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Dunn, Roy E.
February 8, 2022 MoreSudbury, Ont.; University of Western Ontario, 1960; anesthesiology. Died Feb. 8, 2022, aged 87. Survived by his wife, Norma Dale Dunn, 1 child and 2 grandchildren. Read Dr. Dunn’s obituary.
Hartley, Frederick C.
February 6, 2022 MoreVernon, BC; University of Western Ontario, 1956; general surgery. Died Feb. 6, 2022, aged 91. Survived by his wife Barbara, 2 children and 2 grandchildren. Read Dr. Hartley’s obituary.
Chiu, Hak Ming
February 5, 2022 MoreOshawa, Ont.; Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1965; medical oncology. Died Feb. 5, 2022, aged 83. Survived by his wife Debbie and a stepchild. Read Dr. Chiu’s obituary.
Carré, Aurélien
February 4, 2022 MoreChicoutimi, PQ; Université Laval, 1963; otolaryngology. Died Feb. 4, 2022, aged 86. Survived by his wife, Denyse Gauthier, and his children and grandchildren. Read Dr. Carré’s obituary.
Ban, Thomas A.
February 4, 2022 MoreToronto; Semmelweis University (Hungary), 1954; psychiatry; former associate professor, McGill University; professor emeritus, Vanderbilt University. Died Feb. 4, 2022, aged 92. Survived by his wife Joan and a son. Read Dr. Ban’s obituary.
Daigle, Egbert
February 4, 2022 MoreDieppe, NB; Laval University, 1953; anesthesia; life member, New Brunswick Medical Society. Died Feb. 4, 2022, aged 97. Survived by his wife, Thérèse Loiseau Daigle, 6 children and 6 grandchildren. Read Dr. Daigle’s obituary.
Pereira, Valdemar L.
February 1, 2022 MoreVerdun, PQ; University of Coimbra (Portugal), 1959; pediatrics. Died Feb. 1, 2022, aged 89. Survived by 1 child and 2 grandchildren. Read Dr. Pereira’s obituary.
Stark, Donald F.
January 31, 2022 MoreVancouver; University of Alberta, 1975; internal medicine; past president, Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology; past chair, Royal College Clinical Immunology and Allergy Specialty Committee; founder, adult training program in clinical immunology and allergy, University of British Columbia (UBC), and first program director; past president, BC Society of Allergy and Immunology. Died Jan. 31, 2022, aged 71. Survived by his wife Pat and 3 children. Read Dr. Stark’s obituary.
Hershfield, Earl S.
January 30, 2022 MoreWinnipeg; University of Manitoba, 1958; internal medicine. Died Jan. 30, 2022, aged 87. Survived by his wife, Betty Anne, 1 child and 2 grandchildren. Read Dr. Hershfield’s obituary.
Keohane, John T.
January 29, 2022 MoreEdmonton; University College Cork (Ireland), 1951; otolaryngology. Died Jan. 29, 2022, aged 94. Survived by his wife Kathleen, 6 children and 9 grandchildren. Read Dr. Keohane’s obituary.
Macpherson, Iain G.
January 29, 2022 MoreMoncton, NB; Royal Navy, WW II; University of Edinburgh (Scotland), 1953; general practice. Died Jan. 29, 2022, aged 97. Survived by 2 children and 1 grandchild. Read Dr. Macpherson’s obituary.
Gosbee, John L.
January 29, 2022 MoreCalgary; University of Calgary, 1975; family medicine; past president, Alberta Medical Association. Died Jan. 29, 2022, aged 80. Survived by a daughter and his grandchildren. Read Dr. Gosbee’s obituary.
Levesque, Fernand H.
January 24, 2022 MoreOttawa; University of Ottawa, 1953; general surgery. Died Jan. 24, 2022, aged 95. Read Dr. Levesque’s obituary.
Hennessy, John P.
January 23, 2022 MoreSudbury, Ont.; University of Ottawa, 1955; pediatrics. Died Jan. 23, 2022, aged 94. Survived by his wife Lena, 7 children and 9 grandchildren. Read Dr. Hennessy’s obituary.
