Alumni Canadians unless otherwise noted. •
Maude Abbott — One of Canada's earliest female medical graduates, international expert on congenital heart disease, namesake of
Maude Abbott Medical Museum Maude Abbott received her M.D. C.M. degree from Bishop's College in 1894 as McGill did not then admit females to study medicine. Bishop's College Medical School was absorbed by McGill in 1905. •
Bernard Nathanson M.D., C.M. 1949 — obstetrician/gynecologist •
Victor Dzau M.D., C.M. 1972 — president of the
Institute of Medicine of the
National Academy of Sciences, former president and CEO of
Duke University Medical Center •
Daniel Borsuk O.Q., M.S.C., B.Sc. 2000, M.D., C.M. 2006, M.B.A. 2006 — performed first
face transplant in Canada •
Thomas Chang O.C., M.D., C.M. (1961), Ph.D., FRCP(C), FRS(C) — pioneer in biomedical engineering, “Father of Artificial Cells” • George Edward Bomberry M.D., C.M. 1875 First indigenous graduate of McGill University. Bomberry, a hereditary chief of the Cayuga (Gayogohó:nợ), was born on the Tuscarora Reserve on April 14, 1849. He died on January 29, 1879. •
Robert Thirsk O.C., O.B.C., M.D., C.M. (1982), M.S., M.B.A. — engineer and physician, astronaut, and chancellor emeritus
University of Calgary. •
Joannie Rochette M.D., C.M. 2020 — medal-winning Olympic figure skater •
E. Fuller Torrey M.D., C.M. 1963 — psychiatrist and schizophrenia researcher, founder of the
Treatment Advocacy Center •
Maurice Brodie M.D., C.M. 1928 — polio researcher, who developed the polio vaccine in 1935 •
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 — pediatrician and biochemical geneticist •
Dafydd Williams O.C., O.Ont., M.D., C.M. 1983, M.S., M.B.A. — 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 M.D., C.M. 1933 — father of modern blood-banking; namesake of
Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science; 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
Dalhousie University 1986–2004 •
Paul Bruce Beeson M.D., C.M. 1933 — professor of medicine, specializing in infectious diseases; discoverer of
interleukin-1 •
Ian Stevenson 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 Canada •
Laurent Duvernay-Tardif M.D., C.M. 2018 — former
NFL offensive guard •
Phil Gold, B.Sc. 1957, M.Sc. 1961, M.D., C.M. 1961, Ph.D. 1965 — physician, scientist, and professor, discoverer of
carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), the first biomarker for cancer •
Thomas A. Ban Res. Psychiatry 1960 — founding director of the first Division of Psychopharmacology in a Department of Psychiatry in the world •
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 •
Noni MacDonald, 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 •
Patricia Baird M.D., C.M. 1963 — British medical geneticist •
Vivek Goel, M.D., C.M. 1984 — president and vice-chancellor of the
University of Waterloo •
Katherine O'Brien, 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
President and
Vice-Chancellor of
Concordia University •
Andrew Fernando Holmes — first dean and co-founder of McGill College Medical Faculty. Holmes received his medical degree from Edinburgh University in 1819; McGill awarded him an (honorary)
An Eundem M.D. in 1843. •
Chi-Ming Chow M.D., C.M. 1990 — – cardiologist and board member of the Heart and Stroke Foundation •
David Hunter Hubel B.Sc. 1947, M.D., C.M. 1951 — Nobel laureate in Physiology (1981) •
Joanne Liu M.D., C.M. — International President of
Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) •
Colin MacLeod M.D., C.M. 1932 — Canadian-American geneticist, identified DNA as hereditary material in the body,
Avery–MacLeod–McCarty experiment •
Pavel Hamet Ph.D. Exp. Med. — Czech researcher and microbiologist •
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 •
Jack Wennberg M.D., C.M. 1961 — pioneer in public health of medicine and founder of
The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice •
Eric Berne BSc 1931, M.D., C.M. 1935 — psychiatrist who created the theory of
transactional analysis •
William Reginald Morse 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 •
George F. Bond M.D., C.M. 1945 —
United States Navy physician, leader in the field of
undersea and
hyperbaric medicine and the "Father of
Saturation Diving •
Robert Murray – B.A., M.A., M.D., C.M. 1943 – British Bacteriologist •
Clarke Fraser Ph.D. 1945, M.D., C.M. 1950 — pioneer in medical genetics •
Bernard Zinman M.D., C.M., Res. Internal Med. — Canadian endocrinologist and highly-cited diabetes researcher •
