Abstract:ABSTRACT:Dr. Bill Lougheed was able to navigate residents through even the most complex neurosurgical procedures with complete and often heroic patience, always ensuring for the patient his usual expert technical result but still leaving intact the resident’s sense of pride and achievement, the feeling that he, the resident, “had done it”. A gifted technical surgeon, a thoughtful and inventive neurosurgeon, Dr. Lougheed was above all else one of Canada’s great teachers of operative neurosurgery. Canada’s pione… Show more
“…5). 16,17 Horsey performed further training in neurosurgery across Europe, including Queen Square in London, England. In July 1954, he was chosen to be the first head of the Division of Neurosurgery at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto ( Table 1).…”
In this paper, the authors describe the history of neurosurgery at St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto. St. Michael's has long been regarded as one of the top teaching and research hospitals in Canada. A detailed literature review of published and unpublished works was performed to formulate a succinct but in-depth review of its development, successes, and challenges. This fascinating 125-year history serves as a reminder of the importance of their institution's origins, and the authors hope that it will be a useful guide for developing programs around the world.
“…5). 16,17 Horsey performed further training in neurosurgery across Europe, including Queen Square in London, England. In July 1954, he was chosen to be the first head of the Division of Neurosurgery at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto ( Table 1).…”
In this paper, the authors describe the history of neurosurgery at St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto. St. Michael's has long been regarded as one of the top teaching and research hospitals in Canada. A detailed literature review of published and unpublished works was performed to formulate a succinct but in-depth review of its development, successes, and challenges. This fascinating 125-year history serves as a reminder of the importance of their institution's origins, and the authors hope that it will be a useful guide for developing programs around the world.
“…Before them, such cases were usually considered hopeless. The Toronto neurosurgical program flowered in the succeeding decades most notably with Lougheed 60 , Tasker 61 and Hendrick. [62][63][64] New generations came through the ranks to build the largest training program in the country, possibly the continent.…”
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Canada existed for more than half a century before there were glimmerings of modern neurosurgical activity. Neurosurgery had advanced significantly in Europe and the United States prior to its being brought to Toronto and Montreal from American centers. The pioneers responsible for the rapid evolution in practice, teaching and research are described. The interplay of scientific, professional, demographic and economic forces with general historical trends has produced dramatic changes in the way that neurosurgery is now practiced.
“…William M. Lougheed (1923–2004, born at Toronto General Hospital, son of a physician practicing in Toronto; MD Toronto, 1947; Figure 2A) began training at the Toronto General Hospital with cardiac surgeons Gordon Murray and Wilfred Bigelow, but he fell under the spell of neurological surgery and learned the craft from McKenzie and Botterell 16 . It was Bigelow’s investigations into cardiac surgical procedures using hypothermia that intrigued Lougheed about cerebral operations using reversible arrest of circulation and hypothermia.…”
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“…Fisher), Cooley, DeBakey, and others spurred the expansion of carotid surgery in the 1950s. Figure 2 (A) Photograph of Dr. William M. Lougheed, circa 1960. Reproduced with permission from Findlay JM 16 . (B) Left: Lougheed clip, as designed by Mr. Harry S. Kerr, in several sizes (top row), with the Schwartz clip (lower left) and Mayfield clip (lower right).…”
Canadian contributions to cerebrovascular neurosurgery have been disproportionately large and, with some exceptions, relatively unrecognized. In this review, some of the efforts in the advancement of cerebrovascular neurosurgery by Canadian neurologists and neurosurgeons are described.
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