son, Tim, during a visit to the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, Stiller had begun to think about creating a medical hall of fame for Canada in order to honour the great achievements of national luminaries in the field such as Banting, Charles Best, Emily Stowe, Wilder Penfield, and many others. Soon thereafter, and with the help of J. Allyn Taylor, a leading banker and the Chancellor of Western University, the CMHF in London came into being, the only one of its kind in the world. Stiller's own election to it later, at the hands of an autonomous committee, would move him deeply. In 2010 also, he was made a Distinguished Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (one of only ten allowed), and won the highly prestigious Canada Gairdner Wightman Award, the preeminent medical prize in the country, in recognition of a lifetime's work in organ transplantation and the immunology of Type I Diabetes. In 2011, Stiller was named to give the annual Killam Address. In so doing, he recalled the Canadian Olympic team-inspired title: ‘Can we “Own the Podium” in Science and Technology?’. Clearly, the long ago words of his minister-father enjoining him ‘to serve’ have been the lodestar of Calvin Stiller's life. He is, as the Globe and Mail called him upon his retirement in 2010, a true Canadian ‘nation builder’.11 A nation of -- Stiller hopes in echoing the words of Canada's former Governor General, David Johnston -- ‘keener minds and kinder hearts’.12 Selected External Sites and Further Reading https://gairdner.org/award_winners/calvin-stiller/ https://cahs-acss.ca/distinguished fellows/ http://www.usask.ca/100/alumni/calvin_stiller.php http://killamlaureates.ca/doc/2011KillamLecture.pdf http://youtube.com/watch?v=rftpYJ5ecfk http://www.jstor.org/stable/1693714?seq=1 Stiller, Calvin. Lifegifts: The Real Story of Organ Transplantation (Toronto: Stoddart, 1990). References 1. Interview with the subject, April 24, 2020. 2. Ibid. 3. The Globe and Mail, December 28, 2010. 4. The Canadian Sportsman, April 29, 2010. 5. Ibid. 6. Calvin Stiller, Lifegifts: The Real Story of Organ Transplantation (Toronto: Stoddart, 1990). 7. Michael Bliss, The Discovery of Insulin (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982); Banting: a Biography (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984). 8. Alex Philipiddis, ‘Incubators Blossom along with their Startups’, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (June 15, 2014), 34 (12). See, also, http://marsdd.com 9. The Canadian Sportsman, op cit. 10. The Globe and Mail, op cit. 11. Ibid. 12. http://www.canada.com (January 6, 2013). 1941 births Living people Canadian transplant surgeons Officers of the Order of Canada Members of the Order of Ontario University of