Zoom photos courtesy of Prof. Margot Mackay
Leila retired from Biomedical Communications on June 30, 2020 after 37 exceptional years of teaching and research. BMC threw her a Zoom party on June 26. Leila expressed her gratitude in a speech called Creative Intelligence and the Medical Artist (download PDF).
I am so grateful for the opportunities that have been provided to me as a faculty member of Biomedical Communications, at the University of Toronto. I am forever grateful to former Director, Prof. Nancy Grahame Joy who gave me one of the greatest gifts in my life, a part-time faculty appointment in Spring of 1983 upon my graduation from Art as Applied to Medicine. It is true, time does fly when you are having fun. I stand before you 37 years later still filled with great passion for our profession, but formally retiring from teaching and research supervision in Biomedical Communications. Beyond the university I will continue with a few selected research and writing initiatives. Because, as you all well know, the creative mind never really retires.