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Did you know Dr. Shyamala Gopalan Harris, US Vice President Kamala Harris' late mother, conducted groundbreaking medical research at McGill? What disease did she study?
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Shyamala Gopalan Harris with baby Kamala (photo from Kamala Harris' Twitter account)
Shyamala Gopalan Harris with baby Kamala (photo from Kamala Harris' Twitter account)
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Medical illustrator Hortense Douglas Cantlie created this bas-relief, known as the Brain Babies, in 1950 for which McGill teaching hospital?
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Children of the Brain
Children of the Brain
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Lucy Gilbert was the co-developer of a screening test for which disease(s)?
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Dr. Lucy Gilbert (photo: MUHC)
Dr. Lucy Gilbert (photo: MUHC)
Vancouver-born Dr. Frances Kathleen Oldham Kelsey, who graduated with her BSc and MSc in pharmacology from McGill, is best known for her role in preventing which health tragedy in the US?
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Dr. Frances Kathleen Oldham Kelsey (photo: The Canadian Encyclopedia)
Dr. Frances Kathleen Oldham Kelsey (photo: The Canadian Encyclopedia)
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Dr. Elaine Kilabuk was McGill's first female Inuk medical graduate. What year did she obtain her MDCM?
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Dr. Elaine Kilabuk (photo: Owen Egan)
Dr. Elaine Kilabuk (photo: Owen Egan)
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In the 1980s, at the height of the AIDS crisis, this world-renowned community health physician ruffled feathers by urging people to wear condoms; now, as co-lead of Canada's COVID-19 Immunity Task Force, she is urging people to wear masks to fight against the novel coronavirus. Who is she?
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(Photo by JAMES SEELEY /Montreal Gazette)
(Photo by JAMES SEELEY /Montreal Gazette)
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A McGill medicine grad, a two-term president of Medecins Sans Frontières and a current member of the International Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, Dr. Joanne Liu is a specialist in what medical field?
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Dr. Joanne Liu (Photo: Jocelyn Michel)
Dr. Joanne Liu (Photo: Jocelyn Michel)
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Turn-of-the-century Jewish community leader Taube Kaplan spearheaded fundraising efforts to establish which of the following Montreal health care institutions:
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Taube Kaplan (photo: Jewish General Hospital Archives)
Taube Kaplan (photo: Jewish General Hospital Archives)
In what year were women first admitted to McGill's medical school?
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Lilian Irwin, Jessie Boyd, Winifred Blampin, Eleanor Percival and Mary Childs (photo: McGill University)
Lilian Irwin, Jessie Boyd, Winifred Blampin, Eleanor Percival and Mary Childs (photo: McGill University)
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Rose Johnstone is famous for discovering and naming which of the following:
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Dr Rose Johnstone (photo: The Canadian Encyclopedia)
Dr Rose Johnstone (photo: The Canadian Encyclopedia)
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Who wrote the Atlas of Congenital Cardiac Disease?
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Atlas of Congenital Cardiac Disease (photo: Musée régional d’Argenteuil)
Atlas of Congenital Cardiac Disease (photo: Musée régional d’Argenteuil)
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The first director of the McGill School for Graduate Nursing - now the Ingram School of Nursing, which celebrated its centenary last year - was:
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First graduating class of the School for Graduate Nurses, 1921 (photo: McGill University Archives PL006463)
First graduating class of the School for Graduate Nurses, 1921 (photo: McGill University Archives PL006463)
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Which of the following discoveries was NOT made by Brenda Milner?
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Dr. Brenda Milner (photo: Owen Egan)
Dr. Brenda Milner (photo: Owen Egan)
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Which of these McGill grads was McGill’s first female Chief of Pediatrics and the first female president of the Canadian Paediatric Society?
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(Photo: U.S. National Library of Medicine)
(Photo: U.S. National Library of Medicine)
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Margaret Becklake was a world-renowned researcher and clinician in which TWO fields?
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Dr. Margaret Becklake (photo file: The Globe and Mail)
Dr. Margaret Becklake (photo file: The Globe and Mail)
Dorothy Thomas Edding, the School of Physical and Occupational Therapy's first Black professor, began teaching here in:
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Dr. Dorothy Thomas Edding (photo: Nadina Paraschuk)
Dr. Dorothy Thomas Edding (photo: Nadina Paraschuk)
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Dr. Onye Nnorom, who graduated from McGill's medical school in 2007, is a family physician and specialist in public health and preventive medicine. She is the first ever equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) lead of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at which Canadian university?
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Dr. Onye Nnorom (photo courtesy of Dr. Nnorom)
Dr. Onye Nnorom (photo courtesy of Dr. Nnorom)
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Maude Abbott obtained her medical degree from which institution:
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Dr. Maude Abbott (photo courtesy of McCord Museum/II-85442)
Dr. Maude Abbott (photo courtesy of McCord Museum/II-85442)
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Who was McGill’s first female Chief of Surgery?
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Alice Benjamin was NOT involved in which of the following:
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Dr. Alice Benjamin (photo: Owen Egan)
Dr. Alice Benjamin (photo: Owen Egan)
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Canada’s first speech therapy clinical service, at the Children’s Memorial Hospital of Montreal, was started by:
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Children's Memorial Hospital (photo: Montreal Children's Hospital Archives)
Children's Memorial Hospital (photo: Montreal Children's Hospital Archives)
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