Directory of honorary doctorates

Dr. Shepherd is a Full Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto and served as the University Division Director for Medical Oncology from 1997 to 2003. In recognition of her contributions to cancer research and treatment, she received the Order of Ontario in 2007. In 2012, she won the British Thoracic Oncology Group International Award for Contributions to Lung Cancer Research, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Whiteman Award and Visiting Professorship and a Queen...
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Stanley Vollant is an Innu surgeon from Pessamit who grew up along the St. Lawrence in Quebec’s North Shore region. From an early age, he learned strong community values through the traditional teachings of his grandfather. Dr. Vollant did his secondary and post-secondary education in the Quebec City area and then earned his medical degree from the Université de Montréal in 1989. He completed his residency in general surgery in 1994, becoming Quebec’s first Aboriginal surgeon. In December of t...
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Annette Verschuren is Chair and CEO of NRStor Inc., an energy storage development company. Formerly she was president of The Home Depot Canada and Asia, overseeing the company’s growth from 19 to 179 stores (1996-2011) and its entry into China, and president and co-owner of Michaels of Canada, the country’s largest chain of arts and crafts stores. Ms. Verschuren began her career with the Cape Breton Development Corporation, a coal mining operation in Nova Scotia. Ms. Verschuren holds board pos...
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I obtained a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from Oxford University, UK in 1980, a PhD in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Toronto in 1986 and a Doctorate in Medicine from Oxford University in 1993.  My current position is Professor and Graduate Coordinator in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto.  I have the following cross appointments: Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto and Member of Active Medical Staff, Divisi...
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A member of the Gitxsan First Nation Cindy Blackstock is a Professor at the McGill School of Social Work and Executive Director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society. She has worked in Indigenous children’s rights for over 30 years and is honored to work with others to promote culturally based equity for First Nations children and their families using a combination of public education, engagement and, more recently, litigation. Although she is probably best known for her wo...
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Professor Catharine Stimpson, born in Bellingham, Washington State, is known in the academic community as a pioneer in women’s and gender studies. She is also one of the founders of feminist criticism and an eloquent author with a contagious desire to learn. She has been invited to speak at many conferences around the world, to discuss her writing and the knowledge she has acquired during her career. Stimpson is university professor and dean emerita of the Graduate School of Arts and Science a...
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Dominique Massiot studied at the École normale supérieure in Paris, one of the most prestigious and competitive institutions in France. After completing his PhD in geochemistry, Massiot joined the Centre for Research on Materials at High Temperature (CRMHT) in Orléans, France, and the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), also in France. His research focuses on the study of disorder in organic or hybrid materials through nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of materials in solid st...
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Peter Herrndorf was born in Amsterdam and grew up in Winnipeg. After completing degrees in political science and in English at the University of Manitoba, he went on to earn a law degree from Dalhousie University and a master’s degree in administration at the Harvard Business School. He began his career as an editor and reporter in the CBC television newsroom, rising to become head of TV Current Affairs Programming, where he played a pivotal role in the development and broadcasting of network-w...
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Donald Savoie holds the Canada Research Chair in Public Administration and Governance at the Université de Moncton. His research achievements are prodigious and his influence on Canadian public policy, Canadian public administration and Canadian society has been evident for years. Donald Savoie has won numerous prizes and awards, including: the 2015-2016 Donner Prize, the inaugural recipient of the 2016 Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick Book Award for Non-fiction for What Is Government Good...
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The former Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences at Brown University (during its 2007 renaming in honor of Mr. Warren Alpert), Dr. Adashi is an academic physician-executive, a graduate of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health program in Health Care Management (MS, 2005), and the former president of the Society for Reproductive Endocrinologists (SRE), the Society for Gynecologic Investigation (SGI), and the American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society(AGOS). Dr. Adashi received his...
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