O’Brien-Bell, John (J.O.B.B)
January 23, 2022 MoreSurrey, BC; Westminster Medical School (England), 1956; family medicine; past president, Canadian Medical Association (CMA), 1988-89, and British Columbia Medical Association (BCMA), 1986-87. Died Jan. 23, 2022, aged 92. Survived by a daughter and 5 grandchildren. His daughter Catharine commented: “Dad practised at Sandell Medical in Surrey for 37 years. He retired in 2004, but continued to do locums until he was 88.” Although COVID-19 didn’t cause her father’s death, she said it was a contributing factor. “COVID was really hard on people like my Dad. He was a very sociable fellow, and the virus meant that visits from his friends were no longer possible. It was very hard on him.” Dr. Brian Day, a Vancouver orthopedic surgeon who served as president of the CMA in 2007-08, recalled: “John’s first exposure to medicine was as a young child making house calls with his GP father, whose practice was based in a working-class area of Birmingham, England. John had grown up during the turmoil of the Great Depression, and at a young age he had observed patients suffering from illnesses such as polio and tuberculosis and seen the serious impact of poverty on patients in need of care. His father died prematurely of tuberculosis, leaving his mother a young widow. A positive result of such difficult childhood experiences was his expanding interest in medicine, which he chose as a career. After 10 years working under the British National Health Service, John immigrated to Canada in 1966, and grew to love his adopted province and country.” Dr. Day added that even while serving as CMA president, “John continued to serve his own patients at every opportunity and continued to do an 8-hour emergency shift in the Surrey Memorial every week.” When Dr. O’Brien-Bell was asked about his availability for interviews while serving as CMA president, recalled Dr. Day, he told reporters that he was busy with his patients once he left home. “He gave out his home telephone number, telling them, ‘The best time to call is around 7 a.m., before I've left the house.’ ” Dr. Day concluded: “Like many others, I am a better person for having known and learned from John. Leaders like him are a rarity in this modern era.” Dr. Derryck Smith, a past president of the BCMA and former member of the CMA Board of Directors, added: “John died after a full and satisfying life of service to the profession.” Matt Borsellino, former national editor at the Medical Post, wrote: “In my 20 or so years of communicating with Dr. O’Brien-Bell, I found him to be straightforward and generous. That’s a particularly effective combination for anyone trying to get his message across to the media. To my mind, there was never anybody like that before he came along, and there’s certainly been nobody since.” Lucian Blair, a former director of communications and government relations at the CMA, added: “Throughout his long and distinguished career, Dr. John O’Brien-Bell was always guided by his personal holy trinity: medicine, medical politics, and media relations. And it was the last of these that he passionately pursued. He never saw a camera he wouldn’t pose for, a mic he wouldn’t speak into or a reporter he wouldn’t try to charm.” His CMA biography stated: “Dr. O’Brien-Bell was a media-savvy physician who didn’t always wait for reporters to call him. He told CMAJ that raising the CMA’s profile was one of his major goals as association president. ‘We have to be seen addressing health care issues in a high-profile way. I hope to have met with all of the major papers by the end of November [1988] because I think it is important to let the media know you're there. I am there, and they can call me any time they want.’ ”
Macaulay, W. Donald
January 22, 2022 MoreFredericton; McGill University, 1957; internal medicine, cardiology; life member, New Brunswick Medical Society. Died Jan. 22, 2022, aged 90. Read Dr. Macaulay’s obituary.
Beauchemin, Pierre
January 22, 2022 MoreSaint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, PQ; Université Laval, 1972; general practice, sports medicine. Died Jan. 22, 2022, aged 74. Survived by his wife, Marie-Josée Audette, 4 children and 6 grandchildren. Read Dr. Beauchemin’s obituary.
Abdel-Barr, Samir
January 22, 2022 MoreWest Vancouver; Cairo University (Egypt), 1955; psychiatry. Died Jan. 22, 2022, aged 89.
Helt, Maria C.
January 22, 2022 MoreHamilton; Vrije University (The Netherlands), 1955; general practice. Died Jan. 22, 2022, aged 93. Survived by 4 children, 17 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren. Read Dr. Helt’s obituary.
