a 64th Hotel Toronto Yorkville. Activities will and Avenue Road). A block of rooms is anniversary luncheon on Thurs., June 9, include: a reception on Friday evening reserved at the Park Hyatt; please quote 2011, from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. at from 6 p.m.; a Sat. a.m. breakfast and “U of T Faculty of Medicine 9T1 Amica Mature Lifestyles condo in North scientific session; a Sat. evening reception, Reunion.” Contact Dr. Dominick Shelton York. Contact Dr. Paul Roberts at dinner and dance from 6:30 p.m.; and a at [email protected]. [email protected]. Sun. closing breakfast. Contact Dr. David Ellis at [email protected]. THE CLASS OF 1996 will hold its 15th THE CLASS OF 1948 will hold a 63rd reunion on May 28, 2011, at the Granite anniversary luncheon on Fri., June 10, Club, with a reception and dinner from 2011, from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. at the 5:30 p.m. Contact Drs. Wayne Chang at Donalda Club. Contact Dr. William [email protected]; or Mike Geisler at [email protected]. Chang at [email protected].

THE CLASS OF 1951, in celebration THE CLASS OF 2001 will hold its of its 60th anniversary, will also enjoy a 10th reunion on Sat., July 9, 2011, with a reception and dinner on Wed., June 1, barbecue lunch in High Park. Visit the “U of 2011, at the Faculty Club from 6:30 p.m. T Meds 0T1” group on Facebook or contact Contact Drs. Ruth Davis at rmdavismd@ Jeff Kwong at [email protected]. hotmail.com or 51 Alvin Ave., Toronto, ON M4T 2A8; or Gordon Cameron at The CLASS of 1981 will hold its 30th THE CLASSES OF 1976, 1986 and [email protected]. reunion on Sat., Sept. 10, 2011, at Dr. Forrest 2006 will celebrate their 35th, 25th and

Caldwell’s country estate outside of Guelph, 5th anniversaries, respectively, in 2011. For i llu

THE CLASS OF 1956 will hold its ON. Activities will include a barbecue, and help in organizing reunions, contact Ruth strati

55th reunion reception and dinner on Sat., a barn dance. Contact Drs. Lea Rossiter or Gillings at the MAA at (416) 978-0991 or on :

May 28, 2011, at the Faculty Club. Forrest Caldwell at [email protected]. [email protected]. jo sÉe Classmates are also invited to the Meds m Pre-Convocation Ceremony in Convocation asse

Medical Alumni Association 9 denied the same networking opportunities as their male colleagues, sometimes due to family commitments. WinC was conceived as a way for these dedicated women to share knowledge, mentor each other and provide leadership training that will capture the gender shift in oncology. Founder Dr. Simmons says, “I realized that there is a wealth of support and resources that we could share with each other based “there is a wealth of support and resources that we could share with each other.” -Dr. Christine Simmons on each of our individual experiences. We just needed a way of connecting and establishing our support networks.” Through an academically focused, online forum, women can network with other female oncologists across Canada. The site also provides links to resources on leader-

dr. Brezden-masley and dr. trudeau ship skills development, news and updates concerning WinC meetings. Dr. Maureen Trudeau (1981) and Dr. Christine Brezden-Masley (2000) are a perfect example of a mutually beneficial Women in Cancer mentor-mentee relationship WinC aspires an online oncology network to build and maintain. Dr. Trudeau was awarded the 2006 Squires Mentorship offers mentoring opportunities Award after having been nominated by Dr. By taren N. Byrne Brezden-Masley, her appreciative mentee. Dr. Brezden-Masley, who describes herself MentOring is iMperAtive fOr of Toronto and oncologist at St. Michael’s as having very similar career goals and the development of both med students Hospital. aspirations as Dr. Trudeau, explains: “A and newly minted physicians; however, we The number of women clinicians in mentor is essentially a role model, someone sometimes pigeonhole it solely as a tool for oncology has steadily increased over the to support and nurture you in your career.” the younger generation. We fail to recog- past decade. From 2001 to 2011, the It’s exactly these kinds of relationships that nize the wider opportunities mentoring number of women accepted into U of T’s WinC hopes to provide an avenue for female presents for physicians in a particular Faculty of Medicine medical oncology oncologists to explore. “WinC offers an easy specialization, or even gender. training program increased from 33 per way for women to connect and establish a Women in Cancer (WinC), Canada’s cent to 58 per cent. strong support network,” says Dr. Brezden- first online initiative for female oncologists, However, these numbers don’t necessarily Masley. “Medicine is a difficult field, and can PhOtOGraPhy: NaDia MOLiNari seeks to address the need for establishing mean that female oncologists are looking to be challenging as a woman and a mother – and maintaining mentoring relationships each other for support and mentoring that’s why mentoring is so important.” among oncologists across Canada and opportunities. Studies have shown that WinC invites all medical, radiation, surgical internationally. It is spearheaded by Dr. women in medicine work more indepen- oncologists and trainees to join by visiting Christine Simmons, an assistant professor, dently and with less collaboration than womenincancer.org. Membership is free. WinC Division of Medical Oncology at University their male counterparts. They may also be is a fully registered not-for-profit organization.

