BERNARD LANGER

Bernard Langer, while Head of the Division of General Surgery at the Toronto General Hospital, developed one of the leading academic hepatobiliary/pancreatic and liver transplant services in the world. As Chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto he created a formal training program (Surgeon Scientist Program) for academic surgeons that has been widely emulated. This program, plus the departmental practice plan which he began, created an environment that fostered and promoted research excellence. As a member of Council and President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, he was instrumental in the creation of the RCPSC Clinician Investigator Program and in the formation of the Canadian Patient Safety Institute. Dr. Langer was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2002.