Shashank R. Joshi

Shashank R. Joshi is an Indian endocrinologist, diabetologist and medical researcher, considered by many as one of the prominent practitioners of the trade in India. He was honoured by the Government of India, in 2014, by bestowing on him the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, for his services to the field of medicine.
Biography.
Born in Mumbai, the capital of the western Indian state of Maharashtra, Shashank R Joshi had a noteworthy academic career, topping all the medical examinations he sat for with first rank and gold medal. Joshi secured his graduate degree in medicine, MBBS, from the Grant Medical College and Sir Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy Group of Hospitals, Mumbai which was followed with MD in internal medicine and senior residency from the Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital. He continued his higher education at the Grant Medical College and Sir Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy Group of Hospitals and subsequently got DM in endocrinology. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Endocrinology(USA), Fellow of the American College of Physicians (USA), Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (Glasgow) and the Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh). He has a "Diploma of Growth" from Sweden, too.
Joshi started his career by joining the faculty of the Seth G.S. Medical College and KEM Hospital at their endocrinology department. Later, he moved to the Grant Medical College and Sir Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy Group of Hospitals as a faculty member. He is now working at Lilavati Hospital and Research Centre, Mumbai, as the Consultant Endocrine and Metabolic Physician and has private practice at Joshi Clinic in the city. He also works as consultant endocrinologist at Bhatia Hospital, Mumbai and serves as visiting faculty at various Indian and international universities.
Shashank R Joshi is married to Shilpa, who is a dietician and diabetics educator and the couple has two daughters, Samika and Spandana
Positions.
Joshi is the President of two important organizations, the Indian Academy of Diabetes and the Association of Physicians of India (API). He was also a former President of the Research Society for Study of Diabetes in India (RSSDI) and the All India Association of Advancing Research in Obesity. He is the former Vice President of the Association of Physicians of India and is now its Advisory Board member.
Joshi is involved with the activities of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology (AACE) and is serving as the Chairperson of its India Chapter. Some of the past positions he held include:
Research and publications.
Shashank Joshi is involved in evidence based research on Endocrinology with special emphasis on Diabetes, Obesity, Thyroid, Osteoporosis and Growth. His studies on the Asian Indian phenotype (thin-fat Indian), co-morbidities in hypothyroidism and the impact of vitamin D deficiency on bone health in Asian Indians are notable. He has also worked as the principal investigator in many teams engaged in multinational clinical trials and has covered two epidemics of "diabetes and hypertension in India" and Adult Growth Hormone deficiency.
Joshi is a prolific writer of articles on Diabetology and Endocrinology and has published 18 books and monograms and over 600 research publications on topics such as Diabetes, Obesity, Thyroid disorders, Osteoporosis, and Growth. He is also the Editor of "Practical Medicine", a popular undergraduate Indian text book. He is also the Editor Emeritus of the Journal of the Association of Physicians of India and has been the Editor of three prominent Indian journals namely "Indian Journal of Obesity", "Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism" and "Indian Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics". Dr. Joshi founded the "Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine" and was its Executive Editor.
Selected articles
Awards and recognitions.
Shashank R Joshi was honoured by the Government of India by awarding him the Padma Shri, in 2014, in recognition of his efforts to the cause of medicine. He is also a recipient of the International Clinician Award, received at the 21st American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) Annual Scientific and Clinical Congress, Philadelphia. This is an annual award given to practicing endocrinologists, outside the US. Pharma Leaders in the year 2013 conferred "Medical Expert of the Decade" at 6th Annual Pharmaceutical Leadership Summit founded by Satya Brahma. Indian Affairs India Leadership Conclave 2014 edition declared Dr. Shashank Joshi as "Healthcare Visionary of the Year" .


Lupus Canada

Lupus Canada is a national voluntary organization dedicated to improving the lives of people living with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) through advocacy, education, public awareness, support and research. Formed in 1987, Lupus Canada is a federally registered non-profit charity and its national office is located in Markham, Ontario.
Lupus Canada works in partnership with regional non-profit organizations (also known as member organizations), which provide Canadians individual memberships and local support in their province.
Charitable works.
Some of Lupus Canada’s significant achievements and contributions include:


Howard Rayner

Howard Luscombe Rayner (12 March 1896 – 13 June 1975) was an Australian first-class cricketer, Australian rules footballer and medical doctor.
Rayner was the son of religious parents, his father was a Methodist minister and his mother was a missionary in Fiji. Born at Adelaide, he was educated in the city at Prince Alfred College, before going up to the University of Adelaide to study medicine, where he gained a first class degree. A keen sportsman, having captained the Prince Alfred College cricket team, he proceeded to play Australian rules football for Sturt Football Club as a half forward flanker, making one senior appearance for the club in the 1915 South Australian Football League. He was the University of Adelaide's Rhodes Scholar for 1916, but did not travel to England to take up his scholarship at Balliol College, Oxford until 1918.
After arriving in England, he briefly served in the Royal Navy prior to the signing of the Armistice in November 1918. Following the armistice he returned to Balliol College and continued his medical training at King's College Hospital. The following year, he made a single appearance in first-class cricket for P. F. Warner's XI against Oxford University at Oxford. Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for 2 runs in the P. F. Warner's XI first-innings by Vyvyan Pearse, while in their second-innings he scored 21 unbeaten runs. Rayner graduated from Oxford in 1921, entering general practice at Twickenham in 1923 and practicing medicine in Twickenham throughout the 1920s and 1930s, before changing specialities in 1938 to become an anaesthetist at St John's Hospital.
During World War II he oversaw the medical conversion of the Orleans School and Twickenham Stadium, overseeing the latter throughout the war. Following the war, he was appointed as the doctor to the Rugby Football Union, as well as returning to his position as an anaesthetist at St John's, where he remained until two years after his official retirement in 1965. Later in life he took up golf and served as the president of Fulwell Golf Course. Rayner died at Twickenham in June 1975 and was survived by his wife.


Poliklinik Cheras

Poliklinik Cheras ("Peng Kuai") or Poliklinik Cahaya was a governmental hospital opened in October 1954 in Cheras, Selangor, Malaysia. The hospital closed down after 30 years of service in 1984.
History.
The original name of the Poliklinik Cheras was The Lady Templer Hospital. It was named after the British doctor, Lady Templer. The hospital was opened in 1954. In 1955 the Federal Government donated 300,000 dollars to the hospital. In 1962 The Sultan of Selangor visited the hospital. The Lady Templer Hospital was renamed "Poliklinik Cheras" since it was in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur.


Fareva

Fareva is a French pharmaceutical company, with annual revenues of $1.4 billion in 2015, founded and 100% owned by Bernard Fraisse, a French billionaire businessman.
It was founded in 1985, and the company now employs 9,500 people. Fareva is the largest contract manufacturing organization (CMO) in France.
The company is headquartered in Tournon-sur-Rhône, Ardèche, France.


NicOx

Nicox S.A. is a French ophthalmology company developing treatments to maintain vision and improve ocular health. Nicox is headquartered in Sophia Antipolis, France, and its Chairman and CEO is Michele Garufi.
Nicox is listed on Euronext Paris (Compartment B: Mid Caps; Ticker symbol: COX) and is part of the CAC Healthcare, CAC Pharma & Bio and Next 150 indexes. Its pipeline includes three programs in development and it has two U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved products.
Pipeline.
Nicox's lead program in clinical development is NCX 470, a novel, second-generation nitric oxide-donating bimatoprost analog, for lowering intraocular pressure (IOP) in patients with glaucoma. NCX 470 is designed to release both bimatoprost, which is marketed under the brand name LUMIGAN, and nitric oxide following instillation into the eye. Bimatoprost is a prostaglandin analog, the most widely used class of drugs for IOP lowering in patients with open angle glaucoma and ocular hypertension.
The company is also developing NCX 4251, a proprietary formulation of fluticasone, for acute exacerbations of blepharitis. Nicox generates revenue from VYZULTA(R) in glaucoma and ZERVIATE(TM), or cetirizine ophthalmic solution, in allergic conjunctivitis. It has ongoing partnerships with Bausch & Lomb, Eyevance Pharmaceuticals and Ocumension Therapeutics.


Jagat Ram

Dr. Jagat Ram is an ophthalmologist and current Director of Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) Chandigarh, India.
Early life.
Jagat Ram was born in family of humble background at Pabiana village in Sirmaur district, Himachal Pradesh. He used to walk daily for a distance of about 10 km to reach his high school in Rajgarh. He completed MBBS from Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla, affiliated to Himachal Pradesh University in 1978 and later completed residency in MS in Ophthalmology from PGIMER in June 1982.
Career.
Ram was head of department of ophthalmology at PGIMER. In 2015, he received the Oscar of Paediatric Ophthalmology at the World Congress of Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus in Barcelona. He assumed office of Director at PGIMER in March 2017 when he had 24 awards to his credit. He was conferred Padma Shri award by the President of India in January 2019. In 2019, he completed 40 years in PGIMER.


