Head and shoulders image of Dr. Robbie Robinson, Assistant Professor of Surgery, and specialist in general and thoracic surgery.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Clayton L.N. (Robbie) Robinson was born on 28 April 1919 in Chapeau, Quebec and raised on a farm at Meath, Ontario. Educated in the Ottawa Valley towns of Pembroke and Renfrew, he graduated early from Queen's Medical School in 1943 and volunteered for the Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserves, serving on Atlantic convoy escorts as a Surgeon Lieutenant. Later in the war Dr. Robinson joined the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy and he travelled to Ceylon for three months. After the war Dr. Robinson demonstrated anatomy at the University of Toronto under Dr. J.C.B. Grant and wrote Grant's biography in 1993 for the Canadian Medical Association. His medical training in thoracic surgery continued in Vancouver and England. Dr. Robinson was appointed to the Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, at the University of Saskatchewan in 1958 and worked at University Hospital. He was president of both the Canadian Thoracic Association and Saskatoon Medical Association in 1965. Dr. Robinson moved to Vancouver in 1966 and worked primarily at Vancouver General, Shaughnessy, and St. Vincent's hospitals. He also was professor of surgery at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Robinson died on 13 November 2011 in [Vancouver] at age 92.