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THE OPPORTUNITY TO DISCOVER Medicine by Design

DONOR APPRECIATION • WILDERNESS WALKS Fresh air and sunshine keep TREASURER’S REPORT DR. LYNDON MASCARENHAS (1984) med students grounded Alumni reach out and make a difference

OUR ALUMNI DONATED GENEROUSLY loans and have over $560,000 in loans to including the Aboriginal Health Elective, in 2016/2017 to help medical students with medical students and graduates. We granted which the MAA 4T6 Memorial Fund much-needed financial assistance, and to over $170,000 in awards, bursaries, scholar- supports, and the fourth annual Dr. Peggy support student-life and alumni initiatives. ships and grants and over $83,000 in student Hill Lecture on Indigenous Health. With your help, we received $261,010 in assistance through the Faculty of Medicine As of February 28, 2018, with the guidance donations from alumni for MAA programs, as a result of MAA directed endowed of Mr. Dennis Babcock of BMO Nesbitt a 4 per cent increase over the previous year. donations. Our support to the Medical Burns, our portfolio is valued at $6,566,884, PHOTO:JAYSON GALLOP With a bequest of $1.8 million for student Society totalled approximately $18,000 an increase of 2 per cent over the previous year. financial aid and $248,970 in donations to for academic and non-academic initiatives. Thanks to all of our donors; our volunteer GET restricted funds, our donation total is just We maintained our commitment in board of directors; Patricia Coty, our over $2 million. 2016/2017 with funding to several manager; and Sarah Groom, our administra- We disbursed $92,000 in new student student-organized groups and events, tive assistant, for their ongoing support. OUTSIDE Wilderness Meds group fosters students’ love of the outdoors DEAN’S MESSAGE DR. TREVOR YOUNG eep in the wilds of U of T’s St. George campus is a group let in Ontario’s Kawartha Lakes region for an overnight retreat. They of med students eager for less concrete and more calm. enjoyed a brisk Saturday morning hike and then practised medita- DMeeting about once a month during the academic year, tion in the afternoon. Led by the Faculty’s mindfulness meditation members of the Wilderness Meds group have one thing in common: group, Wilderness Meds participants discovered new techniques to they love the outdoors. manage stress. Changing health care Just one of U of T Medical Society’s many organizations devoted to The group also organized MedWAR (Medical Wilderness Adventure student life beyond the classroom, the group encourages participants Race), which tests the wilderness medicine and survival skills knowl- to enjoy while learning about wilderness emergency medicine. edge of student teams in a race-against-the-clock adventure event. Hannah Kozlowski and Tristan Brownrigg (both in “Activities can include treating symptoms of a WITH THE RIGHT INVESTMENT, AIDS is a chronic condition, and mental the discovery of stem cells at U of T and the Class of 2T0) are Wilderness Meds co-ordinators. heart attack, followed by hoisting food into a tree – expertise and partnerships, what seems illness is openly discussed and often treatable. major advances in medicine – and bringing Hannah, who is also an MD/PhD student in her first which you commonly have to do while camping in impossible one day can change – almost in Not every research finding or medical together an impressive cross-disciplinary PHOTO:FACULTY OF MEDICINE year of doctoral studies, explains that the 50-plus reg- the forest,” Hannah explains. With med student vol- an instant. When I was in medical school, advance will revolutionize health care – and network of researchers and clinicians across istered participants represent a wide range of abilities. unteers acting as judges, the event puts their class- childhood cancer was a death sentence, our system is far from perfect. But we’ve several departments, faculties and U of T- “It’s a really interesting turnout this year,” says room skills to good use. AIDS was incurable, and mental illness come a long way. affiliated hospitals and sites – Medicine by Hannah. “For instance, for our camping trip in late For Tristan, being part of Wilderness Meds is helping meant patients would inevitably suffer: either This potential is palpable in the field of Design harnesses Toronto’s strengths, with September/early October, we had a few people who him define his practice goals. “The outdoors has always in silence or in sanatoriums. Today, we are regenerative medicine (see the article on the lofty goal of transforming health care. It’s had never camped before. At the same time, we had been a big part of my life, and at first I hadn’t thought on the verge of curing many kinds of cancer, Medicine by Design, page 4). Building on ambitious, to be sure. But it’s not impossible. a lot of experienced campers and hikers.” how it would impact my choice of career and specialty,” THE WILDERNESS MEDS CLASSES 2T0 AND 2T1 “It’s great to be able to facilitate outdoor experiences he says. “But over the last year, with working in the PHOTOS COURTESY OF PARTICIPANTS FROM for people like Hannah and myself who have been camping basically Kawartha Lakes area and being part of Wilderness Meds, it has led me to since we started walking,” says Tristan. “It’s also great to share our love see how I might pursue a more rural focus in my medical career.” of the outdoors with first-timers and see their interest sparked.” Practising emergency or family medicine in the country would MAA Matters is published by the Groom, Ms. Fiona Irvine-Goulet, For more information, We do not rent, trade or sell our Medical Alumni Association in Dr. Peter Kopplin, Ms. Julie Lafford, please contact: mailing list. 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2 University of Toronto • Spring 2018 Medical Alumni Association 3 Heart Lung Neural Intestine

