Donald Ewen Cameron was a Scottish-born psychiatrist. He is largely known today for his central role in unethical medical experiments,and development of psychological and medical torture techniques for the Central Intelligence Agency. He served as president of the American Psychiatric Association (1952–1953),Canadian Psychiatric Association (1958–1959),American Psychopathological Association (1963),Society of Biological Psychiatry (1965) and the World Psychiatric Association (1961–1966).
Harold Rocke Robertson,was a Canadian physician and the former Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University (1962–1970).
Omond McKillop Solandt,was a Canadian scientist who was the first Chairman of the Canadian Defence Research Board.
The Allan Memorial Institute,also known colloquially as "the Allan",is a former psychiatric hospital and research institute located at 1025 Pine Avenue West in Montreal,Canada.
Sir Kenneth Charles Calman is a Scottish doctor and academic who formerly worked as a surgeon,oncologist and cancer researcher and held the position of Chief Medical Officer of Scotland,and then England. He was Warden and Vice-Chancellor of Durham University from 1998 to 2006 before becoming Chancellor of the University of Glasgow. He held the position of Chair of the National Cancer Research Institute from 2008 until 2011. From 2008 to 2009,he was convener of the Calman Commission on Scottish devolution.
The Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences is one of the constituent faculties of McGill University. It was established in 1829 after the Montreal Medical Institution was incorporated into McGill College as the college's first faculty;it was the first medical faculty to be established in Canada. The Faculty awarded McGill's first degree,and Canada's first medical degree to William Leslie Logie in 1833.
Richard Ballon Goldbloom,was a Canadian pediatrician,university professor,and the fifth chancellor of Dalhousie University. The son of Montreal pediatrician Alton Goldbloom,he was educated at Selwyn House School and Lower Canada College. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1945 and a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1949 from McGill University. He did his post-graduate medical education at the Royal Victoria Hospital,the Montreal Children's Hospital and the Children's Hospital Boston. From 1964 to 1967,he was an associate professor at McGill University and a physician at the Montreal Children's Hospital. From 1967 to 1985,he was the head of Dalhousie University's Department of Pediatrics. He was the first physician-in-chief and director of research at the Izaak Walton Killam Hospital for Children in Halifax,Nova Scotia.
Allan Richard Taylor is a Canadian retired banker. Taylor joined the Royal Bank of Canada as a clerk in his hometown at the age of sixteen. He rose to become the chairman and CEO of the bank,serving in that capacity from 1986 until 1995.
Judith Weisz Woodsworth is a Canadian academic and university administrator,having formerly served as President of Concordia University and Laurentian University.
George Thomas Hendery Cooper was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a lawyer.
Hargurdeep Saini is an Indian-Canadian scientist and university administrator. He is the President and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University in Montreal. He was previously the President and Vice-Chancellor of Dalhousie University,a Vice-Chancellor and President of University of Canberra,a vice-president of University of Toronto,and principal of the university's Mississauga campus.
Robin C. A. Hunter was a Canadian psychiatrist who was Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Queen's University and University of Toronto,as well as Director and Psychiatrist-in-Chief at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry. There,Hunter founded their clinical program for transsexual people.
Clarence Bynold Farrar,SM was an influential psychiatrist,the first Director of the Toronto Psychiatric Hospital,and editor of The American Journal of Psychiatry for 34 years.
Shitij Kapur is a medical doctor and administrator. He is has served as the 21st president and principal of King's College London since 1 June 2021. Previously,he was the dean of the Faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health Sciences and assistant vice-chancellor (health) of the University of Melbourne from 2016 to 2020.
David Goldbloom is a Canadian psychiatrist,Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto,author,lecturer and mental health advocate. He most recently served from 2003-2022 as the Senior Medical Advisor of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and a psychiatric consultant. He has provided over many years lectures to students,colleagues,and the general public. Goldbloom has received various awards and recognition for his work in Psychiatry and is an honorary member of The College of Family Physicians of Canada.
The Montreal experiments were a series of experiments,initially aimed to treat schizophrenia by changing memories and erasing the patients' thoughts using the Scottish psychiatrist Donald Ewen Cameron's method of "psychic driving",as well as drug-induced sleep,intensive electroconvulsive therapy,sensory deprivation and Thorazine. The experiments were conducted at the Allan Memorial Institute of McGill University between 1957 and 1964 by Cameron and funded by the CIA as part of Project MKUltra,which lasted until 1973 and was only revealed to the public in 1975.
Alan Shepard is a Canadian academic and the current and 11th president and vice-chancellor of Western University in London,Ontario,effective July 2019. He previously served as the president and vice-chancellor of Concordia University in Montreal.
Vivek Goel is the current President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Waterloo. As a physician and public health researcher,he was also a university administrator,and served as a special advisor to the president and provost of the University of Toronto,and as a professor for the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. He is recognized in Canada and internationally as a public health researcher and expert in health-services evaluation. He has been an advocate for the use of research evidence in health policy-making.