Kami Kandola M.D., C.M. 1992 — Indo-Canadian physician and the Chief Public Health Officer for the
Northwest Territories,
Canada •
Robert McKechnie M.D., C.M. 1886 —
chancellor of the
University of British Columbia •
Robert Benjamin Greenblatt M.D., C.M. 1932 — prominent endocrinologist, pioneered endocrinology as a specialty in medicine, known for the development of the sequential oral
contraceptive pill and the oral fertility pill •
Perry Rosenthal M.D., C.M. 1958 — professor of ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and developer of the first gas-permeable scleral contact lens •
William Feindel M.D., C.M. 1945 — neurosurgeon and neuroscientist •
Anne Monique Nuyt Fellowship in Perinatal and Neonatal Medicine 1993 — Professor of Neonatology at
Université de Montréal •
Francis Alexander Caron Scrimger M.D., C.M. 1905 — Lieutenant Colonel in the
Canadian Army recipient of the
Victoria Cross •
Cara Tannenbaum M.D., C.M. 1994 — geriatric medicine physician and researcher •
Arnold Johnson M.D., C.M. — cardiologist pioneer, performed first heart catherization in Canada •
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
lamivudine, Director of the McGill University AIDS Centre, •
Santa J. Ono Ph.D. 1991 — immunologist and eye researcher, President & Vice-Chancellor
University of British Columbia •
William Osler M.D., C.M. 1872 — professor, medical pioneer, developed bedside teaching, one of the four founders of the
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine •
Betty Price M.D., C.M. 1980 — anesthesiologist and American politician/member of the
Georgia House of Representatives •
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 •
Emil Skamene residency in allergy and immunology 1974 — immunologist •
William Henry Drummond — Irish-born Canadian poet, physician. Drummond actually failed his medical degree at McGill but received his M.D.C.M. from Bishop's College. When Bishop's merged with McGill he, like several other professors there, received an
Ad Eundem M.D.C.M. degree from McGill in 1905. •
Albert Ernest Forsythe M.D., C.M. 1930 — physician and pioneer aviator •
Harold Griffith M.D., C.M. 1922 — anaesthesiologist, pioneered the use of
curare as a muscle relaxant, formed and was first President of
World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists •
Alice Benjamin 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
American College of Surgeons •
Arnold Aberman O.C. B.Sc. 1965, M.D., C.M. 1967 — Dean of
University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine 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 •
Doris Howell M.D., C.M. 1949 — pediatric oncologist, known for her pioneering work in palliative care, "mother of hospice" •
William B. Hutchinson M.D., C.M. 1935 — American surgeon, founder of both the
Pacific Northwest Research Foundation and the
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center •
Franklin White M.D., C.M. 1969 — public health scientist •
Jon Gerrard M.D., C.M. 1971 — Canadian
Member of Parliament, and
secretary of state in the
Jean Chrétien government •
Marc Baltzan M.D., C.M. 1953 — nephrologist, pioneer in the field of kidney research •
Michel Chrétien MSc. 1962 — pioneering neuroendocrinologist •
Martin Henry Dawson M.D., C.M. 1923 — infectious disease researcher, first person in history to inject penicillin into a patient, 1940 •
Paul Polak Internship 1959 — psychiatrist, founder of
International Development Enterprises (iDE) and
D-Rev •
Walter Mackenzie — Canadian surgeon and academic, Dean of
University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry 1959–1974 •
John Thomas Finnie M.D., C.M. 1869 — physician and Quebec politician •
Kathryn Stephenson Res. Plastics — American plastic surgeon, first American woman to be board-certified plastic surgeon and first woman editor of the journal
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery •
Maurice Dongier Residency Psychiatry 1954 — Canadian neuropsychiatrist at the Douglas Hospital Research Centre •
David Leffell M.D., C.M. 1981 — internationally recognized dermatologic surgeon, founder and chief of the Dermatologic Surgery Program at
Yale School of Medicine •
Philip Seeman M.D., C.M. 1960 — Canadian schizophrenia researcher and neuropharmacologist, known for his research on dopamine receptors •
Munroe Bourne M.D., C.M. 1940 — physician, Olympic medal-winning swimmer, Rhodes Scholar, Major in the
Canadian Army •
George Genereux M.D., C.M. 1960 — diagnostic radiologist and Olympic gold medalist and inductee in the
