The Dr. J. Hugh and Miriam McGuire Lectureship in Surgery was established with a generous gift made to the University by Miriam McGuire in honor of her late husband Dr. J. Hugh McGuire, a devoted General Surgeon at Humber River Regional Hospital (formerly York Finch) from 1971 to 2003. Prior to specializing in surgery, Dr. McGuire worked in general practice at Banff Community, Mississauga General Hospital, Toronto East General Hospitals. He graduated from the Queen’s Faculty of Medicine in 1963. Miriam McGuire, RN, CPN (C), worked at the same hospital from 1978 to 2002. The purpose of this donation is in support of a Visiting Scholar in the Queen’s Department of Surgery. This Visiting Scholar will bring special expertise to Queen’s Surgery and stimulate new ideas and new methodologies among Queen’s medical scientists and clinicians as well as provide new concepts to students. The program as a whole will seek to highlight medical/surgical innovation which shall be of interest to general surgeons.