Background
Farkas, Leslie Gabriel was born on April 18, 1915 in Ruzomberok, Czechoslovakia. Son of Charles Joseph and Olga (Kustra) Farkas.
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Leslie Gabriel Farkas
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Doctor of Medicine, University Istropolitana, Bratislava,1941. Doctor of Philosophy, Charles University, Prague, 1959, Doctor of Science, 1968. Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.C. (honorary), University Ottawa, 1973.
Career
Resident surgeon Military Hospital and Field Service, Czechoslovakia, 1941-1945;resident in plastic surgery Charles University, Prague, 1945-1948, assistant professor, 1948-1965, associate professor, 1965-1968. Deputy director plastic surgery research laboratory, director division congress anomalies Czechoslovak Academy Sciences, 1963-1968. Clinical fellow division plastic surgery Hospital Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1968-1969, research fellow division experimental surgery, 1969-1970, assistant scientist Research Institute, 1970-1977, senior scientist, 1977-1981, director plastic surgery laboratory Research Institute, 1970-1981, assistant professor, 1970-1978, associate professor of University Toronto, 1978-1981, special research lecturer, 1981-1982, associate research professor, since 1982.
Consultant department surgery and Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, since 1981, director craniofacial measur. laboratory, 1986;consultant cleft palate program U. Iowa, 1975-1978, department neurology ShriverCtr., Waltham, Massachusetts, 1984-1995, division plastic surgery Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Quebec.
Member panel 5th International Congressional Plastiv Reconstructive Surgery, Melbourne, Australia, 1971. Member panel cleft-lip noseAm.
Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association, Hilton Head, South Carolina., 1991. Invited visiting expert medical anthropometry Minister
Health Government of Singapore, 1987.
Invited teacher course medical anthropometry orthodontics Orthodontic and Human Sciences Congress U. Medical School, Szeged, Hungary, 1996. Medical Research Council grantee, 1970-1972. Atkinson Charitable Foundation grantee, 1973-1976.
Smythe Foundation Canada grantee, 1976-1981, Physicians Superior vena cava syndrome, Incorporated. grantee, 1991.
Recipient Certified Excellence for research in attractive face American Society Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, Boston, 1985, Ales Hrdlicka Commemorative medal Chechoslovakia Academy Sciences, Prague, 1992, Visiting Scholar award department pediatrics faculty medicine U. (Canada) Calgary, 1992, Salamon Frigyes Commemorative medal Orthodontic Society Hungary, 1996.
Achievements
Membership
Member Academy Medicine Toronto, American Society Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (member of faculty symposium reconstructive auricle 1972), Canada Society Plastic Surgeons, Plastic Surgery Research Council, Canada Association Anatomists, Biomat. Society Canada, Canada Craniofacial Society, International Society Craniomaxillofacial Surgery, Japanese Society Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (honorary).ad and Face in Medicine, 1981.
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Married Susanna Gál, October 23, 1971.
