Bailey, A. A. (Allan Archibald), 1910-1967

Dr. Allan Archibald Bailey was born on March 22, 1910, in Strathcona, Alberta.

He earned his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Toronto in 1935 and went on to complete postgraduate work at the University of Minnesota, earning a Master of Science in Neurology and Psychiatry in 1940. In 1938, he married Dr. Mary Marshall. During World War II, Dr. Bailey served in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps as a neuropsychiatry specialist. After the war, Dr. Bailey worked in Montreal and then at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where he became head of the Section of Neurology. He joined the University of Saskatchewan in 1954 as an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Head of Neurology and was promoted to full Professor in 1957. Dr. Bailey was also President of the Canadian Neurological Society from 1957 to 1958. In 1962, Dr. Bailey was promoted to head of the Department of Medicine at the College of Medicine and Chief of the Department of Medicine at University Hospital. Dr. Bailey and his wife helped found the Unitarian Fellowship of Saskatoon.

He died on October 3, 1967, in Olmsted, Minnesota.