Background
Born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Louis-Athanase David and Antonia Nantel, he received his Bachelor"s degree from the University of Paris in 1939 and his Doctor of Medicine from the Université de Montréal in 1944.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Louis-Athanase David and Antonia Nantel, he received his Bachelor"s degree from the University of Paris in 1939 and his Doctor of Medicine from the Université de Montréal in 1944.
University of Paris; Université de Montréal.
He specialized in cardiology in Boston at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1946 and in Paris at the Hôpital Lareboisière in 1947. Upon his return to Montreal, he worked at the Notre-Dame Hospital. He founded the Montreal Heart Institute in 1954.
lieutenant was under his direction that the first heart transplant ever performed in Canada was carried out at the Institute, in 1968.
In 1985, he was appointed to the Canadian Senate on the recommendation of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. He sat as a Progressive Conservative senator representing the Senatorial division of Bedford, Quebec.
He retired on his 75th birthday in 1994. In 2011, he was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.
A few years after Nellie Maillard"s death (1969), he was remarried to Doctor Yvette Lemire.