Ian Rusted, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ian Rusted

Date of Birth: 12-Jul-1921

Date of Death: 14-Jul-2007

Profession: physician

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Ian Rusted

  • Doctor Ian Edwin Lawman Hollands Rusted (July 12, 1921 – July 14, 2007) was a Canadian doctor in Newfoundland and Labrador.The son of Reverend Canon Ernest E.
  • Rusted and Faith Hollands Rusted, he was born in Upper Island Cove, Newfoundland and attended school in Carbonear and St.
  • John's.
  • Rusted earned a pre-med degree from Memorial University College in 1940 and continued his studies at Trinity College, Toronto and Dalhousie University.
  • He interned at Victoria General Hospital in Halifax and went on to earn a BSc from McGill University in 1949.
  • He was awarded a fellowship in medicine by the Mayo Foundation and continued post-graduate studies at the Mayo Clinic from 1949 to 1952.
  • In 1952, he became a fellow in the Royal College of Physicians of Canada.
  • Later that year, he returned to Newfoundland, where he specialized in internal medicine.
  • From 1952 to 1967, he served as medical consultant to the Newfoundland Department of Health.
  • He was director of Medical Education, director of the Memorial University Research Unit and chairman of the Department of Medicine at St.
  • John's General Hospital, also practising privately.Rusted was able to persuade the federal and provincial governments to create a faculty of Medicine at Memorial University in 1967 and he served as its first dean and as professor of medicine.
  • He stepped down as dean in 1974, when he was named vice-president of Health Sciences.
  • He retired from that position in 1988. In 1949, Rusted married Ellen Marie Hansen and they had two sons.He was named an Officer in the Order of Canada in 1985.
  • In 2013, he was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.His older brother Nigel was also a physician.

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