Claude Bertrand | |
Birth Date: | 28 March 1917 |
Birth Place: | Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada |
Death Place: | Montreal, Quebec |
Known For: | Neurosurgeon |
Awards: | Order of Canada |
Claude Bertrand (March 28, 1917 - August 7, 2014) was a Canadian neurosurgeon.[1]
Born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1934 and a Doctor of Medicine from Université de Montréal in 1940. Elected a Rhodes Scholar in 1940, he went to Oxford in 1946, to work under Professor LeGros Clarke and Professor Graham Weddell.
In 1971, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada "for his research work and his contribution to the advancement of neurosurgery".
He died on August 7, 2014.[2] He was 97 years old.