The Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences is one of the constituent faculties of

McGill University McGill University (french: link=no, Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter granted by King George IV,Frost, Stanley Brice. ''McGill Universit ...

. It was established in 1829 after the Montreal Medical Institution was incorporated into McGill College as the college's first faculty; it was the first medical faculty to be established in

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. The Faculty awarded McGill's first degree, and Canada's first medical degree to William Leslie Logie in 1833. McGill's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences is one of the most well-regarded medical schools in the world. Many researchers, physicians, clinicians, and pioneers within their respective fields have graduated from or have been affiliated with the faculty. Its graduates have gone on to found the

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and the

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. There have been at least two

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laureates who have completed their entire education at McGill University including MD at the McGill University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences including Andrew Schally (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1977) and David H. Hubel (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1981).

History

The Montreal Medical Institution, was established in 1823 by four physicians, Andrew Fernando Holmes, John Stephenson, William Caldwell and William Robertson, all of whom had been trained at the

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, and were involved in the foundation of the

Montreal General Hospital The Montreal General Hospital (MGH) (french: Hôpital Général de Montréal) is a hospital in Montreal, Quebec, Canada established in the years 1818-1820. The hospital received its charter in 1823. It is currently part of the McGill University ...

. In 1829 it was incorporated into McGill College as the new College's first faculty; it thus became the first Faculty of Medicine in Canada. A highly didactic approach to medical education called the "Edinburgh curriculum", which consisted of two six-month courses of basic science lectures and two years of "walking the wards" at The Montreal General Hospital, was instituted. From 1833 to 1877 the Faculty followed the pattern set by the University of Edinburgh and required graduating students to submit an 'inaugural dissertation' - a database of these is available. Sir William Dawson, the principal of McGill, was instrumental in garnering resources for the faculty and pioneering contributions from Thomas Roddick, Francis Shepherd, George Ross and

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helped to transform the Victorian era medical school into a leader in modern medical education. Osler graduated from the MDCM program at McGill University Faculty of Medicine in 1872, and co-founded the present-day

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in 1893. In 1905, the

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Medical Faculty Montreal who established in Montreal in 1871 closed and amalgamated with McGill University to create the new McGill University Faculty of Medicine, where BU graduates such as Maude Abbott, one of the Canada's earliest female medical graduates transferred to work for McGill as the Curator of the McGill Medical Museum. The McGill University Health Centre was part of a $2.355 billion Redevelopment Project on three sites - the Glen, the Montreal General and Lachine hospitals. A new $1.300 billion MUHC Glen site fully integrated super-hospital complex opened in 2015. A new satellite campus for McGill Medicine for a French stream MD, CM program was established in 2020 for the

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region with a graduating class size of 24 and total of 96 in the program. The establishment of the program is part of a $32.5-million construction project of the Groupe de médecine familiale universitaire (GMF-U) de Gatineau. In September 2020, the Faculty of Medicine changed its name to the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences to reflect the growth of interprofessionalism and the diversity in the Faculty of Medicine. McIntyre Medical Building - panoramio

Education

The faculty offers a four-year MDCM degree in medicine and surgery. The Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences also offers joint degree programs with other disciplines including business (M.D.- M.B.A.) and science/engineering (M.D.- Ph.D.). There is also an accelerated program for selected graduates of the Quebec college system (PRE-MED-ADM or MED-P) that combines one year of science curriculum with the four-year M.D., C.M. degrees. It is closely affiliated with the McGill University Faculty of Dentistry. Students of dentistry receive instruction together with their medical student colleagues for the first 18 months of their professional training. The faculty includes six schools: the School of Medicine, the Ingram School of Nursing, the School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, the School of Population & Global Health and the School of Biomedical Sciences. It also includes several research centres involved in studies on, for example,

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, and

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. Most of the non-clinical parts of the faculty are housed in the McIntyre Medical Sciences Building ("The Beer Can", “McMed”), situated on McGill's downtown campus on the south side of

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between Avenue des Pins and Avenue Docteur-Penfield. The McGill University Faculty of Medicine was the first medical school in Canada to institute a joint MD-MBA program in 1997 in collaboration with the Desautels Faculty of Management. This program allowed students to complete both degrees in five years.

