Margaret Grace Norman, MD, FRCP(C) October 19, 1933-May 17, 2015.

Abstract

With the passing this spring of Margaret Norman, MD, FRCP(C), the American Association of Neuropathologists and indeed the worldwide neuropathology community have lost a wonderful scholar and practitioner and a remarkable human being. Pediatric neuropathologist extraordinaire, author, researcher, mentor, ethicist, confidante, friend, and humanitarian, Margaret's example of personal and professional behavior, achievement, and dedication set a standard to which all of us, and those who follow us, should aspire. Perhaps her upbringing predestined her for a lifetime of selfless service. She was born in Japan as the child of United Church missionaries and grew up in Vancouver. She obtained her medical degree from the University of Toronto and worked as a government doctor in Frobisher Bay in the Northwest Territories among the least advantaged of the Canadian population before returning to Toronto where she specialized in pathology and then pediatric pathology at the Hospital for Sick Children. After a further fellowship in pediatric pathology at Columbia in New York, she specialized in pediatric neuropathology at the Massachusetts General Hospital before returning to Toronto as a staff neuropathologist at the Hospital for Sick Children in 1970. She moved to the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario at the University of Ottawa as associate professor and chief pathologist where she remained for 6 years before moving …