Paul David (December 25, 1919 – April 5, 1999) was a Canadian

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, founder of the

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, and

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. Born in

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, the son of Louis-Athanase David and Antonia Nantel, he received his Bachelor's degree from the

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in 1939 and his MD from the

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in 1944. He specialized in cardiology in

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at the

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in 1946 and in Paris at the Hôpital Lareboisière in 1947. Upon his return to Montreal, he worked at the Notre-Dame Hospital. He founded the Montreal Heart Institute in 1954. It was under his direction that the first heart transplant ever performed in Canada was carried out at the Institute, in 1968. In 1985, he was appointed to the

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on the recommendation of Prime Minister

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. He sat as a Progressive Conservative senator representing the Senatorial division of Bedford, Quebec. He retired on his 75th birthday in 1994. His father, Louis-Athanase David and grandfather,

Laurent-Olivier David Laurent-Olivier David (March 24, 1840 – August 24, 1926) was a Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician. Born in Sault-au-Récollet, Montreal, Quebec, the son of Stanislas David and Élisabeth Tremblay, David was educated at the Petit Sémi ...

were

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Senators. He is the younger brother of Simone David-Raymond founder of the Marie-Enfant Hospital. In 1968, he was made an Officer of the

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and was promoted to Companion in 1981. In 1988, he was named a Grand Officer of the

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. In 2011, he was inducted into the

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. He married Nellie Maillard, daughter of Charles Maillard director of

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and had six children: filmmaker

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MNA

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, Thérèse, Anne-Marie,

MNA Hélène and Charles-Philippe. A few years after Nellie Maillard's death (1969), he was remarried to Dr. Yvette Lemire. After his death in 1999, he was entombed at the

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in Montreal.

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