Marshall Lightowlers

Professor Marshall Lightowlers began his career in the field of parasitology during a post-doctoral appointment at the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science in Adelaide where he undertook research on ovine sarcocystosis. In 1981 he began a post-doctoral position at The University of Melbourne, Veterinary Clinical Centre and commenced a research career focusing on the immunology and molecular biology of taeniid cestode parasites. His initial research at the University of Melbourne investigated the immunochemistry of antigens of "Taenia taeniaeformis" and "Echinococcus granulosus". Subsequently he was a member of a team of scientists that developed a vaccine against "Taenia ovis" infection in sheep, the first recombinant vaccine against a parasitic disease. In 1989 Lightowlers took over leadership of the molecular parasitology research laboratories at the University of Melbourne and began applying the lessons learnt with "T. ovis" to the development of similar vaccines against infection with the larval stages of other cestode parasites. This led to the development of highly effective, recombinant vaccines against cysticercosis in cattle due to "Taenia saginata" (TSA9/TSA18) and in pigs due to "Taenia solium". In collaboration with Dr David Heath at the Wallaceville Animal Research Centre in New Zealand, he and his colleagues also developed the EG95 recombinant vaccine against cystic echinococcosis (hydatid disease).
The "E. granulosus" and "T. solium" vaccines could potentially have been developed for use directly in humans, however due to the parasites’ medical impact being restricted largely to developing countries, funding was not forthcoming, hence they were developed for use in the parasites’ natural animal intermediate hosts. Use of the vaccines in this way would reduce the parasites' transmission and, indirectly, the incidence of cystic echinococcosis and neurocysticercosis in humans.
The EG95 vaccine was proven successful in experimental trials in sheep against "E. granulosus" infection carried out in Argentina, China, Romania, Iran, New Zealand and Australia. The vaccine was registered as a commercial product in China in 2007 by Chongqing Auleon Biologicals Co., Ltd., and in Argentina in 2011 by Tecnovax Sanidad Animal. In 2016 the EG95 vaccine was incorporated into the Chinese National Echinococcosis Control Program and National Animal Disease Compulsory Immunization Program.
The TSOL18 vaccine against "Taenia solium" achieved >99% protection in experimental trials undertaken in pigs in Mexico, Cameroon and Peru. It has been developed as a commercial product, Cysvax, by Indian Immunologicals Limited and registered in India in 2016. The TSOL18 vaccine played an important role in a large-scale, successful, cysticercosis elimination program undertaken in the Tumbes region of northern Peru. The vaccine has completed the clinical trials in Nepal and has shown to be effective to control cysticercosis in pigs of the region.
Marshall Lightowlers is Principal Research Fellow with the National Health and Medical Research Council in Australia and Professor in the Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Melbourne. In 2011 he was appointed by the University of Melbourne Council as Melbourne Laureate Professor. He has published more than two hundred articles in internationally refereed journals and books. He has been an active member of the Australian Society for Parasitology, serving as the society's President in 1995/6, Honorary Secretary, and as a council member representing Victoria. In 1998 the society awarded Lightowlers the Bancroft-Mackerras Medal in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the science of parasitology.


Portia Holman

Portia Grenfell Holman (20 November 1903 – 16 May 1983) was an Australian child psychiatrist who practiced in London.
Early life and education.
Holman was born in 1903 in Sydney; she was the only child of William Holman, who would become the Premier of New South Wales, and Ada Augusta Holman, a writer. She gained a Bachelor of Arts at The Women's College of the University of Sydney, and in 1923 she enrolled at Newnham College, Cambridge, graduating in economics in 1926. She then went on to study at the University of Paris and the London School of Economics, before taking up a role in lecturing and research at the University of St Andrews from 1927 to 1933. She returned to Newnham College in 1933 to study medicine, and qualified in 1939 after completing her clinical training at the Royal Free Hospital. She put her studies on hold during the Spanish Civil War to serve as a medical auxiliary for the Republican faction.
Medical career.
In her early career, Holman held appointments at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital, Great Ormond Street Hospital, and Mill Hill Emergency Hospital. After taking a Diploma in Psychological Medicine, she was appointed as a psychiatrist to West Middlesex Hospital in 1945 and the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in 1946. From 1944 until 1970, she also directed the first child guidance clinic at Ealing, and in the late 1940s she helped to set up Mulberry Bush School, a special school in Oxfordshire for "maladjusted children". Holman was elected Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1961 and served as a senior psychiatrist the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital until her retirement in 1969.
Personal life.
Holman was an active member of the Labour Party and campaigned for the party during elections. She strongly advocated for the introduction of the National Health Service in the 1940s and, in her old age, participated in protests against the closure of the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital and in demonstrations for nuclear disarmament.
After her retirement, Holman continued to live in London until 1982, when she moved to Oxford. She died suddenly from a cerebral haemorrhage while visiting London in 1983.


Dr. D Y Patil Medical College, Navi Mumbai

Dr. D Y Patil Medical College, Navi Mumbai is a medical college in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra. The college imparts the degree Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS). It is recognised by the Medical Council of India. The hospital associated with the college is one of the largest in Navi Mumbai.
Selection to the college is done on the basis of merit through the National Eligibility and Entrance Test. Yearly undergraduate student intake is 100.


Phoenix Pharmahandel

PHOENIX Pharmahandel Aktiengesellschaft & Co KG (PHOENIX Group), headquartered in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, is the largest pharmaceutical wholesaler in Germany, and the second largest in Europe with about 153 distribution centers across the country delivering drugs to some 12,000 independent pharmacies. Its PHOENIX Documentation is an Internet-based archive offering detailed information on drugs, their components, indications, and effects. Formation of Holding company PHOENIX International Beteiligungs GmbH. Phoenix Group is majority owner of the pharmaceutical wholesalers Purus A.S. in the Czech Republic and Tamro in Finland. Phoenix Group itself is majority-owned by pharmaceutical conglomerate Merckle Group.
History.
The PHOENIX Pharmahandel Aktiengesellschaft & Co was founded from the German regional wholesalers F. Reichelt AG (Hamburg), Otto Stumpf GmbH (Berlin), Ferd. Schulze GmbH (Mannheim), Otto Stumpf AG (Nuremberg), and Hageda AG (Cologne) in early 1994. The newly established enterprise has achieved a market leading position in its home markets from day one. Only one year later in 1995, the company brand PHOENIX was established and a major strategy roll-out throughout Germany, Hungary, Italy and the Netherlands was initiated: During this process PHOENIX acquired majority shareholdings in the Hungarian pharma wholesaling company Parma Rt., the Northern Italian pharmaceutical wholesaler Comifar S.p.A., 60-per cent shareholding in the second-largest Dutch pharmaceutical wholesaler ACF Holding NV, based in Maarssen near Utrecht.
In 1996, the PHOENIX group already achieved a group-wide turnover exceeding EUR 10 billion for the first time in its history. Following this achievement further acquisitions in Italy, the Czech Republic and Hungary were completed to strengthen the market position. In addition new branches were established in Poland and France. Several different problems in Poland and Hungary triggered a country-exclusive restructuring process in 1997 and was accompanied with a 100% takeover of the Austrian company Hestag and the renaming of Schulze Pharma France in PHOENIX Pharma during the same year. The entry into the United Kingdom market occurred in 1998 with the establishment of 11 distribution centres, a wholesale network with almost nationwide coverage. PHOENIX GROUP also acquired the regional wholesalers L. Rowland & Co. and Philip Harris Medical to establish a PHOENIX presence in the UK, with the aim of establishing a third significant player in the pharmaceutical distribution industry, alongside AAH/Lloyds and Unichem/Moss. The Rowlands estate comprised approximately 70 pharmacies at this time (November 2011). In 2000, the number of employees across the group exceeds 10,000 for the first time and the company acquired the Finnish Tamro Group in April with a 33.7% stake. In the year 2002, PHOENIX Pharmahandel AG & Co KG merged with Ferd. Schulze GmbH Co., subsequently its number of employees across the group exceeded 15,000 for the first time with a group-wide turnover of more than EUR 15 billion. Two years later, PHOENIX received title to all shares of Tamro Corporation in May 2004 and subsequently acquired a 100% shareholding in Tamro: It was the largest acquisition in the history of PHOENIX successfully to date; Tamro was delisted from the Helsinki Stock Exchange in the same year. In 2006, the group-wide turnover exceeds EUR 20 billion for the first time.
In July 2011, the rating agency Standard & Poor’s upgraded PHOENIX’s rating from B+ to BB- with continuing positive outlook. In August, the rating agency Moody’s raised the outlook for PHOENIX from “stable” to “positive”. In October, the rating agency Fitch issued a rating for PHOENIX of “BB” with a “stable” outlook. In May 2013, PHOENIX group has issued a corporate bond with a volume of EUR 300 million (May).
Today.
Today PHOENIX group has 161 distribution centers in 27 European countries from which it supplies drugs and other health products to pharmacies and medical institutions.
PHOENIX group also operates more than 2,700 own pharmacies within 15 countries, the majority under the corporate brand BENU.
In addition to Norway, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, the company is also heavily represented in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Serbia, Montenegro, Romania, and the Baltic markets.
The around 20,000 pharmacy employees within PHOENIX group has more than 60 million customer contacts each year.
International.
PHOENIX group is operational in these countries with the respective brands


Sutherland Harris Memorial Hospital

The Sutherland Harris Memorial Hospital is a restorative care, veterans and various outpatient and community-based services hospital in Pictou, Nova Scotia. It opened on June 1, 1966. It serves approximately 48,000 people in Pictou County, Nova Scotia. It located at 222 Haliburton Road and is operated by Pictou County Health Authority. The hospital currently has 32 beds.


Joe Shelley

Joseph Eustace Shelley (8 September 1892 – 23 June 1966) was an Australian rules footballer who played with University in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Family.
The son of Edgar Shelley (1861-1949), and Blanche Shelley (1867-1960), née Rouse, Joseph Eustace Shelley was born at Caulfield, Victoria on 8 September 1892.
Education.
Educated at Geelong Grammar School and at Melbourne Grammar School.
As a resident at Ormond College he attended the University of Melbourne.
He graduated Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) on 17 April 1915; and, during his time at the university he was awarded a "double blue" in cricket and football.
Military service.
He enlisted in the First AIF on 7 July 1916, and left Sydney on 8 July 1916 (on the RMS Mongolia) to serve overseas in the Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC).
He was discharged for the AIF in England (effective date 26 December 1919); and, rather than being repatriated to Australia, he independently went to Jerusalem, where his parents were living, and where he intended to practise medicine.
6 April 1925.
While in Victoria, on holiday from his residence in Jerusalem, Shelley was staying at "Ferndale", the property of James Griffiths, of Griffiths Brothers' Tea, at Bayswater, Victoria. He was the sole survivor of an accident in which the wagonette, driven by Griffiths (on the way to Bayswater Station to meet Arthur Henry Harris, the manager of "Ferndale"), was hit by a train.
Three of the five occupants — James Griffiths, Elizabeth Morton, and Janet Emily Harris (Harris's daughter) — were killed immediately, and the fourth — Emily Griffiths (James Griffiths' wife) — died of her injuries four days later.


