Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Atlee Lecturers:
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L. Fortier, Montreal
P. White, Boston
E.R. Plunkett, London, ON
A.B. Little, Cleveland
A.C. Turnbull, Oxford
R.A. Chez, Bethesda
J.P. Smith, Detroit
E.A. Tanagho, San Francisco
V.C. Buttram, Houston
G.D. Hodgen, Bethesda
S.S. Yen, San Diego
J.C. Sinclair, Hamilton
J.A. Pritchard, Dallas
F.N. Rutledge, Houston
W.J. Hannah, Toronto
D.T. Baird, Edinburgh
J.M. Monaghan, Gateshead
J.B. Nelson, Minneapolis
V.M. Parisi, Houston
P.G. McDonough, Augusta
J.A. Lamont, Hamilton
P.A. Baird, Vancouver
J. Donnez, Brussels
M.F. Myers, Vancouver
N. Sadik, New York
D.A. Grimes, San Francisco
J. Bonnar, Dublin
A. Vacca, Brisbane
A.A. Calder, Edinburgh
R.L. Reid, Kingston
A.H. Sultan, Croydon, UK
A.C. Allen, Halifax
G.D.V. Hankins, Galveston
J.W.K. Ritchie, Toronto
C. Greene, Calgary
T.F. Baskett, Halifax
S.C. Rubin, Pennsylvania
M. Robson, Dublin
S. MacMillan, Halifax
E. Greenblatt, Toronto
H.B. ATLEE
DR. H.B. ATLEE LECTURE
Development of a Fertility Preservation
Programme
Thursday, November 15, 2012 – 1630 hours
Parker Reception Room, IWK Health Centre
5850/5980 University Avenue, Halifax
Ellen Greenblatt, MDCM, FRCSC
Medical Director,
Mount Sinai Centre for Fertility and Reproductive Health
Head, Division of Reproductive Sciences &
Program Director, Reproductive and Infertility Fellowship
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
University of Toronto
Harold Benge Atlee was born in
Pictou County, Nova Scotia on
November 24, 1890. When he was
16 years old, he entered Dalhousie
Medical School, and was its
youngest medical graduate, at 20
years of age, in 1911. After one year
of general practice in rural Nova
Scotia, he went to London and, for
two years, did junior resident jobs in
surgery
and
obstetrics
and
gynaecology. At the outbreak of
World War I, Atlee joined the
RAMC and became regimental
medical officer
with the Irish
Fusiliers.
He was awarded the
Military Cross for valour during the
Gallipoli campaign in Turkey. After
the war, further hospital posts in London included a residency in Victor
Bonney’s Department.
In 1923, he returned to Halifax as the Professor and Chairman of the
first combined Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Dalhousie
University; he held this post until 1958. In his early years, he supported
himself by publishing essays, fiction and detective stories. He
established the first residency training program in obstetrics and
gynaecology at Dalhousie in 1946. A noted teacher, he promoted
natural childbirth and early postpartum ambulation. In gynaecology, he
advanced the management of gynaecological cancer and popularised the
vaginal route for hysterectomy. His published books included: The Gist
of Obstetrics and Chronic Illiac Pain in Women. He died in 1978.
In 1972, the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology established the
Atlee Lectureship in his honour.
2012 H.B. ATLEE LECTURER
Dr. Ellen Greenblatt is Head of the Division of Reproductive Sciences
and the Clinical Director of the Centre for Fertility and Reproductive
Health and IVF Unit in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
She is the Program Director of the Reproductive Endocrinology and
Infertility Fellowship in the Department of Gynecology, University of
Toronto. She is also an associate professor in the Department of
Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Toronto, and a previous
National Director of the Canadian Fertility Andrology Society (20042007).
Dr. Greenblatt completed her medical school (McGill University) and
Obstetrics/ Gynaecology Residency (University of Western Ontario) in
Canada. She was then funded by the Medical Research Council of Canada
for further training in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at the
University of California, San Francisco. Upon returning to Canada in
1990, Dr. Greenblatt accepted a position with the Faculty of Medicine,
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Greenblatt is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada
(Ob/Gyn) as well as a Fellow of the American Board of Obstetrics and
Gynecology (ABOG). Dr. Greenblatt holds the ABOG subspecialty
certification in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. She is a
member of the Subspecialty Committee in Reproductive Endocrinology
and Infertility of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada and a member
of the IVF Directors committee of the Canadian Fertility and Andrology
Society. She is a Board Member of the Infertility Awareness Association
of Canada (IAAC) and on the editorial board of its quarterly publication
"Creating Families".
Dr. Greenblatt's main clinical and research interests focus on:
 Improving aspects of assisted reproductive technologies (ART's)
 Quality assessment in ART
 Ovulation induction in patients with polycystic ovarian syndrome
(PCOS) and other causes of anovulation Fertility Preservation.
 Laser laparoscopic surgery for infertility and endometriosis, and
hysteroscopic surgery.