About Me
Dr. Jacalyn Duffin, Professor Emerita, Queen's University, is at the forefront of medical history in Canada and has garnered a distinguished international reputation for advancing understanding and appreciation of the field to a broad audience. A practicing physician, hematologist, and historian, Duffin held the Hannah Chair for the History of Medicine from 1988 to 2017 and taught in Medicine, Philosophy, History and Education. She has an exceptional ability to combine her training and medical experience into ground-breaking historical research and is one of the first scholars to fully-integrate history into medical school curricula. The author of ten books and 150 peer-reviewed papers, her research demonstrates the importance of history in current practice and policy. Duffin has served as President of the Canadian Association for the History of Medicine and the prestigious American Association for the History of Medicine, which awarded her their Genevieve Miller Lifetime Achievement Award (2019) She has been inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame (2019) and named a member of the Order of Canada (2020).