Sigma Healthcare

Sigma Healthcare Limited is a full line wholesale and distribution business to pharmacy. It is also the owner of Australian pharmacy retail brands: Amcal Max, DDS, Amcal and Guardian. Guardian should not to be confused with the East Asian pharmacy Guardian.
2010 restructure.
Sigma restructured in 2010, disposing of its generic drug manufacturing business.
On May 3, 2017, Sigma board of directors and shareholders voted on a change of name to Sigma Healthcare Limited. The publicly listed company also change the ASX ticker from SIP to SIG at this time.
Financial performance.
The company's sales revenue grew 1.1 percent to $3 billion in 2013–14, while net profit climbed 187 percent to $53.5 million.
Mergers & acquisitions.
In March 2014, Sigma acquired Central Healthcare Services, in a deal worth $24.5 million. In September 2014, the company bought the Queensland-based Discount Drug Store (DDS) banner for $26.7 million. The DDS acquisition was set to add 120 pharmacies under that brand to the Sigma network.
2010 trading halt.
In 2010, Sigma shares were placed in a trading halt on the Australian Stock Exchange – initially due to a profit warning. Since then, allegations of accounting irregularities and preferential deals negotiated with certain pharmacy chains (at the expense of smaller independent chemists) that left Sigma losing money at the expense of their own Amcal and Guardian Pharmacies banners and forsaking cashflow emerged. The trading halt was lifted later that year. The events resulted in the initiation of a shareholder class action before the Federal Court of Australia.


Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital

The Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital was a psychiatric hospital located in the town of New Toronto, Ontario (now part of the city of Toronto). The hospital grounds now form part of Humber College's Lakeshore Campus.
History.
The hospital was built in 1888. as the Mimico Asylum. The doors officially opened on January 21, 1889.
The original idea for the hospital's design of a cottage system was Doctor Joseph Workman who wanted a hospital that would not feel like an institution. The architect for the site was Kivas Tully, who worked with gardener Samuel Matheson, designed the original facility under the supervision of the Superintendent of the Queen Street Asylum, Dr. Daniel K. Clark.
Most of the buildings were built by the patients themselves. Patients also helped with the laundry and tended to the gardens.
The Assembly Hall, now operated by the City of Toronto, was built by the patients in 1898 as a recreation location for the patients, staff, and the public. Sunday worship services were also conducted at the Assembly Hall.
The hospital also had its own cemetery, located in the vicinity of Evans Avenue and Horner Avenue. The cemetery contained the remains of 1,511 former patients of the hospital.
A powerhouse for the site was built in the 1930s to provide heat for the cottages.
After several decades of use, the hospital was renovated starting in 1959 by then superintendent, Doctor H.C Moorehouse.
The site was closed as a hospital on September 1, 1979 with the last 280 patients being transferred to other sites. The decision to close the site was due to its needing to be renovated again. At its height in 1950, the hospital housed 1,391 patients.
In 1988, the site was designated as a historic property.
In film.
Prior to its closure the film "Equus", starring Richard Burton, was shot here. After the closure of the hospital the property was also used as a filming location, notably being used in the movies "Phobia", "Higher Education", and "Police Academy" as well as its sequels, ' and '. It was also the setting of Matheson Academy in the Netflix series Locke & Key (2020). SCTV’s McKenzie Bros. film, Strange Brew, was also filmed as an actual asylum scene in this classic comedy.
Humber College.
In 1991, Humber College signed a 99-year lease on the property. The College then started renovating the cottages for use as offices and classrooms. By April 2015, all but the Administration building, known as Building G were renovated. This last cottage underwent restoration and was opened in September 2016 as the Centre for Entrepreneurship.
Today.
All of the cottages have been rebuilt by Humber College for their purposes.
In 1999, the former Gatehouse was rebuilt and became a supportive centre for children.
The former powerhouse now has an outdoor skating ring beside it and the building itself has change rooms and washrooms for those using who wish to skate.
The former Superintendent's residence is now part of the Jean Tweed Centre.
The Assembly Hall was renovated in 2000 and opened to the public in 2001. It is now operated by the City of Toronto.
The grounds are now open to the public as a park.
A Tim Hortons occupies the former Carriage House.
A new Welcome Centre was built and opened in September 2016. The Registrar's Office, Health and Career Services have been relocated in this new building.
Name.
The hospital was opened as the Mimico Asylum, but changed names several times over the years, becoming the Mimico Insane Asylum in 1894, the Mimico Hospital for the Insane in 1911, the Ontario Hospital (Mimico) in 1920, the Ontario Hospital, New Toronto in 1934, before finally becoming the Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital in 1964.


Denis Mackey

Denis Peter Mackey (8 May 1934 – 8 January 1990) was an Australian medical practitioner.
Mackey was born at Richmond in Melbourne to commercial traveller Alphonsus Denis Mackey and Dulcie Edith, "née" Reid. He attended Catholic schools and studied medicine at the University of Melbourne. He married Noelle Lucy Mooney on 30 December 1959 at Middle Park before moving to Tasmania in 1960, where Mackey found work at the Royal Hobart Hospital. In 1963 he developed his own practice at Lindisfarne. He joined the General Practitioners' Society in 1973, serving as national vice-president from 1976 to 1979 and president from 1979 to 1981. He was editor of the "Australian GP" from 1974 to 1978 and assistant editor from 1978 to 1980.
Mackey was a strong supporter of private healthcare, opposing the introduction of Medibank and Medicare. An opponent of community health centres, he toured the United States in 1977 speaking against socialised medicine. He refused money from both Medicare and the Department of Veterans' Affairs, requiring his patients to make their own claims. In 1985 Mackey claimed that repetitive strain injury was being used by workers to claim unwarranted sick days, prompting a dispute with the Tasmanian Trades & Labor Council and the Federated Clerks' Union. Despite his vehemency he treated many patients for free. He died in 1990 in Hobart, survived by his wife and their four sons. The University of Tasmania awards an annual scholarship in his name.


Amna Buttar

Amna Buttar (born 1962) is a Pakistani American medical doctor and former member of Provincial Assembly of the Punjab, Pakistan. She is currently working as clinical Associate Professor of Medicine and Geriatrics at the NYU Langone Health.
Biography.
Born in a Buttar family in Lahore, Amna Buttar did her MBBS from Fatima Jinnah Medical College, Lahore, and went to United States. She did her internal medicine residency from the University of Wisconsin, and fellowship in Geriatrics from the University of Michigan. She also completed a Masters in Public Health from the University of Michigan.
Dr. Buttar served as Assistant Professor of Medicine and Geriatrics in Indiana University and served as Associate Professor of same discipline in University of Wisconsin. She was serving as Director of Geriatrics at Mount Sinai Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, when she moved to Pakistan in 2007. She has written numerous book chapters in multiple textbooks, and authored many research papers including publications in prestigious journals like Annals of Internal Medicine, and the Journal of American Medical Association. She has given over 100 presentations locally, nationally, and internationally pertaining to Geriatrics Medicine. Dr. Buttar developed, and implemented four different health care programs in three different states in the US. She is recipient of prestigious Career Award by the Department of Health and Human Services in the US, and served on advisory committee to the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the USA.
During her stay in the US, she served in Association of Pakistani Physicians of North America as President/Secretary of FJMC alumni. She is founder president of Asian-American Network Against Abuse of human rights (ANAA). She actively advocated for human and women rights and brought cases of Mukhtar Mai and Dr Shazia Khalid to limelight all across the globe.
She has been given LeadHer Award by the Girls Learn International in New York City in 2006, in that ceremony the same award was given to Senator Hillary Clinton. She has also received Human rights award from Pakistan Peoples Party human rights wing in August 2006. She has testified to the U.S. Congress, as well as representing Pakistan United Nations at the UN Commission on Status of Women.
Apart from numerous, social, charitable and welfare programs, she started a charitable program to help poor women lingering in Pakistani Prisons for a long time having no monetary and legal support. Her interviews have appeared in local and international print and electronic media, including CNN, MSNBC, "The New York Times", National Public Radio of USA and many others. She has served as Member of Provincial Assembly (MPA) Punjab from women reserved seats for Pakistan Peoples Party(PPP) 2008 to 2012. She holds dual American nationality.
She moved back to the USA in 2012, and now resides in New York. She is serving as Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine and Geriatrics at NYU Langone Health System, New York, USA. She is section chief of Geriatrics at NYU Langone Health Main Campus, New York, USA.
Dual nationality case.
On 4 June 2012, the Supreme Court of Pakistan admitted a petition by the registrar's office. The petition stated that Amna Buttar holds dual Pakistani and American nationality, and hence, according to Pakistan's constitution, she is not eligible to hold public office in Pakistan. Along with Amna Buttar, the petition included names of 13 other current members of National and Provincial assemblies in Pakistan.
Controversy.
Amna Buttar recently criticized a Pakistani Beauty Pageant, Miss Pakistan World for being irrelevant to the problems faced by Pakistani women.
"In Pakistan, we are trying to get basic rights for women: right to marry, right to divorce, equal opportunity for job and education, and issues like Miss Pakistan create problems for this movement...An average Pakistani young woman does not want to wear a bikini in public, and for her it is important to have equal opportunity and all focus should be on that, and not on a pageant where only the elite can participate."


Croom Hospital

Croom Hospital () is an orthopaedic hospital in Croom, County Limerick, Ireland. It is managed by UL Hospitals Group.
History.
The hospital has its origins in the Croom Workhouse and Infirmary which was designed by George Wilkinson and opened in 1852. It became Croom County Hospital in 1924, St Nessan's Orthopedic Hospital in 1956 and the Mid-Western Regional Orthopedic Hospital in 2006. Following the establishment of the Graduate Medical School at the University of Limerick, it became the Croom Hospital in 2013 when the hospitals in the greater Mid-West Region became part of a single operating and governance structure known as the UL Hospitals Group.


