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History

We can trace back the origins of the Department of Medicine to “1845, when the chair of clinical medicine was established.â€1 The number of staff in the Department has increased gradually over the years, from one faculty member in its early years to 800 today. In 1924 Jonathan C. Meakins was the first to obtain the title of Director of the Department.2 His successor, J. S. L. Browne, took over in 1948. In the 1950s and 1960s, Experimental Medicine and Investigative Medicine existed as separate departments, the first created by Jonathan C. Meakins and the other by Ronald V. Christie.3 In the 1969-1970 academic year, the Department of Investigative Medicine was merged with the Department of Experimental Medicine. Experimental Medicine was integrated into the Department of Medicine at the end of the 1970s.

McGill Department Heads

RVH Physicians-in-Chief

MGH Physicians-in-Chief

MUHC Physicians-in-Chief

1924-1947
Jonathan C. Meakins

1924-1942
Jonathan C. Meakins

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1950-1957
Edward S. Mills

1998-2004
David Goltzman

1948-1955
J. S. L. Browne

1947-1952
G. Raymond Brow

1957-1980
Douglas G. Cameron

2004-2011
David Eidelman

1956-1965
Ronald V. Christie
1952-1955
Walter de M. Scriver

1980-1995
Phil Gold

1995-1998
Tim Meagher

2012 - 2013
Joyce Pickering (interim)
James Brophy (interim)

1965-1969
Douglas G. Cameron

1955-1964
Ronald V. Christie

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2014 -
James Martin

1969-1975
John C. Beck
1964-1974
John C. Beck
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1975-1980
Douglas G. Cameron
1974-1979
Maurice McGregor
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1980-1985
Peter T. Macklem
1979-1986
Peter T. Macklem
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1985-1990
Phil Gold
1987-1993
W. Dale Dauphinee
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1990-1993
W. Dale Dauphinee
1994-1998
David Goltzman
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1994-2004
David Goltzman
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2004-2011
David Eidelman
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2012 - 2013
James Martin (interim)
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2014 - 2019
James Martin
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Marc Rodger
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From left to right: David Eidelman, Peter T. Macklem, Maurice McGregor, David Goltzman, W. Dale Dauphinee, Phil Gold and Tim Meagher (Photo taken on May 25, 2006 at the MUHC Department of Medicine Annual Dinner)

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Faculty members

1860-1861
Member: 1

1900-1901
Members: 4

1945-1946
Members: 51

1975-1976
Members: 241

1985-1986
Members: 424

1995-1996
Members: 695

2005-2006
Members: 700

2009-2010
Members:Ìý 800


1Ï㽶ÊÓƵ for the Advancement of Learning, Volume II 1895-1971, Stanley Brice Frost, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1984, p. 385.
2Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Calendar, 1924-1925, p. 330.
3Ï㽶ÊÓƵ for the Advancement of Learning, Volume II 1895-1971, Stanley Brice Frost, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1984, p. 385-386.
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