John Coleman Laidlaw

In 1953, he returned to Canada to run the Clinical Investigation Unit at the Toronto General Hospital.^[1] In 1967, he established the Institute of Medical Sciences at the University of Toronto along with Ernest McCulloch and served as its director from 1967 to 1975.^[2] In 1975, he was lured to McMaster University Medical School as a professor of medicine until he was made the third Dean of Medicine and Vice President of Health Sciences in 1981. He held this position until 1985 and retired professor emeritus from McMaster in 1986.^[3] From 1986 onwards he served as the Executive Director, Medical Affairs of the Canadian Cancer Society, and Vice-President, Research and Education of OCTRF, now named Cancer Care Ontario.

• He was named to the Order of Canada in 2003, an honorary Doctor of Science from McMaster University in 2004 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada from the same year^[4]
• He was also awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by University of Toronto in 2014.^[5]