K. I. Varaprasad Reddy

Koduru Ishwara Varaprasad Reddy (born 17 November 1948) is an Indian entrepreneur and founder of vaccine manufacturing company Shantha Biotechnics. The Govt of India awarded him the Padma Bhushan award in 2005 for his contribution in the field of science and engineering. He also received an honorary doctorate from Sri Venkateshwara University, Gitam University, and Vignan University for his pioneering efforts.
Early life.
Dr. K.I Varaprasad Reddy was born in an agriculture family from Papireddy Palem village in Nellore district. He was the only child to his parents Mr Venkata Ramana Reddy and Mrs Shanthamma. With Bachelor of Science degree from Sri Venkateshwara University in 1967, he did his Engineering (Electronics & Communication) from Andhra University - 1970. After which he pursued a Diploma in Computer Sciences from Biblingen University, West Germany in 1971. He also got his Masters in Business Administration Degree from Osmania University.
An electronics engineer by profession, Varaprasad worked as a defense scientist for 7 years. after which he worked for APIDC (Andhra Pradesh Industrial Development Corporation). He has become entrepreneur by joining Hyderabad Batteries Ltd in the year 1985. This company developed and produced batteries for high technology based batteries for Defence applications.
Shantha Biotechnics Limited.
In 1990, he attended a WHO conference in Geneva and he heard some critical remarks about India not being capable of developing a vaccine for Hepatitis B. The disease kills around 350,000 people every year in the country.
He was not pleased with what he heard and started Shantha Biotechnics Ltd with a mission to produce cost-effective vaccines that would be available for the common man, while still maintaining international quality standards.
Varaprasad established Shantha Biotechnics Ltd. in 1993. Shantha Biotechnics Ltd made the country's first indigenously developed recombinant hepatitis B vaccine. The vaccine, Shanvac-B, was launched in the country in 1997.
Other activities.
He supported Yoga for training many yoga teachers for spreading the yoga culture. He also launched a magazine, Haasam and ran for 5 years. The main aim was to propagate the spirit of Telugu art, literature and humour and music. Now under Haasam Publications many books were published and continuing to publish on the subjects of Music, Humour and spirituality. Some of the well known books are Autobiography of Bharta Ratna M S Subbulakshmi and Mallapudi Venkataramana's Kothi Kommachi etc.,


Alfred Alexander

Dr. Alfred Alexander (7 March 1880 – 15 May 1950) was the President of the Berlin Association of Doctors during the 1930s. He was a leading researcher into the cure for leukemia. One of his patients was Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick. In 1935 he and his family fled Nazi Germany to England, where he established a medical practice, with a clinic in Harley Street. He died in 1950.
Alfred Alexander was married to Henny Alexander and had four children: Bella Jakobi, Elsie Harding, Hanns Alexander and Paul Alexander, all of whom lived in England after leaving Nazi Germany. He was awarded the Iron Cross for his medical service at Saverne during World War I.
For his 50th birthday party, he received regards from the glitterati of Berlin, including scientist Albert Einstein, Nobel Prize winner James Franck, artists Rudolf Grossman, Hans Purrmann and Emil Hertz, writers Leonhard Frank, Rudolf Kayser, Alfred Polgar, Walter Hasenclever and Jozsef Lengyel, and a large group of actors, dancers, singers and musicians.
As father to the war crimes investigator Hanns Alexander, Alfred Alexander is featured in Hanns and Rudolf, a dual biography by Thomas Harding (Grandson of his daughter Elsie).


Lucy Meredith Bryce

Lucy Meredith Bryce (12 June 1897 – 30 July 1968) was an Australian haematologist and medical researcher, who worked with the Australian Red Cross Society to establish the first blood transfusion service in Australia.
Early life and education.
Lucy Bryce was born in Lindfield, New South Wales, and educated in Melbourne, at the Melbourne Girls Grammar School. She earned degrees at the University of Melbourne in 1918 (B.Sc.) and 1922 (M.B., B.S.).
Career.
Bryce started her career at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research after college. While still in her twenties, she spent a year working at the Lister Institute in London. From 1928 to 1934, she was on staff as a bacteriologist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, before launching a private practice as a pathologist. During World War II, she held the rank of major in the Australian Army Medical Corps. In 1948, she was called upon as an expert witness in a case involving the identification of two newborns, alleged to have been switched at birth.
Beginning in 1929, Bryce was the founding director of the Victoria Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service, which was Australia's first blood transfusion service. Her work involved planning how donors should be screened, and how blood should be typed and stored, and supervising the establishment of a blood reserve in case of major disaster. She retired from active involvement in this work in 1954, but continued to hold her title as honorary chair of the transfusion committee until 1966. She was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1951 for this work. Bryce wrote a history of the transfusion service, "An Abiding Gladness" (1965), as well as many scientific articles.
Personal life and legacy.
Bryce died in 1968, age 72.
There is a crater on Venus named for Bryce, and a portrait of her is on display in Lucy Bryce Hall, which houses the Central Blood Bank in Melbourne. Bryce Place in the Canberra suburb of Florey is named in her honour.
In 2001 Bryce was inducted to the Victorian Honour Roll of Women.


Lahore General Hospital

Lahore General Hospital is a public sector teaching hospital located on Ferozepur Road in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. It is affiliated with Ameer-ud-Din Medical College, Lahore.
History.
A piece of land measuring one square and seven acre i.e. (256 kanals) situated on Ferozepur, Road, Lahore about 17 kilometers from Lahore was proposed for beggar house. The foundation was laid down by her Excellency Begum Naheed Sikandar Mirza (W/O then Governor General of Pakistan His Excellency Maj Gen Iskander Mirza), on 27 February 1958. The first phase of the building was completed in late 1958. An opening ceremony was held on 30 September 1958 by her Excellency Begum Naheed Sikandar Mirza.
Due to some reasons the proposed beggar house plan was sacked and it was decided by the then Government to provide Health facilities to the general public. Hence the birth of Lahore General Hospital took place in the early 1959. The opening ceremony of Lahore General Hospital was done by his Excellency Mr. Akhtar Hussain, the Governor West Pakistan on 29 January 1959. Lahore General Hospital started functioning in the existing building of proposed beggar house. At that time, Hospital was used as convalescent home for the over flow of patients of Mayo Hospital, Lahore and there were no adequate treatment / diagnostic facilities available at Lahore General Hospital.
The department of Neurosurgery of King Edward Medical College (KEMC), Lahore was setup at Lahore general Hospital in 1966. This department was housed in old building temporarily till 1981. Then after the birth of Postgraduate Medical Institute (PGMI) Lahore in 1974, Lahore General Hospital (LGH) Lahore was affiliated with Postgraduate Medical Institute in July, 1975. Except the department of Neurosurgery, T.B & Chest; these both departments were remain attached with KEMC, Lahore. In April 1984, new Neurosurgery / Physiotherapy were completed, and these departments were shifted in new building (Neurosurgery Block).
In 1995, on the shifting of Allama Iqbal Medical College (AIMC) to new campus, Jinnah Hospital complex was affiliated with AIMC and PGMI was shifted to Services Hospital, Lahore. The Lahore General Hospital was attached with AIMC. This continued till 31 May 1997. Then, again, LGH was attached with PGMI on 31 May 1997. At present, all these departments are attached with PGMI Lahore, including Neurosurgery Department.
On 1 July 1998, Lahore General Hospital was declared as an autonomous hospital. Dr. Sabiha Khurshid Ahmad was appointed as 1st Chief Executive of this hospital. After the autonomy, new well equipped Operation Theaters of Urology and Orthopedic were started, which lowered the huge burden of SOT, SOT was renovated and new Recovery Room added to it. A laundry plant was also installed. Seven rooms for private patients declared in general side in addition to eighteen rooms of Neurosurgery Department.
Presently, it is a 1600-bedded hospital. In 2017, it became the first public sector hospital to successfully perform a Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy. It was recently exempted from all utility taxes.
On 12 December 2020, Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar announced an expansion of the hospital, which would include 400 beds in the general ward, 400 beds in cardiology, and 200 beds in blood diseases wards.


Lachine Hospital

Lachine Hospital () is a public hospital in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located at 650 16th Avenue in the borough of Lachine (at the corner of Saint Antoine Street). It is the only French-language hospital on the western portion of the Island of Montreal.
A community general hospital, it offers a range of services including ophthalmology, cardiology, general surgery, laboratory services and medical imaging (MRI, CT scan, Radiography, and Ultrasound).
The Lachine Hospital is currently involved in a major modernization project. The $95 million project is being developed in partnership with the Ministry of Health and Social Services (MHSS) and the Société québécoise des infrastructures (SQI).
History.
Established in 1913 as the Hôpital St-Joseph, it was administered by the Sisters of Providence. In 1973, its name was changed to Centre hospitalier de Lachine and its management was transferred to the Government of Quebec.
The Lachine Hospital and its long-term nursing home (Camille-Lefebvre Pavillon) were integrated into the McGill University Health Centre in 2008.


