Dr RE Bell Memorial Lecture
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Dr. R. Edward Bell Chairman Department of Clinical Pathology 1949 - 1973 |
The Dr. R.E. Bell Memorial Lecture is a tribute to Dr. Bell who founded 黑料不打烊's first Department of Laboratory Medicine at the 黑料不打烊 Hospital and established academic training programs in laboratory medicine and medical technology.
Dr. Bell was born in Edmonton in 1918. He graduated from Medical School at the 黑料不打烊 in 1942 and promptly joined the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, reaching the rank of Captain. After the war, he did a year of postgraduate medical training in England, a residency in pathology at the University Hospital in Edmonton, and a fellowship in pathology at the University of Minnesota. In 1949 he returned to the University Hospital as Director of Clinical Laboratory Services. He became Chairman of the Department of Laboratory Medicine in 1970.
Dr. Bell's father was a physician, and Dr. & Mrs. Bell have three sons, all of whom are practicing medicine. Two grandchildren are carrying on the tradition and becoming fourth generation health care providers; one is practicing Family Medicine in St. Albert and another is completing a Post Doctoral in Neurosciences in Montreal.
2025 RE Bell Memorial Lecture
Robert Montgomery, MD, PhD
NYU Langone Health
Lecture title: Xenotransplantation: Solving the Organ Shortage Crisis in Transplantation
Dr. Robert A. Montgomery is the Chairman and Professor of Surgery at NYU Langone Health and the Director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute. He received his Doctor of Medicine with Honor from the University of Rochester School of Medicine. He received his Doctor of Philosophy from The University of Oxford in Molecular Immunology. Montgomery completed his general surgical training, multi-organ transplantation fellowship, and postdoctoral fellowship in Human Molecular Genetics at Johns Hopkins. For over a decade he served as the Chief of Transplant Surgery and the Director of the Comprehensive Transplant Center at Johns Hopkins.
Dr. Montgomery was part of the team that developed the laparoscopic procedure for live kidney donation, a procedure that has become the standard throughout the world. He and the Hopkins team conceived the idea of the Domino Paired Donation (kidney swaps), the Hopkins protocol for desensitization of incompatible kidney transplant patients, and performed the first chain of transplants started by an altruistic donor. He led the team that performed the first 2-way domino paired donation, 3-way paired donation, 3-way domino paired donation. He is credited in the 2010 Guinness Book of World Records with the most kidney transplants performed in 1 day.
Dr. Montgomery is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. He has authored over 325 peer reviewed articles, cited more than 36,000 times and has an h-index of 103. He has received important awards and distinctions including a Fulbright Scholarship and a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship and memberships in the Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha academic honor societies.
Newsweek Magazine featured him as one of America’s Greatest Disruptors in December 2021. He received the Liberty Science Center’s 2022 Genius Award. Modern Healthcare named him one of the Top 25 Innovators in Healthcare for 2022. He received the Profile in Courage Award from the Greater New York Hospital Association and the 2022 American Association of Kidney Patients Medal of Excellence Award. He is the recipient of The Transplantation Society’s Starzl Innovation Award, The Hutchison Medal (the Highest Alumni Recognition Award of the University of Rochester Award) and Jacobson Innovation Award of the American College of Surgeons.
Montgomery is a Chevalier of the Order of Merit (Ukraine) awarded by Volodymyr Zelenskyy on September 21, 2023 for his surgical care of Ukrainian patients during the war.