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ABOVE: Statues of U of T he Globe and Mail described the 2015 announcement of Medicine by Design, U of T’s physical and life sciences, collaborators and Musculoskeletal giants Drs. Ernest McCulloch, left, and $114-million regenerative medicine hub, as “one of the world’s pre-eminent body shops, partners are creating a high-tech bench-to- grace the MaRS Centre a place where made-to-order cells, tissues and organs are developed and manufactured to bedside continuum, from initial research to T Liver Pancreas Blood Musculoskeletal Enabling Technologies RIGHT: A trainee from a Medicine improve health and extend life.” clinical translation to commercialization. and Diabetes by Design-funded lab discusses his Funded by a First Research Excellence Fund grant, the largest single research award Funded initiatives include 19 collaborative team projects, such as Dr. Michael Lafl amme’s Heart Lung Neural Intestine research at the annual Medicine by in U of T’s history, this multidisciplinary hub for regenerative medicine stands on the shoulders investigation into repairing damaged hearts by injecting them with human embryonic stem Design symposium of U of T stem cell giants hematologist Dr. Ernest McCulloch (1948) and biophysicist Dr. James cells (hESCs). The goal is to “re-muscularize” the hearts by overcoming the remaining barriers Neural INSET: Dr. Shaf Keshavjee speaks with Till. Their identifi cation of stem cells laid the foundation for the discovery of the cells’ potential to the successful development of hESC-based cardiac therapies. This multidisciplinary research Michael Sefton, Medicine by Design’s Heart Lung Neural Intestine executive director to repair and regenerate diseased tissue. has the potential to transform the way heart attacks are treated.Liver Pancreas Blood Musculoskeletal Enabling Technologies Based in the MaRS Centre’s innovation tower and built on the model of a collaborative design Medicine by Design brings together investigators from across U of T – from theand Faculties Diabetes of Heart Lung Neural Intestine studio, Medicine by Design is tackling some of our biggest health challenges, from heart disease Medicine, Applied Science and Engineering, Arts and Science, and Pharmacy – and its affi liated to neurological conditions. With experts from engineering, mathematics, medicine, and the hospitals, including University Health Network, the Hospital for Sick Children, Sinai Health Pancreas System, St. Michael’s Hospital and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. and Diabetes The investigators work closely with the Centre for Com- $114-MILLION mercialization of Regenerative Medicine (CCRM) to Liver Pancreas Blood Musculoskeletal Enabling Technologies and Diabetes 100+ 300+ GRANT OVER identify and plan translational pathways for its re- REGENERATIVE GRADUATE STUDENTS AND SEVEN YEARS search discoveries. Along with the Ontario Insti- tute for Regenerative Medicine, CCRM and Liver Pancreas Blood Musculoskeletal Enabling Technologies MEDICINE POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS Medicine by Design are located on the same and Diabetes Enabling RESEARCHERS fl oor, creating a hub for regenerative medicine Technologies Liver Pancreas Blood Musculoskeletal Enabling Technologies PHOTOS AND ICONS COURTESY OF MEDICINE BY DESIGN AND ICONS COURTESY PHOTOS research, translation and commercialization. and Diabetes

4 University of Toronto • Spring 2018 Medical Alumni Association 5 BREATHE EASIER: A conversation with Dr. Shaf Keshavjee

MEDICINE BY DESIGN’S How did the EVLP system come about? pany to provide it as a service to help trans- How would you say the Medicine I realized, [when I started] in the field at the plant centres who can’t do it themselves. by Design approach is different? DR. SHAF KESHAVJEE ON HOW time, that lung transplantation was very risky What it does is bring together all the basic and and just preserving the lung to make it work well What’s your ultimate goal for these “super” translational sciences to put all our efforts togeth- after the transplant was very challenging. So, or custom-designed organs? er to where it’s actually making research advances TO BUILD A BETTER LUNG my master’s thesis project was to figure out how I think the idea of making an organ that looks that will make a difference. When we’re developing to preserve lungs longer for transplantation. The more like self is a reality that we will achieve. new molecules or drugs, new cells or tissues, new product of that was the lung preservation solu- Organs were not designed to be taken out of one organs or repairing organs, it allows us to combine tion called LPD that became the worldwide stan- body and carried across country and put into an- all our talents and work together jointly and col- dard for lung preservation in all transplant pro- other body, but you can pre-prepare the organs laboratively. Hopefully, as part of the Medicine by grams and is still used to this day. for that unusual event by understanding the pro- Design work, together we’ll bring the reality of the I went on to do more work and research, and cess of transplantation. first human clinical trial of gene-modified lungs. when I came on the faculty I started a project in which we could genetically modify lungs to work How does the clinical side of your better after transplantation. I spent about 10 work affect your research approach? years looking at using gene therapy to improve “We are sowing innovative I think it really comes to mind because it’s quite lungs to make them look more like “self” so they collaborations and amazing to see a patient 10 years after you’ve would work better after transplantation and developing new peaks of operated, knowing they would have been dead in last longer, and not be rejected. three or four months if you hadn’t done what you I developed a technique to apply gene therapy excellence that will did. On the other hand, [transplantation] is a very to donor lungs, but the problem was that you strengthen Canada as a high-risk area and you don’t always win. When need more time and place to work on these lungs global leader in the field.” you fail, and the lung doesn’t work, and it doesn’t to make them better, but you don’t have that last, and the patient doesn’t survive, you look at time and access to the donor. I then set out to – Michael Sefton, that and say, ‘What happened and what can we develop a system to actually repair the lungs Executive Director, do to make sure this doesn’t happen again?’ outside the body and work with gene therapy Medicine by Design That encourages you and inspires you to find and stem cell repair, and that’s where the whole other, better solutions. When we were doing the concept of ex vivo perfusion came from. We said, first few lung transplants, and I was a resident, I ‘Can we develop a platform to keep the lungs realized how sick the patients were, and how risky stable outside the body so we can improve their Ultimately, the hope of regenerative medicine lung transplantation was. Because lung preserva- function and make them look more like self?’ and Medicine by Design itself is to find out how tion was still poor, going to the lab and figuring out And so we developed that in the lab and to re-harness the power of stem cells and make a system to better preserve lungs became a mis- brought it forward clinically, and have now organs better. That would be the holy grail, that sion. My first paper described a method to save 12 PHOTO: IAN CRYSLER PHOTO: worked on rolling it out worldwide; it’s being ap- we wouldn’t even need organ replacement. That hours on lung preservation. That made it possible plied all over