Canadian Sports Hall of Fame •
James John Edmund Guerin M.D., C.M. 1878 — politician, Mayor of Montreal •
Peter Macklem O.C., M.D., C.M. 1956 — cardio-pulmonary physician and researcher, founding director of the Meakins-Christie Laboratories •
Richard Margolese 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) •
Aubrey Tingle Ph.D. 1973 — professor emeritus in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of British Columbia •
Thomas George Roddick 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 M.D., C.M. 1951 — Canadian physician, businessman, civil servant, and academic; Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the
Université de Sherbrooke •
David Goldbloom M.D., C.M. 1981 — Canadian psychiatrist, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the
University of Toronto •
Arthur Vineberg B.Sc. 1924, M.D., C.M. 1928, Ph.D. 1933 — cardiac surgeon, pioneer of revascularization •
W. Webber Kelly M.D., C.M. 1903 — prominent American physician, president of the
Green Bay Football Corporation •
George Siber M.D., C.M. 1970 — medical researcher and vaccine expert •
Esther Sternberg B.Sc. 1972, M.D., C.M. 1974, — director for the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the
University of Arizona •
Antoine Hakim — Canadian engineer and physician, former CEO of the
Canadian Stroke Network Neurology Residency at McGill. •
Sir Charles-Eugène-Napoléon Boucher de Boucherville M.D. 1843, Physician, politician, two-time
Premier of Quebec •
R. Tait McKenzie M.D., C.M. 1892 — pioneer of modern physiotherapy •
David Saint-Jacques Res. FM 2007 — astronaut with the
Canadian Space Agency (CSA), astrophysicist, engineer, and a physician •
C. Miller Fisher described
lacunar strokes and identified
transient ischemic attacks as stroke precursors. Miller received his M.D. from the University of Toronto but had a Residency at McGill •
John S. Meyer M.D., C.M., M.S. — renowned American neurologist, founding professor and Chairman of Neurology at
Wayne State University School of Medicine •
Marla Shapiro M.D., C.M. 1979 — primary medical consultant for
CTV News •
David Francis Clyde M.D., C.M. 1948 — British malariologist, former director of the
Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health •
Guy Breton Res. Diag. Rad. 1978 — radiologist, rector of the
Université de Montréal •
Sherry Chou M.D., C.M. 2001 — neurologist and an Associate Professor of Neurology and Chief of Neurocritical Care at the
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine •
John C. Beck, M.D., C.M. 1952 — American physician and academic •
Yvette Bonny, Fellowship —
Haitian-Canadian pediatrician. •
Sir Andrew Macphail M.D., C.M. 1891 – Canadian physician, intellectual, and prolific writer •
Helene Langevin, M.D., C.M. 1978 — Director of the
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) •
Richard Maurice Bucke, M.D., C.M. 1862 — Canadian psychiatrist known for his work
Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind •
Robert Bell M.D., C.M. 1878 – prominent Canadian geologist, explorer, named over 3,000 geographical features •
Meyer Balter M.D., C.M. 1981 — pulmonologist, medical researcher, and professor •
Courtney Howard Residency Emergency Medicine 2008 — politician, President of the
Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment •
Ken Croitoru, M.D., C.M. 1981 — gastroenterologist, medical researcher, and Crohn's disease expert •
Edward William Archibald M.D., C.M. 1896 Canada's first neurosurgeon, thoracic surgical pioneer •
Silver Quilty — football player, referee, coach and sport administrator •
Onye Nnorom M.D., C.M. 2007 — Associate Chief Medical Officer of Health for the province of Ontario •
Balfour Mount Res. Surg. 1973 — urologic-cancer surgeon, father of
palliative care in North America •
Mary Runnells Bird M.D., C.M. 1900 — Canadian surgeon, "one of Canada's first women doctors" •
Barry A. Love Res. Peds. 1996 — American cardiologist •
Moussa B. H. Youdim PhD 1966 — Iranian-Israeli neuroscientist, discoverer of l-deprenyl (
Selegiline) and rasagiline (
Azilect) •
Stefanie Green M.D., C.M. 1993 — Canadian physician known for her contributions to the field of assisted dying •
Hilal bin Ali Al Sabti Res. Cardiac Surgery 2005, MS 2006 — cardiothoracic surgeon, Minister of Health,
Oman •
Casey Albert Wood ophthalmologist and comparative zoologist. Casey Wood received his M.D.C.M. degree from Bishop's College. When Bishop's merged with McGill he, like several other professors there, received an
Ad Eundem MD degree from McGill in 1906.
