Project Team

Bob Lampard

Dr. Robert Lampard is an avocational historian and former Medical Director of the Foothills Medical Centre.  He’s been a preceptor in the History of Medicine program at the UofC, and a longstanding member of the Alberta Medical Foundation Board and its precursor, the AMA’s Archives committee. Dr. Lampard is the recipient of the W.B. Spaulding Certificate of Merit for his contributions to medical history in Canada. He was named one of Alberta’s Doctors of the Century in 2005. He is the author of Alberta’s Medical History, Young and Lusty and Full of Life (2008), Deans, Dreams and a President: The Deans of Medicine at the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry 1913 – 2009 (2011), Hearts, Minds, and Vision - Roots of the Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, 1930–2010 (2012) among numerous other articles and monographs on medical history.

 

Frank Stahnisch

Dr. Frank Stahnisch is an Associate Professor at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. Since 2008, he holds the AMF/Hannah Professorship in the History of Medicine and Health Care at the UofC, and is cross-appointed in the Department of History (Faculty of Arts) and the Department of Community Health Sciences (Faculty of Medicine).  He is also a full academic member of the Hotchkiss Brain Institute, the Calgary Institute for Public Health.  Prior to joining the University of Calgary, he has held teaching positions at the Humboldt University of Berlin; the University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, and Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (Germany), as well as Visiting Professorships at McGill University (Montréal), in Canada, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin), in Germany, and the University of California at Berkeley (USA).  He is the author of two monographs, five edited volumes and numerous research articles in medical history.

 

David Hogan

Dr. David Hogan’s medical education took place in Nova Scotia (Dalhousie University), Alberta (University of Alberta), and Ontario (University of Ottawa, University of Western Ontario). He is a specialist in geriatric medicine. In 1990 he moved to the University of Calgary where he founded the Division of Geriatric Medicine and served as Head for its first ten years. David has held the Brenda Strafford Foundation Chair in Geriatric Medicine, University of Calgary (the first Canadian Chair in this field) since 1992. He served in a variety of national leadership roles relevant to his field of practice.  David has authored over 450 publications including more than 200 peer-reviewed papers. His research interests include age-related cognitive decline and dementia (and its various causes such as Alzheimer disease), delirium, falls, frailty, and health services for older Canadians.  In 2011 he was appointed the inaugural Director of the Brenda Strafford Centre on Aging, University of Calgary. David has a long-standing interest in medical history with a number of publications on the topic.

Jim Wright

Jim Wright, MD, PhD is Professor and Head of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at the University of Calgary/Alberta Health Services - Calgary Zone and is a Research Scientist with the Julia McFarlane Diabetes Research Centre. Dr Wright’s research interests include experimental islet transplantation, xenotransplantation, bio-artificial pancreas technologies, comparative endocrinology, and medical history. In the medical history world, his publications mostly relate to either the history of pathology or the history of insulin. He holds a Master of Arts degree in Medical History, is a former recipient of the American Association for the History of Medicine’s William Osler Medal, is a member of the American Osler Society, and is Vice President of the Calgary History of Medicine Society. Dr Wright has authored or co-authored > 160 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, two US patents, and a book.

 

Mikkel Dack

Mikkel Dack, MA is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at the University of Calgary, studying postwar Germany.  He completed his Masters of Arts in History at the University of Waterloo, and has studied at the Freie Universität Berlin and Helmut Schmidt Universität in Hamburg. His research interests include the history of eugenics in Alberta.

 

Will Pratt

Will Pratt, MA is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Calgary, studying Canadian morale in the Second World War.  In 2010, he was granted his Masters of Arts, from the University of New Brunswick.  His research interests include Canadian Army psychiatry.