10 University of toronto • spring 2011 ways of giving 220 future doctors need your help 46 % more students = Greater need for financial assistance

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Medical Alumni Association 11 class notes Catch up with your classmates

Dr. Isadore LIDSKY is fully retired CLASS OF 1946 from general and vascular surgery in Dr. Alice M. GOODFELLOW-HODGES says hello Cleveland, OH. He and his wife, Miriam, from Regina, SK. She is in good health and living enjoy their four grandchildren and two in her own home with help from her daughter and great-grandchildren. They still visit family. Last fall, she attended a University of Toronto frequently. Contact: Saskatchewan medical alumni event (pre-med class [email protected]. of ’44), and was the most senior alumna there. Dr. William H.B. PRESTON lives in Contact: [email protected]. Texas. He remarried on November 26, 2010, to Elizabeth. He has six grandchildren. Contact [email protected].

CLASS OF 1946 Dr. Frank BROWNE and his wife, Rita, CLASS OF 1952 Dr. James Alexander “Alick” LITTLE celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary Dr. Eugene CORNELIUS retired in and his wife, Barbara, are 88 and 83, on February 3, 2011. Contact: 191 2001 as director of nuclear oncology, Yale, respectively. They enjoy looking after their Cassandra Blvd., North York, ON M3A 1T4. becoming emeritus professor. Since then, house and each other, with a little help Dr. Gordon S. CAMERON is now twice he has published a monograph on his large from modern medicine and their offspring. retired: first from paediatric surgery at maternal family’s Canadian military service Contact: 22 Waubeek St., Parry Sound, McMaster and now from canoe tripping in the First and Second World Wars. ON P2A 1B9. and overseas travel. He still enjoys life with Contact: (203) 387-9195. Dr. Irvin STRATHMAN, in October his wife, Pat, and their four children, seven 2010, gave Grand Rounds at Tampa grandchildren and three grand-dogs. CLASS OF 1961 General Hospital to the OBGYN department Contact: 803 – 2000 Creekside Drive, Dr. Beverley BAYES (MERSON) and her at the University Of South Florida Dundas, ON L9H 7S7. husband, Ed, have College Of Medicine. Contact: Dr. James T. COLQUHOUN is still in three children and [email protected]. full-time family practice, enjoying it, but four grandchildren. not working as hard as before. Contact: Dr. Bayes tutors CLASS OF 1947 102 Winnipeg Avenue, Thunder Bay, ON disadvantaged Dr. Ernest MASTROMATTEO was made P7A 4V7. African American an honorary FRCP for his contributions to Dr. Charles P. CROMPTON is happily children, and is occupational medicine a few years back. retired with Norine, his wife of 59 years. He working on He was also made a great-grandfather! has four children and eight grandchildren. a family memoir. Contact: [email protected]. Contact: 1103 - 39 Old Mill Road, Contact: [email protected]. Toronto, ON M8X 1G6. Dr. George F. BROWN worked for years CLASS OF 1951 Dr. Isadore EISEN has five children, all in international health with the Population Dr. James (Jim) married, and 13 grandchildren. Of the 10 Council and The Rockefeller Foundation. BOONE reports that, children, four are doctors. He is now doing He now consults for several foundations. in 2011, the London marital and sexual psychotherapy at the Contact: [email protected]. Health Sciences Aberfoyle Clinic in Toronto. Contact: Dr. June M. CLARKE is still practising paediatric and obstetric [email protected]. psychiatry part-time. Her daughter, who services are being Dr. Gordon GRAY is fully retired and has seven-year-old triplets, is a psychiatrist centralized at the Westminster campus. living with Mary in a retirement apartment. in Toronto. Her son and his family live Dr. Boone, who was a professor and They both volunteer in the nursing homes in Miami, where he is a professor in the chairman of obstetrics for 19 years prior to associated with their retirement complex. Department of Medicine at the University his retirement, reports that these days, he Contact: [email protected]. of Miami. Contact: 2010 Islington Avenue, and his wife, Joan, enjoy bridge, croquet Dr. Robert A. HADDEN enjoys painting #703, Toronto, ON M9P 3S8. and visiting their sons and grandchildren. landscapes, and is still working minimally. Dr. Gordon J. DONSKY is still practising Contact: [email protected]. Contact: [email protected]. paediatric allergy medicine. He has seven