Affiliations

McGill University Health Centre

*GLEN super hospital ** Royal Victoria Hospital ** Montreal Children's Hospital **

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** Allan Memorial Institute (contains MGH's outpatient psychiatry) * Montreal Neurological Hospital *

Hôpital de Lachine Lachine Hospital (french: Hôpital de Lachine) is a public hospital in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located at 650 16th Avenue in the borough of Lachine (at the corner of Saint Antoine Street). A community general hospital, it offers a ran ...

McGill affiliate hospitals

* Lakeshore General Hospital *

Jewish General Hospital The Jewish General Hospital (JGH; french: Hôpital général juif), known officially as the Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital (french: Hôpital général juif Sir Mortimer B. Davis) since 1978, is an acute-care teaching hospital in ...

* St. Mary's Hospital * Douglas Mental Health University Institute *

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*Hôpital de Gatineau - Groupe de médecine de famille universitaire (GMF-U) de Gatineau *

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(JRH) *Mount Sinai Hospital Montreal

Reputation

McGill's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences has a national and international reputation with a list of faculty and alumni, many of whom were pioneers in their respective fields. It is also ranked as the number 1 medical school nationally in Canada by

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for 18 straight years (including the most recent ranking for 2023). McGill's Medical School has also consistently ranked in the top medical schools worldwide and ranked 21st worldwide on a recent

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of top medical schools world-wide. Particularly, among McGill University's renowned reputation of

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, McGill's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences has also produced a number of Rhodes Scholars (Cecil James Falconer Parsons, Munroe Bourne, Douglas George Cameron, Alan G. Kendall, Robert Murray Mundle, John Doehu Stubbs, Geoffrey E. Dougherty, Brian James Ward, Lesley Fellows, Anne Andermann, Astrid-Christoffersen-Deb, Aleksandra Leligdowicz, Benjamin Mappin-Kasirer, Alexander Lachapelle), including one in the recent 2018 cohort. For medical school students entering in Fall 2020, the mean four-year undergraduate GPA was 3.87 (excluding graduate GPA), and the mean

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score was 32.1 (85th-88th percentile). Admissions to the McGill Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences M.D., C.M. program are highly competitive with an acceptance rate of 5.7% for the Class of 2026. The Department of Anatomy and Physiology at McGill University ranked 3rd globally in the 2017

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after Oxford University and Cambridge.

Harry Houdini incident

In October 1926, renowned magician

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was giving a lecture on exposed mediums and spiritualists at McGill University and had invited medical students to his dressing room at Montreal's Princess Theatre. J. Gordon Whitehead, a medical student and boxer, had asked Houdini if he could take a sudden punch to the stomach, as had rumoured to be the case; Houdini received several unexpected punches. Feeling ill later that evening and after refusing medical treatment, Houdini was diagnosed with acute appendicitis a couple of days later and died on October 31, 1926. It remains a controversy whether Houdini died as a result of the punches or was simply unaware of a current appendicitis prior, and Whitehead was never charged.