the United States and in Europe as is the ultimate hope, but I think that’s further for us to go anywhere in North America and pick up Shaf Keshavjee (1985) admits that as a U of T med stu- gery hospital in the world. It was sort of unique that it was right on well. In terms of application, we’ve started two away. But I think the lessons we learn in repair- a lung, and made the precarious state of lung dent, he didn’t know what a thoracic surgeon was. The my doorstep – right here at the University of Toronto, we have world companies to look at machines to automate the ing organs for transplantation will be the steps transplants safer. That was pretty inspiring. recognized pioneer in lung transplantation, architect of the leaders in thoracic surgery and lung transplantation.” DR. repair of lungs so we can scale it and allow towards achieving that goal of never needing This interview was condensed and groundbreaking ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP) system and lead investi- Before that, the high-risk operation had been attempted 44 times. more centres to do it. And also [we have] a com- transplantation again. edited from its original form. gator for Medicine by Design’s Organ by Design area, discovered his Most patients survived only a couple of weeks. In the 1990s, lung future specialty in of all places, his car. Driving along Mount Pleasant transplant patients had a 50/50 chance of surviving the surgery. Road one November day in 1983, Dr. Keshavjee happened to catch a The EVLP system allows donor lungs – some of which would not Now, because of the efforts of scientists, such as Dr. Keshavjee, to- teaching demands. He is the Surgeon-in-Chief at UHN; the Director of news report on his car radio announcing a stunning medical breakthrough. have been previously suitable for transplantation – to be kept alive day’s lung transplant survival odds have skyrocketed to 97 per cent. the Toronto Lung Transplant Program; and a Senior Scientist at the “I heard that surgeons at Toronto General Hospital had done the first outside the body, to be treated and repaired before transplantation. In UHN’s lung transplant program is the world’s largest, with 167 TGH Research Institute and the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre’s successful lung transplant in the world. So that certainly piqued my his Medicine by Design work, Dr. Keshavjee is also using gene and transplants performed last year. About one-third of them used the Cancer Clinical Research Unit. As well, he’s a Professor in the Division interest, and I was fascinated that this was possible,” Dr. Keshavjee says. stem cell therapy to ultimately build custom-designed organs that are EVLP system. of Thoracic Surgery and Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engi- “Afterwards, I found out that TGH was the leading thoracic sur- “like you,” with a much lower risk of patient rejection. Dr. Keshavjee juggles a packed schedule of research, clinical and neering at U of T. u

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8 University of Toronto • Spring 2018 Medical Alumni Association 9 Dr. David McKnight Dr. Dennis O’Brien Dr. David Posen Dr. Irving Rosen Dr. Carolyn McLean Dr. Bonnie O’Hayon Dr. David B. Posen Dr. David Rosenthal Dear Medical Alumni Association, Dr. John McLean Dr. K. Shirley O’Reilly Dr. Wayne Potashner Dr. Robert Ross 2018 CLASS REUNIONS Dr. Shamsh Merali Dr. Richard Ogilvie Dr. Brian Power Dr. Lea Rossiter The MAA has kindly provided me with Dr. James Mergelas Dr. Jacqueline Olczak Dr. George Prieditis Dr. Morris Rotbard Is this your reunion year? Dr. Sandra Mergler Dr. Elizabeth Oliver-Malone Dr. Gus Prince (Pristupa) Dr. Irving Rother the Dr. Ruth Kurdyak Memorial MAA Dr. Norman Mesaglio Dr. Milena Ondro Dr. Kenneth Pritzker Dr. Tyler Rouse Medical Student Award. I assure you Dr. Kathleen Michalski Dr. Alice Ordean Dr. William Prost Dr. Baiba Rozkalns Dr. Marcus Michell Dr. Teddi Orenstein Lyall Dr. Gordon Prowse Dr. Sam Rubenzahl that I will honour this bursary and the The Class of 1948, in Dr. Stephanie Milone Dr. Melanie Ornstein Dr. John Pullerits Dr. Allan Rubin memory of Dr. Ruth Kurdyak throughout Dr. Stephen Milone Dr. Daniel Ovakim Dr. Corinna Quan Dr. Evelyn Rubin celebration of its 70th anniversary, Dr. Nisha Mistry Dr. Howard Ovens Dr. Melanie Quartermain Dr. Robert Ruderman my education and career. Dr. David Mitchell Dr. David Page will be among the honoured Dr. Sparrow Rabideau Dr. Peter Rueffer I consider this contribution to my Dr. Frederick Moffat Dr. William Page Dr. Edward Rabinovitch Dr. Edward Rusiewicz guests at the MAA Graduation Dr. John Moffat Dr. John Parker Dr. Anita Rachlis Dr. Clark Russell education as a binding trust. I will work Mrs. Esther Moldofsky Dr. James Parrish Dr. Val Rachlis Dr. Edward Russell Banquet on Mon., June 4, Dr. N. Peter Montgomery Dr. Michael Pascoe Dr. Donald Ranney Dr. Joan Saary tirelessly to attain my potential as a Dr. Liliana Monti Dr. Michael Paul Dr. Ernest Ranney Dr. Mitsuko Sada at Hart House. For more Dr. Neil Morris Dr. Robert Paulovic Dr. David Rapoport Dr. Terence Sakamoto physician, leader, scientist and mentor. Dr. Walter Morris Dr. Donald Payne Dr. Henrietta Rappaport Ms. Marie-France Samaroden I aspire to be a medical educator and information, contact the MAA Dr. George Morrison Dr. Gail Payne Dr. Richard Reddick Dr. Takaki Sameshima at medical.alumni@utoronto. Dr. Kathleen Moses Dr. John Peacock Dr. Sumana Reddy Dr. David Saslove health systems leader, and I will never Dr. David Mowbray Dr. Edgar Peer Dr. Juri Reial Dr. Sam Schachter forget all those who helped me and stood by ca or 416-978-0990. Dr. Douglas Munkley Dr. Richard Penciner Dr. Anthony Reid Mrs. Joanne Scharf Dr. John Murnaghan Dr. Gordon Perkin Dr. Marvin Reingold Dr. Douglas Schatz me through this journey. I am indebted to The Class of 1953 is Dr. John Patrick Murnaghan Dr. Reginald Perkin Dr. Wells Renwick Dr. Julie Schatz Dr. Robert Myers Dr. Walter Peters Dr. Raimo Repo Dr. Joseph Schatzker Drs. Ruth and Victor Kurdyak who have celebrating its 65th anniversary Dr. David Naiberg Dr. Melvyn Petersiel Dr. Dorianne Rheaume Dr. Jon Schonblom committed themselves to supporting the and planning a class dinner Dr. Lawrence Naiman Dr. John Peto Dr. John Ridge Dr. Helen Schulz Dr. Domenic Nasso Dr. Howard Petroff Dr. Richard Rinn Dr. Brian Schwartz future of medicine and creating a strong, in early June. For more Dr. Antoni Nejman Dr. Peter Petrosoniak Dr. Kevin Rittenberg Dr. Michael Schweitzer Dr. Paul Newbigging Dr. Michael Pezim Dr. Muriel Roach Dr. David Scott caring community. information, contact Dr. Dr. Peter Newman Dr. Ian Phillips Mr. Antoni Robak Dr. Avram Selick Sincerely, Dr. Douglas Ng Dr. Charles Pickett Dr. Paul Roberts Dr. Gordon Sellery James McGillivray