On June 1st we wrote about Dr. John Semple receiving an Honorary Doctorate at OCADU. We recently learned that he also received another award: the Lavina Lickley Lifetime Achievement Award from the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto.
The Lavina Lickley Lifetime Achievement Award “…recognizes faculty members who have demonstrated significant contributions to the Department of Surgery throughout their careers at the University of Toronto. These individuals will have provided a lifetime of exceptional professionalism through leadership, research, teaching, exemplary clinical care, administration or public service.”
Dr. Lickley was a pioneering cancer surgeon and researcher at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto. In her long and distinguished career she trained many surgeons, and mentored many researchers, one of whom was John Semple.
After receiving his BScAAM degree from the (then) Art as Applied to Medicine Department at U of T, Dr. Semple went on to earn his MD at McMaster University and received his surgical training and MSc at the University of Toronto.
He has gone on to become: a Professor of Surgery at the University of Toronto; Head of the Division of Plastic Surgery, Women’s College Hospital; Chair in Surgical Breast Cancer Research at the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation; and many other positions and accolades to numerous to mention.