Notable faculty and alumni

* Bernard Nathanson M.D., C.M. 1949 — obstetrician/gynecologist *

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M.D., C.M. 1972 — president of the

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of the

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, former president and CEO of

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O.Q., B.Sc. 2000, M.D., C.M. 2006, M.B.A. 2006 — performed first

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in Canada *

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O.C., M.D., C.M., Ph.D., FRCP(C), FRS(C) — pioneer in biomedical engineering, “Father of Artificial Cells” * Robert Thirsk O.C., O.B.C., M.D., C.M., M.S., M.B.A. — Canadian engineer and physician, astronaut, and chancellor emeritus

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. * Joannie Rochette M.D., C.M. 2020 — medal-winning Olympic figure skater *

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M.D., C.M. 1963 — psychiatrist and schizophrenia researcher, founder of the

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* Maurice Brodie M.D., C.M. 1928 — polio researcher * Jack Wright M.D., C.M. 1928, — internationally top-ranked tennis star, winner of three Canadian Open men's singles titles and four doubles titles * Mark Cohen M.D., C.M. 1992 — ophthalmologist, laser eye surgeon and co-founder of LASIK MD * Avi Wallerstein — ophthalmologist, laser eye surgeon and co-founder of LASIK MD * Charles Scriver M.D., C.M. 1955 — Canadian pediatrician and biochemical geneticist *

Dafydd Williams Dafydd Rhys Williams (alternately known as David Rhys Williams) OC OOnt CCFP FCFP FRCPC FRCP FRCGS (born May 16, 1954) is a Canadian physician, public speaker, CEO, author and a retired CSA astronaut. Williams was a mission specialist on ...

O.C., O.Ont., M.D., C.M. 1983, M.S., M.B.A. — a Canadian physician, public speaker, CEO, author and multi-mission astronaut. * David R. Boyd M.D., C.M. 1963, — trauma surgeon, and developer of Regional Trauma Emergency Medical Services ( EMS). *

Charles R. Drew Charles Richard Drew (June 3, 1904 – April 1, 1950) was an American surgeon and medical researcher. He researched in the field of blood transfusions, developing improved techniques for blood storage, and applied his expert knowledge to devel ...

M.D., C.M. 1933 — father of modern blood-banking; namesake of

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; founding medical director of the Red Cross Blood Bank in the United States * Richard Goldbloom O.C., O.N.S., M.D., C.M. 1949 — pediatrician, chancellor of

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1986-2004 * Paul Bruce Beeson M.D., C.M. 1933 — professor of medicine, specializing in infectious diseases; discoverer of

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Ian Stevenson Ian Pretyman Stevenson (October 31, 1918 – February 8, 2007) was a Canadian-born American psychiatrist, the founder and director of the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He was a professor at th ...

M.D., C.M. 1943 — Canadian-born U.S. psychiatrist * Ken Evoy M.D., C.M. 1979 — Emergency physician, entrepreneur, founder and chairman of the board of SiteSell * William Wright M.D., C.M. 1848 — first person of colour to earn a medical degree in North America *

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M.D., C.M. 2018 — offensive guard for the

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's New York Jets * Phil Gold, B.Sc. 1957, M.Sc. 1961, M.D., C.M. 1961, Ph.D. 1965 — physician, scientist, and professor, discoverer of

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(CEA), the first biomarker for cancer * Haile Debas M.D., C.M. 1963 — Dean of the UCSF School of Medicine from 1993 to 2003 * Phil Edwards, M.D., C.M. 1936 — "Man of Bronze", Canada's most-decorated Olympian for many years, and expert in tropical diseases * David Goltzman, B.Sc. 1966, M.D., C.M. 1968 — physician, scientist, and professor *

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, pediatric infectious diseases expert, former Dean of Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine 1999-2003 and first woman in Canada to be named Dean of a medical school. * Vivek Goel, M.D., C.M. 1984 — president and vice-chancellor of the

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Katherine O'Brien Katherine "Kate" L. O'Brien (born 1963) is a Canadian American pediatric infectious disease physician, epidemiologist, and vaccinologist who specializes in the areas of pneumococcal epidemiology, pneumococcal vaccine trials and impact studies, a ...

