Brigadier-General Hugh Colin MacKay OMM, CD, QHP, MD, MHSc, FRCPC(hon) was the 39th Canadian Surgeon General. Originally from Shelburne

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, he enrolled in the

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in 1983 and served as a Signal Officer with 4 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group Headquarters and Signal Squadron in

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, 1 Canadian Signal Regiment in Kingston, and the Directorate of Electronics Engineering and Maintenance in

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. He subsequently trained as a physician at the

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and Queen's University before serving as a medical officer at CFB Kingston, with the 1st Canadian Divisional Headquarters and Signal Regiment, on a humanitarian assistance operation in

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, as Base Surgeon in Shilo, Officer Commanding Medical Company and Brigade Surgeon with 2 Field Ambulance in

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, and Disaster Assistance Response Team medical commander during the earthquake disaster relief mission to

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. After completing post-graduate training in Occupational Medicine and Public Health at the

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, he served as Head of Operational Medicine and Project Director of the Biological Warfare Medical Countermeasures Project. In 2007, he was the Canadian Task Force Surgeon and Commanding Officer of the

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Role 3 Multi-national Medical Unit in

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Afghanistan. After serving as Command Surgeon to the Canadian operational commands, he sequentially served as Director Force Health Protection and Deputy Surgeon General. He was appointed Surgeon General, Commander

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, and Head of the

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in 2015 and retired in July 2017. He is an Honorary Physician to Her Majesty the Queen, an Officer of the Order of Military Merit, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, and a trustee of th
Canadian Medical Foundation (CMF)
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