Robert Lampard - Creating the Future of Health: The History of the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary, 1967-2012

Creating the Future of Health

2021 Robert Lampard, David B. Hogan, Frank W. Stahnisch, and James R. Wright, Jr.

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Title: Creating the future of health : the history of the Cumming School of Medicine at the University
of Calgary, 1967-2012 / Robert Lampard, David B. Hogan, Frank W. Stahnisch, and James R. Wright, Jr.
Names: Container of (work): Lampard, Robert, 1940- Dean Cochrane Years, 1967-1973.
Description: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20200348507 | Canadiana (ebook) 20200348728 | ISBN 9781773851648
(softcover) | ISBN 9781773851655 (Open Access PDF) | ISBN 9781773851662 (PDF) | ISBN
9781773851679 (EPUB) | ISBN 9781773851686 (Kindle)
Subjects: LCSH: Cumming School of MedicineHistory. | LCSH: Medical collegesAlbertaCalgary
History. | LCSH: Medical educationAlbertaCalgaryHistory. | LCSH: Deans (Education)Alberta
CalgaryHistory.
Classification: LCC R749.C86 C74 2020 | DDC 610.71/1712338dc23

The University of Calgary Press acknowledges the support of the Government of Alberta through the Alberta Media Fund for our publications. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada. We acknowledge the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program.

This publication has been supported by an Operating Grant from the Heritage Preservation Partnership Program from the Alberta Historical Resources Foundation, and additional research grant support from the Cumming School of Medicine.

Copyediting by Ryan Perks
Cover photo by Eric Gonzalez
Cover design, page design, and typesetting by Melina Cusano

| Jon Meddings

| Collated by Robert Lampard and William J. Pratt

: Historical Background | Robert Lampard

: The Dean Cochrane Years, 19671973 | Robert Lampard

: The Dean McLeod Years, 19731981 | Robert Lampard

: The Dean Watanabe Years, 19811992 | James R. Wright, Jr.

: The Dean Smith Years, 19921997 | David B. Hogan

: The Dean Gall Years, 19972007 | Frank W. Stahnisch and Robert Lampard

: The Dean Feasby Years, 20072012 | David B. Hogan

: Final Thoughts

: Dean Biographies

Appendices | Collated by W. Mikkel Dack and Robert Lampard

Historic Milestones

Faculty Institutes and Major Research Centres (to 2020)

Approved Residency Programs

Endowed Chairs and Professorships

Select International and National Award Recipients

Deans, Vice Deans, Associate Deans, and Assistant Deans

Academic Department Heads

Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada Accreditation Reviews

Annual Operating Budget, 19662013

Historical Price of Crude Oil (19462019)

Class Animals

Honorary Degrees Received by the Faculty and Graduates of the Cumming School of Medicine

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Since opening its doors in 1967, our medical school has grown and evolved into an internationally recognized leader in education and research. Weve seen immense growth, life-changing research advancements and innovative shifts in health care that are improving lives every day.

Our school has grown from one single building, the Health Sciences Centre, to a campus with world-class facilities such as the Advanced Technical Skills Simulation Laboratory (ATSSL), the Ward of the 21 st Century, and the International Microbiome Centre.

The number of students enrolled in our Undergraduate Medical Education (UME) program has increased from thirty-two in 1970 to 487 (in all years combined) in 2020. The number of programs we offer has also risen. In addition to our UME program, which is one of only two three-year medical programs in Canada, we also offer a Bachelor of Health Sciences program, a Bachelor of Community Rehabilitation program, graduate and post-graduate medical education programs, and continuing medical education and professional development programs. We also offer a highly regarded Leaders in Medicine program, which provides motivated students with the opportunity to complete both a medical and graduate degree.

In addition to our education programs, the Cumming School of Medicinewhich was renamed in 2014 to honour a $100 million gift from Geoffrey Cumming that was matched by the Government of Albertais home to seven research institutes that are working to better the lives of people in southern Alberta and beyond. Weve seen great developments, including the creation of the Alberta Provincial Project for Outcome Assessment in Coronary Heart Disease (APPROACH) database, the discovery that a common acne medication can slow the progress of multiple sclerosis (MS), a potential treatment for autoimmune diseases that resulted in a $1 billion collaboration and license agreement between Parvus Therapeutics and California-based Genentech (Roche Group), and research that has changed stroke treatment around the world. This type of research is possible because of our willingness to take risks and try new thingsqualities that have come to define us.

We strive to create the future of health, which for us means better, more personalized health care in Alberta and beyond, and have adapted both our research and education programs to achieve this goal. Were training and retaining excellent physicians and researchers, which leads to improved health care for individuals and communities.

Were also very focused on diversity and collaboration. When it comes to creating equity in health care, we want to be a leader. Weve designed the Pathways to Medicine Scholarship program to support the enrolment and success of future medical students from traditionally under-represented groups throughout Alberta. We want to show others how to close the gaps that exist when it comes to the health of Indigenous people.

All of these qualities combine to attract the best and brightest minds to our school. The people who work and study here, and those who support us from the community, are the key driver of our success. This began with our founding dean, Dr. Bill Cochrane, MD, who passed away in October 2017 at the age of ninety-one. Its because of his original vision that Calgary has a medical school, and Im delighted that weve been able to honour him in different ways throughout the years.

This book celebrates how far weve come on our journey in the evolution of medicine, and the impact of our school. Heres to creating the future of medicine, and a future thats even brighter than our past.

Jon Meddings, MD
Dean, Cumming School of Medicine
University of Calgary

The idea for an official history of the University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine began with Thomas C. Saunders (19212008), Lawrence A. Fisher, and Cyril Levene, early faculty members who embarked on such a project in 2000. By 2006, they had written or begun drafting about thirteen chapters. They estimated at this point that they had completed more than half of their manuscript but also concluded, because of advancing age and health issues, that they would never be able to finish their project; they naturally became increasingly concerned that the fruits of their labour would be lost. In 2007, they reached out to Dean Tom Feasby, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education Allan Jones, and Associate Dean Continuing Medical Education Jocelyn Lockyer, to make arrangements to preserve their work. However, since the position of the AMF/Hannah Professorship in the History of Medicine and Health Care was currently vacant, and a medical historian was in the process of being recruited, there was not an institutional historian available to receive and preserve these materials. The current writing team came together through efforts to save this draft. The manuscript, which was on computer software that was no longer in use and a disc that could not easily be read, was eventually reformatted and recovered, but no efforts to continue the book were undertaken until near the end of the Feasby deanship. In 2011, Dean Feasby authorized the project and his successor as dean, Jon Meddings, continued to support the project, so that research and book writing continued throughout his deanship as well.