About Lucille Teasdale-Corti
Lucille Teasdale-Corti (January 30, 1929 – August 1, 1996) was a Canadian physician and pediatric surgeon, who worked in Uganda from 1961 until her death in 1996. With her husband she co-founded a university hospital in the north of Uganda. == Early life and education == Born in Montreal, Quebec, on 30 January 1929, Lucille Teasdale was the fourth of seven children. Her father was a generous butcher in Montreal’s working-class, East End. In 1941, she entered the Catholic high school belonging to one of the first congregations of nuns established in Canada and dedicated to education. Upon hearing testimony from some nuns who had worked as missionaries in Nanjing, China, she decided, at 12 years of age, to become a doctor "in the Indies." She won a scholarship to enter the University of Montreal’s Faculty of Medicine in 1950. In her class of 110 students only ten women were enrolled. Eight of these female students continued their studies past the first year. She graduated cum laude in 1955 and carried out her internship in Montreal’s Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine, a pediatric and obstetric university health centre affiliated with the University of Montreal. During the internship, she met an Italian doctor, Piero Corti, who carried out two residencies (1955/56 and 1957/58) at Sainte Justine Hospital during his postgraduate training in Pediatrics at Pavia University, Italy.
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