THE DOYLE - JACKS PROFESSORSHIP IN OTOLARYNGOLOGICAL RESEARCH
In 2004, with assistance from the Vancouver Rotary Club, the estate of Mr. Walter Stewart, and other generous benefactors, the POF was able to work with UBC to create the “Dr. Patrick J. Doyle and Dr. Quentin D. Jacks Professorship in Otolaryngological Research”. This is now a permanent UBC professorship.
Following the retirement of the first Doyle/Jacks Professor, Dr. Schwarz, the POF met to determine its future research direction. The directors were of the opinion that the next breakthrough comparable to the cochlear implant will come from genetic research and genetic otolaryngology research was adopted as the preferred research focus for the POF. The current Doyle/Jacks Professor, Dr. Cathie Garnis, is investigating genetics related to otolaryngological related cancers.
There is much that can be said about the two co-founders after which the professorship is named and some very brief comments follow:
PATRICK JOHN DOYLE, M.D, FRCPS(C) November 17, 1926 - May 21, 2008
Pat was born and raised in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. He commenced his outstanding medical career at the University of Saskatchewan in 1943 and In 1944 he moved to the University of Alberta, receiving his B.Sc. in 1947 and his MD in 1949. In 1951 Pat completed his residency at St. Paul's and commenced family practice in Vancouver. He chose to specialize in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery (ear, nose and throat) and in 1958 he commenced his residency at the University of Oregon in Portland under Dr. David DeWeese. He was certified in Otolaryngology in Canada in 1961 and the United States in 1962. Pat practised ENT in Vancouver from 1961 to 1965. In 1965 he returned to Portland to join the faculty at the University of Oregon Medical School. He returned to Vancouver in 1970, and in 1972 was appointed Head of the Division of Otolaryngology at UBC, a position he held until his retirement in 1991, after which he continued to practice as Emeritus Professor. Under his leadership, the ENT program at UBC gained international prominence for training and research, producing many fine practitioners, teachers and researchers who have gone on to serve worldwide. Pat felt privileged that through his surgery, clinical practice, teaching, extensive writings and presentations, in Canada and internationally, he was able to help so many people, especially to recover their voices and hearing. His many accomplishments included pioneering the first Cochlear Implant program in Canada; he was the first surgeon in Canada to install this device, allowing a young woman to again hear sounds and understand speech. He instituted the Otolaryngology Research Facility. He was elected President of the American Board of Otolaryngology in 1989 - the first Canadian in any medical specialty to hold such a position. In 2006 his peers granted him the rare, international honour of a Citation from the Triological Society. A long time patron of the Vancouver Oral Centre for Deaf Children, in 2005 he received their Recognition Award at their Butterfly Ball. He received the University of Alberta's Distinguished Alumni Award in 1995. He was a visiting professor at 11 universities in Canada, the US and New Zealand, and was privileged to be Chair of the medical committee for the 1984 visit to Vancouver of Pope John Paul II. Pat survived a serious stroke in 2002, but continued his dedication to medicine and otolaryngology until he passed away in 2008 from complications that had their genesis in his stroke. Pat remained commited to the Pacific Otolaryngology Foundation, which he co-founded with Dr. Quentin Jacks in 1978. The POF is dedicated to ear, nose and throat research at UBC, and supports the Doyle/Jacks Professorship at UBC.
QUENTIN DOUGLAS JACKS, M.D., L.M.C.C February 16, 1917 - June 6, 2011
Quentin was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, spent his formative years in Southern Saskatchewan and graduated in medicine from the University of Manitoba Medical School in 1940. After a brief private practice, Quentin joined the Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve as a Medical Officer in 1941. Following several postings to naval divisions and hospitals, Dr. Jacks saw action in the North Atlantic convoys to the English Channel; Invasion of Europe and the Arctic to Murmansk, Russia. During service in England, Quentin worked at Basingstoke Neurological and Plastic Surgery Hospital, the only permanent Canadian Military Hospital in England during World War II. It was at Basingstoke that penicillin was used for the first time in continental Europe to facilitate the immediate surgery on wounds that were 36 to 72 hours old. Dr. Jacks was discharged from active duty in December, 1945. Quentin then joined a general practice-surgery in Winnipeg, was the founding president of the General Practitioners Association of Manitoba (Reuters stated it was the first such association in the world), moved to Rochester, Minnesota in 1952 to specialize in Ear, Nose and Throat, Head and Neck Plastic Surgery at the Mayo Clinic, and received certification from the American Specialty Board in E.N.T. in 1952 and the Canadian equivalent in 1957. In 1955 Dr. Jacks moved to Vancouver, B.C. and set up practice in E.N.T., Head and Neck Surgery obtaining staff appointments at Vancouver General, St. Paul’s, Burnaby General, St. Vincent’s and St. Joseph’s hospitals. Quentin introduced day-care surgery for many E.N.T. procedures and now the majority of E.N.T. surgeries are day surgeries. Dr. Jacks semi-retired in 1990 and became a consultant for the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Salvation Army Alcohol and Drug Addiction Programme. Quentin tirelessly gave back to his community as a founder, member and/or contributor to many organizations including: Member of the Board of Session of Shaughnessy United Church, Past President of Men’s Club of Shaughnessy United Church, Founding member, first President, and member Emeritus of the Pacific Otolaryngology Foundation, member of the American Board of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, active fellow of the Mayo Foundation of E.N.T., member of the Rotary Club of Vancouver, member of the Central Vancouver Y.M.C.A. and delegate to the Western Canadian Section Meeting (late 60’s to late 70’s) and Canadian Delegate to the parent Y.M.C.A. World Alliance Meeting, Geneva Switzerland, member Vancouver Central Y.M.C.A. Wise Men’s Section (70’s), Chair of the Y.M.C.A. World Service Section (70’s), member of the Council of the Alumni Association of the University of Manitoba (late 40’s), Manitoba Medical Association, Canadian Medical Association, St. Andrews United (Winnipeg), the Masonic Order (The Assiniboine) and Prince Rupert Chapter of the Royal Arch Masons – Honorary demittance from Royal Arch early and from the Assiniboine many years later, Charter Member of the Winnipeg Branch of the inactive Royal Canadian Navy Officers Reserve, set up after WWII (R.C.N.V.R H.M.C.S. Chippawa), Alternate Delegate from Western Canada to the World Medical Association meeting in New York City in 1950. Quentin was also a tireless contirbutor as a founder, member and emeritus director of the Pacific Otolaryngology Foundation, which he co-founded with Dr. Doyle in 1978. The POF is dedicated to ear, nose and throat research at UBC, and supports the Doyle/Jacks Professorship at UBC.