Naimark into Canadian Medical Hall of Fame
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FORMER University of Manitoba president Dr. Arnold Naimark will be inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame during a ceremony in Halifax in May 2013.
He is the fourth University of Manitoba scientist so honoured — the others were Dr. Bruce Chown, Dr. Henry Friesen and Dr. Allan Ronald.
“Dr. Naimark’s visionary spirit and extraordinary leadership has resulted in transformative change at the University of Manitoba and in how patients are treated in Canada’s North,” said U of M president David Barnard. “We are proud he is a member of our community and we congratulate him for this much-deserved honour.”
Naimark, who is also director of the Centre for the Advancement of Medicine at the U of M, was chosen in the builder (innovative leadership) category. The hall recognizes individuals whose contributions to medicine and health sciences have led to extraordinary improvements in human health.
After joining the department of physiology in the 1960s, Naimark co-developed a leading laboratory for the investigation of respiratory disease and the first clinical unit in the world devoted exclusively to intensive respiratory care.
Soon after, the U of M alumnus became dean of the faculty of medicine, creating a new department of family medicine and a division of community medicine that includes the Northern Medical Unit, which has become a model for health-care delivery to First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities.
Naimark became the university’s president and vice-chancellor in 1981.
During his 15-year tenure, the university’s endowment increased nearly six-fold and included major developments at the health science campuses.
He was the founding chairman of the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation and spearheaded a plan that made it a pre-eminent organization in health sciences research in Canada. He was also the founding chairman of the Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Council. Naimark currently serves as chairman of the Genome Prairie Board, chairman of CancerCare Manitoba and as a member of the National Statistics Council and the Research Council of the Institute for Advanced Research.