UBC professor receives humanitarian award

Robert H. Taylor, Director, Branch for International Surgery and clinical associate professor of Surgery UBC, has been chosen by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada as the recipient of the 2012 Teasdale-Corti Humanitarian award.

The Teasdale-Corti award was established to acknowledge and celebrate Canadian physicians who, while providing health care or emergency medical services, go beyond the accepted norms of routine practice.

Taylor helped establish UBC’s Branch for International Surgery to address surgical care in international health and has travelled to nearly every continent in the world to provide surgical care and teaching in the developing world, including working for the International Red Cross in conflict regions.

In addition to this Royal College award, Taylor was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 2010 for his humanitarian contributions to improving medical services and surgical care in underserved populations of the world.