Dr. Ali Rajput, head, Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, sits at his desk.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Ali H. Rajput grew up in Pakistan and graduated at the top of his class in Medicine from the University of Sind, Pakistan. He did a Neurology residency and obtained a Masters in Neurology at the University of Michigan. Dr. Rajput did one year of Neuropathology training at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and a one-year sabbatical leave at the Mayo Clinic, studying epidemiology of movement disorders. Dr. Rajput joined the University of Saskatchewan medical faculty in 1967 and served as professor and head of Neurology. He started the Saskatchewan Movement Disorders Program in 1968 that is now widely known as the best program of this type in the world. Dr. Rajput founded the Saskatchewan Parkinson’s Disease Foundation, the Movement Disorder Group of Canada, and played a major role in founding the annual Telemiracle fundraiser in Saskatchewan. He has served on several national and international committees, including Parkinson’s Disease Working Group of the World Health Organization. Dr. Rajput has received many major awards, including the Morton Schulman Award from the Parkinson Society Canada for “…humanity and caring for his patients”, the Spirit of the Royal University Hospital Award, the Saskatchewan Order of Merit, an Officer of the Order of Canada, and Best Researcher Award University of Saskatchewan. In 2005 Dr. Rajput’s work was chosen by the Saskatchewan Medical Association as one of the four most significant advances in Medicine in the 100-year history of the province. Dr. Rajput was chosen Physician of the Year and Saskatoon Citizen of the Year in 2006. Rajput Way in the Brighton neighborhood of Saskatoon honours him.

Bio/Historical Note: Image appeared in 5 Sept. 1997 issue of OCN.