at medical. Dr. Donald Niece Dr. Terry Picton Dr. Michael Robinette Dr. Gavin Semelhago Aatif Qureshi, Class of 2019 [email protected]. Dr. Richard Nishikawa Dr. P. Gail Pirie Dr. Lisa Robinson Dr. Rachelle Sender Dr. Arnold Noyek Dr. Cheryl-Lynn Pitre Dr. Gordon Robison Dr. Ian Shantz Dr. Suresh Syal Dr. Howard Wernick The Class of 1958, in Dr. Claire Nunes-Vaz Dr. Peeter Poldre Dr. Robert Roe Dr. Harvey Shapero Dr. Benedykt Syposz Dr. David Wesson Dr. Sidney Nusinowitz Dr. Irene Polidoulis-Giontsis Ms. Antoanna Romaniuk Dr. Stephen Shapero Mr. Stanislaw Szemik Dr. Karen Weyman celebration of its 60th anniver- Dr. Marvin Nussbaum Dr. Jean Porter Dr. Michael Rooney Dr. David Shaul Dr. Evelyn Tai Dr. Sean Wharton sary, will hold a class luncheon Dr. Richard Shaul Dr. Anthony Tang Dr. Lawrence White Dr. Erin Shaw Dr. Dr. M. Patricia White on Sun., June 3, at the Gallery The Class of 8T2 celebrating their Dr. Gerald Sheldon Dr. J. David Whitney Dr. Henry Taylor 35th anniversary in November Dr. Anne Shepherd Dr. Saul Taylor Dr. William Whittaker Grill in Hart House. Then 2017 Monthly Donors Dr. Rachel Sheps Dr. Sallie Teasdale Dr. Ruth Wiens 2017 at the U of T Faculty Club Dr. Donald Shier Dr. David Teitel Dr. Julie Williams on June 4, the class will be Thank you to those who give every month to Dr. Anne Shin Dr. Jerome Teitel Dr. Tanya-Gay Williams among the honoured guests The Class of 1968, in Hart House. Contact Lynn The Class of 1988, 1993, support the programs of the MAA. Your consistent Dr. Judith Shindman Dr. Lisa Thain Dr. Wendy Williams Dr. Sandy Shulman The Toronto Foundation Dr. David Wilson at the MAA Graduation celebration of its 50th anniversary, Castagne at lacastagne@bell. 1998, 2003 and 2008 will support is essential to maintaining our signature Dr. Ferhan Siddiqi Dr. Judith Thompson Dr. Douglas Wilson student assistance programs. Dr. Roger Sider Dr. Kay Thompson Dr. Mark Wise Banquet. Contact Dr. Garson will hold a class reception on net or 416-234-0924, or celebrate their 30th, 25th, Dr. Tammy Sieminowski Dr. I. E. Henry Tiedje Dr. Wendy Wolfman Dr. Elaine Silver Dr. Marvin Tile Dr. Henry Wolstat Conn at [email protected]. the evening of Fri., June 1 at Dr. Karen Cronin at 20th, 15th and 10th anniversa- Dr. Edward Allen Dr. Stephen Hardy Dr. Teddi Orenstein Lyall Dr. Earl Silverman Dr. Allan Toguri Dr. Clement Wong Dr. Viola Antao Dr. Gerald Hart Dr. Daniel Ovakim will the Toronto Marriott Downtown [email protected]. ries, respectively. For help Dr. Sanjeev Singwi Dr. William Tomson Dr. John Wong The Class of 1963 Dr. Gholam Abbas Azadian Dr. Gillian Hicks Dr. Michael Paul Dr. Victoria Siu Dr. Carolyn Tram Dr. Lai Wong Dr. Peter Azzopardi Dr. Jayna Holroyd-Leduc Dr. John Peto celebrate its 55th anniversary Eaton Centre Hotel. On the The Class of 1975 will organizing a reunion, contact Dr. Vahe Sivaciyan Dr. Myron Troster Dr. Steven Wong Dr. Norma Baker Dr. Nancy Hood Dr. Ian Phillips Dr. Gerald Skory Dr. Mary Trotter Dr. Winston Wong on the June 2–3 weekend at Saturday morning, there celebrate its 43rd anniversary the MAA at medical.alumni@ Dr. Alexandra Berezowskyj Dr. Merle Howes Dr. Paolo Pianosi Dr. John Sloane Dr. Paul Truscott Mr. Dennis Woodford Dr. Marilena Biscotti Dr. Edward Jacobson Dr. Paul Pitt Dr. David Smith Dr. George Trusler Dr. Daniel Wu the Waterside Inn in Port will be a CME; that evening, on July 7 in Vancouver with utoronto.ca or 416-978-0990. Dr. Kirsten Blaine Dr. Elizabeth Johnston Dr. Irene Polidoulis-Giontsis Dr. Donald Smith Dr. Scott Tsai Dr. Sing Wu Dr. Ann Bugeja Dr. Heather Karn Dr. Donald Ranney Credit, Ont. Contact Dr. there will be a reception and a dinner at the Capilano Dr. Julia Smith Dr. John Ying Choi Tsang Dr. John Yoshioka Dr. Patrick Butler Dr. Allan Kemp Dr. Paul Roberts Dr. Barry Sniderman Dr. Geming Tu Dr. Sherylan Young Dr. Susan Campbell Dr. Brian Kessel Dr. Gordon Robison Peter Kopplin at peter. dinner. Then on Mon., June 4, Golf & Country Club. Dr. Kenneth Sniderman Dr. Albert Tuboku-Metzger Dr. Kenneth Yuen Dr. T. Mark Campbell Dr. Donna Keystone Dr. Tyler Rouse Dr. Dominic So Dr. Eugene Turgeon Dr. Ming-Ching Yung [email protected] or the class will be among the For more information, Dr. Alberto Cannitelli Dr. Elizabeth Kocmur Dr. Mitsuko Sada If your class is holding a Dr. Doron Sommer Dr. John Turner Dr. Arthur Zalev Dr. Alberto Castiglione Dr. Jamie Kroft Dr. Terence Sakamoto Dr. Frank Sommers Dr. Margaret Tutert Dr. Raymond Zarins Dr. Perry Cooper at honoured guests at the contact Dr. Nelson Savein Dr. Steven Chan Dr. Polly Lam Dr. David Saslove Dr. Marilyn Sonley Dr. Murray Tyber Dr. Irving Zelcer reunion soon, please Dr. Hanif Charania Dr. Nam Le Dr. Donald Sawula [email protected]. MAA Graduation Banquet at at [email protected]. Dr. Marja Soots Dr. Eric Uhlig Dr. Paul Zeni Dr. Grant Chen Dr. Victoria Lee Dr. Matthias Schmidt Dr. Phyllis Spier Dr. Martin Unger Dr. Bernard Zucker Dr. Peter Clarke Dr. Esther Libman Dr. Jason Shack The Class of 1978 will update your contact Dr. Stanley Spier Dr. Glen Van Loon Dr. Nora Zung Dr. Claire Coire Dr. Evan Lilly Dr. Nadder Sharif Dr. William Squires Dr. Reet Vanaselja celebrate its 40th anniversary Dr. Patricia Colangelo Dr. Jeremy Lo Dr. David Shaul details with the MAA to Dr. Arthur Stanley Dr. Stanley Venis We have made every effort to Dr. Deanna Colpitts Dr. Elgin Loney Dr. Sanjeev Singwi Dr. Romas Stas Dr. Lisa Vincent ensure the accuracy of this list. on June 9 and 10 in Toronto. Dr. Natascha Crispino Dr. Wallace Lotto Dr. Julia Smith May we ensure you’re on the Dr. Brian Steele Dr. Gary Viner If your name has been listed Dr. Karen Cronin Dr. James MacDougall Dr. Dominic So On the Saturday evening, there Dr. Lawrence Steinberg Dr. Harry Vinters or omitted in error, our sincere Dr. John Dawson Dr. Hugh Mackay Dr. William Squires Dr. Karen Stel Dr. Jobst Von Heymann apologies. Please contact us will be a dinner dance at the mailing list. Or, for help Dr. Robert Doherty Dr. Michael MacKenzie Dr. James Teresi Dr. Donald Stemp email your Dr. Olga Vujovic at 416.978.0991 or medical. Dr. Karen Easton Dr. William Magnuson Dr. Carolyn Tram Dr. John Stephen Dr. John Wait [email protected]. Donalda Club. 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10 University of Toronto • Spring 2018 Medical Alumni Association 11 CLASS NOTES CLASS NOTES News from your classmates

