• Deceased
• London, Ontario, Canada

Order of Canada

• Companion of the Order of Canada

  • Awarded on: May 6, 1998
  • Invested on: August 19, 1998

  One of the world's most distinguished neurosurgeons, he has established a reputation for excellence and innovation that is unparalleled. An international authority on brain aneurysms, he has pushed medical boundaries by finding ways to operate on areas of the brain that were previously considered unreachable. He has headed senior associations such as the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons and the American College of Surgeons. Within his own community, he also had a major leadership role in founding and developing the John P. Robarts Research Institute in London. This is a promotion within the Order.

• Officer of the Order of Canada

  • Awarded on: December 20, 1982
  • Invested on: April 20, 1983

  Dr. Drake is recognized as one of the best neurosurgeons of our time. Having joined the medical faculty of the University of Western Ontario forty years ago, he became Professor of clinical neurological sciences in 1969 and Chairman of Surgery in 1974. In his efforts to find solutions to unsolved problems he has broken down the barriers between disciplines in order to develop a treatment for arterial aneurism, and has made important advances in surgery.