Medicare Resources

Medicare Resources (Chinese: 香港醫療關懷) is a Hong Kong-based non-government organisation which is dedicated to serve the needy in China. The organisation was registered in Hong Kong in March 1997, and formally established in July 1997. It set up the Loving Heart Clinic (愛心診所) in Wuhan (武漢) as a base. Over the years, it takes the initiative to provide medical and social services for the poor people in China in a human-based approach and at the same time promote Christianity.
Overview.
Acknowledging the insufficient medical and social welfare system in China, especially in villages, Medicare Resources Ltd allocates the donation it receives mostly from US, Canada and Hong Kong, to help a wide range of targets. Its services range from supporting individuals such as injured patients who cannot afford high medical expenses, or sponsoring outstanding students who are financially incapable in receiving university education, to subsidising institutions such as primary and secondary schools where there are serious inadequacy of toilets and sleeping area.
To ensure independence from both the church and the PRC government, Medicare Resources Ltd takes on a position as a non-government organisation which is closely connected, but not directly subordinated to church. Mutual trust is often a key for the three parties to co-operate in the actual operation of charity work.
Mission.
The primary mission of Medicare Resources Ltd is to improve the living conditions of the Chinese by providing medical and social services while it also hopes to promote Christianity as well.
However, it does not mean that services are exclusive to Christians in China as it also serves non-Christians. Medicare Resources Ltd aims to show its devotion to the underprivileged (even though most of them are not Christians) under the love of god and it is regarded as a means to glorify God.
Characteristics.
Medicare Resources Ltd is a special non-government organisation which is based in Hong Kong but focuses its social service work in China. It has close links with Evangelical Free Church of America but it is independent from the church. Before the handover of Hong Kong in 1997, as the issue of intervention of religion from the PRC government in China remained uncertain, Medicare Resources Ltd decided not to be established directly under the church. This independent characteristic enables Medicare Resources Ltd to do charity in a more direct and flexible way in China as it enjoys the advantage of having close connection with Evangelical Free Church of America and at the same time, the free space to self-administer.
Medicare Resources Ltd is a world-based non-government organisation. Even though the founder, John Neir, comes from Evangelical Free Church of America, Mediare Resources Ltd is a partner of Hong Kong-based Evangelical Free Church of China and accepts all donations from all around the world.
Medicare Resources Ltd was established as a "human-based" non-government organisation. It does not spend a lot on advertising and promotion; it spends most of its fund in Hubei, China where the service area is. Directors of Medicare Resources Ltd has close relationship with the officials and they benefited by constant visits to Hubei. This is meant for the staff to examine whether the funds are well spent in various projects.
Medicare Resources Ltd engages in charity work according to the will of God. It usually does not involve a lot of planning beforehand as it believes that God will plan everything beforehand. One example is the charity done in Fengjie. In 2000, the head of War-planning Bureau of Chongqing, who is interested in Christianity, visited the Evangelical Hospital at Hong Kong and met John Lee, the founder. The head arranged a meeting between Lee and the head of Hygiene Department of the province and they showed interest in co-operation with Medicare Resources Ltd. They gave 3 places for Lee to choose for co-operation and Medicare Resources picked Fengjie because the facilities of Qinglong were too old to improve while the situation of Wanzhou was not as urgent as Fengjie.
Origin.
John Neir, the founder of Medicare Resources Ltd, suffered from a malignant tumor in 1993. After exhausting chemotherapy, Neir left Evangel Hospital of Hong Kong in which he was the former Premier. Neir and his wife, being US missionaries of Evangelical Free Church, have strong collaboration with other missionaries. Mrs Neir got in touch with a missionary whose wife is a Chinese coming from Wuhan. So, Neir reached Pastor Mary Kwok from Wuhan who intended to launch a clinic to serve the medical needs of the poor people. Neir decided to co-operate with Seminary of Central Southern China (中南神學院) which Pastor Kwok is the head so as to help the needy of China. After planning from May 1995 to July 1997, Medicare Resources Ltd registered in Hong Kong as a non-government organisation. It is notable that the inspiration came before the establishment of Medicare Resources Ltd because Neir decided to establish the organisation after contacting Pastor Mary Kwok.
Service areas.
Medicare Resources Ltd focuses its medical and social services mainly in Wuhan (武漢) and Yichang (宜昌) which are located in Hubei (湖北省), and Fengjie (奉節) which is located in Chongqing province (重慶省).
Achievements.
Medical.
Wuhan (武漢):
Yichang (宜昌):
Fenjie (奉節):
Student support.
Medicare Resources Ltd engages in direct subsidising high-school and university students with special needs and being a middleman between sponsors and the benefited.
Economic projects.
Medicare Resources Ltd helps the economically disadvantaged in a sustainable way. Instead of giving them money directly, it hopes to increase their abilities to earn income. So, tea projects and pig projects were carried out since tea is a more value-added good than other agricultural products while piglets are given to the extremely poor peasants (特困戶) for investment.
Water projects.
Several water projects in both Fengjie and Wufeng had been assisted to provide clean and safe water supply to local schools and community.
Community development.
A dormitory was built for Kangping School (康坪中小學),a suburb in Fengjie.where students originally had no place to sleep other than on desks or floor at night. Also, funding was provided to Yichang community for road maintenance, especially a RMB 30,000 fund for explosives to clear 400 meters of boulders which blocked a completion of 8 km.
Future plans.
Medicare Resources Ltd is planning to set up a mobile clinic in Hankou (漢口).They will continue school project in Kangping (康坪), and will also expand their service in other parts of China such as Guizhou (貴州).


Northeast Community Health Centre

The Northeast Community Health Centre (NECHC) is a community health centre located in Northeast-Edmonton. It provides medical services through Alberta Health Services, including a 24/7 emergency department.
Services and Programs.
The main services and programs the community health centre provides are.


John Smith Stewart

John Smith Stewart, CMG, DSO (May 18, 1878 – August 14, 1970) was a Canadian politician and Brigadier-General from Alberta.
Early life.
John Smith Stewart was born May 16, 1878 in the Brampton, Ontario to John Stewart and Mary Armstrong. Stewart would move to Edmonton at the age of 19 in 1896. Stewart would later study dentistry at University of Toronto, completing his studies in 1903, moving to Lethbridge and would marry Jean McClure on September 25, 1907, she would later die in 1914. Stewart was appointed to the Board of the newly established University of Alberta in 1909.
Military career.
Stewarts's military career would begin as a Private in Strathcona's Horse during the Second Boer War. During this time he would serve under Lieutenant-Colonel Sam Steele, and earned the Queen's South Africa Medal with four clasps. Stewart would receive his commission, completing his studies at the Royal Military College of Canada in February 1908 to form the 25th Artillery Battery. On the outbreak of the First World War, Stewart would be asked to command the 20th Artillery Battery from Lethbridge, and was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel before going overseas on August 9, 1915. He would eventually be promoted to Brigadier-General on July 7, 1917, and later transferred to the 3rd Canadian Division from December 1917 to demobilization. Stewart would be twice wounded and twice mentioned in dispatches. He would be awarded the Distinguished Service Order and Order of St Michael and St George (CMG). Stewart returned to Alberta on January 19, 1919 in time for sitting in the legislature.
Political career.
Stewart was first elected to the 2nd Alberta Legislature as a member of the Alberta Conservative Party in a by-election held in the Lethbridge City electoral district on October 31, 1911. Stewart defeated his Liberal opponent S. J. Shepherd by 183 votes. The by-election came as a result of the resignation of William Ashbury Buchanan, who would be elected in the 1911 Canadian federal election. Stewart would subsequently be re-elected in 1913 and acclaimed in 1917 by an Act of the Legislature which provided members serving oversees in the First World War would be acclaimed. The Lethbridge City electoral district would be dissolved prior to the 1921 Alberta general election, which saw Stewart defeat his Labour opponent John Marsh by 978 votes. While Stewart ran as an independent, he would be the only former Conservative member to be returned to the Legislature in 1921.
Stewart would contest the 1925 Canadian federal election in the Lethbridge riding, representing the Conservative Party of Canada. He would be defeated by incumbent Progressive candidate Lincoln Henry Jelliff by 743 votes. Stewart would not contest the quickly called 1926 federal election, but would contest the 1930 election defeating Progressive candidate Thomas Owen King by 987 votes, earning a seat in House of Commons of Canada. Stewart would be unable to hold his seat in the 1935 election, being defeated by federal Social Credit candidate John Horne Blackmore by a wide margin of over 3,600 votes. Stewart would try again and fail to unseat Blackmore again in 1940.
As a Member of Parliament Stewart took an interest in Waterton Lakes National Park, leading the Canadian negotiations for the establishment of Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park with American Congressman from Montana Scott Leavitt.
Later life.
Stewart continued his dental practice for over 58 years until retiring in 1960 at the age of 83. The General Stewart School, an elementary school in Lethbridge was named for him in 1957, and the same year he was awarded an honourary law degree from the University of Alberta. Stewart would return to Belgium for the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of Mons in 1968, receiving the "Citoyen d’Honneur".
Stewart died on August 14, 1970 at the age of 93.


Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment

The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) is a Canadian-based non-profit organization dedicated to environmental issues, especially as they relate to human health. The group was founded in 1994, and is composed of over 4,700 medical doctors and concerned citizens from across Canada. Its main focus is education of physicians and members of the public, sending delegates to scientific conferences, publishing opinion articles, talking to the media, and disseminating educational materials (including a video on the hazards of lawn pesticides). It also makes presentations to parliamentary committees.
Mission.
CAPE's current programme is focused on educating health professional on environmental issues, reducing pesticide use, "greening" hospitals and health clinics, and developing organic agriculture and gardening.
Ongoing projects.
There are ongoing projects regarding:
Accomplishments.
The organisation is responsible for the publication of "The Canadian Guide to Health and the Environment", (University of Alberta Press, 1999), a 322-page handbook that offers an overview of environmental health threats and how citizens can effectively respond to them.
They launched the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care, a network of groups committed to reducing the environmental impact of the health care sector in 2000.
The group was a founding member of the Canadian Partnership for Children's Health and Environment in 2001, and initiated the "Changing the Environmental Impact of a Quebec CLSC" project in 2002. They provided expert testimony to the City of Toronto during its pesticide bylaw hearings. This contributed to the passing of pesticide restrictions in Toronto in 2003.
The group played an educational role in the passage of Peterborough's pesticide bylaw in 2005, named "the strongest pesticide bylaw in Canada" by the Canadian Environmental Law Association, and played a role in the education of legislators of the province of Ontario leading to the Ontario Pesticide Law in 2008.


Frank Oputa-Otutu

Frank Oputa-Otutu was a Nigerian politician who was a parliamentarian during the First Republic. He was a member of the NCNC political party and led the Aboh division of the party. Oputa-Otutu was a senator of the Federal republic of Nigeria in 1964.
Oputa-Otutu studied at Yaba School of Pharmacy between 1937 and 1941 and he later established his own drugstore in 1947.
Prior to Nigeria's independence in 1960, he was a member of the Western House of Assembly and at one point, he was selected as a minority whip of the house.
After the First Republic was truncated, Oputa-Otutu was nominated as Commissioner of Establishments in the Mid-Western State.
In 1966, along with Shehu Shagari and Hon Olaniran, they represented Nigeria at the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association's Conference where he talked about a continued focus on South Africa's racial problems upon the exit of the country from the commonwealth.


Systems Plus College Foundation

Systems Plus College Foundation (SPCF) is a private, non-Sectarian school in Angeles, Pampanga, Philippines.
History.
On June 27, 1985 at Santa Isabel Building in Balibago, Angeles, five person came together and formed Systems Plus Inc. (SPI). The primary purpose of forming this organization was to conduct seminars for those who were planning to enter the electronic data processing as programmers, encoders and system analysts.
Tutorial programs for students and professionals started at the institution on July 7, 1985. This date also served as the school's foundation day.
In subsequent years, Systems Plus Inc. saw increased enrollment. In June 1987, the institution started offering associate courses and later on, bachelor's degree and graduate degree programs.
The growth of the school has been outstanding. Recent times has seen it open four campuses in Cubao, Caloocan, San Fernando and in Miranda, Angeles.
San Fernando Campus.
A few years later, another campus in the San Fernando, Pampanga was opened to accommodate the fast growing student population.
In June 2004,the name of the school was once again changed from Systems Plus Computer College to Systems Plus College Foundation (SPCF), Inc. with the adoption of a new school logo. This was to align itself with the expected growth and development,
The Commission on Higher Education Regional Office has awarded the Center of Development in Information Technology designation to the school. It has been continuously producing graduates who are service-oriented, responsive to the needs of the industries, innovative and active participants in the shaping of our country's future.