, M.D., C.M. 1988 — infectious disease expert; Director of the World Health Organization's Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals * Frederick Lowy, M.D., C.M. 1959 — former

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and

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* Andrew Fernando Holmes — first dean and co-founder of McGill College Medical Faculty *

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M.D., C.M. 1990 — – cardiologist and board member of the Heart and Stroke Foundation *

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B.Sc. 1947, M.D., C.M. 1951 — Nobel laureate in Physiology (1981) *

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M.D., C.M. — International President of

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(Doctors Without Borders) * Colin MacLeod M.D., C.M. 1932 — Canadian-American geneticist, identified DNA as hereditary material in the body,

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* John Lancelot Todd B.A. 1898, M.D., C.M. 1900 — parasitologist * Claude Roy — one of the founding fathers of the field of paediatric gastroenterology * Ronald Melzack Ph.D. 1954 — developed the McGill Pain Questionnaire *

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M.D., C.M. 1961 — pioneer in public health of medicine and founder of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice *

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Ph.D. 1952 — neuropsychologist, "founder of neuropsychology" *

Eric Berne Eric Berne (May 10, 1910 – July 15, 1970) was a Canadian-born psychiatrist who created the theory of transactional analysis as a way of explaining human behavior. Berne's theory of transactional analysis was based on the ideas of Freud but ...

BSc 1931, M.D., C.M. 1935 — psychiatrist who created the theory of

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M.D., C.M. 1902 — one four founders of the West China Union University in Chengdu, Sichuan, in 1914; went on to become dean of the medical faculty * Robert Murray - B.A., M.A., M.D., C.M. 1943 - Bacteriologist * Clarke Fraser Ph.D. 1945, M.D., C.M. 1950 — pioneer in medical genetics *

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M.D., C.M. 1958 — professor of ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and developer of the first gas-permeable scleral contact lens *

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M.D., C.M. 1945 — neurosurgeon and neuroscientist * Francis Alexander Caron Scrimger M.D., C.M. 1905 — Lieutenant Colonel in the

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recipient of the

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* Cara Tannenbaum M.D., C.M. 1994 — geriatric medicine physician and researcher * T. Wesley Mills M.D., C.M. 1878 — physician, Canada's first professional physiologist * Mark Wainberg O.C., O.Q., B.Sc. 1966 — HIV/AIDS researcher, discoverer of

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, Director of the McGill University AIDS Centre, * Santa J. Ono Ph.D. 1991 — immunologist and eye researcher, President & Vice-Chancellor

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M.D., C.M. 1872 — professor, medical pioneer, developed bedside teaching, one of the four founders of the

* Betty Price M.D., C.M. 1980 — anesthesiologist and American politician/member of the

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* Edward Llewellyn-Thomas M.D., C.M. 1955 — English scientist, university professor and science fiction author * Rocke Robertson B.Sc. 1932, M.D., C.M. 1936 — physician * William Henry Drummond — Irish-born Canadian poet, physician * Albert Ernest Forsythe M.D., C.M. 1930 — physician and pioneer aviator * Harold Griffith M.D., C.M. 1922 — anaesthesiologist, pioneered the use of

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as a muscle relaxant, formed and was first President of

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Alice Benjamin Alice Benjamin (born 9 September 1945, Piravom, India) is a Canadian specialist in fetal and maternal medicine. Education She earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Kerala (1964) and a doctorate in medicine from the Universit ...

Res. OB/GYN 1978 — maternal-fetal medicine specialist and pioneer in the field; performed Canada's first successful diabetic renal transplant and pregnancy * James Horace King M.D., C.M. 1895 — physician, Canadian senator, and governor and one of the leaders of the establishment of the

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O.C. B.Sc. 1965, M.D., C.M. 1967 — Dean of

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1992–1999, and instrumental founder/consulting dean of Northern Ontario School of Medicine * Victor Goldbloom O.Q., O.C., M.D., C.M. 1945 — pediatrician, politician *

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M.D., C.M. 1969 — public health scientist * Martin Henry Dawson M.D., C.M. 1923 — infectious disease researcher, first person in history to inject penicillin into a patient, 1940 *

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— Canadian surgeon and academic, Dean of University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine 1959-1974 * John Thomas Finnie M.D., C.M. 1869 — physician and Quebec politician * Philip Seeman M.D., C.M. 1960 — Canadian schizophrenia researcher and neuropharmacologist, known for his research on dopamine receptors *

Munroe Bourne Frederick Munroe Bourne (June 26, 1910 – July 11, 1992) was a Canadian swimmer who competed at the 1928, 1932 and 1936 Olympics in the 100-metre freestyle, 100-metre backstroke and 4×200-metre freestyle relay events and won a bronze medal i ...

