Sydney Segal, (1920 – June 21, 1997) was a

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and neonatologist. He was "actively involved in the areas of medical ethics, fetal medicine, drug-addicted newborns, respiratory pediatrics, children with AIDS and sudden infant death syndrome". Born in

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, Segal received a Bachelor of Science degree from

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in 1941 and then served in

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. He received his medical degree in 1950 from

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and received a Master of Arts degree in Physiology from the

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in 1954. He did his internship and residency at the Vancouver General Hospital. He was a research and teaching fellow at the University of British Columbia,

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, the Children's Hospital Boston, and

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. In 1956, he received his Certification in Paediatrics from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. In 1956, he joined the attending staff of Vancouver General Hospital and was appointed an instructor in the Department of Paediatrics in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. He was appointed a Professor in 1968 and a Professor Emeritus in 1985. In 1973, Segal was one of the founders of The Canadian Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths and helped with first Canadian SIDS conference held in 1974. He helped open the first intensive-care unit for newborns at Vancouver General Hospital. In 1989, he was made a Member of the

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in recognition for having "made a lifelong contribution to the welfare of children everywhere". In 1993, he was made a member of the

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. Segal died in

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in 1997.

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