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Dr. Richard Simons receiving the Royal College McLaughlin-Gallie Visiting Professor for 2009

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Richard Simons in receiving the Royal College McLaughlin-Gallie Visiting Professor for 2009. 

This is an extremely prestigious award which represents a tremendous personal accomplishment for Dr. Simons in particular and reflects the importance with which Trauma System Development is recognized to hold within all the greater domains of medicine.

The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada established the McLaughlin-Gallie Visiting Professorship in 1960, and it is awarded to one single physician per year from all the medical specialties.  Previous award winners have included the most productive and notable physicians of the day.  The professorship commemorated the outstaying contributions to surgical science of Dr. William Edward Gallie of Toronto, who died in September 1959. 

McLaughlin-Gallie Visiting Professors may be selected from any country in the world and may represent any branch of medicine.  They spend up to one week at each of two Canadian faculties of medicine.  They participate in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, and in the exchange of ideas with the staff, the researchers and the undergraduate and postgraduate students.