12 University of Toronto • Spring 2011 class notes

grandchildren. Two Dr. Ivan M. JACKSON is still practising Kelowna General Hospital. Sarah Nelems, of his daughters are as a part-time GP psychotherapist in Perth, KGH Foundation director and daughter U of T MD grads – ON. Contact: [email protected]. of Dr. Bill Nelems (1966), said, “I hope Carolyn in 1992 Dr. Gershon G. KALCHMAN is now this new ‘Ballroom’ at KGH will always and Judith in 1996. retired, recently celebrated his 51st wedding symbolize the transformational healing Contact: gordon. anniversary and has seven grandchildren. that happens when patient care and [email protected]. Contact: [email protected]. ‘physician care’ are given and received.” Dr. Lawrence “Larry” A.J. EDWARDS, Dr. Donald J. KUZMINSKI retired from along with his wife, Helen, participated in an anesthesia practice at Scarborough CLASS OF 1966 his twelfth medical project in 2010, in General, and then built a home on Dr. Fred Z. FERRIS says that after 34 Tanzania. Earlier projects with each of Presqu’ile Bay in Brighton, ON. He plays years of practising nephrology in Louisville, his children took him to Honduras, violin in the Northumberland Orchestra KY, he “retired” to four years of locum Ecuador and beyond. Contact: and Quinte Symphony. Contact: tenens nephrology. Now, he and his wife [email protected]. [email protected]. are in Virginia, where he is back in Dr. Bernard FOGEL is still in active Dr. Michael A. ROMEO is still working full-time nephrology. Contact: practice. He and his wife have four kids as a diagnostic radiologist at the Hamilton [email protected]. and ten grandchildren. He is looking General Hospital. He is CEO of Wentworth Dr. Jim NELSON is still practising forward to the 50th reunion. Contact: and Halton X-ray and Ultrasound, and an diagnostic imaging from a home work- [email protected]. associate clinical professor at McMaster station for Ontario Medical Imaging. Dr. Gary GOLDTHORPE is retired University. Contact: romeorad@ Contact: [email protected]. and lives in a log house that he built in mountaincable.net. Sioux Lookout, ON. He enjoys reading Dr. Robert STITT is retired from his CLASS OF 1971 and playing tennis. Contact: position as a surgeon at Scarborough General Dr. Andrew ARMSTRONG retired from [email protected]. (now The Scarborough Hospital, General clinical work in May 2010. His wife, Division), where he worked from 1967 until Wynne, consults BMO and other insurance 2009. Contact: [email protected]. companies for the Canadian Medical Dr. David William VANDERBENT is Protection Association. They have three retired from family practice. He volunteers children and one grandchild. Contact: for various foreign medical relief projects, [email protected]. and has received an award for Acton Citizen Dr. Allan BELLACK reports that over the of the Year, the Ontario Bicentennial Medal, next few years he will be reducing his work and the Canada Certificate of Merit. load as medical advisor for CPP Disability, Contact: P.O. Box 309, Station Main, medical director of a nursing home, and at Acton, ON L7J 2M4. Ottawa’s Sexual Health Clinic. His son, Dr. Thomas R. VERNY has published Neil, will carry the MD torch, graduating seven books, including the international in 2012 from Ottawa U. Contact: bestseller, The Secret Life of the Unborn [email protected]. Child. In 1983, he founded the Pre- and Dr. Joan CHARBONEAU has a grand- Dr. Murray JACOBS suffered a Peri-Natal Psychology Association of North daughter, Sydney, 14 months, and another brain aneurysm 17 years ago and lost America. He practises in Stratford, ON. expected. Elliot Lyons was the obstetrician movement in his right hand and foot. Contact: [email protected]. at the first delivery, at which Dr. Charboneau But life didn’t end there, and he has remarked, “We have to stop meeting this enjoyed courses at Ryerson University, CLASS OF 1963 way!” She is still practising full time. travelled, and plays jazz and the classics. Dr. Roger BALL, who died in 2009 Contact: [email protected]. Contact: [email protected]. in Kelowna, BC, after a long career as a Dr. Stephen HANET continues to practise respected community physician, was family medicine and obstetrics in Toronto. remembered with the opening of a new His daughter is married and living in doctor’s lounge named in his honour at the Scotland; his son is a lawyer doing CMPA

