Head and shoulders image of Dr. Charles W. Baugh, Professor of Medicine.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Charles William Baugh was born in 1927 in Guelph, Ontario. A 1953 graduate in Medicine from Queen's University, he interned at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Baugh subsequently practiced internal medicine in Saskatoon by 1959; he also was a professor of medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. He also practiced at Brockville, Orillia and Inverness (Ontario) before spending several years in Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates toward the end of his medical career. A former marathon runner, Dr. Baugh ran a full marathon in 1975 only 4 months after having open-heart surgery. He wrote a column during the 1970s for the Orillia Packet and Times called, 'Walking, Jogging and All That Jazz' and also initiated and led a cardiac rehabilitation exercise group in Orillia after his own heart surgery. In his columns and with his patients he espoused the running philosophy of 'Long Slow Distance.’ Dr. Baugh died in 2009 in Barrie, Ontario.