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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.

Dr. May Cohen (b. 1931) is a family physician, educator, activist, researcher, former university administrator, and advocate of women physicians and women’s health.

Cohen was born in Montréal and raised in Toronto. Her parents—Sam and Manya Lipshitz—were Jewish émigrés to Canada from Eastern Europe and progressive political activists. At an early age, Cohen resolved to become a doctor. She graduated from high school as the top student in Ontario. Cohen attended medical school at the University of Toronto where less than ten percent of medical students were women. In 1955, she graduated at the top of her class and earned a gold medal for academic excellence.

For twenty years, Cohen practiced family medicine in Toronto with her husband, Dr. Gerald (Gerry) S. Cohen (1931-2017; m. 1952). The couple also raised three sons during this time.

Abortion was illegal in Canada when Cohen began her career. Though most of her patients were able to travel to England for a legal abortion, it became clear to her that the law was problematic when one of her patients died from complications of an illegal abortion. Women should have the right to autonomy over their own bodies, Cohen argued. After the law was amended in 1969 to allow abortion under certain circumstances, she joined the abortion decision committee at Branson Hospital and fought for access to legal and safe abortions for Canadian women. She became a prominent voice in debates surrounding the right of women to choose abortion.

In 1975—International Women’s Year—Cohen traveled to Shelburne, Nova Scotia to lead a workshop on women’s health as part of a project funded by the Canadian government. There, she came to realize that women living in some areas of the country did not have access to routine breast exams or pap smears. From here on, Cohen campaigned to ensure that women’s health needs were being appropriately met across Canada.

Two years later, Cohen was appointed to the Department of Family Medicine in the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University.

From 1987-1988, while on sabbatical, Cohen travelled to Australia to deliver seminars to doctors on how to discuss human sexuality with their patients. There, she learned of an ongoing study investigating women’s health needs in each state. Inspired by this effort, upon her return, Cohen spearheaded the development of a Women’s Health Office at McMaster. Founded in 1991, this office was the first of its kind in any Canadian medical school. Its mandate was to research and raise awareness of diseases that affect women differently. Several other Canadian medical schools subsequently decided to found similar offices. A group of academics from the five Ontario medical schools was eventually formed, called the Women’s Health Inter School Curriculum Committee (WHISCC), to pursue a united effort.

In 1990 and 1991, Cohen served as President of the Federation of Medical Women in Canada. Between 1991 and 1996, she served the Faculty of Health Sciences as Associate Dean of Health Services. She is now retired and lives in Toronto.

A pioneer of women’s health and a champion of gender-based healthcare, Cohen has called on the medical profession to reconsider its approach to women’s health concerns and to recognise the particularities of women’s health. She has advocated the right of a woman to make decisions regarding her own health. She has also played an important role in raising awareness and advancing the treatment of women’s health issues ranging from cancer to domestic abuse.

Cohen has advocated gender equality within the medical profession and has broken down barriers for women physicians. She has challenged the male-centric paradigm in medicine and has called on medical schools to include women’s health in their curricula. She is also a pioneer in teaching medical students and physicians about healthy sexual practices and eliminating sexual taboos and gender stereotyping.

Cohen has earned numerous prestigious awards and honours. These include the Canadian Medical Association Medal of Service and the Governor General’s Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case. In 2016, she was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. One year later, she was named an Officer of the Order of Canada. Awards and positions named in her honour include the Eli Lilly-May Cohen Chair in Women’s Health at McMaster. In 2019, two of Cohen’s colleagues, Dr. Cheryl Levitt and Dr. Barbara Lent, released a short documentary about her called The Gender Lady: The Fabulous Dr. May Cohen.

John Bienenstock (1937-2022), born in Budapest, Hungary in 1936, was an internationally recognized physician, scientist, and academic.

Bienenstock earned his medical degree from King’s College London and Westminster Hospital Medical School in 1960, followed by a postdoctoral term at Harvard University. In 1968, he joined McMaster University’s new medical school, where he played a pivotal role in its development. He served as Chair of the Department of Pathology from 1978 to 1989, co-founded the Society for Mucosal Immunology in 1985, and served as Dean and Vice-President of the Faculty of Health Sciences from 1989 to 1996. Even after his official retirement in 1998, he continued his research as Director of the McMaster Brain Body Institute at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton until his death in 2022.