Medical Alumni Association 13 work; and his daughter-in-law is doing obstetrical training at U of T. Contact: CLASS OF 1971 [email protected]. Dr. Peter G. HANSON has moved back to Toronto from Denver, CO. Contact: [email protected]. Dr. Richard HIBBARD is now acting as Edmonton zone clinical department head, Addiction and Mental Health, site chief, Addiction and Mental Health, Royal Alexandra Hospital, and clinical professor of psychiatry, University of Alberta. He and his wife have two daughters who are psychiatrists, and three grandchildren. Contact: richard.hibbard@ Drs. Liz and Richard ROWLAND relocated to Kingston, ON, in 2010 to be albertahealthservices.ca. closer to their family, including six grandchildren. After 10 years at Queensway Dr. Barbara KEE and her husband, Paul, Carleton Hospital and 23 years managing the Algonquin College Health Service, have four grandchildren. She is semi-retired as Rick retired, although he has now returned to part-time locum work. Liz has had of January. Contact: [email protected]. a varied career, most recently caring for nursing home residents. Contact: Dr. David McNEELY is working as hard [email protected]. as ever on the wards of the “Western” where he was born. He is still happily Dr. Gary Daniel SCHACHTER has a son Dr. Peter ZALAN has stopped doing married to Dr. Barbara LIU (1987). in law school, and a daughter doing clinical ICU, but continues to work three days Contact: [email protected]. research at Toronto General Hospital. His a week in the OR. His wife, Karen, has Dr. Sri Kant MISHRA is currently retired from clinical work; his daughter, working as a professor of neurology, now in medical school in Sudbury, will director of the neuromuscular program at be married next year; and his son, a Olive View - UCLA Medical Center, and millwright, will be married this year. Keck School of Medicine at the University Contact: [email protected]. of Southern California. Contact: [email protected]. CLASS OF 1972 Dr. Robert MYERS now has three Dr. Peter A. ADAMSON recently granddaughters, his “greatest achievement.” published Fabulous Faces, which discusses He still plays squash, but no longer has a full the psychological and emotional journey head of hair. Contact: [email protected]. of transformation through facial plastic Dr. Michael PASCOE is working as a surgery. For more information on the surgical assistant in Toronto, leaving lots wife of 30 years, Anya, is now retired. critically acclaimed book, visit www. of time to visit grandchildren in Bratislava, Contact: [email protected]. fabulousfaces.com. Dr. Adamson is Slovakia and Phoenix, AZ. Contact: Dr. Lorne professor and head, Division of Facial [email protected]. TARSHIS is Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Dr. Brian PHILLIPS is still in active full-time chief U of T. Contact: [email protected]. general surgery practice in Sussex, NB, surgeon at the and has five kids, two still at home. Institute for CLASS OF 1978 One child is in medicine at U of Ottawa; Cosmetic Surgery Dr. Joseph L. CHIN was awarded the one in business administration in Tel Aviv; Toronto. He recently Order of Ontario in January 2011, for and one is at St. Francis Xavier University. celebrated his 40th contributions to prostate cancer research He “can’t quit yet.” Contact: wedding anniversary. and treatment. He is chair of the Division [email protected]. Contact: [email protected]. of Surgical Oncology and professor of

14 University of Toronto • Spring 2011 urology and oncology at the University Dr. Renée BELAND worked in Sioux of Western Ontario, and head of surgical Lookout, ON, for five years, where she met oncology for the Southwest Ontario her husband, Dr. Ed CHUNG (1992). Region. Contact: [email protected]. They have three daughters. Dr. Beland now has a family practice in Guelph, ON. CLASS OF 1991 Contact: [email protected]. Dr. Beth ABRAMSON practises cardiology Dr. Alan CAHALAN practises family medicine in London, ON. He is married to Malissa (née Paolini), an occupational therapist and U of T grad. They have two children. Contact: [email protected]. Athletic Edge Sports Medicine in Toronto. Dr. Jean CHAMBERLAIN-FROESE Contact: [email protected]. sends warm greetings from Uganda where Drs. Richard KVAS and Lynne she and her family live eight months of the SCHWERTFEGER have two beautiful year. She is the executive director for Save children, ages 14 and 12, who keep them the Mothers at the Uganda Christian very busy. Contact: [email protected]. University, and is associate professor in Dr. Manish MAINGI and his wife, Mala OBGYN at McMaster University. Bahl, celebrated their daughter Ariana’s Contact: [email protected] and/or first birthday in October 2010. www.savethemothers.org. Contact: [email protected]. Dr. David FEIFEL is at University of Dr. Al MAWANI is married with two California, San Diego. He completed his children, and has a full-time family at St. Michael’s Hospital. She spends lots of residency in psychiatry at UCSD in 1995 practice. Contact: Unit 5 - 6601 Main St., time volunteering for the Heart and Stroke and has been on the faculty since, currently Stouffville, ON L4A 6A9. Foundation. Contact: [email protected]. as professor of psychiatry. Contact: Dr. Phil PRENDERGAST has been in Dr. Robert “Bob” AMES has four [email protected]. Victoria for 13 years. He and his wife are beautiful children, ages 11, six, six and Dr. Nelson FERREIRA has two beautiful looking at semi-retirement in two years four. He still loves practising medicine and boys. He is spending most of his time after he finishes 35 years with the playing golf – so much so that he owns performing state-of-the-art hair transplants. Tee Times Indoor Golf in Vaughan, ON. Contact: [email protected] and/or Contact: [email protected]. www.surehair.com. Dr. Caroline BAUMAL now works Dr. Evan FOGEL is married to Janine, at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, and they have three daughters. He com- MA, specializing in retinal surgery. pleted a GI fellowship at U of T in 1996, She has a three-year-old son and and is currently a professor of clinical 18-month-old twin boys. Contact: medicine at Indiana University. [email protected]. Contact: [email protected]. Dr. Anne GALIPEAU is currently working as a psychiatrist at the University of Ottawa Health Services. She is married with a five-year-old daughter. Contact: [email protected]. Dr. Christine HOFFMAN is enjoying living in Charlottetown, PEI. She works federal government. Contact: part-time at a women’s clinic, and is a [email protected]. proud mom of three. Contact: Dr. Kay THOMPSON practises family [email protected]. medicine in Walpole, MA. She is married Dr. Karen JOHNSTON is a neurosurgeon and has three daughters, ages 15, 13 and five. specializing in head injury and athletes Contact: [email protected]. with concussions. She is now with U of T’s Division of Neurosurgery, as well as

