Dr. Richard Gillies

Dr. Richard Gillies

The following is extracted from a tribute to Dr. Richard Gillies on the event of his announced retirement.
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Dick Gillies retires from his GFT position at the Ottawa Civic Hospital and the University of Ottawa June 30, 1996.Dick graduated in 1955 from Queen's University for which he has only partly forgiven by his local colleagues.He did most of his postgraduate training at McGill with time out in Vancouver and at the University of Michigan.He was appointed to the Active Staff at the Ottawa Civic Hospital in 1962 and was Ottawa's first gastroenterologist.

Throughout his career he has been active in the teaching program for gastroenterologists and in gastroenterology teaching for undergraduate and postgraduate students.His research interest has been clinical trials and his name has appeared on several articles in the New England Journal of Medicine as a participant in multicentre studies of inflammatory bowel disease.From 1969 to 1973 he was Secretary of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology rising through the ranks to become the Association's President in 1975-76.He has since served on many Royal College committees including Chairman of the Nucleus Committee on Gastroenterology and a member of the Examining Board in Pathology.

Dick was recently honoured by the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology who presented him with their Distinguished Service Award.As he retires he is also being recognized by the Department of Medicine at the University of Ottawa by their Distinguished Service Award.

Dick will be fondly remembered for his gentle sense of humour and kindly management of patients.He is known by his patients as a listener and one who considers their whole life situation not just the disturbed gut.All of his friends will recognize his passion for fishing which you may be surprised to learn has stood him in good stead in colonoscopy.He has a fisherman's zeal and tenacity for seeking out and catching polyps.