John Dossetor
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'''John Beamish Dossetor''' (born [[1925]]) is a [[Canada|Canadian]] physician and [[bioethicist]] who is notable for co–coordinating the first [[kidney transplant]] in Canada and the [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]].
Born in [[Bangalore]], [[India]], he attended [[Marlborough College]] in Wiltshire before receiving a B.M. and B.Ch. from the [[University of Oxford]] in 1950. In 1955, he immigrated to Canada to accept a position at [[McGill University]]. In 1958, he co-ordinated the first kidney transplant. From 1960 to 1969, he worked at the [[Royal Victoria Hospital]]. In 1960, he joined the [[University of Alberta]] as a professor of medicine, director of the Division of Nephrology and Immunology and co–director of the Medical Research Council, Transplantation Research Unit of the University of Alberta Hospital. From 1985 to 1996, he was the Director of the Bioethics Centre in the Faculty of Medicine (later named the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre).
He is a co-founder of the [[Kidney Foundation of Canada]].
In 1994, he was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]]. He was awarded the [[125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal]].
==References==
* {{cite web|url=http://www.utpress.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/cw2w3.cgi?p=dorais&t=29526&d=1037|title=Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry|accessdate=March 17|accessyear=2006}}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.medicine100.ab.ca/physicians/100physicians/dossetor.htm|title=Alberta Medicine Centennial profile|accessdate=March 17|accessyear=2006}}
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[[Category:1925 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Bioethicists]]
[[Category:Canadian physicians]]
[[Category:Canadian medical researchers]]
[[Category:Old Marlburians]]
[[Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford]]
[[Category:Indian immigrants to Canada]]
[[Category:McGill University faculty]]
[[Category:Officers of the Order of Canada]]
[[Category:People from Bangalore]]
[[Category:University of Alberta faculty]]
[[Category:Anglo-Quebecers]]