Medical Alumni Association 15 CLASS OF 1991 Valley Hospital in Mississauga, ON. She is married to Andre Sochaniwsky, and desperately tries to keep up with her two kids, ages six and two. Contact: [email protected]. Dr. Catherine MANN has three daughters, ages 13, 11 and seven. She is a general psychiatrist at Ottawa General Hospital and is married to Dr. David Hamilton, also a psychiatrist.

CLASS OF 1997

Dr. David PUSKAS and Dr. Tracy WILSON (1990) have been married for 18 years and are both orthopedic surgeons in Thunder Bay, ON. Dave just returned from his third tour of Afghanistan. He is currently chief of orthopedic surgery, and is chair of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine orthopedic surgery residency training program. Contact: [email protected].

CLASS OF 1992 of pediatrics at Orillia Soldiers Memorial Dr. Lennox HUANG has been appointed Dr. Grant LUM is pleased to announce a Hospital, and practises regional consulting chair/chief of the Department of Pediatrics comprehensive concussion management pediatrics and neonatology. She and her at McMaster University, Hamilton Health program at Athletic Edge Sports Medicine, husband, Mike, have two children. Sciences and St. Joseph’s Healthcare with neurosurgeon and concussion Contact: [email protected]. Hamilton. Contact: [email protected]. specialist Dr. Karen Johnston (1991) and Dr. Anne-Marie HUMNISKI is still neuropsychologist Dr. Michelle Keightley. practising emergency medicine at Credit Send us your news Contact: [email protected]. and photos!

CLASS OF 1996 Please e-mail news and photos (high resolution JPEG attachments) to: Dr. Michael B. CHANG has been [email protected]. working as an otolaryngologist at the Or, mail letters and prints Rouge Valley Health System, Rouge Valley (we will return photos) to: Centenary site since 2001. He was Ruth Gillings, Room 3249, appointed division head Nov. 1, 2010. Medical Sciences Building, Contact: [email protected]. 1 King’s College Circle, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8. Dr. Michelle GORDON is currently chief

Medical Alumni Association/Board of Directors 2010/2011

Dr. Catharine Whiteside (1975) Dr. Peter Kopplin (1963) Dr. Flavio Habal (1977) Honorary President Secretary Dr. Lap-Cheung Lee (1975) Dr. Suan-Seh Foo (1990) Dr. Alexandra Berezowsky (1982) Dr. David McKnight (1975) President Executive Member-at-Large Dr. Tom Patterson (1956) Archivist Dr. Sunu Thomas (2005) Dr. Victor Kurdyak (1960) Dr. Donald Cowan (1956) Dr. Martina Trinkaus (2004) Vice-President and Loan Officer Executive Member-at-Large Dr. Michael Wong (1993) Dr. Peter Wyshynski (1961) Ms. Ruth Gillings Dr. Angela Ho (2009) PAIRO Rep Past President Administrator/Manager Mr. Thomas McLaughlin (2013) Outgoing Medical Society President Dr. Ronn Goldberg (1981) Members-at-Large Mr. Ahmed Taher (2014) Incoming Medical Treasurer Dr. Douglas J. Cook (2004) Society President Dr. Barney Giblon (1957)

