Dr. Nadine Caron will be inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame (CMHF) for 2025. She serves as the co-director of the UBC Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Health and is also a professor in the University of British Columbia’s Department of Surgery and Northern Medical Program. The honorees join a class of six individuals being recognized for exceptional leadership and outstanding contributions to medicine and health sciences to significantly improve human health.
Dr. Caron commented “I am deeply humbled and the recognition symbolizes the backing I have received from those who were believing in my aspirations.”
She’s a member of the Sagamok Anishnawbek First Nations. Dr. Caron is the very first female First Nations student to have graduated from the University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine, and Canada’s first female Indigenous general surgeon. A surgeon and oncologist, she has led pioneering projects and initiatives with cancer care, personalized medicine, and access to healthcare services across northern British Columbia’s remote and rural communities.
These studies directly relate to health disparities experienced by Indigenous peoples, at the heart of her research, medical education, and her practice.
In 2020, Dr. Caron was appointed the inaugural First Nations Health Authority Chair in Cancer and Wellness at UBC where she is developing strategies to better understand cancer in the Indigenous peoples of British Columbia and throughout Canada.
The Canadian Medical Hall of Fame honors excellence in health and welcomes these six individuals whose contributions have improved Canada and the world,” said Dr. Lehana Thabane, chair CMHF.
Dr. Caron is co-founder of the UBC Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Health established in 2014; she advances Indigenous health through culturally relevant innovation, education, and research. She is also instrumental in establishing the country’s first Indigenous-focused graduate certificate in public health. Since she initiated as the director of the Northern BC Biobank Initiative, she has greatly enhanced accessibility into clinical and genomic studies for northern communities.
A formal celebration by McMaster University’s Faculty of Health Sciences will take place on June 19, 2025, in Hamilton, Ontario to confer induction status upon the recipients chosen for the CMHF.
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