page_title: Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
section_title: Notable faculty and alumni
hierarchical_section_title: Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry / Notable faculty and alumni
caption_attribution_description: English: Frederick Banting, Toronto, Ontario
context_page_description: The Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry is the combined medical school and dental school of the University of Western Ontario, one of 17 medical schools in Canada and one of six in Ontario.
  The medical school was founded in 1881 and the dental school was founded in 1964. The two schools merged in 1997. The school is the seventh oldest in Canada, and the third in Ontario after Toronto's and Queen's medical schools. Schulich Medical School is based in London, with an undergraduate medical campus in Windsor. It consistently ranks as one of the top medical schools in Canada.
  The school emphasizes a patient-centered approach to medicine, introducing new students to clinical methods in the first few weeks just like every other Canadian medical school. Schulich has consistently done well in residency matches, with the fourth highest match rate in Canada in 2012. The school has produced a number of notable alumni, including the discoverer of Barr bodies Murray Barr, "the Father of Family Medicine" Ian McWhinney, and the current head of the World Health Organization Margaret Chan.
  Like other Canadian medical schools, admission to Schulich School of Medicine is highly competitive.
context_section_description: Since their founding, the medical and dental schools have produced a number of famous physicians and inventors, including: 
  Frederick Banting: Surgeon; primary discoverer of insulin; lecturer in orthopedics and anthropology (1920-1921)
  Margaret Chan: Current Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO)
  Jane Philpott: Current Minister of Health and Member of Parliament for Markham-Stouffville
  Henry J.M. Barnett: Neurologist; expert in the medical management of stroke; along with Charles Drake, co-founder of the Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences at University Hospital (London)
  Charles G. Drake: Neurosurgeon; established the University of Western Ontario as a neurosurgical centre of excellence; pioneered treatment of vertebral basilar aneurysms
  Gary G. Ferguson: Neurosurgeon; internationally recognized as a leader on research in stroke prevention surgery
  Ian McWhinney: Family physician; known as the "Father of Family Medicine"; established the Centre for Studies in Family Medicine, often regarded as the premier research centre in Family Medicine in Canada
  David Jaffray: a pioneer in medical imaging and professor at the University of Toronto
  Henri Breault: Chief of Pediatrics and Director of the Poison Control Centre at Hotel Dieu Hospital; he was instrumental in the creation of the first child-proof container
  Robert Noble: involved in the discovery of vinblastine
  Murray Barr: discovered an important cell structure named after him: Barr body, an inactive X chromosome in a female somatic cell, rendered inactive by lyonization
  Gopal Bhatnagar: Head of Cardiovascular Surgery unit at the Trillium Health Centre; he led the team that performed the first cardiopulmonary bypass surgery in Canada in 2004 using the new Sorin mini-bypass technology
  Jock McKeen: co-founder of the Haven Institute with Bennet Wong
  John David Spence: Medical researcher and professor at the University of Western Ontario
  Paul Polak: co-founder and CEO of Windhorse International
  A. Albert Yuzpe: obstetrician-gynecologist; known for his work on human fertility and emergency contraception. The Yuzpe regimen, is named after him
  Barry A. Love: cardiologist; Director of the Congenital Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and Director of the Pediatric Electrophysiology Service at the Mount Sinai Medical Center and Assistant Professor of both Pediatrics and Cardiology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine
  Jonathan Larmonth Meakins:surgeon, expert in immunobiology and surgical infections; the fourth person and first Canadian appointed Nuffield Professor of Surgery Professor at University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford and leads the Nuffield Department Surgery
  William James Roche: Canadian politician and Conservative Member of Parliament
  Donald Rix:  pathologist and philanthropist
  Thomas Chisholm: lecturer
  Melanie Kok: Olympic Canadian rower
  James Collip: Dean of Medicine at the University of Western Ontario, and part of the Toronto group which isolated insulin
  Lawrence Sealewyn Holmes: dermatologist and radiologist; noted philatelist
  John G. Kelton: Dean of Medicine at McMaster University Medical School and the McMaster Faculty of Health Sciences, developed a diagnostic test for heparin-induced thrombocytopenia
  Danielle Martin: Canadian physician, health care administrator, author and an associate professor at the University of Toronto.
caption: Frederick Banting, primary discoverer of insulin
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