Announcement: Dr. Shelley McKellar Appointed to the AMS Healthcare Board of Directors
Dr. Nick Busing, Chair of the Board, Associated Medical Services Inc., is pleased to announce the appointment of Shelley McKellar as a Member of the Board of Directors.
Dr Shelley McKellar is the Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine in the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry and Associate Professor of History in the Faculty of Social Science at Western University. Dr McKellar’s scholarship focuses on the history of surgery and the history of medical technology, with a special interest in the history of instruments and devices, heart disease, and medical biography.
She is author of Artificial Hearts: The Allure and Ambivalence of a Controversial Medical Technology (2018), Medicine and Technology in Canada, 1900-1950 (2008), and Surgical Limits: The Life of Gordon Murray (2003), as well as co-editor of Essays in Honour of Michael Bliss: Figuring the Social (with Elsbeth Heaman and Alison Li, 2008). She has published articles in various journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, Technology and Culture, and the Canadian Bulletin of Medical History.
She was an invited member of the Expert Advisory Group for the Medical Sensations exhibit at the recently re-opened Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa; an invited member of the History and Heritage Advisory Committee at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada; an invited contributor to the ‘boot camp’ curriculum of the American College of Surgeons; and an elected council member of the American Association for the History of Medicine. She has served on numerous research grant review committees, book prize committees, academic meeting program committees, and as manuscript reviewer for various academic presses and journals.
Associated Medical Services Inc. (AMS Healthcare) is a small Canadian Charitable Organization with an impressive history as a catalyst for change. By innovating healthcare education and practice, supporting leadership development and advancing research, in both the humanities and health, AMS strives to improve the healthcare of all Canadians.
