Sydney Segal

Sydney Segal, CM OBC (1920 – June 21, 1997) was a Canadian pediatrician and neonatologist.

He was "actively involved in the areas of medical ethics, fetal medicine, drug-addicted newborns, respiratory pediatrics, children with AIDS and sudden infant death syndrome".

[1] Born in Montreal, Quebec, Segal received a Bachelor of Science degree from McGill University in 1941 and then served in World War II.

In 1956, he received his Certification in Paediatrics from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

[2] In 1956, he joined the attending staff of Vancouver General Hospital and was appointed an instructor in the Department of Paediatrics in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia.