Ronald D. Guttmann MD, FRCPC, FCAHS, was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1936 and received his post secondary school education at the University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...

, receiving a B.A. Magna Cum Laude in 1958, and a B.S. and M.D. degree in 1961. He did his Medical Internship at the University of California San Francisco, military service in the USNR at the Tissue Bank http://www.nmrc.navy.mil/pdf/Timeline.pdf, National Naval Medical Center

National Naval Medical Center

The National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, USA — commonly known as the Bethesda Naval Hospital — was for decades the flagship of the United States Navy's system of medical centers. A federal institution, it conducted medical and dental research as well as providing health care for...

, Bethesda, Medical Residency on the II & IV (Harvard) Medical Service at Boston City Hospital

Boston City Hospital

The Boston City Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, was "intended for the use and comfort of poor patients, to whom medical care will be provided at the expense of the city, and .....

, and a Research & Clinical Fellowship at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital(now Brigham & Women’s Hospital) and Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School

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. In 1969, he was appointed Associate in Medicine at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and permanently moved to Montreal, Canada in 1970 to become Director of the Transplantation Service at the Royal Victoria Hospital and McGill University Clinic and Associate Professor of Medicine, McGill University Faculty of Medicine

McGill University Faculty of Medicine

The Faculty of Medicine is one of the constituent faculties of McGill University. It was established in 1823 as the Montreal Medical Institution, and became the first faculty of McGill College in 1829; it was the first medical faculty to be established in Canada....

. During his academic career he directed an active basic and clinical research laboratory program focused on transplantation immunobiology, immunogenetics, immunosuppression, and long term-complications of transplant patients. He also developed an interest in social and ethical issues of transplantation, organ shortage, and human rights abuses.

Professional Organizations

He has held numerous executive positions in professional organizations such as The (International) Transplantation Society http://www.transplantation-soc.org/index.php, American Society of Transplant Physicians (renamed American Society of Transplantation, Canadian Transplantation Society http://www.cst-transplant.ca, XVII World Congress of The Transplantation Society Inc. http://www.transplantation-soc.org/retrospective.php, is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada http://rcpsc.medical.org/, is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences http://www.cahs-acss.ca/e/fellowships/citation_list2006.php, and is an Emeritus Member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation http://www.the-asci.org/, and the Association of American Physicians

Association of American Physicians

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Awards & honours

• Bethune Exchange Professor, Beijing Medical College (1982). http://www1.bjmu.edu.cn/E_bjmu2/index_e3.htm
• Mary Jane Kugel Award, Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International (1986). http://www.jdrf.org/
• The Medical Award, Kidney Foundation of Canada (1987). http://www.kidney.ca/
• Roche-ASTP Distinguished Achievement Award of the American Society of Transplant Physicians (1996). http://www.a-s-t.org/index2.cfm?Section=research_funding&content=past_award_recipients.html
• Lifetime Achievement Award of the Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Centre, Ahmedabad, India (1996). http://gujhealth.gov.in/medi_edu/kidney_disease.htm
• Lifetime Achievement Award of the Canadian Society of Transplantation (2001). http://www.muhc.ca/media/ensemble/2001may/awards/
• Establishment of the “Dr. Ronald D. Guttmann Transplant Scholarship” at the Royal Victoria Hospital Foundation (2001). http://www.muhc.ca/media/ensemble/2001nov/transplant/

Leadership & founder affiliations

• Director of the first multidisciplinary Transplant Service in Canada at the Royal Victoria Hospital & McGill University Clinic (1970).
• Co-founder and first President of the American Society of Transplant Physicians (now called American Society of Transplantation. http://www.a-s-t.org/index2.cfm?Section=about_ast&Sub1Section=history&content=25th_ann_newsletter.html(1982).
• Co-founder and President of the Canadian Transplantation Society http://www.cst-transplant.ca (1979, 1985).
• Founder and former Director of the McGill University Centre for Clinical Immunobiology and Transplantation (1988).
• Co-founder of the International Forum for Transplant Ethics (IFTE) (1993).
• Founder and President of the Institute of Policy Research in Medicine and Emerging-technologies (IPRIME)http://www.iprime.org(1998).
• Co-founder, BioMosaics Inc. http://www.biomosaics.com (1999).

Retirement

Currently he is Emeritus Professor of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal; Executive Vice- President, Clinical and International Development, BioMosaics Inc.; and an active biomedical and biotechnology industry consultant. Dr. Guttmann is an author of more than 310 original publications.