CLASS OF 1948 Dr. Jan BLUMENSTEIN occasionally evidence of optimism for further travel,” practice in 2013 at the age 80. Contact: Dr. Kathleen MOSES is now fully retired. Good short- and long-term planning in Dr. John WILSON sends his regrets for the practises as a surgical assistant. He is Bill writes. Contact: [email protected]. [email protected]. Contact: [email protected]. hair transplantation.” It’s for the 6th graduation banquet but reports that he and enjoying his four children, six grandchildren Dr. Bill HARRIS writes from his farm Dr. Donald RANNEY is looking forward Dr. Kenneth NORWICH married Hope edition of Hair Transplantation, which is his wife, Patricia, are well cared for at the and three great-grandchildren. Contact: that he is “still out standing in his field.” to attending the class reunion despite Springman on October 15, 2017. A U of T co-edited by Dr. Ronald Shapiro and residence they moved to in 2017. “Enjoying [email protected]. Contact: [email protected]. having severe colitis and waiting to go on Professor Emeritus in physiology, physics Walter’s daughter, Dr. Robin Unger. our large family and new friends,” he writes. Dr. Gerald BOSWELL, since retiring 23 Dr. Joseph HOUPT belongs to an dialysis. Contact: [email protected]. years ago, has volunteered with a variety of international and two local woodturning CLASS OF 1965 CLASS OF 1953 organizations such as Child Find Ontario organizations. He purchased his first lathe CLASS OF 1963 Dr. Judith Belick PAKES practises part Dr. Ken RANNEY and other concerned Dr. Leslie ASH still single hands his time in psychiatry. She reports that she has Canadians have created the Stop Climate Hunter 27 sailboat in Prince Edward Change Party to ensure that the country does its part to prevent the natural disasters we’ll suffer if we don’t take prompt action, and biomed engineering, he continues to such as transitioning from fossil fuels to conduct research and supervise graduate electricity for all of our energy needs. Ken, students. Contact: [email protected]. 88, is the party’s candidate in the June Dr. Rand SIMPSON is a staff ophthal- provincial election in the Peterborough area in 1990 and says he has been “turning” mologist at University Health Network in where he lives with his wife, Jenny Carter, ever since. He recently authored two Toronto. He is also a faculty member at the a former Ontario minister of energy. and the CNIB. Gerald reports that his health chapters of the book Articular Cartilage of Bay, Ont., and is a Past Commodore of Northern Ontario School of Medicine in is “reasonably OK” and his marriage is “very the Knee. Contact: [email protected]. the Bay of Quinte Yacht Club in Belleville, Sudbury and Thunder Bay, Ont. Rand raised three doctors (an MD, a vet and a CLASS OF 1958 good.” Contact: [email protected]. Dr. William MacEACHERN retired Ont. He is a member of the International continues to play the drums and keyboard. PhD), drives in car pools for more than a Dr. John ALEXANDER likes to golf and Dr. Aileen COATES, who has been retired completely in June 2017 after 41 years in Brotherhood of Magicians and Canadian Contact: [email protected]. dozen grandchildren, plays tennis, goes garden in the summer; it takes him 2.5 for many years, enjoys writing and meeting private practice and then 12 years of being Association of Magicians. Dr. Kaspars TUTERS retired from clinical scuba diving and skis. Last May, she was on hours to cut the grass. He reports, “All year, with her writers’ group. In January, Aileen a consulting dermatologist to more than Dr. Jerome EPSTEIN retired in May practice on December 31, 2017. He does, a three-generation team in a women’s I’m busy keeping track of my eight and members of her family stayed at an 2017 for the second time, after 50 years however, remain involved in a number of charity swimathon across the Sea of Galilee grandchildren who are all doing wonderful isolated lodge in the Northwest Territories of practising ophthalmology. Contact: in Israel. things.” Contact: [email protected]. hoping to see the aurora borealis. On the very [email protected]. Dr. Harry ANDERSON has retired from last night of their stay, the skies presented Dr. Jamie GRAHAM is practising part CLASS OF 1967 practice but not from scientific psychoana- their magnificent northern lights. time. He’s performing cardiac diagnostics Dr. Arthur WEINSTEIN has retired from lytic research. He recently finished a Dr. Garson CONN, since retiring in (stress tests and nuclear cardiac) and his academic career in the northeast U.S. and five-year research project on why some January 2017, likes having more time to holding cardiac clinics in Labrador. moved to Claremont, Calif. He is continuing analyses may take longer than necessary pursue his longtime love of sculpting. 12 long-term care residences in the Contact: [email protected]. his lupus research as Chief Medical Officer and never go to completion. Harry has also Kitchener-Waterloo area. Contact: Dr. Gershon GROWE, while enjoying committees and boards, and is running completed his fourth book, Into and Out of [email protected]. living and practising in Vancouver, programs at the Toronto Psychoanalytic the Spin, which he says is “an account of Dr. Salvatore SCALA is a director of and occasionally wonders what he may have Society. Now 80, he is planning to do more how a self-analysis after training, using real player with the Blue Mountain Duplicate missed by not living closer to his old travelling. The photo, above, was taken on science, unexpectedly opened a door to the friends in Toronto and practising with his a recent family trip to Europe. Contact: roots of my artistic creativity.” Contact: classmates. Contact: [email protected]. [email protected]. [email protected]. Dr. Randolph LEE is enjoying Campbell Dr. Walter UNGER has just finished Dr. Richard BETHUNE has taken up River, B.C., and practising endocrinology two writing the chapter “Planning Principles: oil and acrylic painting. Richard’s wife, days a week. On the other days, he teaches Margaret, died in 2001. Then in 2005, “Jeannie, our children and eight grandchildren Taoist tai chi and enjoys his grandchildren. he married Judith McCulloch (wife of are the loves of my life and make retirement Contact: [email protected]. of Exagen Diagnostics, Inc. Arthur is also the late Dr. Peter McCulloch, Class of what it is meant to be,” he writes. Dr. Gisele MICROYS still owns and drives Chair of the data safety and monitoring 1964). Richard was inducted into the Dr. William CUMMING, 85, canoes Bridge Club in Collingwood, Ont. her 2004 Porsche 911. Professionally, she’s boards for multinational therapeutic studies U of T Sports Hall of Fame along with whenever possible and regularly travels to Contact: [email protected]. interested in promoting dying with dignity, in rheumatic diseases. He writes, “I’m his teammates on the 1954 Football Blues British Columbia to visit his children and Dr. Gordon Gary PROWSE retired advance care planning and associated surprised by how busy retirement can be Championship Team. grandchildren. “Just bought a new car as from his general and addiction medical topics. Contact: [email protected]. even without patient care and teaching.”