M.D., C.M. 1940 — physician, Olympic medal-winning swimmer, Rhodes Scholar, Major in the

* George Genereux M.D., C.M. 1960 — diagnostic radiologist and Olympic gold medalist and inductee in the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame * Peter Macklem O.C., M.D., C.M. 1956 — cardio-pulmonary physician and researcher, founding director of the Meakins-Christie Laboratories *

Richard Margolese Richard Margolese, MD, CM FRCS (C), (born 30 July 1935) is a Canadian scientist and has been a leader of multiple research studies that have changed the standard treatment for early-stage breast cancer. He is a native of Montreal, Canada. He was ...

O.C., M.D., C.M. — surgeon, researcher and pioneer in treatment of breast cancers * Cluny Macpherson M.D., C.M. 1901 — physician and inventor of the British Smoke Hood (an early gas mask) *

Thomas George Roddick Sir Thomas George Roddick (July 31, 1846 – February 20, 1923) was a Canadian surgeon, medical administrator, politician, and founder of the Medical Council of Canada born in Harbour Grace, Newfoundland He is known for his work in helping ...

M.D., C.M. 1868 — surgeon, politician and founder of the Medical Council of Canada * Andrew Schally Ph.D. 1957 — Nobel laureate in Physiology (1977) * Vincenzo Di Nicola BA, 1976; Res. Psychiatry 1986 — Italian-Canadian psychologist, psychiatrist and family therapist, and philosopher of mind *

Maurice LeClair J. Maurice LeClair (June 19, 1927 – April 25, 2020) was a Canadian physician, businessman, civil servant, and academic. Biography Born in Sayabec, Quebec, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1947 and a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1 ...

M.D., C.M. 1951 — Canadian physician, businessman, civil servant, and academic; Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the

Université de Sherbrooke The University of Sherbrooke (French: Université de Sherbrooke) (UdS) is a large public French-language university in Quebec, Canada with campuses located in Sherbrooke and Longueuil, a suburb of Montreal approximately west of Sherbrooke. It i ...

* John Stephenson — co-founder of McGill College Medical Faculty *

Arthur Vineberg Arthur Martin Vineberg, (May 24, 1903 – March 26, 1988) was a Canadian cardiac surgeon, university lecturer and author. He was famous for his experimental and clinical studies in revascularization of the heart. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he ...

B.Sc. 1924, M.D., C.M. 1928, Ph.D. 1933 — cardiac surgeon, pioneer of revascularization * Antoine Hakim — Canadian engineer and physician, former CEO of the

Canadian Stroke Network The Canadian Stroke Network (CSN) is a non-profit healthcare organization. About The Canadian Stroke Network is a not-for-profit, collaborative effort, with more than 100 researchers at 24 universities across Canada. It began in 1999, with $4.7 m ...

* Sir Charles-Eugène-Napoléon Boucher de Boucherville M.D., C.M. 1843, Physician, politician, two-time

Premier of Quebec The premier of Quebec (French: ''premier ministre du Québec'' (masculine) or ''première ministre du Québec'' (feminine)) is the head of government of the Canadian province of Quebec. The current premier of Quebec is François Legault of the ...

R. Tait McKenzie Robert Tait McKenzie ( MacKenzie) (May 26, 1867 – April 28, 1938) was a Canadian physician, educator, sculptor, athlete, soldier and Scouter. Born in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada, he attended McGill University in Montreal ...

