Date

December 12, 2008

Person

Dunn, Henry George, 1917-2008

Corporation

Vancouver General Hospital

University of British Columbia. Faculty of Medicine

Topic

Physicians - Obituaries

Material Type

newspaper article

Source Title

Vancouver Sun

Abstract

Henry emigrated to England in 1935 with his brother, to study at Baddingham College. He then went on to study at Trinity College, Cambridge. After finishing his medical studies at London Hospital, he served with the British Medical Corps in India. Paediatric training then followed at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London and the Babies' Hospital in New York. He subsequently joined his parents and brother in Vancouver and continued his training at Vancouver General Hospital. By 1956, he had become a full time member of the UBC Faculty of Medicine. In 1959, he went to Boston for subspecialty training in paediatric neurology at Harvard, and at Massachusetts General Hospital. This was the beginning of his special interest in children's nervous diseases and developmental delay (then known as "mental retardation"). A full career followed, including being a founding member of the Canadian Association for Child Neurology and the Canadian League Against Epilepsy, a sabbatical year at Great Ormond Street Hospital from 1966 to 1967, brief teaching in Uganda in 1984 and in China in 1991. Henry devoted his life to teaching paediatric neurology and to caring for his young patients and their families.

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