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William Feindel (William Howard Feindel) was born on 12 July, 1918 in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, is a Canadian neurosurgeon. Discover William Feindel's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 96 years old?

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Age 96 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 12 July, 1918
Birthday 12 July
Birthplace Bridgewater, Nova Scotia
Date of death 2014
Died Place Montreal, Quebec
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1918

William Howard Feindel (July 12, 1918 – January 12, 2014 ) was a Canadian neurosurgeon, scientist and professor.

1939

Born in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, he received a B.A. in Biology from Acadia University in 1939, a M.Sc.

1942

from Dalhousie University in 1942, and an M.D., C.M. from McGill University in 1945.

1949

Attending Merton College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar he received his D. Phil in 1949.

After completing his residency, Feindel was in neurosurgical practice for two years with Wilder Penfield at the Montreal Neurological Institute.

1950

In the early 1950s, during brain mapping studies with Penfield and Jasper, Feindel discovered the role of the amygdala in patients with temporal lobe seizures, which, with related studies at the MNI, led to the operation of antero-mesial temporal lobe resection often referred to as "the Montreal procedure", an operation adopted worldwide for the surgical cure of many thousands of patients with epilepsy.

Feindel was curator of the Wilder Penfield Archive.

1955

In 1955 he founded the Neurosurgical Department at the University Hospital in Saskatoon.

1959

In 1959 Feindel re-joined the Montreal Neurological Institute where he founded the William Cone Laboratory for Neurosurgical Research and became the first William Cone Professor of Neurosurgery and then Director of the MNI from 1972 to 1984.

During this tenure he led a clinical neuroscience team to acquire the first CAT and combined MRI/S units in Canada and to develop the world's first PET system utilizing a prototype Japanese "Baby" cyclotron and the MNI-designed BGO crystal PET scanner for detecting brain tumours and stroke.

1984

He integrated these systems into a Brain Imaging Center (BIC), within a major extension of the MNI, opened in 1984 and since then recognized as a leading world center for clinical diagnosis, teaching and research in neuro-imaging.

1991

He was the Chancellor of Acadia University from 1991 to 1996 and then Honorary Governor.

1998

In 1998 he was elected Honorary Osler Librarian by the Board of Curators of the Osler Library of the History of Medicine at McGill University.

2005

At the 2005 Neuro Convocation, he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award of the Montreal Neurological Institute.

He was Senior Consultant in Neurosurgery and Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University and Director of the Neuro-History Project at the Montreal Neurological Institute.

He died at the Montreal Neurological Institute after a brief illness.