M.D., C.M. 1892 — pioneer of modern physiotherapy * David Saint-Jacques Res. FM 2007 — astronaut with the

Canadian Space Agency The Canadian Space Agency (CSA; french: Agence spatiale canadienne, ASC) is the national space agency of Canada, established in 1990 by the ''Canadian Space Agency Act''. The president is Lisa Campbell, who took the position on September 3, 20 ...

(CSA), astrophysicist, engineer, and a physician * C. Miller Fisher described

lacunar stroke Lacunar stroke or lacunar cerebral infarct (LACI) is the most common type of ischemic stroke, resulting from the occlusion of small penetrating arteries that provide blood to the brain's deep structures. Patients who present with symptoms of a la ...

s and identified transient ischemic attacks as stroke precursors * Marla Shapiro M.D., C.M. 1979 — primary medical consultant for

CTV News CTV News is the news division of the CTV Television Network in Canada. The name ''CTV News'' is also applied as the title of local and regional newscasts on the network's owned-and-operated stations (O&Os), which are closely tied to the national n ...

Meyer Balter Meyer Stanley Balter, MD, FRCPC, FACP, FCCP (born December 26, 1954) is a Canadian physician specializing in asthma, sarcoidosis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). He earned an M.D. from McGill University Faculty of Medicine ( ...

M.D., C.M. 1981 — pulmonologist, medical researcher, and professor,

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institu ...

* Edward William Archibald M.D., C.M. 1896 Canada's first neurosurgeon, thoracic surgical pioneer *

Casey Albert Wood Casey Albert Wood (November 21, 1856 – January 26, 1942) was a Canadian ophthalmologist and comparative zoologist who studied aspects of animal vision especially those of birds. He collected books on birds and zoology and helped establish th ...

ophthalmologist and comparative zoologist * Maude Abbott M.D., C.M. 1894 — of Canada's earliest female medical graduates, international expert on congenital heart disease, namesake of

Maude Abbott Medical Museum The Maude Abbott Medical Museum (french: Musée Médical Maude Abbott) is a medical museum located at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The museum is named after Canadian doctor Maude Abbott, who served as its curator in the late 19t ...

Current and past faculty members

Madhukar Pai Madhukar Pai (also known as Madhu Pai) is an Indian medical doctor, academic, advocate, writer, and university professor. Pai's work is around global health, specifically advocacy for better treatment for tuberculosis with a focus on South Afric ...

— expert on global health and epidemiology, specifically tuberculosis *

Nahum Sonenberg Nahum Sonenberg, ( he, נחום סוננברג; born December 29, 1946) is an Israeli Canadian microbiologist and biochemist. He is a James McGill professor of biochemistry at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

— Israeli-Canadian expert virologist, microbiologist, and biochemist, discoverer of mRNA 5' cap-binding protein * Jonathan Meakins B.Sc. 1962 — surgeon, immunologist * Heinz Lehmann Canadian psychiatrist, expert in treatment of schizophrenia the "father of modern psychopharmacology." *

Maurice McGregor Maurice McGregor, OC (born 24 March 1920) is a South African-born cardiologist, academic leader and public policy advocate who has had a major impact on the practice of medicine, working largely from his base at McGill University in Montreal in t ...

South-African cardiologist *

David S Rosenblatt David Rosenblatt is a Canadian medical geneticist, pediatrician, and professor in the departments of Human Genetics, Medicine, Pediatrics, and Biology at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, where he was the chairman of the Department of Hum ...

, M.D., C.M. 1970 — prominent medical geneticist, pediatrician; expert in the field of inborn errors of folate and vitamin B12 metabolism * Michael Meaney — researcher and expert in biological psychiatry, neurology, and neurosurgery * Terence Coderre — researcher, pain expert, Harold Griffith Chair in Anaesthesia Research *

Judes Poirier Judes Poirier is Canadian-born professor of Medicine and Psychiatry at McGill University and former director of the Centre for Studies in Aging at McGill University. He currently serves as director of the Molecular Neurobiology Unit at the Douglas ...