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CLASS OF 1968 Yonge and St. Clair in March 2018 after Dr. Mary Ellen McCOLL is practising from 1984 to 1990. He is enjoying To arrange a studio visit, contact: Dr. William BUCKTON retired as a practising at this Toronto location for 10 part time at rural locums and a Pap smear retirement with his wife, Leslie, and [email protected]. coroner in 2016 but is still active in family years, enjoying much reduced hours. clinic. Contact: grannylocum@hotmail. participates in tai chi and local amateur practice. In 2017, Patients Canada and the Before that, she was an Academic Physician com or [email protected]. theatre. Contact: [email protected]. CLASS OF 1982 at St Michael’s Hospital. She did her family Dr. Peter NEWMAN has closed his family Dr. Noel ROSEN continues in family Dr. Normand CARREY is enjoying medicine residency at St. Mike’s, and then medicine teaching practice and is now practice at the same location where he started practising as an infant psychiatrist in practised there from 1976 to 2006. Sheila supervising physicians experiencing difficul- after interning at Toronto East General Halifax. He has written a novel in French reports that her four grandchildren – aged ties with the College of Physicians and Hospital (now Michael Garron Hospital). 16, 14, 11 and nine – are growing up way Surgeons of Ontario. “It’s gratifying work,” He also practises part-time as the Medical too fast. Contact: [email protected]. he says. Peter also does consultations for the Director of a nearby long-term care facility. boating, playing racquetball and skiing. Dr. Sam GREENSPAN and his wife, “I still love golf and skiing, but they tell me Contact: [email protected]. Carole, celebrated their 50th wedding I have to slow down on the hills,” he writes. “Our five grandchildren bring a world of CLASS OF 1969 Ontario Medical Association recognized his joy to my beloved wife, Heather, and me.” Dr. Jerry FRIEDMAN is practising excellence in patient care with a Patients’ Dr. Hillar VELLEND retired in 2014 psychiatry in Toronto. Jerry will be Choice Award. Bill plays tennis and golf, after 39 years of academic medicine at showing his driftwood sculptures at his gardens and plays the piano. He reports studio/workshop on the Artists of the that he’s “enjoying life to the fullest.” Limberlost Studio Tour on August 18 Contact: [email protected]. and 19, 2018. The tour features the work and a book of poetry in English. To top it Dr. Sheila DOYLE left her practice at off, he has recorded three CDs. Contact: [email protected]. Dr. Marion FRENDO retired in 2012 due anniversary by taking a trip to Japan and Canadian Medical Protective Association. to Parkinson’s disease. She volunteers at a South Korea. Sam is semi-retired and He has been involved with programs in St. Vincent de Paul thrift store and with plays tennis almost daily. Contact: Dominica since 1969; now, he’s also spiritual care at a hospital. Marion’s first [email protected]. volunteering in Uganda. Peter has just had U of T, divided between Toronto General grandchild was born in April 2017. Dr. John David IMRIE has been a story published in a literary journal but and Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was a Contact: [email protected]. semi-retired since 2001. He is involved says that canoeing, skiing and his seven clinical educator in infectious diseases and Dr. Doreen YEE has been practising in venture capital investing. Contact: grandkids all happily compete with his general internal medicine. Now Hillar anesthesia and trauma resuscitation at [email protected]. writing time. Contact: peter.newman@ enjoys reading crime fiction, taking long Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre for DO YOU WANT TO Dr. Leonard KRYSTOLOVICH says he utoronto.ca. walks and playing with his four grandchildren. of 20 artists at seven studios and is along 27 years. She serves as U of T’s Fellowship MAKE A DIFFERENCE “stays off the couch” by playing pick-up Dr. Donald PRIOR retired from a Contact: [email protected]. Limberlost Road, 12 km east of Director for Anesthesia as well as works hockey and skiing in the winter, and rewarding clinical practice as an orthopaedic Dr. Frederick WAX is in private dermatology Huntsville. For more information, for the Canadian Anesthesia Research TO STUDENTS gardening in the summer. He also does practice in Plymouth, Mass. He enjoys visit www.artistsofthelimberlost.ca. Foundation. She writes that she “enjoys rounds in long-term care facilities. travelling to nice places with good food AND ALUMNI? Contact: [email protected]. and wine. Planning retirement!” Contact: The Board of the Medical Alumni Dr. William McKAY retired from clinical Medical Alumni Association [email protected]. Association is looking for new practice in December 2017. He’s working Volunteer Board of Dr. David McKnight (1975) Dr. Ronn Goldberg (1981) volunteer Board members. on research, but has cut back to 50 hours a Directors 2017-2018 Secretary Dr. Baruch Jakubovic (2013) Dr. Jason Pennington (2000) Dr. Trevor Young Dr. Victor Kurdyak (1960) The time commitment isn’t week. Contact: [email protected]. Dr. Peeter Poldre (1978) Honorary President Loans Officer Keep In Touch onerous, and you’ll have a chance Dr. Roohi Qureshi (1999) Please email your news and photos to to contribute your skills and Dr. Alexandra Berezowskyj (1982) Dr. David Lowe (1988) Dr. Stephanie Lapinsky (2016) President Executive Member-at-Large PARO Representative [email protected] or mail to talents to making a difference Dr. Peter Kopplin (1963) Dr. Stuart McCluskey (1994) Ms. Kayla Sliskovic (2020) MAA, Room 3249, in the lives of med students and Past President Executive Member-at-Large President, Medical Society your fellow alumni. surgeon in 2010. He was the Division Head Medical Sciences Building, Dr. Peter Wyshynski (1961) Dr. Martina Trinkaus (2004) Ms. Patricia Coty for Orthopaedics and the inaugural Chief of Vice President Executive Member-at-Large Manager 1 King’s College Circle, Toronto, ON Please contact the MAA Surgery for the Health System Dr. Lyndon Mascarenhas (1984) Dr. Douglas J. Cook (2004) Ms. Sarah Groom M5S 1A8. at [email protected] in Brampton, Ont. Don served on the Peel Treasurer Dr. Suan-Seh Foo (1990) Administrative Assistant We will return photos on request. or 416-978-0990. Dr. Barnett Giblon (1957) District Health Council and was Chair

14 University of Toronto • Spring 2018 Medical Alumni Association 15 IN MEMORIAM “WE HAVE TO Lives well lived DE-NORMALIZE THE Medical Alumni Association CLASS OF 1941 Athletic executive and President of U of T’s Polish Club. On CURRENT STATE OF Dr. Lillian Teresa Karmalska LOME completion of her medical degree, she interned at St. Michael’s Hospital in 1941-42, a year that was more rewarding than by Dr. Peter Kopplin (1963) expected as she cared for a patient who later became her INDIGENOUS HEALTH” husband. John Lome was a pilot with the Norwegian Air Force, which had a training base in Toronto. Ry Moran delivers a powerful message on From internship, she became the Assistant Medical Director understanding trauma – and reconciliation – of the John Inglis Company, which was heavily involved in

