Officer of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: December 1, 2017
• Invested on: November 20, 2018

Joseph B. Martin, O.C.
Montréal, Quebec and Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Joseph Martin is one of North America’s pre-eminent administrators in academic medicine. Early in his career, he made his mark through influential publications as a professor and chair of neurology and neurosurgery at McGill University, before advancing broader excellence in health care as dean of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and at Harvard University. Over the course of three decades, he has emphasized cutting-edge patient care and established numerous research centres, spurring advances in Huntington’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, cancer and HIV/AIDS.