Judy Edwards

Judith Mary Edwards (born 10 April 1955) in Beverley, Western Australia is an Australian politician. She was the ALP member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from May 1990 to September 2008, representing the electorate of Maylands.
Edwards won preselection for the seat of Maylands following the resignation of Peter Dowding, and entered parliament at the 1990 Maylands by-election. She has subsequently been re-elected four more times in 1993, 1996, 2001 and 2005.
Prior to entering Parliament Edwards was a general practitioner after completing her medical degree from the University of Western Australia.
Once in Parliament Edward was appointed as minister of the environment and heritage from 2001 to 2003, and minister of environment from 2003 to 2006.
Edwards retired in 2008 and Lisa Baker won pre-selection for the seat, eventually winning the seat.


Cor Jesu College

Cor Jesu College (CJC) also referred to by its acronym CJC is a private Roman Catholic non profit coeducational basic and higher education institution in Digos City, Davao Oriental Philippines. It is guided by the teachings of the Church and the Charism of its founders, the Brothers of the Sacred Heart.
History.
Founded and administered by the Brothers of the Sacred Heart, Cor Jesu College's roots trace back to June 1959, when Father Maurice Leveille, P.M.E. parish priest of Digos and on invitation of the late Bishop Clovis Thibault, P.M.E., three brothers of the Sacred Heart, Bro. Jean-Paul "Elric" Beaudet, S.C., Bro. Conrad [Clement] Tranchemontagne, S.C., and Bro. Guillaume McCabe, S.C. took over the management of the 220 boys of the Holy Cross Academy of Digos under the administration of the Religious of the Virgin Mary Sisters (RVM). In their administration of the Boy's Department, the Brothers had six lay collaborators: Rosalio Deloria, Diosdado Ypil, Teodosio Geyrozaga, Pedro Soriano, Rogelio Magdayao, and Alfredo Barrera, The College also is gearing up towards achieving university status by 2021.
As of October 16, 2019, a 6.3 Magnitude earthquake made a major damage to the University.
Academics.
Higher Education.
Engineering and Technology.
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Winifred Piesse

Winifred Margaret Piesse, "née" Aumann (12 June 1923 – 11 March 2017) was an Australian politician. She was the first woman to represent the Country Party in the Western Australian Legislative Council.
Winifred Margaret Aumann was born in Narre Warren to orchardist Frederick Benjamin Aumann and Marguerite Gertrude Pettingill. She attended local state schools and trained as a nurse, working in Melbourne from 1944 to 1946, when she moved to Western Australia. She married farmer Mervyn Piesse (a son of politician Charles Piesse) in 1947 and moved to live with him at his farm at Wagin. In 1948, she joined the Country Party. Following her husband's death in 1966, she returned to nursing and in 1971 was elected to Wagin Shire Council. In 1977, she was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council, serving until she lost her seat in 1983.


Friedrich von Eichheimer

Georg Friedrich von Eichheimer (August 18, 1764 – October 13, 1854) was a Bavarian military physician and Generalstabsarzt (Surgeon General) of the Army.
Eichheimer was born in Bensheim. He joined the Bavarian army as a Feldsher on August 21, 1786, and took part in campaigns against France, Austria, Prussia and Russia from 1790 to 1812. Afterwards he was chief of the medical service (Chef des Sanitätswesens) in the army of general Karl Philipp von Wrede in the rank of Oberstarzt. He was advanced to the rank Major General (MC) in 1826, and died in Munich, where he lived at "Sonnenstraße 18" around 1850.


Douglas Reye

Ralph Douglas Kenneth Reye ( "rye"; 5 April 1912 – 16 July 1977) was an Australian pathologist. Reye's syndrome is named after him.
Life and career.
Reye attended Townsville Grammar School and the University of Sydney, where he completed undergraduate studies in medicine and was awarded a MBBS in 1937. He was later awarded an MD from the University of Sydney in 1945. Reye joined the staff of the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children (RAHC) in 1939 as a pathologist, and remained there for all his working life. In 1965 Reye was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. On 16 July 1977, Reye died at the age of 65, of a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm at Royal North Shore Hospital, 24 hours after he had retired from the RAHC.
Reye syndrome.
In 1963, "The Lancet" published an article, written by Reye, Graeme Morgan, and Jim Baral, about an encephalopathic condition that became known as Reye syndrome.


Autonomous University of Chile

The Universidad Autónoma de Chile (UAutónoma) is a private Chilean university. It has campuses in Temuco, Talca and Santiago (Providencia and Llano Subercaseaux).
It is affiliated to SUA (Single Admission System of Rector's Council of Chilean Universities.
The university is accredited by CNA-Chile (National Accreditation commission) for a term of 4 years (a maximum of seven years), from October 2019 to October 2023. UA ranks as the 23rd best university in Chile according to webometric classification of CSIC (June 2017), 61st in Latin America according to the Times Higher Education Latin American University Rankings. Among Chilean universities is currently among the top 14 of Scimago Institution Rankings (SIR) 2020, 19th at national level and 747 at international level.
UA has a television channel Universidad Autónoma de Chile Televisión.
History.
UAutónoma was founded on August 11, 1989 in Temuco city, capital of Araucanía region of Chile, under the name of "Universidad Autónoma de Sur", and subsequently, in 2006 changed its name to "Universidad Autónoma de Chile".
The university has full autonomy, which allows it to directly grant degree and diplomas. After its autonomy certification by High Education Board of Chile, the university has continued to maintain its institutional quality, for which has continued the process of homologation and the recognition of its degree plans and programs with Spanish universities of high tradition, such as those of Universidad de Barcelona, Universidad de Salamanca and Universidad de Sevilla, inter alia.
In January 2003, UAutonoma inaugurated its Talca campus in the facilities of Instituto Profesional Valle Central. By May of the same year El Llano Subercaseaux campus was settled in San Miguel commune, in the facilities of the former San Andrés University.
By 2009, Providencia campus was open, and a year later the university bought INCACEA's Institute of Sciences and Arts -which was in bankruptcy- to reinforce the brand and launch technical and professional studies academic offer, with headquarters in Las Condes and Viña de Mar. In 2012, after CAN-Chile refusal of accreditation, INCACEA closed down Viña del Mar campus.
In 2005, the university incorporated the new Providencia campus, with over 33,000 square meters.
Undergratuate Programs.
UAutónoma offers undergraduate and postgraduate programs; courses, diploma courses, magister and doctoral studies. 88.5% of its degrees are accredited and 90.4% of its students are enrolled in certificated degrees that have this quality certification granted in 2016.
It is also affiliated with SUA (Single Admission System of Rector's Council of Chilean Universities).
Postgraduate Studies.
Master Degrees.
For further info refer to: https://www.uautonoma.cl/postgrados/magisteres/


Bispebjerg Hospital

Bispebjerg Hospital is one of the hospitals in the Capital Region of Denmark. Along with a number of other hospitals and the University of Copenhagen (the Faculty of Health Sciences), Bispebjerg Hospital forms part of the Copenhagen University Hospital.
The hospital is a teaching hospital for medical students from Copenhagen University.
Main hospital in the inner city “Byen”.
Bispebjerg Hospital was built in 1913, and today it is the workplace for 3,000 employees. It is a large hospital with many different specialties, complex patient cases and a diversified group of patients. The hospital serves as community hospital for the inhabitants in large parts of Copenhagen and will henceforward be main hospital for the planning area called “Byen”
A modern city hospital.
Bispebjerg Hospital functions as a modern city hospital for 400,000 citizens from the Municipality of Frederiksberg and the larger part of the Municipality of Copenhagen and, at the same time, has to provide special services for an even larger population. Among other things, that means that the hospital will have a larger catchment area, will be managing the shared emergency services, and is expected to be extended through extensive new building. See map over the future catchment area.
A green oasis in the city.
Bispebjerg Hospital is situated on the hill Bispebjerg Bakke like a green oasis in the city. From the buildings there is a fine view over the city and the unique green gardens, which were laid out in 1913 when the hospital was built. The hospital is constructed with the original pavilions and some newer buildings that are all connected underground through a large tunnel system.
Bispebjerg Hospital lives up to international standards.
Bispebjerg Hospital lives up to international standards for quality development and safety.
Since 2002 the hospital has been accredited by the American organization Joint Commission – a non-profit organization established to improve the safety and quality in the care and treatment offered by hospitals internationally.
The present accreditation occurred in April 2008 when the hospital underwent yet another accreditation process.


Research Center Borstel

The Research Center Borstel – Leibniz Lung Center (, FZB) is a German interdisciplinary biomedical research institution located in Borstel in Schleswig-Holstein, just north of Hamburg. It is affiliated with the Leibniz Association.
It was founded in 1947 as a research institute with the main focus on tuberculosis and leprosy. From its establishment until 1965 the institute was named the Tuberculosis Research Institute Borstel (). A non-profit foundation, it receives a significant part of its funding from the Federal Ministry of Health and the Schleswig-Holstein state government. It has around 520 employees, and is the largest employer in Borstel.
The current director of the center is Stefan Ehlers.


Arthur Crawford (politician)

Arthur Pinkerton Crawford (22 September 1923 – 19 June 1995) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
Biography.
Crawford was born in Caboolture, Queensland, the son of Andrew Pinkerton Crawford and his wife Lilian Mary (née Donnelly). He was educated at Eagle Junction State School before attending the Brisbane Church of England Grammar School. At the age of ten he was confined to bed as a result of polio. He was a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science at the University of Queensland and then was a Post Graduate at the Australian College of Surgeons.
On graduation he became a surgical specialist and general practitioner. He was a surgeon to Australian Forces in Vietnam, in 1967-1968 and a lecturer at the Medical School of the University of Queensland. Crawford was also a director of Sanders Chemicals Ltd.
On 6 December 1947, he married Marion Chalk and together had one son and two daughters. Crawford died in June 1995 and was cremated at the Albany Creek Crematorium.
Public life.
At the 1969 Queensland state elections, Crawford won the seat of Wavell, and held it until his retirement from politics in 1977.
He was a member of Council of Presbyterian and Methodist Schools Association from 1966 and the Autistic Children's Association from 1970. Crawford was also President of the Right to Life Association (Queensland) from 1971 to 1977 and a councilor for the Family Planning Association.