making arms for the war effort. At the same time, she began a COURTESY OF THE MISS. MARGARET ROBINS ARCHIVES OF WOMEN’S COLLEGE HOSPITAL in Dr. Peggy Hill lecture private practice. When her family began to grow, she gave up practice for 15 years. Then in 1964, she re-interned and resumed practice with ow that you’ve had the truth tonight, what are you going to children in residential schools to today’s high incidence of type 2 an interest in obstetrics and a close association with Women’s do with it?” challenged Ry Moran, the founding director of diabetes, obesity and heart issues among Indigenous peoples. College Hospital. When she formally retired from her Women’s “Nthe National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. Moran “Early childhood trauma is one of the most vicious ills in all of society College position in 1981, she had what she called a “second delivered a strong message at the November 2017 Dr. Marguerite and it sets one up for a life of pain and suffering,” Moran continued, chance.” In 1985, she travelled and worked in Ethiopia. Later (Peggy) Hill Lecture on Indigenous Health. urging the med students and physicians in the audience to consider that year, she left for Haiti where she worked for six months at The annual lecture, now in its fourth year, is attracting increasingly early trauma and the social determinants of health when providing care one of Mother Teresa’s missions in Port-au-Prince. large audiences of students, faculty, staff and alumni. The Faculty of to Indigenous patients. For retirement recreation, she took seniors’ courses at U of T, Medicine’s Office of Indigenous Medical Education and the Medical Moran, who has gathered almost 7,000 audio/video statements of crawled though the Cu Chi tunnels in Vietnam and hiked in the Alumni Association sponsor the event. residential school survivors, has a vision of reconciliation that hinges Dr. Lillian Lome, at the age of 101, on Nov. 22, 2017, in Toronto. mountains of Peru. While not active in the MAA, she was on the PHOTO BY JONI MACLAURIN Moran’s lecture, Towards a Trauma Informed Understanding of Recon- on establishing and maintaining mutually respectful relationships. A woman with Polish roots who had been educated at a convent executive of the U of T Alumni Association. ciliation, challenged health care professionals “Despite all the madness inflicted upon com- school was decidedly distinct in the wartime Class of 4T1. Her On her death, she left four children, nine grandchildren and three – as well as the federal government and all Ca- munities, Indigenous people still want to walk subsequent career only burnished that distinction. great-grandchildren. One son predeceased her, and her husband, nadians – to recognize and understand the together. We’re still willing to talk. What In medical school, she was active on the Medical Women’s John, died in 1965. She was distinct to the end of her life. trauma responsible for the overall poor health “INDIGENOUS would your own response be?” of Indigenous peoples. PEOPLE STILL He advocated for the creation of safe spac- Moran said the trauma is a direct legacy of es, including our health care institutions, CLASS OF 1945 neuroradiology under Dr. Wilder Penfield. on Jan. 8, 2018, in Aurora, Ont. Murray the colonization of Indigenous people through- where all people can feel valued, and health Dr. Edith ABBOTT, at the age of 96, on In 1963, he moved with his family to pioneered preventive medicine in Toronto. out Canada’s history; in particular, the forced WANT TO WALK concerns can be addressed free of stereotyp- April 9, 2017, in Oro Station, Ont. Oklahoma City. Considered an excellent His humour and compassion extended to containment of 150,000 children and youth in ing and discrimination. “We have to de-nor- Dr. Wallace K. HAMES, at the age of 97, teacher, he spent 32 years as a professor countless CFRB listeners who tuned into the country’s residential school system. The TOGETHER. malize the current state of Indigenous health on Nov. 11, 2017. For many years, Wallace with the Department of Radiological his weekly health and fitness broadcast. practice of removing children from their fami- and recognize there was a previous better practised as a family doctor in rural Manitoba. Sciences at the University of Oklahoma In 1946, Murray began spending summers lies went on for almost 150 years. WE’RE STILL state of health to rectify basic inequality.” Health Sciences Center. During this term, in Algonquin Park as a senior staff member “We are not the country we think we are,” De-normalizing requires addressing govern- CLASS OF 1946 he was appointed Chair of the Department. at Camp Ahmek. Since then, not a summer he stated, referring to the “over-writing” of WILLING TO TALK.” ment funding inequalities and tackling systemic Dr. Francis Hewetson PROUSE, went by without him visiting the camp by Canadian history that denies or silences the racism. It also means acknowledging and under- at the age of 95, on Dec. 4, 2017. CLASS OF 1949 either foot or canoe. voices and experiences of First Nations, Métis and Inuit people. standing the role of traditional Indigenous health practices and medicines Dr. Ross Allan DOBSON, at the age of Dr. Douglas E. SANDERS, at the age In residential schools, the children were denied the right to speak in Canada’s health care system, Moran stated. CLASS OF 1947 91, on Jan. 30, 2018, in Newmarket, Ont. of 91, on Jan. 10, 2018. Doug was an their language, and many suffered physical, emotional and/or sexual Moran’s message called for a new worldview based on the United Dr. Zelda ROTHBART FOX, at the age After four years of postgraduate training at academic radiologist who contributed abuse. Many of the children were also chronically malnourished; they Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights as the basis for free- of 93, on Oct. 23, 2017, in Montreal. the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., Ross to clinical research in radiology and were given too little food, it was of poor quality and vastly different from dom, justice and peace. “Each one of us has rights to protect us; we have joined the surgical staff of Scarborough chest medicine. their traditional diet. to extend this out to all people. A rights-based framework will save us CLASS OF 1948 General Hospital where he enjoyed a Dr. David Arnold STINSON, at the Moran cited a 2017 study by U of T researchers Ian Mosby and from ourselves and will lead to a fair, just and safe society.” Dr. Sidney Phillip TRAUB, at the age 40-year career as a general surgeon age of 92, on Nov. 5, 2017, in Ohio, N.S. Tracey Galloway (published in the Canadian Medical Association The next Dr. Peggy Hill Lecture on Indigenous Health will be in of 91, on Jan. 3, 2017, in Edmond, Okla. including several years as Chief Surgeon. During the Second World War, David Journal) that connects the prolonged hunger and malnutrition of November 2018. After medical school, Sidney trained in Dr. Frank Murray HALL, at the age 90, served with the Royal Canadian Navy.

16 University of Toronto • Spring 2018 Medical Alumni Association 17 IN MEMORIAM IN MEMORIAM

He was the Chief of Outpatient and before returning to Toronto in 1970. He medical school by playing clarinet and Member of Parliament. Emergency Services at Toronto General served as Chief of Anaesthesia at Scarborough saxophone. After 20 years as a family physi- Dr. William RUMBALL, on Jan. 22, Hospital, an Associate Professor at U of T, Centenary Hospital and then at St. Joseph’s cian in Toronto, he joined the faculty of 2017, in Peterborough, Ont. He was an the Vice-President of the Royal Canadian Health Centre. Tony became a palliative McMaster University’s Department of ear, nose and throat specialist and surgeon, Institute, an MAA President and the care physician before retiring at age 85. Family Medicine in Hamilton. For more with extensive expertise in vertigo. He Physician-in-Chief of Runnymede Hospital. Dr. Howard Carl TRUPP, at the age of than 25 years, Gerry played with the retired in 2016. In 1969, he became interested in Zen 88, on Oct. 2, 2017, in Brantford, Ont. Burlington Concert Band. Buddhism, eventually moving to Nova He practised in Brantford, was a member Dr. Robert P. SLINGER, at the age of 87, CLASS OF 1959 Scotia where he became a farmer, herding of the