Lorne Brandes

Dr. Brandes received his MD (cum laude) from the University of Western Ontario in 1968 and was the gold medalist. He received his Fellowship in Internal Medicine from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Following his internship and first year of residency at Western, he was privileged to spend 1970-71 with chemotherapy pioneers, Drs. David Galton and Eve Wiltshaw, at the Royal Marsden Hospital (London). He then completed his training in hematology/oncology at the University of Manitoba under Dr. Lyonel Israels, one of Canada’s foremost hematologists and medical researchers. Dr. Brandes joined the Faculty of Medicine at U. of M. in 1975, where he was a professor in the Department of Medicine and senior Oncologist at CancerCare Manitoba until his retirement in September, 2015 after forty years of service. Dr. Brandes was also affiliated with CancerCare Manitoba’s Institute of Cell Biology (now renamed the Research Institute in Oncology and Hematology) where, for 35 years, he conducted a successful research program. During that time, he made a drug discovery at the laboratory bench that he took into human clinical cancer trials. Over the years, he treated most types of cancer but, subsequently, limited his practice to breast and prostate cancer. He greatly enjoyed teaching the art and science of oncology to the many students and post-graduate physicians who rotated through his clinic at CancerCare Manitoba. An avid reader and lover of the arts, he enjoys playing classical piano, keeping up to date on medical science and, until 2012, wrote health blogs for CTV.ca. He and his wife, Jill, have two children and four grandchildren, all in Winnipeg.