Head and shoulders image of Dr. Frank Coburn, Professor of Psychiatry.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Frank Emerson Coburn was born on 25 April 1912 in Toronto and attended the University of Toronto where he received both his BA (1936) and his MD (1939). He did postgraduate work at the State University of Iowa from 1940-1943. From 1943-1946 Dr. Coburn was a psychiatric specialist in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps. After the war Dr. Coburn returned to Iowa where he was assistant, then associate professor of Psychiatry. In 1955 he joined the University of Saskatchewan as associate professor of Psychiatry. He was made full professor in 1957 and was named acting head of Psychiatry in 1970. His major field of interest was psychosomatic illness. In addition to his work in psychiatry, Dr. Coburn was president of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party, and was a candidate in Ontario in the 1950s, as well as running for municipal office in Saskatoon in 1969. Dr. Coburn died in 2004 in Saskatoon at age 92.