Lobley, Percy G. (Gren)
January 20, 2022 MoreBracebridge, Ont.; University of Toronto, 1945; general practice. Died Jan. 20, 2022, aged 100. Survived by 3 children, 5 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren. Read Dr. Lobley’s obituary.
Larouche, Léon
January 20, 2022 MoreLa Baie, PQ; Université Laval, 1971; general practice. Died Jan. 20, 2022, aged 77. Survived by his wife, Claude Boivin, 2 children and 4 grandchildren. Read Dr. Larouche’s obituary.
Schwarz, Gaston
January 20, 2022 MoreMontréal; University of Ottawa, 1966; plastic surgery. Died Jan. 20, 2022, aged 83. Survived by his wife, Mati Bergna, 4 children and 13 grandchildren. Read Dr. Schwarz’s obituary.
Goad, Frederick D.
January 19, 2022 MoreLangley, BC; University of Toronto, 1947; general surgery. Died Jan. 19, 2022, aged 97.
Strauss, Hans D.
January 19, 2022 MoreNorth York, Ont.; University of Toronto, 1972; cardiology. Died Jan. 19, 2022, aged 77. Read Dr. Strauss’ obituary.
FitzGerald, J. Mark
January 18, 2022 MoreVancouver; National University of Ireland, 1978; internal medicine, respirology. Died Jan. 18, 2022, aged 66. Survived by his wife Céline, 4 children, 2 stepchildren, 1 grandchild, and his ex-wife, Trish. Read Dr. FitzGerald’s obituary.
Fox, Gordon S.
January 18, 2022 MoreToronto; University of Toronto, 1960; anesthesiology. Died Jan. 18, 2022, aged 86. Survived by his wife Estelle, 2 children and 4 grandchildren. Read Dr. Fox’s obituary.
Valente, Manuel C. (Manny)
January 18, 2022 MoreRegina; University of Santo Tomas (Philippines), 1957; anesthesia. Died Jan. 18, 2022, aged 91. Survived by his wife, Marilyn Villanueva Valente, 3 children and 1 grandchild. Read Dr. Valente’s obituary.
De Saint Victor, Jean R.
January 18, 2022 MoreKnowlton, PQ; University of Ottawa, 1969; obstetrics and gynecology. Died Jan. 18, 2022, aged 79. Survived by his wife, Alison Milligan. Read Dr. De Saint Victor’s obituary.
Farrell, Donald H.
January 17, 2022 MoreSaint John, NB; Dalhousie University, 1975; ophthalmology; life member, New Brunswick Medical Society. Died Jan. 17, 2022, aged 73. Survived by his life partner, Donna Black, 4 children, the children’s mother, Catherine, 2 stepchildren and 10 grandchildren. Read Dr. Farrell’s obituary.
Beeharry, Deegrajsing (Raj)
January 16, 2022 MoreCalgary; Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 1966; family medicine. Died Jan. 16, 2022, aged 89. Survived by his wife Kitty, 4 children and 9 grandchildren. Read Dr. Beeharry’s obituary.
Allard, Michael J.
January 15, 2022 MoreComox, BC; University of Alberta, 1968; urology. Died Jan. 15, 2022, aged 78. Survived by his wife Mavis and his family. Read Dr. Allard’s obituary.
Phillips, James N. (Jim)
January 15, 2022 MoreGuelph, Ont.; Queen’s University, 1957; urology. Died Jan. 15, 2022, aged 91. Survived by his wife Gwendolyn, 4 children, 9 grandchildren and 1 great-grandchild. Read Dr. Phillips’ obituary.
Saunders, Clifford G. (Grant)
January 15, 2022 MoreWinnipeg; University of Manitoba, 1967; diagnostic radiology. Died Jan. 15, 2022, aged 81. Survived by his wife Janet, 4 children and 3 grandchildren. Read Dr. Saunders’ obituary.
Gentili, Fred
January 15, 2022 MoreToronto; University of Toronto (U of T), 1972; neurosurgery. Died Jan. 15, 2022, aged 74. Survived by his wife Gina, 2 children and 4 grandchildren. Read Dr. Gentili’s obituary.
