UNIVERSITY of British Columbia associate professor in radiology Dr. Faisal Khosa has received the prestigious McLaughlin-Gallie Visiting Professorship.

This is awarded by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and is given every year to one or two experts in Canada.

Khosa received the 2021 award for delivering lectures at the Canadian Association of Radiologists annual meeting on April 8 and at McGill University on April 13. The theme is “Equity, diversity and inclusion.”

The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada established the McLaughlin-Gallie Visiting Professorship in 1960. The professorship commemorates the outstanding contributions to surgical science of Dr. William Edward Gallie of Toronto, who died in September 1959. Gallie was a professor of surgery and dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He was a close friend of Colonel R. Samuel McLaughlin, founder of the McLaughlin Foundation.

McLaughlin-Gallie Visiting Professors may be selected from any country in the world and may represent any branch of medicine. The candidate should be an outstanding contributor and innovator in their field.

KHOSA has been honoured with a slew of awards over the years. Just last year, he received a Global Humanitarian Award from the American College of Radiology Foundation (ACRF) for his positive global impact on radiology services.

For more than two decades, he has collected funds to support the provision of X-ray, mammography and ultrasound equipment to healthcare institutions in low-to middle-income countries, including Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He also founded the Radiology Track of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine.

In 2020, Khosa received the May Cohen Equity and Gender Award by the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada, as well as the Dudley Pennell Research Award by Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance.

And in 2019, he was honoured with the Canadian Association of Radiologists Award.