16 University of Toronto • Spring 2011 in memoriam Lives well lived

CLASS OF 1935 female doctors to graduate during the of Health in Bethesda, MD. He published Dr. James Douglas GALBRAITH, in his Second World War. While raising six numerous articles in the area of coronary 102nd year, on May 10, 2010. A long-time children she established a family practice artery research, and held his PhD in medical practitioner and advocate for First in East York caring for patients and physiology. Nations people, Dr. Galbraith once wrote delivering hundreds of babies at East Dr. Wilfred B. WEISBROD, in his 87th to McKenzie King, making a plea on General and Women’s College hospitals year, on Oct. 21, 2010, in Toronto. behalf of aboriginal people for equality until her 80th year. in health care. He was the physician in CLASS OF 1948 charge at BC’s first sanatorium for First CLASS OF 1944 Dr. Jack I. TAUBE, in his 88th year, on Nations people and worked to control TB Dr. William Bruce (Bill) ARNUP, in his Oct. 27, 2010, in Indianapolis, IN. Dr. among the Inuit. He received the Order of 90th year, on Mar. 24, 2011, in Lindsay, Taube was a member of the AMA, ISHA, Canada in 1998. ON. A man of unwavering faith and Indiana Academy of Ophthalmology, the pioneering spirit, Dr. Arnup spent time Royal Academy of Physicians and Sur- CLASS OF 1940 as a medical missionary in China. geons and a fellow of the College of Dr. George Alan LANE, in his 95th year, Dr. Fraser Cartwright PARROTT, in Physicians and Surgeons. Although he on Feb. 11, 2011, in Dundas, ON. Early in his 89th year, on Dec. 22, 2010, in lived in Indianapolis most of his career, his career Dr. Lane served in the Canadian Cambridge, ON. After a long and he always spoke of his city, Toronto, and Medical Corps in the Second World War. rewarding career, Dr. Parrott retired in his professors and classmates, with fondness. Later, he was a surgeon and mentor, chief of 1987 as the chief of radiology at what is surgery and of staff at St. Joseph’s Hospital, now the Cambridge Memorial Hospital CLASS OF 1949 Hamilton, and president of the College of and as a partner in Radiology Associates. Dr. Ian L. CLEMES, on Nov. 28, 2009, Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. in Guelph, ON. Dr. Clemes was president CLASS OF 1945 of the medical class of 1949 and served CLASS OF 1941 Dr. Murray Alexander FLOCK, in his in both the Canadian Army and Royal Dr. Walter Jack WIEGAND, in his 95th 88th year, on Mar. 8, 2011, in Kelowna, Canadian Navy. He spent over 40 years year, on Dec. 31, 2010, in Cambridge, BC. Following army postings in northern practising medicine and surgery in ON. On returning home from the Second and eastern Canada, he began a long Guelph, retiring in 1993. World War in which he served as a squadron career as a family physician serving the Dr. Robert William VAN DER FLIER, leader, Dr. Wiegand set up his practice as people of Southampton, ON. He was in his 86th year, on Dec. 12, 2010, in a GP in Cambridge, where he remained quiet, kind, and quick-witted, with a Chilliwack, BC. As a widely respected for almost 50 years as a dedicated doctor. gifted musical ability. physician and specialist in internal medicine, Dr. Van Der Flier served the CLASS OF 1943 (January) CLASS OF 1946 Fraser Valley for 20 years. His greatest Dr. Gordon Grosvenor “Bud” Dr. Lois Eileen Davies ARBER, in her pride was the intensive care unit at the CAUDWELL, in his 92nd year, on Oct. 88th year, on Aug. 21, 2010, in Victoria, Chilliwack General Hospital and the 12, 2010, in Brantford, ON. Dr. Grosvenor BC. Dr. Arber completed her postgraduate wonderful nurses who worked there. worked with Dr. Gordon Murray on his medical training in anesthesiology at first successful artificial kidney, built from McGill University. She thoroughly enjoyed CLASS OF 1950 a soda fountain milkshake machine. He her career, 35 years of which were spent at Dr. Arthur John BUSH, in his 89th became a fellow of the Royal College of Vancouver General Hospital. year, on Oct. 29, 2010, in Toronto. Physicians and Surgeons in surgery and A proud member of Branch 13, Royal practised medicine for many years in CLASS of 1947 Canadian Legion, Dr. Bush served in Brantford before moving to Toronto. Dr. Eric Charles ELLIOT, in his 88th the RCAF. He received his fellowship in year, on Nov. 20, 2010, in Toledo, OH. OBGYN in 1965 and was on staff at CLASS OF 1943 (July) Dr. Elliot’s career spanned both Canada Toronto East General Hospital until 1994, Dr. Elizabeth Emily Sault HARRISON, and the US, where in his last position serving as department chief and associate in her 94th year, on Oct. 12, 2010, in before retirement, he oversaw clinical professor from 1983 to 1987. Toronto. Dr. Harrison was one of a few research centres for the National Institutes