Bienenstock became a prominent figure in mucosal immunology, introducing the concept of a common mucosal immune system. He also made significant contributions to neuroimmunology, exploring the interactions between the brain and nervous system. His prolific career included over 500 peer-reviewed articles and 10 books, including a standard textbook on mucosal immunology and allergy. He mentored over 60 postdoctoral fellows and 10 doctoral students.

Bienenstock’s achievements earned him numerous honors, including becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1992, a McMaster Distinguished University Professor in 1999, a Member of the Order of Canada in 2002, and induction into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame in 2011. He also received an honorary MD from Goteborg, Sweden, and joined the Faculty of Health Sciences Community of Distinction in 2014.

Walter Dent was born in Parry Sound, Ontario on April 12th, 1917, to Walter Dent Senior, and Susan Bradley. His father died before he was born and he was raised by his mother, along with his 9 siblings. Dent attended school until grade 10, at which time he left to pursue work.
Dent participated in the “On-to-Ottawa trek” in 1935 and joined the Young Communist League in 1936. In February of 1937 at the age of 20, Dent arrived in Albacete, Spain to fight in the Spanish Civil War. The Canadian Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion had not yet been formed, and he served instead in the American Lincoln Battalion. Due to the urgent need for men, Dent and his cohort were rushed to the battlefront without training, but he found that he was a natural with a gun. A head injury sent him to a hospital in Murcia and then to the village of Benicassim to convalesce. He attributed the healing of his head wound to daily swims in the Mediterranean Sea. Once recovered, Dent had a month’s training before returning to the front and fighting in the Battle of Brunete (July 6-25th, 1937). In September of 1937, Dent travelled by ship to New York, before returning to Spain the following month.
In October of 1937, religious leader and politician Reverend A. E. Smith came to Spain looking for soldiers to join him on a tour of Canada; Dent and fellow soldier Jack Steele volunteered and returned to Canada. The trio spent two months touring the country raising awareness and money for the fight in Spain and for wounded homecoming soldiers. Once home in Toronto, Dent discovered that an abscess had formed on the back of his head – a result of the injury he had sustained in Spain – and had it removed by Dr. Willinsky at Mount Sinai Hospital.
Dent was awarded an International Brigades' medal in January of 1939 for his service in the Spanish Civil War. Dent then served in the Second World War with the British Army. Dent later joined the Mackenzie Papineau Veterans Association in Toronto.
He was married to his partner Nancy and as a civilian worked as a carpenter. He died on May 9th, 1993.

On December 13, 1995, the school was renamed to the School of Rehabilitation Science.

Miriam Brysk was born on March 10th, 1935, in Warsaw, Poland to Chiam Noah Miasnik and Bronka Zablocki. Her father, also known as Henry Mason, was a prominent gastric surgeon in Warsaw before the war and was referred to as the “king of the poor” by the poor Jews. After Germany invaded Poland, Miriam and her parents escaped to Lida, where her father worked as the head of surgery at the municipal hospital. In the summer of 1941, the Lida ghetto was established, where Dr. Miasnik was forced to operate on wounded German soldiers and Bonka worked in a leather factory run by the Germans. Having survived the slaughter of Lida Jews on May 8, 1942, Miriam and her family joined the underground Russian partisans in the forests in Belorussia. Dr. Miasnik was assigned to build a hospital on a small remote island surrounded by swamp where he operated on wounded partisans as chief and the only surgeon of the hospital. After their liberation by the Russian army in 1944, Dr. Miasnik was made chief of a hospital run by the Russians in a small town in Belarus before the family managed to get away from the Russian control and escaped to Poland. They travelled as refugees through Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Austria and finally reached Italy. In February 1947, the family immigrated to the United States and settled in New York where Miriam’s parents established their medical practice. Miriam finished her high school and went to New York University, where she met her husband, Henry Brysk. They have two daughters and five grandchildren.

