Richard B. Goldbloom, O.C., M.D., C.M., F.R.C.P.(C) (born December 16, 1924) is a Canadian pediatrician, university professor, and the fifth Chancellor of Dalhousie University.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, he was educated at Selwyn House School and Lower Canada College. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1945 and a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1949 from McGill University. He did his post-graduate medical education at the Royal Victoria Hosp...
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Richard B. Goldbloom, O.C., M.D., C.M., F.R.C.P.(C) (born December 16, 1924) is a Canadian pediatrician, university professor, and the fifth Chancellor of Dalhousie University.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, he was educated at Selwyn House School and Lower Canada College. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1945 and a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1949 from McGill University. He did his post-graduate medical education at the Royal Victoria Hospital, the Montreal Children's Hospital and the Children's Hospital Boston. From 1964 to 1967, he was an Associate Professor at McGill University and a physician at the Montreal Children's Hospital. From 1967 to 1985, he was the Head of Dalhousie University's Department of Pediatrics. He was the first Physician-in-Chief and Director of Research at the Izaak Walton Killam Hospital for Children in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
From 1983 to 1985, he was Chairman of the Rhodes Scholar Selection Committee and since 1989 he has been the Chairman of the...
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