Medical Alumni Association 17 in memoriam

Dr. William W. COHEN, in his 89th year, on Nov. 17, 2010, in Stuart, FL, CLASS OF 1948 (formerly of Erie, PA). Following his service in the Korean War, Dr. Cohen Dr. Ernest McCULLOCH, as opened his medical practice in Erie, where he delivered over 4500 babies. He also remembered by Dr. John Curtis served 40 years as the physician at Ernest “Bun” a Dictaphone. Usually that Mercyhurst College, where, in honour Armstrong transcript was good enough of his service, the student health office Dr. McCulloch died to be the final draft.” was named the Cohen Health Center. in his 85th year, on January 19, Dr. McCulloch could also 2011, in Toronto. Widely known be acerbic and was known CLASS OF 1951 as one of the pioneers of stem not to suffer fools gladly. “I Dr. Donald M. cell research, Dr. McCulloch, remember once when we FRASER, in his 85th along with his colleague, Dr. were coming out of a rather year, on Dec.18, 2010, James Till, created the first tedious research talk,” Dr. Dr. Ernest McCulloch 1926-2011 in St. Catharines, ON. quantitative, clonal method to Curtis recalls. “I turned to A gifted physician, identify stem cells 50 years ago, heralding him and said, ‘I didn’t get much out of a new era in cell biology. that presentation. ‘He replied, ‘There’s scholar and teacher, he practised family Dr. John Curtis, who was a senior nothing staler than yesterday’s research.’” medicine in St. Catharines for almost 30 physician and hematologist at Princess That endless curiosity didn’t apply years, then devoted himself to orthopedics Margaret Hospital (PMH) and associate only to science. Dr. McCulloch could for another 28 years. A charter member of professor of medicine at U of T at the quote Shakespeare extensively, and the American Association of Orthopaedic time, worked with Dr. McCulloch for Dr. Curtis didn’t realize the extent of Medicine, he was also recently honoured almost 30 years at PMH. Dr. Curtis, his colleague’s love of reading until he T by the OMA Section of Complimentary the clinician on the team of stem cell stopped by Dr. McCulloch’s house one Ca he Medicine with a lifetime achievement researchers, describes Dr. McCulloch as evening. “I was amazed to see that his n a award. “He had a gentle touch and his “one of the cleverest people I’ve worked home was full of books on every subject.” d ia n hands were his gift as he could tell with with. He was loyal and supportive, but Mentors and educators to generations Me

most of all, he was always anxious to of stem-cell scientists, Dr. McCulloch d i just a light touch on your back what the c a

hear new ideas.” and Dr. Till received numerous awards l problem was or was not.” H a

A restless thinker, who paced back for their work, including the Gairdner ll

Dr. Bruce HALLIDAY, in his 85th year, and forth in front of the blackboard, Foundation International Award in 1969 of on Jan.1, 2011, in Tavistock, ON. Dr. Fa Dr. McCulloch would chew on chalk, and the Lasker Award in 2005. They m Halliday was a family physician in e a quickly producing an answer to the were made Officers of the Order of nd

Tavistock for 22 years before becoming po problem. That same quick intellect was Canada in 1984 and inducted into the rtr the long-serving MP for Oxford. He also in evidence in his papers. “Most of Canadian Medical Hall of Fame in 2004. ait artist, artist, ait worked tirelessly for people with disabilities. us who worked on papers with him “I will always remember Dr. McCulloch A member of many organizations, commit- would laboriously collect our research, for his kindness to students (the good I tees and the recipient of numerous r

going through several drafts of the ones!), and to his friends and colleagues,” m honours, he was named “Family Physician paper,” says Dr. Curtis. “Bun would pace Dr. Curtis says. a C ouc of the Year” by the College of Family back and forth, dictating his portion into i ll Physicians of Canada in 1972, and received an award from the Speaker of the CLASS OF 1952 practised medicine and continued with House of Commons in recognition of Dr. Patrick Duniam MCCARTHY, in his additional studies in dermatology. She parliamentary leadership on disability 85th year, on May 21, 2010, in Toronto. became a full-time homemaker after the Dr. Jim (James) Stuart Mason PORTER, birth of son, Beaty. In later years, she in his 84th year, on Feb. 15, 2011, in CLASS OF 1954 developed a passion for contract bridge Newmarket, ON. Dr. Otillia Lerner BEAUBIER, in her and in 1998, became a Silver Life Master. 82nd year, on Feb. 23, 2010, in Saskatoon, Dr. Allan B. SYLVESTER, in his 81st SK. After graduation, Dr. Beaubier year, on Jan. 5, 2011, in Bowmanville,

