Class of 1970 Commemorative Biographical Book

C H A R L E S S . S H AV E R

Address: P.O. Box 11063, Station H, Ottawa, Ontario K2H 7T8, Canada Email: c.shaver.is@rogers.com ● Phone: H: 613-825-1147 ● C: 613-890-1147

Postgraduate Training/Certification: Internship: Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, 1970-71 Internal Medicine Residency: Toronto General Hospital, 1971-72 Nephrology Specialty training: Toronto General Hospital, 1972-73 Cardiology Specialty training: Toronto Western Hospital, 1973-74 Residency: Chief Resident in Medicine, Ottawa Civic Hospital, 1974-74 Professional and Volunteer Awards and Recognition: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada since 1974 Fellow of the American College of Physicians since 1990 Life Member of Ontario Medical Association (one of 12 awarded in 2010) Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, October 2012 Leadership Activities: Former President of the Professional Association of Interns and Residents of Ontario Former Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Society of Internal Medicine Former President of Cedarhill Community Association Former President of the Medical Staff, Queensway Carleton Hospital Former President of the Medical-Legal Society of Ottawa-Carleton Former President of the Ottawa Academy of Medicine Former Chairman of District 8 (Eastern Ontario) of the Ontario Medical Association Former Chairman of the Section on General Internal Medicine of the Ontario Medical Association Former Peer Assessor for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario Former Physical Diagnosis instructor for the University of Ottawa Current Employment: Part-time consultations and follow-up visits for Robertson Appletree Clinic, Ottawa, Ontario

Name(s) of Children and Grandchildren: Children: Andrew Eric Shaver, Christine Elizabeth Shaver, Matthew Stuart Shaver Grandchildren: Lorenzo and Luca Narrative: I was born in Montreal. My father - a neurosurgeon who trained under Dr. Wilder Penfield - moved to the U.S. when I was two years old. We lived in Cincinnati, Ohio and then Topeka, Kansas. Due to severe hypertension, he could qualify for only minimal life insurance. When he died of a myocardial infarction during my first week in high school, my mother returned to nursing. Her lawyer encouraged me to apply to schools in the East. I received scholarships to Princeton University and to Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Because of the Martin Luther King riots, which I personally witnessed in April 1968, I decided to return permanently to Canada in 1970 when I finished my studies at Hopkins. Houses were overly expensive in Toronto, and my wife and I moved to Ottawa in 1974 and designed a passive-solar house on a one-acre lot adjoining a golf course so that I could pursue my hobby of gardening. Although Ottawa is a city of about one million people, it takes me only 10 minutes to drive through the greenbelt to my Appletree Clinic, and for most of my trip, there is a forest on both sides. I cannot think of many other cities where this would be possible.

Spouse or Partner’s Name: Elizabeth Ann (Barrett) Shaver, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario

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