Lundeen, Richard C.
January 12, 2022 MoreEdmonton; University of Alberta, 1973; psychiatry. Died Jan. 12, 2022, aged 73. Survived by his wife Jeanne, 5 children and 6 grandchildren. Read Dr. Lundeen’s obituary.
Reid, Philip H.
January 11, 2022 MoreRothesay, NB; Dalhousie University, 1968; physical medicine and rehabilitation; lieutenant-colonel (retired), Canadian Forces Medical Service; assistant professor, Dalhousie University and Memorial University of Newfoundland. Died Jan. 11, 2022, aged 81. Survived by a son. Read Dr. Reid’s obituary.
Harding, Godfrey K.
January 7, 2022 MoreWinnipeg; University of Manitoba, 1969; internal medicine. Died Jan. 7, 2022, aged 79. Survived by his wife Patricia, 2 children and 3 grandchildren. Read Dr. Harding’s obituary.
Gruber, Dinah C.
January 7, 2022 MoreNorth York, Ont.; University of Toronto, 1960; pediatrics. Died Jan. 7, 2022, aged 86. Read Dr. Gruber’s obituary.
Garson, Ronald D.
January 7, 2022 MoreOttawa; University of Aberdeen (Scotland), 1953; family medicine. Died Jan. 7, 2022, aged 91. Survived by his wife May, 3 children, 7 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren. Read Dr. Garson’s obituary.
Carom, Donald P. (Dr. Don)
January 6, 2022 MoreWindsor, Ont.; University of Toronto, 1963; family medicine; life member, Essex County Medical Society. Died Jan. 6, 2022, aged 84. Survived by his wife Laure, 2 children and 2 grandchildren. Read Dr. Carom’s obituary.
Burns, Jonathan A.
January 6, 2022 MoreChilliwack, BC; University of British Columbia, 1991; family medicine. Died Jan. 6, 2022, aged 56. Survived by his wife Jodie and 3 children. Read Dr. Burns' obituary.
Bayrakal, Sadi
January 6, 2022 MoreVancouver; Istanbul University (Turkey), 1953; psychiatry. Died Jan. 6, 2022, aged 94. Survived by his wife Wynn, 2 children and 4 grandchildren. Read Dr. Bayrakal’s obituary.
Stark, Robert G.
January 6, 2022 MoreWinnipeg; University of Glasgow, 1957; general pathology. Died Jan. 6, 2022, aged 88. Survived by his wife Joyce, 2 children and 3 grandchildren. Read Dr. Stark’s obituary.
Jeanbart, Pierre G.
January 5, 2022 MoreMontréal; Université de Paris (France), 1964; obstetrics and gynecology. Died Jan. 5, 2022, aged 83. Survived by his wife Yvette and 2 children. Read Dr. Jeanbart’s obituary.
Mitham-DeJong, Mary J.
January 5, 2022 MoreWestmount, PQ; McGill University, 1950; general practice. Died Jan. 5, 2022, aged 95.
Soudek, Vera
January 4, 2022 MoreKingston, Ont.; Masaryk University (Czechoslovakia), 1949; general practice, pediatrics, public health. Died Jan. 4, 2022, aged 97. Survived by 2 children, 2 grandchildren and a great-grandson. Read Dr. Soudek’s obituary.
Jilek-Aall, Louise M.
January 4, 2022 MoreDelta, BC; University of Zurich (Switzerland), 1958; psychiatry. Died Jan. 4, 2022, aged 90. Survived by 1 child. Read Dr. Jilek-Aall’s obituary.
Ferguson, David J.
January 3, 2022 MoreVancouver; University of Alberta, 1975; hematopathology. Died Jan. 3, 2022, aged 70. Survived by his wife Gwen, 2 children and 2 granddaughters. Read Dr. Ferguson’s obituary.
Caira, Loren E.
January 2, 2022 MoreVictoria; University of British Columbia, 1982; emergency medicine, family medicine. Died Jan. 2, 2022, aged 65. Read Dr. Caira’s obituary.