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Henryk Marian Wójcicki

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Henryk Marian Wójcicki

First name:
Henryk Marian
Last Name:
Wójcicki
Date of birth:
1916
Date of death:
2006
Age:
90
Profession:
physician (doctor)
Honours and awards:
Order of Canada
Biography:

Henryk Marian Wójcicki (1916-2006), doctor of medicine. He graduated in medicine from the University of Edinburgh, then wrote his doctoral thesis on war neuroses, qualified as a specialist psychiatrist and headed the Neuropsychiatry Unit at the 1st Polish Military Hospital in Taymouth Castle, Perthshire, Scotland. In 1947 he was head of the Neuropsychiatric Unit at the Polish Veterans Hospital in Penley, Wales. In 1953, he and his family emigrated to Canada, where he was clinical director at a large psychiatric hospital in North Battleford, Saskatchewan. In 1954, he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He held several senior positions at Edmonton General, Gray Nuns and Misericordia hospitals, and was a clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta. He chaired the Addictions Research Group and was instrumental in establishing the Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission (AADAC). In the last years of his career, he served as a member of the Alberta Board of Review and the Mental Health Review Panel. An activist in the Canadian Polish community. For many years he served as President of the Polish-Canadian Congress, Alberta Branch. In 1989, he was awarded the Order of Canada (Member).

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