Australian Pharmaceutical Advisory Council

The Australian Pharmaceutical Advisory Council (APAC), active between 1996 and 2006, was "a consultative forum that brought together stakeholders from the medical, nursing and pharmacy professions, as well as industry, consumers and government, to advise the Australian Government Minister for Health and Ageing on medicines policy". In 1996 APAC contributed to the Industry Commission inquiry into the pharmaceutical industry. Over subsequent years the Council developed Australia's National Medicines Policy (NMP), and published several guidelines on medication management. Secretariat support for APAC was provided by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing - National Medicines Policy Strategies Section.
In late 2005, the Department of Health and Ageing engaged a consultant to undertake a review of APAC's operational arrangements. Possibly a recommendation of this review was to discontinue the Council. APAC's final public documents appeared in 2006.
Publications.
In 1996 APAC released Australian Guidelines for Drug Donations to Developing Countries, based on drug donation guidelines developed by the World Health Organization.
In 1997 APAC released "Integrated Best Practice Model for Medication Management in Residential Aged Care Facilities", with a 3rd edition released in 2002 as
Guidelines for Medication Management in Residential Aged Care Facilities.
From 2003 the APAC Community Care Working Party began to develop, and in 2006 APAC released Guiding Principles for Medication Management in the Community, "targeted at paid health and community care service providers supporting older people to manage their medicines in their home and in the community".
In 2005 APAC released Guiding Principles to Achieve Continuity in Medication Management, to reduce "the discontinuity that occurs when consumers move between different health care settings and health care providers," which often causes "patient harm and sub-optimal use of medicines".
Membership.
APAC member organisations included:


Javed Iqbal Kazi

Javed Iqbal Kazi ( ; Born 29 May 1955) (1955–2014) was a Pakistani Pathologist specialized in Renal pathology, professor and chairman of Histopathology at Karachi Medical and Dental College, Sindh Institute of Urology & Transplantation, Dr. Ziauddin Hospitals & National Institute of Blood Diseases, and served as Dean of medicine of University of Karachi. He was also the board member of Journal of Pakistan Medical Association since 2005. He established the department of Histopathology at Sindh Institute of Urology & Transplantation, Karachi, in 1995 and is said to have established Renal and Transplant Pathology in Pakistan.
Early life and career.
Javed I. Kazi was born on 29 May 1955 in Karachi, Pakistan. He graduated from Dow Medical College in 1980. Kazi served as a lecturer of pathology at Jinnah Sindh Medical University and did his M.Phil. in histopathology from BMSI, JPMC- Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre in 1986. He then pursued his Ph.D. in Histopathology from University of Karachi which was a split program whereby he conducted his ph.D. research on Helicobacter pylori at National University of Singapore. During his stay at National University of Singapore, under the mentorship of Professor Rajalingam Sinniah, he learned the techniques of immunohistochemistry and electron microscopy. His research work was published in the The Journal of Pathology, UK.
In 1990, Kazi pursued his clinical fellowship in renal pathology at the Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, UK, where the university's clinical school of medicine is based. While at the UK, in 1995, he also acquired his Diplomate from the Royal College of Pathologists, London. After completing his clinical fellowship at Cambridge University, UK, in 1995, Kazi established the department of histopathology and the electron microscopy unit at Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation and was the main driving force behind its development. The department is the first set up of transplant pathology and electron microscopy diagnostic facility in Pakistan. He joined Karachi Medical & Dental College as professor of pathology in 1995.
In 1998, Kazi developed an artificial neural network based on Bayesian Belief Network to improve the histopathological parameters for early acute transplant rejection in the renal allograft biopsies in collaboration with Professor Peter Furness, President of the Royal College of Pathologists-London, at University of Leicester, UK. A total of five peer-reviewed papers resulted from their collaboration. Kazi also trained further in renal electron microscopy with Professor Peter Furness at Leicester Royal Infirmary to upgrade electron microscopy for renal & transplant pathology in Pakistan at the Sindh Institute of Urology & Transplantation, making Sindh Institute of Urology & Transplantation the first and only center in Pakistan where diagnostic electron microscopy is regularly done on both native renal and renal allograft biopsy material. The Histopathology department at Sindh Institute of Urology & Transplantation, with the facility of renal & transplant pathology, has facilitated the institute to become the largest renal transplant centre in South Asia, conducting the highest number of renal transplants in the region.
Since the late 1990s, Kazi had been involved in promoting renal and transplant pathology in Pakistan. Kazi also headed the department of Histopathology at Dr. Ziauddin Hospitals since 2004. The department under his supervision developed special techniques like tumor markers by immunohistochemistry, immunofluorescence, and fluorescent in situ hybridization for accurate diagnosis and classification of cancers along with determining the prognosis, hormone receptors and drug sensitivity in common cancers of the population. The Ziauddin Histopathology laboratory has acquired the status of a referral center for cancer diagnosis in Pakistan.
Kazi was also the approved Higher Education Commission (Pakistan) supervisor for Ph.D. on histopathology.
Kazi was appointed the Dean, Faculty of Medicine- University of Karachi, by the Governor of Sindh in 2013 and served the honorary position till his demise in 2014. The Dean, Faculty of Medicine of University of Karachi, is the head of seven medical & dental colleges, with these colleges being affiliated with the University of Karachi. At the time of Kazi's appointment, the following medical colleges came under the deanship (of which some were previously affiliated with the University of Karachi), namely Karachi Medical and Dental College, Liaquat National Medical College of Liaquat National Hospital (previously affiliated), Sir Syed College of Medicine, Liaquat College of Medicine and Dentistry, Altamash Institute of Dental Medicine, Fatima Jinnah Dental College (previously affiliated) and Jinnah Medical Dental College (previously affiliated). The only public sector college is Karachi Medical & Dental College. The colleges which conduct both MBBS & Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) programs are Karachi Medical & Dental College, Jinnah Medical Dental College, and Liaquat College of Medicine and Dentistry.
Research and published work.
Kazi's research work in renal & transplant pathology includes over 80 published works, mostly in international medical & scientific journals. These include the papers on the use of Bayesian Belief Network for accurate diagnosis of early acute transplant rejection at the University of Leicester with Professor Peter Furness, and the papers that described the true pattern of renal diseases in adults and children for the first time in Pakistan with Professor Adeebul Hasan Rizvi and Professor Muhammed Mubarak.
Scientific papers.
"Original research papers":
Death.
On 17 February 2014, Kazi was assassinated by unknown armed men while leaving the Karachi Medical and Dental College in his car, where he and his driver were shot multiple times. His driver drove him to Ziauddin Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. His death sparked outrage in the medical fraternity of Pakistan and protests erupted following his death. The case could not be concluded and investigators were unsure of the motive behind the murder. Doctors and physicians from across the city came out to protest at the Civic Center, Karachi and outpatient departments of hospitals across the city were shut down as part of the strike. Demanding immediate arrest of the killers, doctors from various hospitals including Abbasi Shaheed Hospital & Karachi Institute of Heart Diseases refused to carry out their duties. A meeting was held at the seminar hall of the Civic Center, Karachi where the leaders of the doctors' community delivered their speech on Kazi and against his brutal murder. The central leader of the Pakistan Medical Association, Dr. Qaiser Sajjad, said that the killers should be given a stern punishment, while former president of Pakistan Medical Association- Professor Tipu Sultan also spoke on the occasion. The principal of Karachi Medical and Dental College demanded the government provide protection to the doctors.
Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation held a memorial where Professor Adeebul Hasan Rizvi said, "In his death, we have not killed a single person but rather have buried an era of technological expertise developed over so many years of hard work, dedication, and sacrifice."
The Karachi University Teachers Society condemned the murder of Kazi and remarked in a press release, " It is an unfortunate fact that innocent professors and teachers are being attacked with impunity, while the law enforcement agencies personnel were not laying hands on the culprits. If the previous such attacks were thoroughly investigated and the culprits brought to task, Pakistan would not have lost an able doctor like Javed Kazi." They deeply expressed the need to safeguard the country's intelligentsia amid the weak law and order situation in the city. The University of Karachi held a memorial for Kazi at its Art Auditorium while a condolence meeting was held at the Ziauddin University which was attended by various doctors and professors including Professor Pirzada Qasim, the vice-chancellor of Ziauddin University, where they praised and highlighted Kazi's contribution for the cause of medical education in Pakistan and Renal pathology, and demanded the arrest of the killers. The President of Pakistan Dental Association, Central Council – Dr. Saqib Rashid and the President of PDA Sindh – Dr. Mehmood Shah also held a joint meeting to condemn the assassination and termed it as a big loss for Pakistan's healthcare sector.
Professor Adeebul Hasan Rizvi delivered a keynote address in the inaugural session of the 40th annual conference of the Pakistan Association of Pathologists at the Sindh Institute of Urology & Transplantation in December 2017. He dedicated his address to Kazi as a tribute and highlighted his contributions in the field of pathology and nephro-pathology in Pakistan.
Legacy.
In 2017, the Alumni Association of Karachi Medical and Dental College started a scholarship program in the name of Kazi, 'Professor Javed Kazi and Professor Sohail Rafi Awards of academic excellence', to award the highest achieving medical students at Karachi Medical & Dental College.
The Histopathology Department at Sindh Institute of Urology & Transplantation was named after Kazi as the "Javed I. Kazi Department of Histopathology", SIUT, who established it in 1995.


