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Pinsky, Leonard
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July 2, 1935-January 17, 2020
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Leonard Pinsky was a Canadian medical geneticist and the first chair of the Department of Human Genetics, created within the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University in 1994. He directed both the Centre for Human Genetics (1979-1993) and the McGill Department of Human Genetics (1993-1999). Pinsky was recruited to the McGill Group in Medical Genetics in 1981 as its co-Director with Charles Scriver.
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McGill Group in Medical Genetics (1972-2009)
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McGill Group in Medical Genetics is the associate of Pinsky, Leonard
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https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98802578.html
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http://reporter-archive.mcgill.ca/Rep/r3116/pinsky.html
https://montrealgazette.remembering.ca/obituary/leonard-pinsky-1078282797
Canning, Christopher, et al. "Medical genetics at McGill: the history of a pioneering research group." Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 30.1 (2013): 31-54.