Background
He was born in Barrie, Ontario, studied medicine at the University of Toronto and interned at The Hospital for Sick Children and the Toronto General Hospital.
educator physician orthopedic surgeon
He was born in Barrie, Ontario, studied medicine at the University of Toronto and interned at The Hospital for Sick Children and the Toronto General Hospital.
Doctor of Medicine, University Toronto, 1903. Doctor of Science honoris causa, McGill University, 1948.
Gallie spent one year at the Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled in New York City in 1905. He returned to Toronto the following year and joined the Hospital for Sick Children as an orthopaedic surgeon. From 1907 to 1910, he worked as a junior surgeon at Toronto General before returning to the Hospital for Sick Children.
In 1921, he became chief surgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children and, in 1928, became a professor of surgery and chief surgeon at Toronto General.
He established a training course for residents in surgery that would qualify them to take examinations with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. In 1941, he was named president of the American College of Surgeons.
He retired from general surgery in 1947. Gallie died of squamous-cell carcinoma at the age of 77.
He was named to the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame in 2001.
Served as captain, Canadian Army Medical Corps, 1917, major (acting), 1919. Fellow Royal College of surgeons of England (honorary gold medal 1947), Royal College of Surgeons of Canada, Australian Computer Society (past president). Member American Orthopedic Association (president), American Surgical Association (president 1948), Central Surgical Association, American Interurban Surgical Society, American Interurban Orthopaedic Society, Canada Physiological Society, Canada Medical Association, Canadian Society of Clin Surgs., British Orthopaedic Society (honorary), International Orthopaedic Society, International Society of Surgeons, Presbyterian.
Clubs: York, Rosedale Golf (Toronto).
Married Janet Louise Hart, March 3, 1914. Children: Alan Edward, Marion Louise, Hugh Richmond.