Hastings-Quinte Paramedic Service

Hastings-Quinte Paramedic Service is a rural ambulance service for Member Municipalities of Hastings County, including the Cities of Belleville and Quinte West, and also under contract to the Prince Edward County
Stations.
Hastings-Quinte Paramedic Service consists of 6 stations and one post:
Ambulance Helipads.
Air ambulance for the province is provided by Ornge.
See also.
Paramedicine in Canada
Emergency Services in Hastings & Prince Edward Counties


Meath Hospital

The Meath Hospital () was a general hospital in the Earl of Meath's Liberty in Dublin, Ireland. It was absorbed into the Tallaght Hospital in June 1998.
History.
The hospital was opened to serve the sick and poor in the crowded area of the Liberties in Dublin in 1753. It then moved to larger premises in Heytesbury Street in 1822.
In the nineteenth century the Meath Hospital achieved worldwide fame as a result of the revolutionary teaching methods and groundbreaking research carried out by Robert Graves and William Stokes, physicians of the hospital. One example was when during a typhus epidemic Robert Graves introduced the revolutionary idea of giving food during the illness ("he fed fevers" was what Graves requested be inscribed on his tombstone).
It was absorbed into the Tallaght Hospital in June 1998. The original building was subsequently converted for use as a respite home.
Notable physicians.
Notable physicians included:


Robert Scot Skirving

Robert Scot Skirving (1859 – 1956) was a Scots-born physician and surgeon who grew to eminence in Australia. The University of Sydney named the Scot Skirving Prize (for Medicine and Surgery) in his honour.
Life.
He was born on 18 December 1859 at Campton Farm in the parish of Drem near Haddington, East Lothian. He was the son of Robert Scot Skirving, a farmer, and his wife Elizabeth (known as "Leila") Owen, daughter of William Owen of Rathdowney in Ireland. His paternal ancestors included both Adam Skirving the songwriter, and Archibald Skirving the artist.
The family left the farm and moved to Nether Quarry Holes off Easter Road in Leith (the harbour area of Edinburgh) in his youth. However his father seems to have had money and he moved to 29 Drummond Place, a huge Georgian townhouse in Edinburgh's New Town by 1875.
He was raised in an atmosphere of extreme Scottish Calvinism. He was sent to Edinburgh Academy for education, then trained at the Eastman's Royal Naval Academy in Portsmouth. However, he ended in the merchant navy rather the Royal Navy. He first served ships plying with Iceland, then on HMS "Conway" (a training ship). In 1875, aged 16, he joined the SS "Tantallon Castle", a mail ship, at that time bound for Port Adelaide in Australia. During the return trip he developed beriberi and was hospitalised once reaching Britain. A long period under medical care inspired him to change his career. In 1876 he enrolled at Edinburgh University to study Medicine and graduated MB ChB in 1881. His classmates included Alexander MacCormick, Thomas Anderson Stuart, and Arthur Conan Doyle. His teachers had included Thomas Annandale, Patrick Heron Watson, James Duncan, Douglas Argyll Robertson and John Chiene. He did further postgraduate studies in both Dublin and Vienna. He then worked for some time at the then new Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
In 1883 he joined the migrant ship SS "Ellora" as a ship's surgeon and returned to Australia. In November his old classmate and friend Dr Thomas Anderson Stuart appointed him Medical Superintendent of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney. In 1884 he also set up a private consultancy at College Street in Sydney. He also served as Honorary Physician at the Hospital for Sick Children, but clashed with its lady superintendent, Dr Frances Holden, forcing him to step down in 1889. He filled this gap by becoming honorary surgeon at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney (1889-1923) and by lecturing at the University of Sydney.
During the Second Boer War he served with Australian troops in South Africa alongside Alexander MacCormick. In the First World War he returned to Britain serving as a Major in the Royal Army Medical Corps, based at an auxiliary hospital in Essex. He then moved as a specialist surgeon to treat wounded at the Queen Alexandra Military Hospital in Millbank, London. He returned to Sydney in January 1919.
He died at home in Bellevue Hill in Sydney on 15 July 1956. He was cremated. The service reflected his Scottish roots, playing the traditional Scottish lament Flowers of the Forest.
Family.
He married Lucy Susan Hester (d.1950) in January 1886 in Willoughby, New South Wales.
They had three sons one of whom died in infancy.
His brother was Archibald Adam Scot Skirving FRSE (1868-1930)
Archibald Waller Scot Skirving served as a Captain in the Royal Irish Fusiliers and was killed at Gallipoli during the First World War. His body was not found and he is listed on the Helles Memorial.
His eldest son Robert Scot Skirving returned to Britain and was a doctor at Leith Hospital. He married Leila Stephanie Barton, daughter of Australia's first prime minister, Sir Edmund Barton.


Wellington Lee

Wellington Lee (born 1925) is an Australian pharmacist and former Deputy Lord Mayor of Melbourne.
Lee was born in Darwin in the Northern Territory, and attended Darwin Public School, Longreach State School, Ingham Rural School, Toowoomba Grammar School and finally the Victorian College of Pharmacy. He has worked as a pharmacist since 1950. From 1978 to 1980 he was commissioner of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works, and was a Melbourne City Councillor from 1977 to 1990 and from 1996 to 2001, serving as Deputy Lord Mayor for some of that period.
Lee contested three federal elections: in 1974, contesting Kooyong for the Labor Party; in 1998, as third on the Unity Party's Senate ticket; and in 2001 at the top of the Unity ticket. He was unsuccessful on all of these occasions.


Charlotte Norrie

Helga Charlotte Norrie, née Harbou, (12 October 1855–19 December 1940) was a Danish nurse, women's rights activist and educator. She was a major contributor to the development of nursing as an acceptable profession for women and also campaigned for women's rights, especially voting rights.
Early life and family.
Born in Altona, Denmark, on 12 October 1855, Norrie was the daughter of Major-General Johannes Wilhelm Anthonius Harbou and his philanthropist wife Louise Ulrikke Mariane née Hellesen. After spending her early years in Altona and Rendsburg, she moved to Copenhagen in 1863. She first spent three years working as a governess at Juulskov Manor on the island of Funen but in 1880 became a nursing apprentice at Copenhagen's Almindelig Hospital (General Hospital). The following year, she gained further experience in nursing at Dronning Louises Børnehospital (Queen Louise's Children's Hospital). In 1885, she embarked on a successful marriage with Gordon Norrie, a doctor she had met at the General Hospital. They had three children together: Johannes William (1886), Edith (1889) and Inger (1892).
Support for nursing.
With her husband's support, in 1883 she ran nursing courses in basic skills and first-aid treatment. Together they trained over 500 women, many of whom came from her mother's philanthropic interests. Norrie became an outspoken critic of the poor standards of hospital training for nurses, specifically criticizing the substandard approach of the Danish Red Cross. As early as 1888, she announced her plans for establishing a private school of nursing in "Ugeskrift for Læger" (Doctors' Weekly) where she proposed extending nursing as a worthy profession for middle-class women. It was not, however, until 1910 that Denmark's first training facility for nurses opened in the re-established Rigshospitalet, a hospital run by the Danish state.
Women's rights.
Norrie also developed wider interests in women's welfare, joining the Foreningen Kvindernes Bygning (Women's Building Association). In the late 1890s, she became a committee member of the Copenhagen branch of the women's rights organization Dansk Kvindesamfund where she served as deputy chair from 1900 to 1901. In 1899, together with Elly Nienstædt, she founded Dansk Kvinderåd (The Danish Council of Women) soon to be known as Danske Kvinders Nationalråd (DKN) where she served first as secretary and then as president until 1909. Through Danske Kvindeforeningers Valretsudvalg (Suffrage Committee of Danish Women's Associations), which she founded in 1898, she fought for voting rights not only for self-supporting women but also for dependent wives. At the 1899 congress of the International Council of Women in London, Norrie became a co-founder of the International Council of Nurses (ICN).
Despite her efforts to establish a Danish organization for improving working and training conditions for nurses, she was only able to head the Dansk Sygeplejeråd (Danish Council of Nurses) for a few months, facing increasing opposition from hospital nurses who called for a fully qualified nurse to become their leader. As a result, she turned her interests to women's suffrage, helping to found the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in 1904 in Berlin. In 1907, she became a dynamic co-founder and member of Danske Kvinders Forsvarsforening (Danish Women's Defence Association) which she chaired until 1915, raising membership to some 50,000. She then founded the non-party Kvinde-Vælger-Klubberne (Women Voters' Clubs) designed to encourage women to stand for election. Finally, from 1920 to 1927 she returned to her nursing ambitions, founding the Ejra School for nursing and first-aid treatment.
Charlotte Norrie died in Copenhagen on 19 December 1940 and is buried in Helsingør.


Willi Schatz

Willi Schatz (1 February 1905 Hannover, Germany – 17 February 1985 Hannover, Germany) was a Nazi "SS-Obersturmführer" (Lieutenant) as a "SS-KZ Zahnarzt" (Concentration Camp Dentist) who served in Auschwitz and Neuengamme.
Early life.
Schatz was born in 1905, the son of a dentist. He first attended elementary school and then a high school in Hannover from where he graduated. Like his father, he then studied dentistry at the University of Göttingen and received his doctorate in 1933. In 1933 he became a member of the NSDAP and the SA. Because of his facilitation of abortion in 1939 he was excluded from the party until he was called to the "Heer" on 10 June 1940 as he worked as a dentist in Hanover. On 3 July 1943, he retired from the Army and on 22 July 1943 he became a member of the Waffen-SS.
World War II.
In the fall 1943 Schatz graduated from one of the "SS-Medizinischen Akademie" (Medical Academies) in Graz as a "SS-Untersturmführer" and was used in the "SS-Hauptquartier" (Headquarters) in Oranienburg. From 20 January 1944 until the fall of 1944 he became the second in charge by his superior, "SS-KZ Zahnarzt" Willi Frank at Auschwitz. He was then transferred to Neuengamme where he served until the war's end in the same function. In 1945 he was promoted again to "SS-Obersturmführer".
Post-war.
At the end of the war he was captured by the British and subsequently released in January 1946. Soon after, he opened a dental practice in Hannover.
Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials.
Schatz was arrested in 1959 and stood trial for his crimes in the camps before the Assize Court in Frankfurt am Main which became known as the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials. He was accused of having selected prisoners at Auschwitz which he denied that he took part of. Since this ultimately could not be proved beyond reasonable doubt, he was acquitted on 20 August 1965.
Death.
Schatz died from cancer on 17 February 1985.


Michael Mak (politician)

Michael Mak Kwok-fung () (born 23 August 1955 in Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong politician. He is an elected representative of the Wan Chai District. He was the founding deputy chairman of the League of Social Democrats, and was elected to the Advisory Council of the party in 2010. He is a registered mental nurse, was elected into the Legislative Council of Hong Kong from 2000 to 2004 through the health services functional constituency. He worked with Castle Peak Hospital and Prince of Wales Hospital, and retired from the post of Department Operations Manager at Kwai Chung Hospital in September 2015.
In 2008, Mak was denied entry to Macau to attend a meeting on nursing when the Olympic torch relay was being held in there.