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The Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) is governed by the McMaster University Tenure and Promotion Policy. Each department can form their own Tenure and Promotion Committee (T&P) who makes recommendations on faculty concerning tenure and promotions.

The MERIT (McMaster Education Research, Innovation and Theory) Program is an education services program that has served the Faculty of Health Sciences for more than 45 years. MERIT is dedicated to supporting FHS departments and programs in advancing health professions education scholarship.

Initially led by Victor Neufeld, who was the first head of the earliest iteration of MERIT, known as the Program for Education Development (PED), it supported educational innovation in the School of Medicine. Following Neufeld, there were a number of directors, including Brian Haynes and Jennifer Blake. Between 1987 and 1997, Geoff Norman became director and reassumed the role after a short spell of leadership from Jennifer Blake. He renamed it as the Program for Education Research Development (PERD).

In its various iterations it has, on the one hand, supported and initiated numerous innovations in the health science educational programs, and on the other, has an international reputation for educational research and scholarship. In 2012, Norman was replaced by Harold Reiter. The current Assistant Dean, Jonathan Sherbino, took over in 2017 and the program adopted its current name and vision.

Francis Chisholm was born in 1926, in Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. During his adolescent and teenage years, Chisholm attended the nearby Dollar Academy, an independent day and boarding school located in Dollar, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. At 17, Chisholm joined the British Army for three years, where he became a sergeant with the Seaforth Highlanders, and participated in the tail end of the Second World War. After returning from the Second World War, and after his time serving with the British Army, Chisholm decided to follow in his fathers’ footsteps to become a minister. To aid in this effort Chisholm enrolled at Edinburgh University in 1948, where he received a Master of Arts degree, and then enrolled at New College, Edinburgh, where he received his Bachelor of Divinity Degree specializing in the New Testament in 1951. In the same year, Chisholm married his partner, Connie.

In 1952, Chisholm was ordained into the Church of Scotland. Chisholm’s first pastoral job was ministering to two small churches with a combined total of three hundred parishioners- the hamlet of Enzie, and the fishing village of Portgordon, located in North-East Scotland.

From 1952 to early 1955, Chisholm had two daughters with his wife Connie. In 1955, Chisholm and his family moved to Canada where he was ordained into the United Church of Canada. For the next 3 years Chisholm served in the Pastoral Charge of Willbrook-Cavan, Peterborough Presbytery. In July of 1958, Chisholm accepted a position at St. Andrews United Church in the city of St. Catherine’s and was ordained as minister of the church. In 1964, Chisholm moved to Hamilton, where he worked full time as the chaplain at the Mountain Sanatorium (Chedoke Hospital) and served as the associate pastor at Stewart Memorial Church, and volunteer associate Minister at Linden Park United Church. During the year of 1990, Chisholm wrote his first book, titled “Prayers and Services for Use Within the Royal Canadian Legion”. In 1991 Chisholm retired from working at Chedoke Hospital. In 2002 Chisholm’s wife passed away from Kidney failure.

Chisholm has spent his post retirement days acting as the Grand Chaplin of Canada for the Knights Templar of Canada, and as a chaplain supporting the Mountain Legion and conducting Remembrance Day services. Chisholm also ministers to and supports the Dutch Legion, the Hamilton Artillery Association, and the Steel City Chapter of the North Wall Riders Association, and still preaches at Stewart Memorial Church and Linden Park United Churches. Chisholm has ministered worldwide, from Vimy Ridge to Rome to Jerusalem, and has also met with the Royal Family of the United Kingdom. Chisholm is currently in the process of writing a commentary on the book of Psalms, called "One a Day Psalms: A Cantina of Notes, Quotes, and Anecdotes".

Dora Alice Sly was a patient at the Mountain Sanatorium for six months in 1940. She was born on May 15, 1913 and graduated as a nurse from Brockville Ontario Hospital in 1936. She worked at the Woodstock Ontario Hospital when it opened in 1940. She contacted Tuberculosis and was sent to the Mountain Sanatorium for treatment. She married Walter Gilbert on August 30, 1946 and they had two children together: George Edward and Sandra Elizabeth. After her husband passed away in 1955, she returned to work at the Oxford Regional Centre until her retirement in 1978. She passed away in 1984.

Dr. Mary K. Tremblay (1944-2009) was an occupational therapist, educator, scholar of disability and rehabilitation, and an advocate for disabled peoples.

Tremblay earned a Diploma of Physical and Occupational Therapy from the University of Toronto in 1967 and began her career as a practitioner. In the following decade, she helped found the Occupational Therapy Program at Mohawk College and earned a Master’s of Health Sciences degree from McMaster University in 1977. In 1985, Tremblay became Director of the Degree Completion Program for Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy at McMaster. In 1989, for one year, she served as Acting Associate Dean of the School of Rehabilitation Science, and, in 1991, became a tenured Associate Professor.

