- Jonathan Meakins
Jonathan Larmonth Meakins (born
January 8 1941 ) is a Canadian surgeon, academic, and expert inimmunobiology and surgical infections.Born in
Toronto, Ontario , he received aBachelor of Science degree fromMcGill University and aDoctor of Medicine from theUniversity of Western Ontario in 1966. He received aDoctor of Science from theUniversity of Cincinnati in 1972.In 1974, he was appointed an Assistant Professor of Surgery and Microbiology at McGill University. He was appointed an Associate Professor in 1979 and a Professor in 1984. From 1988 to 1993, he was the Chair of the Department of Surgery. He was Surgeon-in-Chief at Montreal's
Royal Victoria Hospital .In 2002, he was the fourth person and first Canadian appointed Nuffield Professor of Surgery Professor at
University of Oxford . He is a Fellow ofBalliol College, Oxford and leads the Nuffield Department Surgery.In 1992, he became co-editor of the "
Canadian Journal of Surgery ". He is the author of "Surgical Infection in Critical Care Medicine" (1985) and "Surgical Infections: Diagnosis and Treatment" (1994). He is the co-author of "Surgical Care of the Elderly" (1988), "The Care of the Surgical Patient" (1988), and "Host Defence Dysfunction in Trauma, Shock and Sepsis: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Approaches" (1993).In 2000, he was made an Officer of the
Order of Canada "as a leader in the development of laparoscopic and transplantation surgery". [http://www.gg.ca/honours/search-recherche/honours-desc.asp?lang=e&TypeID=orc&id=5729]References
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