Background
Courtemanche, Albert Douglas was born on November 16, 1929 in Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada. Son of Melville Albert C. and Margaret (Simpson) LaRonde.
Courtemanche, Albert Douglas was born on November 16, 1929 in Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada. Son of Melville Albert C. and Margaret (Simpson) LaRonde.
Doctor of Medicine, University Toronto, 1955.
Intern, Toronto General Hospital, 1955-1956; intern, Shaughnessy Hospital, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, 1956-1957; resident, Shaughnessy Hospital, 1956-1957; resident, Bangour General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland., 1958-1959; senior house surgeon, Hospital for Sick Children, London, 1959; senior registrar, Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury, England, 1959-1960; research fellow, U. B.C., Vancouver, 1962-1963; clinical instructor plastic surgery, U. B.C., Vancouver, 1963-1971; clinical assistant professor, U. B.C., Vancouver, 1971-1973; clinical associate professor, U. B.C., Vancouver, 1973-1979; clinical professor, U. B.C., Vancouver, since 1979; head division plastic surgery, U. B.C./Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, 1975-1992; associate dean postgraduate education faculty medicine, U. B.C., Vancouver, since 1989; active surgical staff, Vancouver General Hospital, 1962-1992; head division plastic surgery, Vancouver General Hospital, since 1975; active surgical staff, Children's Hospital, Vancouver, 1962-1992; consultant surgical staff, University Hospital, Vancouver, 1976-1992.
Chairman medical Executive Committee and medical board Vancouver General Hospital, 1982. Fellow Royal College Physicians and Surgeons Canada (president elect 1992). Member Canada Society Plastic Surgeons (president 1982-1983), American Society Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, American Burn Association, American Cleft Palate Association, American Association Plastic Surgeons.
Married Anne Constance Douse, March 20, 1950. Children: Douglas John, David Michael, Peter, Nancy Anne.