Dr Cam Coady Foundation

The Dr. Cam Coady Foundation was established to commemorate Dr. Coady’s great love of medicine and to ensure that his goals and objectives to achieve excellence in health care continue to be fostered. The Foundation will continue Dr. Coady’s dedication to the general improvement in patient care and to the advancement of education and research in the general operation of medical care.

Dr. Cam Coady was born in Vancouver, educated at Vancouver College and the University of British Columbia, and subsequently graduated in medicine from McGill University in 1949. He became Director of Laboratories at the Royal Columbian Hospital in January 1958 and developed a unique health care delivery program for laboratory medicine in the Fraser Valley area of British Columbia. This program provides a professionally integrated service for both hospitals and out-patients of the area, and includes services to 13 hospitals (over 2,000 acute care and 1,000 extended care beds), the B.C. Coroners’ Service and the out-patient laboratories of B.C. Biomedical Laboratories Ltd. The emphasis is on excellence in service to patients and physicians as recognized in the citation from the B.C. Medical Association where they described him as "the architect of lab medicine as it exists within organized medicine in British Columbia". Cam was awarded the B.C. Medical Association’s Silver Medal Award for his service to the profession on October 2, 1987.

Medical Programs

Recognition of individual excellence in medicine in British Columbia is provided by way of the annual award of the Dr. Cam Coady Medal.

Educational Programs

1. Support of students in need in medicine and technology at UBC and BCIT.

2. Support of continuing education of physicians and laboratory technologists to improve health care as a whole.

Community Programs

1. Support of patient care including hospice work within the community and hospital in-patient Palliative Care services.

2. Donations towards capital equipment to improve the facilities and patient services within hospitals.

Cam took a keen interest in the activities of professional, hospital, medical and technical organizations and served on many committees and advisory bodies. Cam always gave generously and the Foundation will continue this spirit and hopes you will join us in sharing this by donating to the Foundation.

Donations to the Foundation can be sent directly to:

Dr Cam Coady Foundation P.O. Box 90 New Westminister, B.C. V3L 4X9

A tax deductible receipt will be sent to you for income tax purposes. For further information, please call (604) 507-5117 or fax (604) 507-5215.