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Wilder Penfield, MD
Leadership in Organizational Development, The Early Days - Health Care Pioneers, Health and Medical Education & Training, Brain & Mind
Dr. Wilder Penfield’s dream was to create a center of research and treatment that integrated neurology, neuropathology and neurosurgery. In 1934,…
James Collip, MD PhD
Hormones, Diabetes, Leadership in Organizational Development
Dr. James Collip is perhaps best known as a member of the team that discovered Insulin. Long after his role in that momentous discovery, however,…
Jacques Genest, MD
Leadership in Organizational Development, Hormones, Genitourinary Tract
Dr. Jacques Genest became the pre-eminent Canadian investigator of the cause and treatment of high blood pressure. He also became a champion of…
Charles H. Best, MD DSc
Leadership in Organizational Development, Diabetes, Evidence-based Medicine & Clinical Trials, Hormones, Heart & Vessels, Blood
Dr. Charles Best had not even graduated medical school when he became involved in one of the most important medical breakthroughs of the 20th…
Sir Frederick Banting, MD
Diabetes, Evidence-based Medicine & Clinical Trials, Hormones
Before the work of Sir Frederick Banting, diabetes was a deadly childhood condition. In 1923, Banting and his team announced their discovery of…
Sir William Osler, MD
Patient Care, Health and Medical Education & Training, The Early Days - Health Care Pioneers, Leadership in Organizational Development
Known as the Father of Modern Medicine, William Osler led a generation of young doctors away from their textbooks and directly to the bedsides of…
Douglas Harold Copp, MD
Hormones, Skin, Bones, Muscles & Joints
In 1961, Dr. Douglas Harold Copp's research into hormones led to the groundbreaking discovery of calcitonin, a hormone which regulates the level…
John Browne, MD PhD
Hormones, Health and Medical Education & Training, Leadership in Organizational Development, Female Reproduction
Dr. John Symonds Lyon Browne received great acclaim for his work in endocrinology and became a leader in medical education at McGill University