Alice Benjamin

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Alice Benjamin OC OQ (born 9 September 1945, Piravom, India) is a Canadian specialist in fetal and maternal medicine.

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Education

She earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Kerala (1964) and a doctorate in medicine from the University of Delhi (1971). [1] She completed her internship at the Lady Harding Medical College Hospital in New Delhi in 1970-71 and completed her residency in ob/gyn at McGill University at the Jewish General Hospital and the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal including fellowship in maternal-fetal medicine in 1978. [1] [2]

Career and research

Benjamin holds a certificate in obstetrics and gynecology from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (1977) and a certificate from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Quebec. She became a Fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1981. [1]

A consultant with Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital in Ontario from 1978 to 1979, Benjamin joined the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal in 1979. [1] She belongs to the perinatal unit and is associate professor at McGill University. Benjamin established and became director of the Royal Victoria Hospital's Antenatal Day Center in 1979. [1] She focuses on high-risk pregnancies and works with a multidisciplinary team that supports treatment that avoids hospitalization, so that patients can remain with their families - a first in North America. [1]

In her career as a physician, Dr. Benjamin has overseen and cared for a number of high-risk pregnancies with successful outcomes for mothers and babies. She performed Canada's first successful diabetic renal transplant (1984) and pregnancy, and Canada's first interval delivery of twins (1998), who were delivered six weeks apart with both babies surviving in full health. She also oversaw Quebec's first peritoneal dialysis pregnancy and delivery in 1994, and its first successful pregnant peritoneal dialysis on cycler in 2003. She also delivered the first infant whose cord blood stem cells were used for a bone-marrow transplant to cure the mother's leukemia, resulting in full health for both infant and mother in 2001.[ citation needed ]

Benjamin was one of four specialists who sued McGill University Health Centre over medical quotas. [3] [4]

Benjamin pursues many philanthropic endeavours including supporting children through the World Vision child sponsorship programme, and The Salvation Army. [5]

Awards and honours

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Alice Benjamin – Ordre national du Québec". Ordre-national.gouv.qc.ca. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
  2. ↑ "Alice Benjamin".
  3. ↑ "Doctors sue MUHC over delivery quotas". Cbc.ca. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
  4. ↑ "MUHC being sued by obstetricians and gynecologists for quotas limiting deliveries". Globalnews.ca. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
  5. ↑ "Alice Benjamin, MD FRCS(C) FACS , - Obstetrics and Gynecology - McGill University". Mcgill.ca. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
  6. ↑ "Obstetrics-gynecology pioneer Dr. Alice Benjamin honoured for life's work". montrealgazette.
  7. ↑ "Mother's Day Launch for new fund honouring extraordinary obstetrician Dr. Alice Benjamin". The Suburban Newspaper.
  8. ↑ "CityNews Montreal". CityNews Montreal.
  9. ↑ "Governor General Announces 114 New Appointments to the Order of Canada". Rideau Hall Press Office. November 27, 2020.
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