Melville G. Kerr, B.Sc., M.B., Ch.B., F.R.C.O.G., F.R.C.S.(Ed.)
Dr. Kerr is Chairman of the Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Calgary and Head of Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Foothills Hospital. To me, he is representative of those distinguished people who came to Calgary in recent years-in this case 1977.
Dr. Kerr has many professional and academic accomplishments to his credit, most of which were earned during what he modestly refers to as a rather uninteresting career.
In 1974, however, his career led him to India and Thailand for the World Health Organization. Subsequently, he was asked to advise the Institute of Medicine in Nepal on the possible introduction of a medical school at Tribhuvan University, Nepal's only university.
In 1982, Dr. Kerr was the initiator of the Nepal Project which began the formal affiliation between the University of Calgary and the Institute of Medicine in Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal. A collaborative program trains post-graduate students as District Medical Officers for Nepal. In this program, Alberta doctors go to Nepal to teach and Nepalese doctors come to Alberta to learn.