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In Memoriam: Dr. Stuart Eberhard
Office of the Dean
With sadness, we share the passing of Dr. Stuart Eberhard on March 3, 2026.
Stu was an Associate Professor at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, where he specialized in Internal Medicine with an interest in Gastroenterology. He practiced at London Health Science Centre’s Victoria Hospital for more than 40 years, traveling weekly to see patients at Kincardine and Four Counties Hospitals.
Stu was known as an outstanding diagnostician and clinical instructor. He also served in administrative roles as Chair of the Victoria Hospital Medical Advisory Committee and Chair of General Internal Medicine at Schulich Medicine & Dentistry.
Stu was a loyal son of London’s Old North neighbourhood having lived most of his entire life in and around the Forest City. Stu attended Ryerson P.S., Central Secondary School and Western University, where he received his Doctor of Medicine in 1967.
Stu had a lifelong connection with First-St. Andrew’s United Church and followed in his father Rudy’s footsteps for local politics and community volunteerism. He was elected to the Delaware Municipal Council and the Middlesex Board of Education, partnered with Sandi Caplan to create the Heart-to-Heart post cardiac education program, sat on the Board of the Ontario Heart and Stroke Foundation, the Victorian Order of Nurses, the Rotary Club of London, the Harvey Club and the London Affordable Housing Foundation. Internationally, Stu was a physician volunteer with the Operation Walk program in Guatemala.
Despite his long list of professional and community volunteer work, when asked, Stu said his fondest memories were those of his two marriages, his children and grandchildren. He took his children’s education seriously, keenly interested in what they had learned at school and ribbing them to explain ‘what happened to the other five marks’ on nearly perfect math tests.
Stu loved his northern summers at the family cottage on White Bear Island, Lake Temagami. Although he was a reluctant water baby, he loved to putter around his cabin and watch the family in action; fishing, swimming, boating and waterskiing. Stu enjoyed golf and bridge at the Hunt Club, even if his scores showed that the games didn’t always love him back. He was a news hound and an avid watcher of sports, whether it was cursing the Toronto Blue Jays, rooting for the Western Mustangs football team or cheering on his children and grandchildren while at their many sports and artistic pursuits.
Stu will be missed dearly by many in the medical community here in the region and beyond.
Read the full obituary online via Harris Funeral Homes.