— researcher, professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, director of the Molecular Neurobiology Unit at the

Douglas Institute Research Centre Douglas may refer to: People * Douglas (given name) * Douglas (surname) Animals * Douglas (parrot), macaw that starred as the parrot ''Rosalinda'' in Pippi Longstocking * Douglas the camel, a camel in the Confederate Army in the American Civi ...

Wilder Penfield Wilder Graves Penfield (January 26, 1891April 5, 1976) was an American-Canadian neurosurgeon. He expanded brain surgery's methods and techniques, including mapping the functions of various regions of the brain such as the cortical homunculu ...

— neurosurgery pioneer, first director of the Montreal Neurological Institute and Montreal Neurological Hospital * David Goltzman, B.Sc. 1966, M.D., C.M. 1968 — physician, scientist, and professor * George Karpati, nenowned Canadian neurologist and neuroscientist *

Charles Philippe Leblond Charles Philippe Leblond (February 5, 1910 – April 10, 2007) was a pioneer of cell biology and stem cell research and a Canadian former professor of anatomy. Leblond is notable for developing autoradiography and his work showing how cells ...

— pioneer of cell biology and stem cell research *

Bernard Belleau Bernard Belleau (March 15, 1925 – September 4, 1989) was a Canadian molecular pharmacologist best known for his role in the discovery of Lamivudine, a drug used in the treatment of HIV and Hepatitis B infection. Biography Born in Montreal, ...

— Canadian molecular pharmacologist best known for his role in the discovery of HIV drug Lamivudine *

Henry Friesen Henry George Friesen (born July 31, 1934) is a Canadian endocrinologist, a distinguished professor emeritus of the University of Manitoba and the discoverer of human prolactin, a hormone which stimulates lactation in mammary glands. Born in Mor ...

— Canadian endocrinologist, discoverer of human

prolactin Prolactin (PRL), also known as lactotropin, is a protein best known for its role in enabling mammals to produce milk. It is influential in over 300 separate processes in various vertebrates, including humans. Prolactin is secreted from the pit ...

* Hans Selye — Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist * James C. Hogg — expert in

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a type of progressive lung disease characterized by long-term respiratory symptoms and airflow limitation. The main symptoms include shortness of breath and a cough, which may or may not produce ...

Jonathan Campbell Meakins Jonathan Campbell Meakins (18 May 1882 – 12 October 1959) was a Canadian physician and medical author and member of the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. In authorship he is known as J. C. Meakins. He published over 160 works, including the textb ...

— Physician and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine 1941–1948, first President and Founder of the

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (french: Collège royal des médecins et chirurgiens du Canada) is a regulatory college which acts as a national, nonprofit organization established in 1929 by a special Act of Parliament to o ...

Albert Aguayo Albert Juan Aguayo (born July 16, 1934) is a Canadian neurologist at McGill University. Albert Juan Aguayo is a Canadian neurologist at McGill University. Hailing from the Bahia Blanca in Argentina, Dr. Aguayo graduated in medicine from the N ...

— Canadian neurologist and assistant professor in the department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, former President International Brain Research Organization * John J. R. Macleod — co-discoverer of insulin, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1923) laureate * Rémi Quirion — first Chief Scientist of Quebec *

Lydia Giberson Lydia Gertrude Giberson (June 1, 1899 – April 7, 1994) was a Canadian-born psychiatrist. She was employed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in New York City from 1932 until her retirement in 1960. She was the first woman assistant vice ...

