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Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Ewing, Burke J.
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Description area
Dates of existence
1908-
History
Dr. J. Burke Ewing was born in 1908, in Westport, Ontario. He studied medicine at Queen's University. During his medical career he was a clinical tutor and senior house officer in surgery at the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh Western Hospital. He had also been professor and chairman of the University's Department of Surgery from 1948 until 1974, at the same time holding the surgen-in, chief position at the Hospital.