William Feindel
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'''William Howard Feindel''' (born [[1918]]) is a [[Canada|Canadian]] [[neurosurgery|neurosurgeon]], scientist and professor.
Born in [[Bridgewater, Nova Scotia]], he received a B.A. in Biology from [[Acadia University]] in [[1939]], a M.Sc. from [[Dalhousie University]] in [[1942]], and an MDCM from [[McGill University]] in [[1945]]. Attending [[Merton College, Oxford]] as a [[Rhodes Scholar]] he received his D. Phil in [[1949]].
After completing his residency, Feindel was in neurosurgical practice for two years with [[Wilder Penfield]] at the [[Montreal Neurological Institute]]. In [[1955]] he founded the Neurosurgical Department at the University Hospital in [[Saskatoon, Saskatchewan|Saskatoon]].
In [[1959]] Feindel re-joined the Montreal Neurological Institute where he founded the William Cone Laboratory for Neurosurgical Research and became the first William Cone Professor of Neurosurgery and then Director of the MNI from [[1972]] to [[1984]]. During this tenure he led a clinical neuroscience team to acquire the first [[CAT]] and combined [[MRI]]/S units in Canada and to develop the world's first [[Positron emission tomography|PET]] system utilizing a prototype Japanese "Baby" cyclotron and the MNI-designed BGO crystal PET scanner for detecting [[brain tumour]]s and [[stroke]]. He integrated these systems into a Brain Imaging Center (BIC), within a major extension of the MNI, opened in 1984 and since then recognized as a leading world center for clinical diagnosis, teaching and research in [[neuro-imaging]].
In the early 1950s, during brain mapping studies with Penfield and Jasper, Feindel discovered the role of the amygdala in patients with temporal lobe seizures, which, with related studies at the MNI, led to the operation of antero-mesial temporal lobe resection often referred to as "the [[Montreal Procedure]]", an operation adopted world-wide for the surgical cure of many thousands of patients with epilepsy.
Since [[1976]] Feindel has been Curator of the Wilder Penfield Archive. He was the Chancellor of [[Acadia University]] from [[1991]] to [[1996]] and is currently an Honorary Governor. In [[1984]] he received an honorary D.Sc from [[McGill University]]. In [[1998]] he was elected Honorary Osler Librarian by the Board of Curators of the Osler Library of the History of Medicine at McGill University. At the [[2005]] Neuro Convocation, he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award of the Montreal Neurological Institute. He is Senior Consultant in Neurosurgery and Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University and Director of the Neuro-History Project at the Montreal Neurological Institute.
==Honours==
* In [[1973]] he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
* In [[1963]] he received an honorary DSc from Acadia University.
* In [[1982]] he was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]].
* In [[1983]] he received an honorary LLD from Mt Allison University.
* In [[1989]] he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Saskatchewan.
* In [[2002]] he was made a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec.
* In [[2003]] he was inducted into the [[Canadian Medical Hall of Fame]].
* In [[2004]] he was inducted into L'Academie des Grand Montrealais.
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