The institution he founded, which opened its doors in 1988, was recently recognized as one of the world’s top 100 pediatric hospitals
The same week that Newsweek recognized McMaster Children’s Hospital as one of the top 100 pediatric hospitals in the world, its foremost champion, pediatrician Dr. Peter Dent, died of bladder cancer in Hamilton on Sept. 23. He was 85.
Peter Boris Dent, who was born in Prague on May 16, 1936, moved to Toronto with his parents, Esther Marie, an amateur photographer, and Eric Dent, a political scientist, at the start of the Second World War. Dr. Dent's interest in pediatric medicine began when he was a child. Treated for ear infections that required occasional hospitalization at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children, he wanted to give back to the world via medicine.Keenly interested in immunology, the study of the body’s immune system, Dr. Dent was pleased to accept a Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship to study in Minneapolis with Dr. Robert A. Good, a giant of immunology.
In 1988, the McMaster Children’s Hospital opened. Dr. Dent strode its halls wearing a traditional long white lab coat, accompanied by a colourful tie, or bow tie, to catch the eye of his young patients.
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