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The co-founder of the University of Ottawa’s Heart Institute (UOHI) and world-renowned cardiologist Dr. Donald S. Beanlands has died, the institution says.
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Beanlands, who also served as the institute’s first head of cardiology, co-founded the UOHI alongside Dr. Wilbert J. Keon in 1976.
The Heart Institute sees more than 211,000 patients a year and has grown to be the largest cardiac prevention and rehabilitation program in Canada. Beanlands established a large number of national and international programs at the Heart Institute, which is also regarded as a leading postgraduate training programs for young cardiologists.
He died last Thursday in Ottawa at the age of 91.
Born in Halifax in 1932, he served in the Canadian Naval Reserve before attending medical school at Dalhousie University, according to his obituary.
He trained to be a cardiologist at …
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