— Canadian-born psychiatrist and pioneering

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company MetLife, Inc. is the holding corporation for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (MLIC), better known as MetLife, and its affiliates. MetLife is among the largest global providers of insurance, annuities, and employee benefit programs, ...

executive *

Marvin Kwitko Marvin Leo Kwitko, FACS, FICS, FRCS, KStJ (March 3, 1931 – August 20, 2002) was a Canadian ophthalmologist who pioneered in cataract surgery and laser eye surgery."Canadian recalls bringing cataract surgery home", ''Medical Post'', October 7, 1 ...

— Canadian ophthalmologist who pioneered in cataract surgery and laser eye surgery *

Donald Ewen Cameron Donald Ewen Cameron ( – ) was a Scottish-born psychiatrist. He is largely known today for his central role in unethical medical experiments, and development of psychological and medical torture techniques for the . He served as president of t ...

— Scottish-born psychiatrist known for his involvement in

Project MKUltra Project MKUltra (or MK-Ultra) was an illegal human experimentation program designed and undertaken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), intended to develop procedures and identify drugs that could be used in interrogations to weak ...

* Joseph B. Martin — Dean of the

Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the graduate medical school of Harvard University and is located in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area, Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1782, HMS is one of the oldest medical schools ...

, former chair of

neurology Neurology (from el, νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the brain, the spinal ...

and

neurosurgery Neurosurgery or neurological surgery, known in common parlance as brain surgery, is the medical specialty concerned with the surgical treatment of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spinal cord and ...

Barbara E. Jones Barbara E. Jones (Dec 19, 1944 - July 22, 2022) was an American-Canadian neuroscientist whose research concerns the chemical and neurological basis for the circadian alternation between sleep and wakefulness. Jones has been described as "a centr ...

— Canadian neuroscientist, professor emerita in the McGill University Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery *

Gustavo Turecki Gustavo Turecki (born May 11, 1965) is a Canadian psychiatrist, suicidologist, neuroscientist who is a professor at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair Tier in Major Depressive Disorder and Suicid ...

— Canadian psychiatrist, suicidologist, neuroscientist *

Juda Hirsch Quastel Juda Hirsch Quastel, (October 2, 1899 – October 15, 1987) was a British-Canadian biochemist who pioneered diverse research in neurochemistry, soil metabolism, cellular metabolism, and cancer. Biography Quastel, also known as "Harry" or " ...

— pioneer in

neurochemistry Neurochemistry is the study of chemicals, including neurotransmitters and other molecules such as psychopharmaceuticals and neuropeptides, that control and influence the physiology of the nervous system. This particular field within neuroscience e ...

and soil metabolism; Director of the McGill University-Montreal General Hospital Research Institute * John Dossetor — Canadian physician and bioethicist who is notable for co–coordinating the first kidney transplant in Canada and the

Commonwealth A commonwealth is a traditional English term for a political community founded for the common good. Historically, it has been synonymous with " republic". The noun "commonwealth", meaning "public welfare, general good or advantage", dates from th ...

Ouida Ramón-Moliner Ouida Ramón-Moliner ( d'Abreu; 23 December 1929 – 21 February 2020) was an Irish-born Canadian anaesthetist. She began working at Montreal General Hospital, helping Wilder Penfield perform awake craniotomies and the anaemia cure pioneer Harol ...

— Canadian anaesthetist *

Shyamala Gopalan Gopalan Shyamala (December 7, 1938 – February 11, 2009) was a biomedical scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, whose work in isolating and characterizing the progesterone receptor gene stimulated advances in breast biology ...

— breast cancer researcher in the Faculty of Medicine and McGill-affiliated Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research; mother of U.S. Vice President

Kamala Harris Kamala Devi Harris ( ; born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and attorney who is the 49th vice president of the United States. She is the first female vice president and the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, as well ...

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Osler Library Archives, McGill University. Collection of primary sources documenting the growth of the Medical Library at McGill University. Also includes announcements, university calendars, and directories related to the Faculty of Medicine {{DEFAULTSORT:Mcgill University Faculty Of Medicine McGill University Medical schools in Canada