J.A.P. Paré

On February 24, 2013, Jules Arthur Peter Pare MDCM, BSc, FACP, Professor Emeritus of Medicine, McGill University (Montreal, QC, Canada) died at 95 years of age in Montreal after a long and full life. Dr Pare grew up in Montreal and received his MD degree from McGill University in 1943. He trained in Internal Medicine and Respiratory Medicine at McGill and in 1948–1949 was a postdoctoral fellow in Chest Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA, USA. He then returned to Montreal, where he spent the duration of his career. In 1975, he became Professor of Medicine at McGill, and between 1975 and 1983 was the combined Respiratory Division Head of all McGill teaching hospitals (Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal General Hospital, Montreal Chest Hospital and Jewish General Hospital). J.A.P. Pare Professor Pare was a masterful clinician and teacher and influenced two generations of respiratory physicians at McGill and these have, in turn, affected Respiratory Medicine across all parts of the globe. With his friend, Dr Robert Fraser, a chest radiologist at McGill, he published their textbook, …