Tremblay earned her doctorate in 1993 at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Later that decade, she developed and taught one of the first courses on Human Rights and Disability, a course which won the 1997 McMaster University President’s Award for Course Design and was published by Amnesty International. Tremblay served as Curriculum Chair for the new Master of Clinical Health Sciences (Occupational Therapy) Program and was a member of the Program in Medical History. She retired in August 2009.

Tremblay was a central figure in the study of the history of disability and rehabilitation, spinal cord injury rehabilitation, war and disability in the twentieth century, aging with a pre-existing disability, disability and rehabilitation policy, and human rights of disabled peoples. She was particularly interested in the experiences of veterans and civilians who had suffered a spinal cord injury during the Second World War, with whom she conducted oral history interviews. Committed to social justice for disabled peoples, she was also an advocate for disabled war veterans and the disability rights movement.

Dr. Tremblay died on 13 October 2009 at the age of 65.

Howard John Alexander was born on April 14, 1894, in Langton,
Ontario, to William Craig Alexander and Catherine Hagan. Graduating from Simcoe Secondary School in 1912, Dr. Alexander enrolled in Hamilton Normal School and from 1913-17 taught in a public school and farmed in Norfolk County. In 1919, Dr. Alexander started his medical study in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto and graduated in 1925 with a M.B. degree. Following his graduation, he interned at Toronto General Hospital from 1925-26 and then joined a clinic in Welland for one year in general practice. On June 15, 1927, Dr. Alexander came to Tillsonburg, where he joined a group practice for about 55 years until 1981 when he retired from practicing medicine. After retirement, Dr. Alexander published a book, 56 Years in Medical Practice, looking back over his 56 years as a practicing physician in Tillsonburg.

Dr. Alexander married Florence Evelyn Cowan (born in Langton, Ontario on February 6, 1897) on September 2, 1926. Together they had two children: daughter Mary (born March 29, 1928) and son John (September 14, 1934). In 1986, at the age of 93, Dr. Alexander passed away at Tillsonburg District Memorial Hospital.

Johanna Rabinowitz (née van der Woerd) was born in the Netherlands and, in her late twenties, came to Canada in 1954 with her sister. Despite being a qualified and registered nurse, she began her Canadian nursing career in Hamilton, Ontario as a nursing assistant at Nora-Frances Henderson Hospital (now Juravinski Hospital). She soon left this position to become a nurse at Mountain Sanatorium. She then moved to Moose Factory, Ontario, near James Bay, to work at Moose Factory General Hospital. She returned to Mountain Sanatorium one and a half years later.

In the summer of 1958, Johanna was one of two nurses who traveled to the eastern Arctic aboard the CGS C.D. Howe as members of the annual Eastern Arctic Patrol. From 1946 to 1968, the Canadian government tasked the Eastern Arctic Patrol with medically examining the Inuit inhabitants of this region, evacuating those infected with tuberculosis to southern Canada for treatment at hospitals and sanatoriums (principally Mountain Sanatorium from 1955 to 1961), and returning home those treated in southern Canada who had recovered.

Johanna later married Dr. Paul Rabinowitz, a physician at Mountain Sanatorium, and was employed with the Victorian Order of Nurses. She died on April 16, 2009 in Grimsby, Ontario at the age of 81.

Charles (Chuck) Gordon Roland was a physician, writer, medical historian, and the first Hannah Chair for the History of Medicine at McMaster University. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1933, Dr. Roland studied at the University of Toronto before completing his medical degree at the University of Manitoba. He was a general practitioner in Tillsonburg and Grimsby, Ontario from 1958 to 1964. Following this, Dr. Roland took various roles in teaching, writing, and editing in America, including senior editorship at the Journal of the American Medical Association, lecturing at Northwestern University, and assisting in developing the Mayo Clinic’s medical school, initially holding associate professorship prior to chairing its Department of Biomedical Communications. He became the inaugural Hannah Professor for the History of Medicine at McMaster University in 1977, and retired in 1999. Dr. Roland passed on June 9, 2009, at the age of 76.

Dr. Roland’s research and writing produced a large corpus of work, and he was involved with various associations during his career, including the Toronto Medical History Society and the American Osler Society. Dr. Roland conducted over three hundred oral history interviews pertaining to the history of medicine in wartime, in Canada, and the formation of McMaster University’s School of Medicine. His extensive work regarding wartime medicine in particular produced two monographs about the clandestine Warsaw ghetto medical school, and the experiences of Prisoners-of-War in the Pacific Theater of the Second World War. His other research interests included the medical histories of Canada and Hamilton, and Sir William Osler.

Dr. Roland’s published works include biographies of notable figures in Canadian medical history, Courage under Siege: starvation, disease, and death in the Warsaw ghetto, Long Night’s Journey into Day, bibliographies in the history of Canadian medicine, and many publications related to his research on Sir William Osler. Dr. Roland edited and/or wrote for the Journal of the American Medical Association, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, the Canadian Medical Association Journal, Clinical Cardiology, Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, the Journal of Anesthesia and Analgesia, and various other medical journals.