Grand River Kiwanis Club, and on Jan. 12, 2018, in London, Ont. Robert Dr. H. Peter JAMES, at the age of 83, on goats and growing vegetables. He also enjoyed martial arts, tai chi and fishing. had a general pathology practice. Dec. 26, 2017, in Sarasota, Fla. After CLASS OF 1957 CLASS OF 1963 started a holistic medical practice, taught Dr. Edward Joseph MORAN, on Jan. practising at Scarborough General Hospi- Dr. Michael A. SPOONER, at the meditation and practised Zen calligraphy. CLASS OF 1954 1, 2018, in Peterborough, Ont. Ed was tal, he completed a fellowship in orthope- age of 80, on Jan. 15, 2018, in Dr. William H. AINSLIE, on Dec. 14, 2017, Chief of the Department of General dic surgery in 1966 at the Campbell Clinic Tucson, Ariz. Mike was Chair of the CLASS OF 1950 in Niagara Falls, Ont. William had a longstand- Practice at Scarborough General in Memphis, Tenn., and then practised in Department of Family Medicine at Dr. Robert McClure KILBORN, at the ing general practice and was also a surgeon. Hospital, which included responsibility Rockville, Md. Peter returned to Toronto the University of in age of 94, on Feb. 6, 2018, in Kitchener, Dr. John KING, at the age of 87, on Jan. for supervising the hospital’s emer- in 1972, eventually becoming a knee Saskatoon from 1976 to 1989. He Ont. During the Second World War, Bob 11, 2018, in Mississauga, Ont. For 40 gency department. In 1976, he took a surgeon at the Orthopaedic & Arthritic served on the College of Family served in the Canadian Air Force in years, John practised at West Lincoln position at the Ontario Medical Hospital. In 1987, he travelled to Russia as Physicians of Canada’s national Brandon, Man. Killy began his career as a Memorial Hospital in Grimsby, Ont. Association, becoming the Director of Team Canada’s doctor for the World Ice Executive Committee for several family physician in North Bay, Ont., and Dr. Peter William KLASSEN, on Nov. 26, Hockey Championships. Later, Peter CLASS OF 1956 Medical Services and then the Chief years, including in the roles of Chair later practised as an anaesthetist in 2017. He partnered with Treloar Anaesthetic Dr. Michael Gerald O’DWYER, Executive Officer. He was a longstand- opened the Knee Center of Western N.Y. of the Board of Directors from 1976 Kitchener. He served as the Medical Service in Vancouver for 20 years before at the age of 86, on Nov. 23, 2017, ing board member of the Canadian in Buffalo, N.Y., and joined the Buffalo to 1977 and College President from Director of Kitchener-Waterloo Hospital retiring in 1987. Peter enjoyed road trips, bird in Toronto. Gerry did his surgical Medical Association. Sabres’ medical team. 1978 to 1979. Later, Mike studied and also ran a chronic pain clinic. hunting on the Prairies, gardening, boating, residency at the Buffalo Veterans Dr. Harry Milton SANDERSON, at the geriatrics and eventually became the Dr. David Bruce ROBSON, at the age of fishing and especially grandparenting. Affairs Medical Center in New York. age of 82, on Jan. 27, 2018, in Oshawa, Medical Director of several Veterans 93, on Feb. 11, 2018, in Markham, Ont. Dr. Morris Michael NEDILSKI, at the On returning to Ontario in 1962, CLASS OF 1958 Ont. He was Chief of Staff at Oshawa Administration hospitals in the U.S. Dave practised general surgery at Branson age of 88, on March 24, 2018, in Toronto. he started a medical practice in Dr. Bernice GLOZEK in 2017. Bernice General Hospital. At the College of Hospital in Toronto and the former York For more than 40 years, Morris was an Georgetown. In 1967, Gerry became earned a master’s degree in community Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, he CLASS OF 1968 Central Hospital in Richmond Hill, Ont. internal medicine physician at St. Michael’s a general surgeon at Scarborough psychiatry at Columbia University in New was Chair of the Discipline Committee, Dr. A. Martin FRIEDBERG, on Jan. 6, After leaving surgery, he joined the staff of Hospital who specialized in allergy. General Hospital, eventually becom- York City. She practised as a psychiatrist and then President of the College. 2018, in Toronto. In the early 1980s, Marty St. John’s Convalescent Hospital in Dr. Ezra A. SILVERSTEIN, at the age of ing Chief of Surgery and Chief of and Chief of Psychiatry for Veterans pioneered emergency medicine in Toronto. Toronto. He retired when he was 71. 87, on Jan. 15, 2018, in Toronto. Ezra was an Staff. Regardless of his busy schedule, Administration clinics in Arizona, Arkansas CLASS OF 1960 He taught countless medical students and orthopedic surgeon at Mount Sinai Hospital. he always found time to read, and and Nevada, assisting thousands of veterans Dr. Martin BARKIN, on Jan. 21, 2018, in paramedics, always telling them to never CLASS OF 1951 Dr. Frank Joseph SKAIN, at the age of enjoy opera and baroque music. in managing post-traumatic stress disorder. Toronto. Martin, a urologist, served as lose sight of the patient’s dignity. Dr. Lorna Jane WOODS, née DOW, 89, on March 18, 2018, in Toronto. After Dr. Harvey KLINE, on Aug. 14, 2017, President and CEO of Sunnybrook Health at the age of 91, on Feb. 17, 2018, in graduating, Frank trained at St. Michael’s at home. Sciences Centre and as Ontario’s Deputy CLASS OF 1973 Toronto. Rusty completed her residency Hospital, receiving his specialist certificate CLASS OF 1956 Dr. George Milos NOVOTNY, at the age of Minister of Health. Dr. Richard G. TANNERYA, on Dec. 13, in psychiatry at the Clarke Institute in in obstetrics and gynaecology in 1960. He Dr. Wentworth JONES, at the age of 86, 88, on Jan. 18, 2018. George was an ear, nose 2017, in Houston. R.G. dedicated more Toronto. Until retiring in 1996, she was a began his medical career at Northwestern on Feb. 13, 2018, in Toronto. Skip was a and throat specialist, head and neck surgeon, CLASS OF 1962 than 40 years to the quest of helping general practitioner specializing in psychiatry. General Hospital in 1961; he also practised family doctor in Toronto’s Beaches area for and professor at Dalhousie University in Dr. Emmanuel S. LILKER, on Feb. 15, people by using both Western medical at Branson Hospital and later at Humber more than 50 years. Halifax. After retiring, George focused on his 2018, in Toronto. Emmanuel pioneered practices and holistic medical approaches. CLASS OF 1953 River Regional Hospital. Frank worked Dr. Donald George MARSHALL, at the newfound passion for golf, dividing his time modern respirology at St. Joseph’s Hospital Dr. Gordon Wilfred CARTER, at the age passionately to ensure the healthy birth of age of 86, on Nov. 13, 2017, in Brampton, between Toronto and Bonita Springs, Fla. in Toronto. MAA Matters accepts death notices and of 87, on Aug. 25, 2017. With his wife, hundreds of Toronto children. Ont. Don practised in Brampton and always Dr. Frank Arthur PHILBROOK, in Oct. obituaries, which may be edited. Email to [email protected] or mail Doreen, Gordon devoted more than 15 said he was fortunate to have a career that he 2017, in Ontario. Before embarking on CLASS OF 1964 to MAA, Room 3249, years to missionary work in Africa. CLASS OF 1955 loved, adding that he enjoyed every moment medicine, Frank graduated with a phar- Dr. Lucyan “Carl” SHEPANSKI, Medical Sciences Building, Dr. Anthony PETRASEK, at the age of 92, Dr. Gerald COHEN, at the age of 86, on of his life’s work. macy degree in 1954. He became a at the age of 79, on April 23, 2017, in 1 King’s College Circle, Toronto, on Dec. 8, 2017, in Toronto. Tony was an Nov. 16, 2017, in Toronto. A talented Medical Director for the pharmaceutical St. Catharines, Ont. ON M5S 1A8. anaesthesiologist in Montreal and Pittsburgh musician, Gerry paid his way through industry. For five years, he served as a

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