18 University of Toronto • Spring 2011 Medical Alumni Association

ON. Dr. Sylvester practised medicine for retired last year after a 50-year career in ON. Dr. Baker served as a family physician over 45 years in Bowmanville. Always the adult psychiatry and psychoanalysis. for the Lorne Park community for over 40 consummate professional and gentleman, Dr. Louise CHEVALIER, in her 86th years and was associated with Trillium he was a lifelong Rotarian, Paul Harris year, on Dec. 13, Hospital, Mississauga, throughout his career. fellow, and he served as president of the 2010, in Montreal. Bowmanville Rotary Club and chief of Not only a scholar, CLASS OF 1966 staff of Bowmanville Memorial Hospital. but a woman with Dr. Helen GRYNIEWSKI a huge heart, Dr. (nee Nicowski), at 73, on Dec. 29, 2010, CLASS OF 1955 Chevalier devoted her in Huntsville, ON. Dr. Gryniewski Dr. Ronald F. COLAPINTO, in his 80th life to children suffering with cancer. worked for Runnymede Health Care year, on Jan. 3, 2011, in Toronto. Despite Originally a nurse, she went on to complete Centre and Sun Life Insurance Company. being diagnosed with a rare liver cancer, her MD, subsequently establishing the first Dr. Colapinto lived a rich and active life. infantile leukemia clinic in Canada at the CLASS OF 1968 A pioneer of the now-routine angioplasty, Montreal Children’s Hospital in 1962. Dr. Milton GOLD, in his 69th year, on he performed the first balloon dilation Among her many honours, in 1987, Dr. Dec. 22, 2010, in Toronto. of a clogged blood vessel in Canada. Dr. Chevalier was nominated Officer of the Colapinto’s work earned him a full profes- Order of Canada. CLASS OF 1975 sorship at U of T before he was 40. He also Dr. Richard Bunyee LEE, in his 83rd Dr. John Chun-Ho TAM, on Nov. 18, pioneered TIPS (transjugular intrahepatic year, on Dec. 4, 2010, in Toronto. Dr. Lee 2010, at the age of 62, in North York, portosystemic shunt), which revolutionized was an accomplished GP at Scarborough ON. Dr. Tam was a family practitioner in the treatment of liver cirrhosis and is now General Hospital for 50 years. Toronto, whose son, Christopher (2002), routine around the world. and daughter, Stephanie (2007), are U of Dr. John McIntyre PHIN, in his 79th CLASS OF 1960 T MD grads. year, on Dec. 1, 2010, in Hamilton, ON. Dr. Ann-Marie Dr. Phin had many roles in life, including ROBERTSON (nee CLASS OF 1984 husband, father and grandfather, as well as Catherwood), at age Dr. Jane Marie Ruth GILLETT, in her spiritual advisor, teacher and friend. 78, on Oct. 31, 2010, 56th year, on Feb. 16, 2011, in Brantford, in Vancouver. Dr. ON. Dr. Gillett was the medical director CLASS OF 1956 Robertson was a of the Acquired Brain Injury Program at Dr. Joseph Charles MacMILLAN, in much beloved family physician, a wonderful Hamilton Health Sciences and an associate his 79th year, on Oct. 6, 2010, in Toronto. mother, grandmother, and family mainstay professor at McMaster University. She was Dr. MacMillan maintained a thriving who married U of T classmate Gordon also the founder and president of the family practice for 52 years, with the past Robertson in 1961. She joined her husband International Pediatric Brain Injury 36 years devoted mostly to the care of in their family practice in the Vancouver Society (IPBIS) and developed the patients with addictive disorders. He Fairview area, only retiring in 2002. Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury will be remembered as a caring and Community Outreach Program compassionate physician, a fellow of CLASS OF 1961 (PABICOP) in London, ON. the American Society of Addiction Dr. Kristjan (Kris) R. KRISTJANSON, Medicine and a founding director of the in his 76th year, on Oct. 9, 2010, in MAA Matters accepts death notices board, Canadian Medical Society on Edmonton, AB. Dr. Kristjanson practised and obituaries, which may be edited alcohol and other drugs. Most recently he at the Misericordia Hospital in Edmonton for length or content. Please e-mail was a director of the board, Homewood for 30 years until retirement in 2000. [email protected] or mail Health Centre. Until his death, he worked as a part-time to: Room 3249, Medical Sciences radiologist just outside of Edmonton. Building, 1 King’s College Circle, CLASS OF 1957 Toronto ON M5S 1A8. Dr. Roman Nickolas BORSCH, in his CLASS OF 1964 78th year, on Mar. 2, 2011, in Toronto, Dr. Anthony R. BAKER, in his 71st after a lengthy battle with cancer. He year, on Dec. 23, 2010, in Georgetown,

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