Current and past faculty members •
Madhukar Pai — expert on global health and epidemiology, specifically tuberculosis •
Nahum Sonenberg — Israeli-Canadian expert virologist, microbiologist, and biochemist, discoverer of mRNA 5' cap-binding protein •
Rolando Del Maestro — Italian-Canadian neurosurgeon and pioneer in "awake brain surgery" •
Jonathan Meakins B.Sc. 1962 — surgeon, immunologist •
Heinz Lehmann Canadian psychiatrist, expert in treatment of schizophrenia the "father of modern psychopharmacology." •
Maurice McGregor South-African cardiologist •
Morag Park Scottish-Canadian breast cancer and genomics researcher •
Alan Evans neuroscientist, prominent researcher, expert in brain mapping •
Pavel Hamet Ph.D. Exp. Med. — Czech researcher and microbiologist •
David S Rosenblatt, 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 •
Brenda Milner Ph.D. 1952 — neuropsychologist, "founder of neuropsychology" •
Terence Coderre — researcher, pain expert, Harold Griffith Chair in Anaesthesia Research •
Judes Poirier — researcher, professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, director of the Molecular Neurobiology Unit at the
Douglas Mental Health University Institute •
Wilder Penfield — 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 •
Johannes Holtfreter, German-American developmental biologist •
John J. M. Bergeron, cell biologist and biochemist, known for discovery of
calnexin,
endosomal signalling and organellar
proteomics •
Charles Philippe Leblond — pioneer of cell biology and stem cell research •
Jacques Genest — cardiovascular researcher •
Bernard Belleau — Canadian molecular pharmacologist best known for his role in the discovery of HIV drug Lamivudine •
Henry Friesen — Canadian endocrinologist, discoverer of human
prolactin •
Hans Selye — Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist •
James C. Hogg — expert in
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease •
Augusto Claudio Cuello — Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics and Charles E. Frosst/Merck Chair in Pharmacology •
Theodore Sourkes — Canadian biochemist and neuropsychopharmacologist, expert in Parkinson's disease •
Jonathan Campbell Meakins — Physician and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine 1941–1948, first President and Founder of the
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada •
Albert Aguayo — Canadian neurologist and assistant professor in the department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, former President
International Brain Research Organization •
Abdul Rahman Al-Sumait — Kuwaiti humanitarian, physician, known for his philanthropic works in more than 29 African countries •
John J. R. Macleod — co-discoverer of insulin, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1923) laureate •
Rémi Quirion — first Chief Scientist of Quebec •
Richard A. Murphy —
American neuroscientist. Director of the
Montreal Neurological Institute, president and
CEO of the
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and president of the
California Institute for Regenerative Medicine •
Gabriella Gobbi — Italo-Canadian psychiatrist and neuroscientist •
Lydia Giberson — Canadian-born psychiatrist and pioneering
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company executive •
Marvin Kwitko — Canadian ophthalmologist who pioneered in cataract surgery and laser eye surgery •
Donald Ewen Cameron — Scottish-born psychiatrist known for his involvement in
Project MKUltra •
Joseph B. Martin — Dean of the
Harvard Medical School, former chair of
neurology and
neurosurgery •
Barbara E. Jones — Canadian neuroscientist, professor emerita in the McGill University Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery •
Gustavo Turecki — Canadian psychiatrist, suicidologist, neuroscientist •
Beverley Pearson Murphy — endocrinologist, developed a standard method for the measurement of thyroxine •
Frederick Andermann — neurologist and expert in epilepsy, namesake for
Andermann syndrome •
Juda Hirsch Quastel — pioneer in
neurochemistry 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 •
Ouida Ramón-Moliner — Canadian anaesthetist •
Joseph Morley Drake M.D., C.M. 1861 — British Physiologist •
Margaret Lock — British medical anthropologist •
Charles Hollenberg — Canadian diabetes researcher, founded Banting & Best Diabetes Centre, University of Toronto •
Allan Blair M.D., C.M. 1928 — professor, notorious for having purposely being bitten by
Black Widow spider and developing its treatment protocol •
Shyamala Gopalan — 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 ==See also==