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Lucille Teasdale-Corti, CM GOQ (January 30, 1929 – August 1, 1996) was a Canadian physician and pediatric surgeon, who worked in Uganda from 1961 until her death in 1996. She contributed to the development of medical services in the north of the country.Early life in CanadaBorn in Montreal, Quebec on 30 January 1929, Lucille Teasdale was the fourth of seven children. Her father René was a butcher in Avenue Guybourg, Saint-Léonard, in Montreal’s eastern area.She was educated as a boarder at a Catholic school belonging to one of the first congregations of nuns established in Canada and dedicated to education. Upon hearing testimony from some nuns who had worked as missionaries in China, she decided, at 12 years of age, to become a doctor “in the Indies.”She enrolled at the University of Montreal’s Faculty of Medicine in 1950. In her class of 110 students only ten women were enrolled. Eight of these female students continued their studies past the first year. She graduated Cum Laude in 1955 and carried out her internship in Montreal’s Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine, a pediatric and obstetric university health centre affiliated with the University of Montreal.