Dr. Tramer was born in Csechoslovakia and attended his high school there. In 1933 he went to a general university in Prague and graduated in 1939. After Germany occupied Poland, Dr. Tramer worked under Judenrat in a Jewish hospital in Sosnovice before being sent to a labor camp in Germany to practice medicine for a three-month interval. After one year back in Sosnovice he was sent to the camp again and from there he started his way from one labor camp to other. In 1943 the Germans liquidated all the labor camps and transferred Dr. Tramer and his wife Nelly Tramer to different concentration camps. Dr. Tramer went through Munslau, Nordhausen, Ellerich, and Oranienburg before finally being liberated by the Russians. After the war Dr. Tramer went back to Poland to reunite with his wife. In 1968 the family migrated to Canada.

Clifford Armitage Was born on December 2, 1903, in Armstrong, British Columbia to Alfred Emerson Armitage and Jean Beattie. Moving to London, Ontario with his family at an early age, he received his early education at Rectory Street School. In 1911 his father moved west, working as an agent-telegrapher with the Canadian Northern Railway, and following that, Armitage went to Saskatchewan and lived in Blaine Lake from 1912 to 1920, until he finished his high school. Graduating from the University of Saskatchewan in 1925 with a B.A. degree, Armitage worked at different jobs before enrolling at the University of Toronto’s Medical School in 1927. After graduating in 1931, he interned at the Toronto General Hospital as a resident physician and then worked briefly as a locum tenens for Dr. McDonald in Kilbride, Ontario and as a camp doctor at the summer camp run by St. Andrew's College. Following that Dr. Armitage interned at the psychiatric hospital in Toronto, H.P. and later went to England, working as a house physician at the Radcliffe infirmary in Oxford for six months. In 1934, Dr. Armitage come back to Canada and settled in practice in Schumacher, a Timmins suburb, where he got involved in the set up of the prepaid medical plans for the Hollinger mine.

During the Word War Two, Dr. Armitage served in the reserve army as a medical officer for a time and on that basis, he moved to Toronto with his family. After getting discharged from the army, he went back to Timmins and became associated with Dr. Jack Stiles, a classmate of his, and they practiced together for six years. In 1951, Dr. Armitage left Timmins and come to Brampton, where he went into an association with Dr. Bartlet before getting on his own as a single, solo family practitioner doing anesthesia as a sideline.

Dr. Armitage married Ethel Elizabeth Pears, a girl that he knew as a child out west in 1937. Their first child, Donald, born in 1939, is a practising specialist in Brampton; their second child, Kathleen, born in 1941, is a specialist in Physical Medicine in Brampton. Dr. Armitage passed away in 1991.

Mark Brodsky was born August 25th, 1937, in Kharkov, Ukraine, to his father Boris Brodsky and mother Theresa Brosky. Brodsky spent his youth in Kharkov, and at the age of seventeen applied and was accepted to attend a medical institution in Lvov, Ukraine, under the jurisdiction and government control of the former Soviet Union. From 1954-60 Brodsky studied pediatric medicine and went on to do placements and practical training in a small village in the Carpathian Mountains, 100km north of Lvov. Brodsky was one of 3 staff physicians in the village, and managed all aspects of outpatient services, emergency services, and hospital services. In 1962 Brodsky completed his placement and returned to Lvov to live with his family. The following year Brodsky was assigned a position at the Children’s Hospital in Lvov and practiced pediatric medicine until early 1977. That same year Brodsky emigrated to Canada and would go on to intern and study at McMaster University Medical Center.

McLay Miller was born May 3rd, 1908, in Aylmer, Ontario, to father Blake Miller and mother Grace McLay. Miller spent his early and teenage years predominantly in Aylmer, but also lived in Brampton for a short time where he attended Brampton Collegiate for 2 years, before completing his final years of schooling back in Aylmer. Miller was heavily influenced to become a doctor by his family, as both his uncle (Dr. Homer Miller) and grandfather were doctors who also had lived and worked in Aylmer. After graduating high school in Aylmer, Miller applied and was accepted into the combined BA/MD program at Western University located in London, Ontario, in 1926. In 1933 Miller graduated with his combined BA/MD degree, and interned at a hospital in Erie, Pennsylvania for a year, before moving back to Aylmer. In Aylmer, Miller joined his uncle Homer at his practice, where they worked together for 15 years, before Homer Miller retired in 1948. Miller would practice medicine in Aylmer until his own retirement in 1985 at the age of 77. Miller’s post retirement days were spent with his wife Iola and enjoying hobbies such as bookbinding and photography.
McLay Miller passed away in 1996.