Cardiovascular Symposium

NB Heart Centre Symposium
Gala Evening
“Canadian Pioneers”
Friday evening, September 18, 2015
Royal Ballroom, Delta Brunswick Hotel, 39 King Street
Chairman: David Bewick, MD
Masters of Ceremony:
Ansar Hassan, MD & Marc Pelletier, MD
Cash Bar & Seating 1730 – 1830
Saint John String Quartet
Welcome and Introduction
Please take a seat, relax and enjoy the presentations.
During the sessions, dinner will be served to your table.
Appetizer
New Brunswick Heart Centre
Celebrating More Than Two Decades of First-Rate Cardiac Care
Reflecting on our past and looking forward to the future
Dr. Chris Simpson
President of the Canadian Medical Society
Main Entrée
Dessert/Coffee
Canada’s 20 th Prime Minister
Rt Hon Jean Chrétien
Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien held the office of the Prime Minister of Canada
for over a decade from November 4, 1993 to December 12, 2003.
Prior to serving as Prime Minister, he was Leader of the Opposition from
1990 to 1993. Mr. Chrétien also held several senior cabinet posts in the
governments of Lester B. Pearson and Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
As the Attorney General of Canada, he oversaw the entrenchment of the
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms into the Constitution Act, 1982 and
appointed the first woman justice to the Supreme Court of Canada in 1982.
He was first elected to Parliament in 1963 and is a lawyer by profession.
Jean Chrétien was born in Shawinigan, Quebec, on January 11, 1934.
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