From Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan to a zero gravity laboratory 32,000 feet above the Earth, Dr. Andrew Kirkpatrick has practiced medicine in the most remarkable places.
After graduating from the medical school at UCalgary, Dr. James Maskalyk travelled to areas of the world in need of medical aid. In Sudan he found disease, hunger, despair–and new outlook on life.
The Faculty of Medicine is home to many great leaders, many of whom continue to lead even outside the University of Calgary. Here is a snapshot of a few Faculty members who currently sit as presidents of some of Canada's most well known medical organizations.
For 14 days in March, Dr. Lane Robson (class of ’73) and first-year med student Dave Campbell represented two generations of the Faculty of Medicine as they treated pediatric patients in Haiti.
From conception to creation, a group of students at the Faculty of Medicine worked together to create Calgary’s first ever student-run medical clinic for the homeless.
