Charles Miller Fisher MD

Charles Miller Fisher was born in Waterloo in 1913 and attended K-W Collegiate. After taking his medical degree at the University of Toronto in 1938, he became a Surgeon Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Canadian Navy.

He spent most of the war years in a prisoner-of-war camp and this experience was influential in stimulating his interest in the nervous system which led to pioneering research in brain strokes of all types.

He lectured at McGill University, Montreal (1950-54) and then became Harvard University’s neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston.

Fisher was a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and was awarded the gold medal in medicine in 1952. He was honoured with an L.L.D. by Waterloo Lutheran University (1971) and D.Sc. by McGill University (1984), won the Jacoby Award of the American Neurological Association (1982) and the Mihara Prize, Japan (1993).